Fall 2023 Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture - Ross Gay

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On Monday, October 9, renowned poet and essayist Ross Gay will deliver the Fall 2023 Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and Arts and in partnership with the Race & Pedagogy Institute. Prof. Gay’s collections of poetry have garnered the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and his collected essays The Book of Delights was a New York Times bestseller. His newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023.

Art + Sci Salon: Theatre and Game Design

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Campus

Game design offers a vast array of tools and approaches to use in structuring interactive performance. It also highlights the ways in which participatory experience might reframe the role of the viewer, transforming them from passive observers into active co-creators of the event.

Special Guest Lecture with Dr. Jörg Trempler, University of Passau

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Fog has always been known primarily as a weather phenomenon. Surprisingly, however, it has only been depicted in western art and pictorial history since the late 18th century and is not a conventional pictorial motif such as the depiction of ruins. In this presentation, Dr. Trempler will show how fog is employed as a staging strategy to create mood and atmosphere.

Free and open to campus community.

Coffee/tea at 4:30 p.m.

Presentation and discussion begins at 5 p.m.

Jeff Brahe and the Andé Marimba Band

Alumni + Family
Arts

Jeff Brahe ’11 and Andé Marimba offer a fresh perspective on the ancient sounds of traditional music from Zimbabwe. Combining marimba, mbira, drum, and hosho with an occasional Western instrument, the band’s songs include traditional and contemporary compositions. Add to this foundation a variety of modern influences, and you have an irresistible, highly danceable blend of sound.

Lunch Concert: THE PLAYTONICS

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Arts

Celebrating the opening of the new school year is the 5 piece jazzy soul pop band “Playtonics” that was born in 2018 has blossomed 5 years later into a sometimes 8 or 9 piece jazzy jam band with a horn section. They are friends who unpack universal thoughts of love & life in their music and share an appreciation of jazz and funk.

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