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This week, the Office of the Arts announced the events for this year’s Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. The festival, which will run from April 23 to 26, will host various public arts installations and use the Rose Art Museum’s “Light of Reason” sculpture as a stage for performances.
CLOWNING AROUND: Kenny Raskin ’74 will lead a show of physical comedy on Friday and Saturday. The show will feature clowns and other circus acts.
Tommy Hartung’s feature-length film THE BIBLE (2014) is haunting and beautiful at once. The film, which is currently on view at the Rose Art Museum, is something similar to a dream. Beautiful images flash across the screen, each preserved for only a fraction of a second in the mind of the viewer. The experience is captivating nevertheless, and by the end, it is hard to imagine that 48 minutes have passed.
How often have you found yourself torn between choosing an apple or a bowl of ice cream? The struggle between choosing to eat healthy and indulging in your favorite treats is a difficult one, but Michael Shoretz ’09 doesn’t believe that you have to compromise. That is why he created the company Beyond Better Foods, which launched ENLIGHTENED Ice Cream in 2013.
Like many others on the Brandeis baseball team, Justin Gallanty ’18 started his career in the Little Leagues, playing for his hometown team in Westport, Conn.
This week, Brandeis athletics saw numerous cancellations due to inclement weather. The softball team’s game on the road at Clark University on Saturday was postponed until a date yet to be determined. The Judges will face off against Bates College tomorrow for the team’s first home matchup of the season.
Last Tuesday, the 2015 Tillie K. Lubin Symposium hosted a lecture on incarceration in the United States in the International lounge.
A RED ROOF: The rooftop of Gerstenzang Science Library will be the location of The Farmers club garden; a 1,000 to 2,000-square foot installation and features milk crates so that the garden can be moved during building renovations.
The opening night of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), performed by Hold Thy Peace on Thursday, had audiences rolling in their seats with laughter throughout the entire play.
Campus will see its very first Improvisation Festival in just a couple of weeks—from March 27 through 29. The festival—sponsored by the Brandeis Arts Council and coordinated by Prof. Tom Hall (MUS) who is serving as the festival’s artistic director—will bring artists from both inside and outside the University.
The men and women’s tennis team returned to New England last weekend with four games against regional opponents, though neither squad was able to pick up a victory. The women’s squad, ranked 26th nationally, dropped a pair of 9-0 decisions to the No. 16 Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday and No. 10 Middlebury College on Sunday. The men, 33rd in the country, fell 7-2 to No. 3 Middlebury on Saturday and 5-3 to No. 29 Stevens Institute of Technology on Sunday.
Last Friday, 15 students and alumni demanded a meeting with University President Frederick Lawrence to discuss the renewal of Brandeis’ partnership with Al-Quds University. The students were led by Eli Philip ’15 and Catie Stewart ’16, the creators of the Brandeis University-Al-Quds University Student Dialogue Initiative, through which students have held insightful programming with Al-Quds. After waiting outside Lawrence’s office for an hour, the students scheduled a meeting with the president for later in the week.
In her introduction before Thursday’s poetry reading, Prof. Elizabeth Bradfield (ENG), Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence, noted that there is something special about hearing one’s own professors present their original artistic work. Some 30 students had this opportunity last Thursday at Profs. Sharon Bryan (ENG) and Mary Baine Campbell’s (ENG) poetry reading in Pearlman Hall.
At 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, the Slosberg Music Center held a concert that featured six pieces composed by students but played by professional musicians.
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is an excellent, relevant and powerful artistic experience, if only a good piece of theater. This is as true of the script itself as it is of Brandeis Ensemble Theater and the Brandeis Players’ production of it, which ran in the Shapiro Campus Center this weekend.
If you have ever wandered past the small, glass-encased room on the second floor of the Goldfarb Library, you will have passed by an exhibit hosted by either the Robert D. Farber Special Collections or the University Archives. The two take turns hosting these exhibits, all based on materials in the University’s collections. The exhibits have spanned topics ranging from the early days of music at the University to dime novels.
OFF TO WAR: The exhibit features propaganda with a variety of different messages to multiple demographics of the American population.
On Thursday, the American Studies department hosted Paula Rabinowitz ’74, who discussed her 2014 book American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and the historical significance of book covers.
Last Monday in the dimly lit dining room tucked in the back of Solea Restaurant & Tapas Bar, Prof. Leslie Griffith (BIOL) stood in front of a dozen or so guests and lectured about fruit flies and human sleep.
The women’s basketball team found themselves trailing at the tail end of regulation in a back-and-forth contest in the championship game of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament on Sunday afternoon. Looking for their third ECAC title in school history, the sixth-seeded Judges were down 61-58 to the top-seed Westfield State University with just over one minute remaining in a contest that had already featured six ties and nine lead changes.