Weekly updates on the Arts at Babson, Olin, and Wellesley. Styles include art, music, dance, theater, and film.
BABSON COLLEGE Microclimates: Mixed Media Art by Alison Williams. 10am-7pm. Hollister Gallery and Exterior Ongoing until October 29. Alison grew up in New Zealand, currently has a studio and garden in New Hampshire, and attended art school in Scotland. With the influence of her father's greenhouses, Alison has created glass houses for biology to overlap with creativity. Alison Williams is a 2009 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. The gardens and plants are inspiration for art making. Canvases are buried and rot, paintings are made outdoors in the rain, soaked flowers create delicately colored "Juices", while leaves, stems, and seeds are both stencils and collage materials layered over "unnatural" paint, stickers and found materials.
[clubs] The Babson Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions from any students, faculty, or staff members. If you have any art, photography, poetry, or writing that you would like to showcase in our magazine, please email us at litmag@babson.edu. There is no need to be highly skilled, simply submit any literary or artistic work you may have at hand. Our magazine prints in full color and will be published by the first week of December. We are accepting submissions up until November 14, 2010. Please submit any art you may have! BFAA –Babson Fine Arts Association Contact cbao1@babson.edu
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Pottery Club Contact david.gardner@students.olin.edu Art Club Contact tiama.hamkins-indik@students.olin.edu Studio Art facilities at Babson Babson Ceramics studio – Open to experienced potters/sculptors $75/$150 fee for 8 weeks Babson Wet Photography Lab – Open to experienced photographers with the permission of the instructor. $75/$150 fee for semester Drawing/Painting Studio – Available to use with the permission of staff. Contact Sorenson@babson.edu
OFF-CAMPUS Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The MFA is free for University Member students (YES, Babson, Olin, and Wellesley students can come for free anytime!) every day of the year. All you need to do is show your college ID to join and enjoy all that the Museum has to offer.
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Calculated Risks celebrates the inventive diversity represented among the faculty studio artists in the Art Department at Wellesley. It features paintings, sculpture, drawings, collage, photographs, film, video, and interactive new media and will be installed in gallery spaces throughout the museum. Artists: Judith Black, Carlos Dorrien, Bunny Harvey, Clara Lieu, Phyllis McGibbon, Salem Mekuria, Qing-Min Meng, Andrew Mowbray, David Olsen, Daniela Rivera, Christine Rogers, and Jeffrey Skoller
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Calculated Risks: New Work by Faculty Artists. 11am -5pm. Chandler Gallery Ongoing until December 12.
Student Advanced Drawings. Jewett Sculpture Court Ongoing until September 30. Featuring works completed by students in Professor Daniela Rivera’s Spring 2010 ARTS 314 course at Wellesley College.
thursday, oct 7. Lunchtime Gallery Conversation. 12:30pm-2pm. The Davis Museum This is an hour long conversation between multiple artists and scholars in the galleries, echoing the pairings of artists and scholars in the exhibition catalogue. Speakers will explore the foreseeable as well as the unanticipated dialogues and interconnections that arise between artworks, colleagues and artists. Light lunch to be served in the Davis Museum lobby beforehand. Voices of Our Ancestors: Tim Swallow and Sharynne MacLeod NicMhacha. 7pm. Multifaith Center Commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day with a sampling of the wisdom, teaching and song of the Lakota tradition conveyed by Tim Swallow, a member of the Teton Lakota Band of Crazy Horse and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Also known as Brave Elk, Tim is a spiritual teacher, craftsman, traditional drum maker and singer who grew up on a South Dakota reservation. Joining Tim will be Sharynne MacLeod NicMhacha, who has been practicing and teaching Celtic spirituality for more than a decade. Her spiritual tradition is based upon the native wisdom and practices of ancient Europe, her ancestral lineage, and the powerful teachings of Irish and Welsh wisdom texts.
Pedagogy Through Photography: Photographs by Clarence Kennedy. Jewett Sculpture Court, Jewett Arts Center, 3rd floor Clarence Kennedy (1892-1972) was a contemporary of Ansel Adams, but he worked with an entirely different subject matter. An art historian at Smith College, he was best known for his carefully composed black and white gelatin silver prints of ancient and renaissance sculpture. These photographs, together with deep explanatory texts, were published in seven limited folios from 1928 to 1932.
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SAVE THE DATE wednesday, oct 13.
wednesday, oct 19. Opening Reception: Pedagogy Through Photography. 4:45pm-6:00pm. Jewett Sculpture Court, Jewett Arts Center, 3rd floor
WELLESLEY COLLEGE SAVE THE DATE saturday, nov 20. Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Concert. 8pm. Wellesley College Hougton Chapel. Join the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra as they perform a great selection of music featuring the winners of the 2010 Concerto Competition: Hindemith Der Schwanendreher - Hannah Saltman, Viola Liszt Hungarian Fantasy - Sang-Hee Min, Piano: Sibelius Symphony No. 1 This event is free and open to the public.
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Babson College Radio Contact eshea2@babson.edu Babson Entertainment Initiative Contact tjoyce1@babson.edu Babson Musicians Union Contact cdevlin1@babson.edu Babson/Olin Jazz Ensemble Contact jbroganjazz@gmail.com Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Anyone wishing to audition for the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra should contact Neal Hampton, the director, at hampton@brandeis.edu.
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Ask Michèle Oshima moshima@babson.edu how you can take private music lessons at Wellesley.
Rocket Pitches Contact alamb1@babson.edu Conductorless Orchestra Contact Diana.dabby@olin.edu Powerchords Contact Jessica.rucker@students.olin.edu Jazz Sarah.waksom@students.olin.edu Wellesley College: Choir, Chamber Singers, Collegium Musicum, Chamber Music Society, Wellesley BlueJazz, and Yanvalou. Performing Arts Facilities at Babson Carling-Sorenson Theater – State of the art 441 seat proscenium theater. Park Manor Central Band Room – Open to all musicians. Equipped with bass, guitar amps, drum set, electric piano, and instrument lockers. Sorenson Piano Practice Rooms – Open to the Babson community - first come first serve. Contact Sorenson@babson.edu Roger’s Pub – Available for student shows and equipped with a small stage, lights, and sound reinforcement. Contact pbaptiste@babson.edu
SAVE THE DATE thursday, nov 4. Air AMAN. 6:30pm. Sorenson Theater Fasten your seat belts and fly on Air AMAN through South Asia for this semester's cultural show... Tickets: $5 on
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campus/$10 off campus. Food will be provided after the show.
[clubs] AMAN Contact ebawa1@babson.edu Babson Dance Ensemble (BDE) Contact atoorock1@babson.edu BAPSA Contact jchan4@babson.edu ODP Contact tiama.hamkins-indik@students.olin.edu Performing Arts Facilities at Babson Sorenson Dance Studio – Studio with wood floor, two mirrored walls, and dance bar Contact Sorenson@babson.edu
BABSON COLLEGE SAVE THE DATE friday, oct 15- saturday, oct 17.
When George finds out that famous film director Frank Capra is coming to see their show, and Charlotte finds out that George is having an affair, their argument begins a cascade of hysteric mishaps, mistaken identities, and of course good old slap-stick comedy. Their antics combined with those of memorable characters such as Ethel the near death grandmother and Richard the love sick lawyer produce one door slamming, "pit" falling, fast paced show. Come see the Babson Players present this fantastic comedy! Contact babsonplayers@gmail.com or Kerry kliszka1@babson.edu
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Moon Over Buffalo. 7pm. Sorenson Theater Moon Over Buffalo is a hilarious farce about a dysfunctional theater troupe performing at the Erlander Theatre in Buffalo in 1953. The show stars diva lead actress Charlotte Hay and her philandering semi-alcoholic husband, George, who both dream of being film stars.
wednesday, oct 20. Wake Up! Do the Right Thing by filmmaker Spike Lee. 5pm. Knight Auditorium The Council for Inclusiveness and Community presents: Wake Up! Do the Right Thing featuring film director, producer, writer, and actor Spike Lee, live and in person, to talk about diversity and inclusion, the keys to success in business. The program concludes with a Spike Lee Entrepreneurial Challenge to the Babson Community.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED! This is a FREE event for current Babson students, faculty and staff. There is a $10 registration fee for Babson Alumni. http://babsonspikelee.eventbrite.com Co-produced by The Lewis Institute, The Sorenson Center for the Arts, One Tower, Student Government Association, the Black Student Union, the Black Experience at Babson Club, the Babson Entrepreneurship Club, the Graduate Student Council, and The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE SAVE THE DATE tuesday, oct 12.
Meena Alexander has published six volumes of poetry including Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award.
[clubs] TheatreWorks Vagina Monologues Babson Players
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Distinguished Writers Series: Meena Alexander and Tomaz Salamun. 4:30pm. The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities
Contact kliska1@babson.edu FWOP Contact megan.elsenbeck@students.olin.edu OFAC Contact Kevin.simon@students.olin.edu Butterfingers Contact Zachary.brass@students.olin.edu
BABSON COLLEGE SAVE THE DATE tuesday, oct 19. Global Film Series: Children of Heaven. 7pm. Sorenson Theater Director: Majid Majidi. (Iran). Introduced by Professor Hassan Ildari, Emerson College. In this Oscar-nominated drama, a young Iranian boy accidentally loses his sister's shoes so he secretly arranges to share his own threadbare sneakers with her as they go to and from school at different times during the day. Repeatedly late for school despite his mad dashes, the boy decides to enter a highly-publicized foot race, aiming not to win but to take home the thirdplace prize: a new pair of sneakers. Through his child’s-eye-view, the movie offers a rare glimpse of everyday life in Tehran and a vivid sense of the precariousness of existence on the edge.
monday, nov 8.
Director: Zhang Yimou (China). Introduced by Professor Kandice Hauf, Babson College. Set in the 1920s during China's warlord era, the award-winning Raise the Red Lantern focuses on a young woman struggling to exert control over her own life. After her father's death, 19-year-old
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Global Film Series: Raise the Red Lantern. 7pm. Sorenson Theater
Songlian is forced to marry a wealthy and powerful older man, becoming the latest of his four wives and finding herself at the bottom of the pecking order. Each night a red lantern is lit in front of the house of the wife chosen to receive a visit from the master. The power struggle among the women and Songlian’s desperate attempt to escape from the confines of her life leads to a dramatic and surprising conclusion.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE SAVE THE DATE wednesday, oct 20. Film Screening: Jeffrey Skoller, "The Malady of Death" (1994). 6:30pm. Collins Cinema "The Malady of Death" is Skoller’s adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ story of the same name, a particular reading of the story in which word and image explore male sexuality. The processes of reading are revealed to be complicated, poetic and political, as an unspecified narrator names and describes “the malady” and tells of a man and woman’s sexual encounters. The male “you” is multiplied, depicted by many men, each photographed nude, variously fragmented and abstracted, studied and distanced. The “she,” the “difference,” is literally absent from the image but present metaphorically, “possessed” but not known.
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FILM . Tuesdays. 9pm. Olin Auditorium. contact Eli.Sheldon@students.olin.edu CINE. Contact asmith28@babson.edu