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Boston Center for American Performance (the professional extension of the BU School of Theatre) and New Repertory Theatre present BALTIMORE, a new play by Kirsten Greenidge. Plays Feb 10-Feb 28 at Lane-Comley Studio 210 at the Boston University [...]Theatre.
Talkbacks will follow every performance of BALTIMORE beginning 2/13. BALTIMORE Assistant Director and National New Play Network Producer in Residence at New Rep, Adrienne Boris, introduces us to BALTIMORE and why continuing the conversation is essential!
Tickets & more info: /cfa/bcap
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Everyone in and around BU seems to have a cherished memory of Allston: a too-late night at the Sunset Grill, that first apartment on Glenville Avenue, an encounter with the neighborhood’s late, great, dreadlocked, guitar-toting unofficial [...]ambassador Mr. Butch. It’s safe to say, that few recollections involve high-end clothing, artisanal cocktails, and spa treatments. But the new 02134, once called a “student ghetto,†now mixes local mainstays with Boston’s hot shopping and dining.
Read the story on BU Today: /today/2010/getting-to-know-your-neighborhood-allston/
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diventare, directed by Ellie Heyman (CFA’11) and written by Jenny Rachel Weiner (CFA’09), was performed at the New World Stages, on West 50th St. in New York City in March 2010. The play was part of the College of Fine Arts third annual [...]InCite Arts Festival, themed What’s Past Is Prologue. The weeklong festival featured performances, exhibitions, film screenings, and other events at venues around Manhattan. By Kimberly Cornuelle
Read the story on BU Today: /today/node/10593
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Jodi Colella’s fingers have a restless curiosity, not content to let the transformative potential of materials they touch lie dormant. A Somerville-based fiber artist and teacher as fascinated by process as by its outcome, Colella [...](CAS’81) sees the bizarre and enticing capabilities of the substances she works with. “I’m very curious about materials,†she says. “Just playing with them to find their qualities. Usually they do unexpected things.â€
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A significant contemporary play by one of the world’s leading Latino playwrights, José Rivera’s Obie Award-winning Marisol will be presented by the School of Theatre in the Boston University College of Fine Arts, December 10-17, 2010 [...]at the Calderwood Pavilion. Marisol finds herself struggling to survive in an urban wasteland while her guardian angel leads an army against God. This production takes a surreal look at the future of New York City staged in a labyrinth within the Wimberly Theatre. Director and BU alumna Tara L. Matkosky reverses the playing space and seats patrons on stage in what promises to be a unique theatrical experience. Details and tickets are available at www.BostonTheatreScene.com.
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Arts Live @ BU, your guide to the arts @ BU and beyond, celebrated the official launch of its website, www.bu.edu/arts, on April 5, 2011, in the Burke Club Room at Agganis Arena. Fusion, Liquid Fun, and the BU Pep Band performed, guests were invited [...]to express their creativity on paper to qualify for a special raffle, and door prizes were announced throughout the event. Dean of Students Kenn Elmore, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education Victor Coelho, CFA Dean BenjamÃn Juárez, and Arts Live's Chris Santos welcomed all who attended.
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What role do arts and the media play in climate change? A big one, according to experts who took part in a symposium that addressed how arts and the media influence the public’s perception of climate change. Andrew Revkin, senior fellow at the [...]Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and blogwriter for the New York Times’s “Dot Earth,†recognizes the importance of climate information but questions whether the public would act even with perfect information.
Igor Vamos, an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, maintains that climate change is an umbrella topic for the environmental and social justice movements, and Stefan Rahmstorf, a physics professor at Potsdam University, points out that different socioeconomic realities impact public discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. “Europe has a more positive attitude than the United States about what can be done to change energy consumption patterns,†he says.
Hosted by the Pardee Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Goethe-Institut Boston, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen on October 18, 2010.
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