Weekly updates on the Arts at Babson, Olin, and Wellesley. Styles include art, music, dance, theatre, and film.
BABSON COLLEGE Microclimates: Mixed Media Art by Alison Williams. 10am-7pm. Hollister Gallery and Exterior Ongoing until October 29. Allison 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, Allison has created glass houses for biology to overlap with creativity. Allison 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.
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[clubs] BFAA –Babson Fine Arts Association Contact cbao1@babson.edu Pottery Club Contact david.gardner@students.olin.edu Art Club Contact tiama.hamkins-indik@students.olin.edu
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Microclimates: Artist Talk with Alison Williams. 1pm-1:30pm. Hollister Gallery Ask questions about Alison Williams’ artwork and explore the exhibit in the Hollister Gallery.
OFF-CAMPUS sept 23. MFA College Night. 7pm-11pm. 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, but on College Night, Thursday, September 23, we’re throwing a party just for you. All you need to do is show your college ID to join hundreds of college students and enjoy all that the Museum has to offer: Free concert...It’s a surprise, but come early because you won't want to miss it. (First come, first served.) Free dance party...We'll be spinning electro, hip-hop, and "a little bit of everything" Free snacks...munch on Mexican, compliments of Chipotle Free prizes...you’ll just have to come to see what we are giving away! Cool musical instruments from harpsichords, clavichords, early pianos, zithers, reed organs, mouth organs, flageolets (say what?), and even musical glasses. And of course, lots of ART.
Calculated Risks: New Work by Faculty Artists. 11am -5pm. Chandler Gallery Ongoing until December 12. 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.
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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 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.
sept 28. 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 forseeable 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.
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Seattle-based baritone Michael Drumheller will present a selection of Russian classical songs from the 1800s, including works by Glinka, Muggorgsky and Borodin. The centerpiece of the concert will be Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, a cycle of four intensely moving solo vocal works from the 1870s considered by many to be the pinnacle of Russian art-song in the 19th century.
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Russian Art-Song in the 19th Century. 12:30pm. Jewett Auditorium
oct 6. Beacon Brass Quintet. 12:30pm. Jewett Auditorium. Featuring performing faculty member Dana Russian, Beacon Brass Quintet has been described as “one of the nation’s finest chamber ensembles” by Bostonia magazine. In 1983, the Quintet became the first brass ensemble ever to win the prestigious Concert Artists Guild Award, and it has been performing in concert throughout the United States ever since. Recently, the Quintet was featured in lecture-recitals with Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart. Noted for expertise in a wide spectrum of music, their program at Wellesley will span five centuries.
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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 Emsemble Contact jbroganjazz@gmail.com 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, Orchestra, Chamber Music Society, Wellesley BlueJazz, and Yanvalou.
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Ask Michèle Oshima moshima@babson.edu how you can take private music lessons at Wellesley.
BABSON COLLEGE sept 23. BDE Pub Night. 10pm-12am. Roger’s Pub Support the Babson Dance Ensemble at this fundraising event in Roger’s Pub. There is a $2 cover/entrance fee.
SAVE THE DATE AMAN Dance and cultural show, BDE Show, and more.
[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
A Midsummer’s Night Dream: Actors from the London Stage. 7pm. Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Ongoing until Sept 25. Returning for the fifth year, Actors from the London Stage is a theatrical tour de force beloved by the Wellesley community. This year, they will bring Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its lovers and lunatics, to vivid life in the spare, elegant and inventive style of the
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company’s previous wildly successful productions of King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Jordan Lecture: An Accident of History. 4:30pm. Clapp Library, Lecture Room As recent events have made so painfully clear, massive technical systems can - and do - fail catastrophically. When they do, we as a society struggle to understand why – what combination of the “human” and the “machine” is responsible? Professor Galison’s lecture will explore the powerful technical, sociological, moral and philosophical questions at stake as we strive to determine who or what is to blame for these catastrophic failures.
sept 28. Distinguished Writers Series: Peter Carey. 4:30pm. The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia in 1943. Two of his eleven novels have won the Booker Prize, and his most recent novel was published in 2010.
SAVE THE DATE oct 6. Lecture: The Making of a Woman. 7:30pm. Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall
TheatreWorks Vagina Monologues Babson Players 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
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sept 28. Global Film Series - Night of the Pencils. 7pm. Sorenson Theatre Director: Hector Olivera. (Argentina) A searing look at Argentina's "Dirty War" of the 1970s and 80s, The Night of the Pencils tells the story of six teenagers who, while lobbying for free bus passes for high school students, get accused of subversion by the then-reigning military dictatorship. Based on actual events, the film is a testament to the indelible mark on the Argentinean psyche left by the junta’s brutal suppression of its citizens. This complex portrait of the students, their parents, and their captors offers a genuinely moving and convincing picture of the ordeal that the students, along with the entire Argentine populace, endured.
SAVE THE DATE Oct 19, Children of Heaven Director: Majid Majidi. (Iran) 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.
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, 19year-old 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.
[clubs] FILM . Tuesdays. 9pm. Olin Auditorium. contact Eli.Sheldon@students.olin.edu CINE. Contact asmith28@babson.edu
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Nov 8, Raise the Red Lantern Director: Zhang Yimou (China)
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