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After months of work behind the scenes, the Brandeis Food Pantry celebrated its official opening on Friday. Located in Kutz Hall across from the Registrar’s Office, the BFP is open to all members of the Brandeis community and provides non-perishable canned items and personal care products.
Pitch darkness is suddenly interrupted by fluorescent lights, illuminating five people lying on the floor. This is the opening of the Theatre Arts department’s “Circle Mirror Transformation,” a play outlining the relationships of five people as they take an adult drama class together at the Shirley, Vermont, Community Center. The set felt very natural in its asymmetry and the costumes were incredibly detailed — every shoe and t-shirt was reflective of the character wearing it. While captioning live theater is difficult, this production seemingly did it with ease. The dimly projected captions on either side of the stage never distract from the show for those who don’t need it, and are incredibly accurate and well-timed for those who do. The production quality overall is incredible, as expected from a department show.
To rubberneck is to get a better view of an accident out of morbid curiosity as you pass it by. Last week in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, you might say I was rubbernecking. From Nov. 15th-18th, the Undergraduate Theater Collective produced “Godspell,” directed by Nate Rtishchev ’21. The 1971 musical was written by John Michael Tebelak, with music by Stephen Schwartz. It is structured as a series of parables based on the Gospel of Matthew, with lyrics borrowed from traditional hymns.
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Brandeis University Press announced its partnership with the University of Chicago Press on Nov. 12, following the dissolution of the New England Press Consortium, of which Brandeis was a founding member.
Artists Anne Lilly and Karin Rosenthal unveiled their new collaborative exhibit, comprised of Rosenthal’s stunning photographs and Lilly’s impactful sculptures, at Brandeis’ Women’s Studies Research Center on Thursday. The photographs focused on the naked human body — often in extreme close-ups — incorporating water to obscure certain body parts. Two of the four stainless steel sculptures also dealt with the human body and obscuring vision, interacting with the viewer and their body.
Journalist and feminist author Joan Morgan explored the relationship between hip-hop, feminism and musician Lauryn Hill — an American singer, rapper and songwriter — in a Wednesday event sponsored by the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, the Creativity, Arts, and Social Transformation program, the Music department and the Dean of Students. The event, titled “20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: A Conversation with Joan Morgan,” began with Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS) introducing Morgan, author of “When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down” and “She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”
Brandeis alumnus James Polite ’18 was arrested on hate crime charges in New York City last Friday after vandalizing Brooklyn’s Union Temple with anti-Semitic graffiti. He was charged with reckless endangerment, aggravated harassment, two counts of arson and three counts of criminal mischief for actions taken at three different Brooklyn locations, according to the office of the NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Public Information.
Leonard Bernstein graduated from Harvard University in 1939 in an unusual fashion — with a diploma and the beginnings of a 600-page FBI file detailing his political activities. The aspiring conductor was unaware of the dossier for some time.
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project in Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies held its launch event last Thursday in the Riemer-Goldstein Theater at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston. Titled “A Latin American Pen, A Global Memory: Imagining Anne Frank Today,” the event highlighted the ongoing relevance of Anne Frank in Latin America.
This semester, the Rose Art Museum is hosting a new exhibit in the Gerald S. and Sandra Fineberg Gallery called “To build another world” by Tuesday Smillie, a Brooklyn-based artist. This installation looks at trans-feminism through the lens of protest banners.
University President Ron Liebowitz urged the Brandeis community to strive for a strong, secure and sustainable future in a speech outlining his vision for the University yesterday. About 350 people attended the all-campus presidential announcement, with more watching the livestream, in which he shared the “Brandeis Value Proposition,” his framework for the University’s future.
LOOKING AT ART: David Getsy examined how movements for transgender rights have developed throughout history.
Tuesday Smillie, the University’s Perlmutter artist-in-residence, and David Getsy, an art history professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, joined members of the Brandeis community on Saturday to screen the movie “Happy Birthday Marsha!” and to discuss “genderqueer archival research,” per the event description.
The Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) hosted a screening of Spike Lee’s latest film “BlacKkKlansman” at the Intercultural Center last Thursday. The movie is based on a true story about Ron Stallworth, an African American man, who joined the Colorado Springs police department in the 1970s. Once accepted, he infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan chapter over the phone by impersonating a white man who feels enthusiastic about joining the nefarious organization. The chapter president then invites Stallworth to meet, prompting the officer to enlist his Jewish colleague’s help to be his surrogate. The two use their positions to prevent any violent acts against Colorado Springs’ growing African American civil rights movement, which is led by Stallworth’s love interest in the film, Patrice.
Cornel West and Robert George met in the Sherman Function Hall on Wednesday evening to discuss the importance of a liberal arts education in modern political discourse.
“SHE KNEW LONG BEFORE OF THE SPACE IN-BETWEEN”: Cuban-born artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons discussed the way her heritage and identity has influenced her art during her Roosevelt Lecture on Thursday evening.
This year’s annual Roosevelt Lecture, part of the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture series dedicated to social justice and women’s history, celebrated the impact of critically acclaimed painter, sculptor, installation artist and videographer Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. The focus was a display of her video “Rite of Initiation Sacred Bath (1991)” and images of her installation piece “Alchemy of the Soul, Elixir for the Spirits (2015).” The event was sponsored by the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, the African and Afro-American Studies department, the division of Creative Arts, the department of Fine Arts and the Rose Art Museum.