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.
oct 6.
Inspired by the "Microclimates" art show, you will be making beautiful colorful monotypes (single edition prints) using plants as both inspiration and printmaking tools. Monotypes are made by rolling or painting ink onto a thin lexan plate and then running the plate through a press with paper to print your image. For this workshop you will be using flowers, leaves, and other plant parts to create your images. RSVP to Danielle Krcmar at dkrcmar@babson.edu by October 4.
[clubs] BFAA –Babson Fine Arts Association
September 30, 2010
Monotypes from Plants. 5pm-7pm. Trim 215
Contact cbao1@babson.edu 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/sculpters $75/$150 fee for 8 weeks Babson Wet Photography Lab – Open to experienced photographers $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.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
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
September 30, 2010
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.
BABSON COLLEGE oct 3. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Benefit Concert. 4pm. Sorenson Theater Join the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in welcoming Sergey Antonov, cellist and 2007 Tchaikovsky gold medalist, Ilya Kazantsev, pianist and Prize Winner World Piano Competition, and Yohei Sato, conductor of the Boston Chamber Orchestra. For tickets and information visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111700 any inquiries antonovconcert@gmail.com . Proceeds from this concert benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE oct 6.
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.
[clubs] Ask Michèle Oshima moshima@babson.edu how you can take private music lessons at Wellesley.
September 30, 2010
Beacon Brass Quintet. 12:30pm. Jewett Auditorium.
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.
Roger’s Pub – Available for student shows and equipped with a small stage, lights, and sound reinforcement. Contact pbaptiste@babson.edu
BABSON COLLEGE
September 30, 2010
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
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 Performing Arts Facilities at Babson Sorenson Dance Studio – Studio with wood floor, two mirrored walls, and dance bar Contact Sorenson@babson.edu
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
Lecture: The Making of a Woman. 7:30pm. Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall A lecture by Desiree Rogers ’81. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee presents annual programs for the college community that honor Dr. King and his legacy of challenging inequality in the distribution of wealth, unjust war, and racial inequalities. This year they have invited distinguished alumna Desiree Rogers. A Louisiana native who served as the White House Social Secretary to the President and Mrs. Obama, Ms. Rogers has a record of leadership in both the corporate and government worlds. www.wellesley.edu/Africana/africana.html
[clubs]
September 30, 2010
oct 6.
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
BABSON COLLEGE SAVE THE DATE oct 19. Global Film Series: Children of Heaven. 7pm. Sorenson Theater Director: Majid Majidi. (Iran)
nov 8. Global Film Series: Raise the Red Lantern. 7pm. Sorenson Theater Director: Zhang Yimou (China) Set in the 1920s during China's warlord era, the award-winning Raise the Red Lantern focuses on a
September 30, 2010
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.
young woman struggling to exert control over her own life. After her father's death, 19-yearold 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
September 30, 2010
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