“The grave will be my last home.” As festival organizer Mike Medeiros read the line from Emily Dickinson’s letters, it perfectly fit the atmosphere of…
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Half a century later, we still continue to learn new truths about America in the Vietnam War. For an international event that dramatically altered the United States’ public trust in the military, there are still many lessons to learn.
Ronnie Schwaller hosts their second art exhibit this month in the Nolen Lounge at the Campus Center. The Gallery Finale is at 8pm on September…
Ronnie Schwaller hosts their second art exhibit this month in the Nolen Lounge at the Campus Center. The Gallery Finale is at 8pm on September…
As the year progresses, we will see many campus institutions respond to Smith’s “Year on Climate Change.” The “Fragile Earth” installation, located in the Nixon…
The Theater Department recently hosted the 60th anniversary of its student-led event, “Do Clothes Matter?” The symposium was held April 6 in the Campus Center, where a group of students studying Costume Design presented the culmination of a semester of research, alongside keynote speakers such as Vanessa Friedman, Sonnet Stanfill and Jan Glier Reeder.
This year, English major Tanya Ritchie AC ’19 will be the first Smith student to complete a creative thesis in the format of a play with her piece “Them What Brung You.” While it may not have always been the easiest process, her work to establish the option should open new doors for future Smith students who want to take this path.
“Being undocumented means you don’t have any rights,” Teresa Lee, the original Dreamer, told the audience on Tuesday night for the world premiere of “The New Immigrant Experience.”
After two years of hard work, the experiences of this year’s cohort of candidates for the MFA in Choreography and Performance culminated in a thesis concert presented Thursday, Feb. 7, Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9, in Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts. Centered around the theme of “We,” each candidate’s piece examined the concept in a myriad of unique and captivating ways.
Walking through SCMA’s newest exhibit, I couldn’t get the chorus of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” out of my head: “Don’t cry / don’t raise your eye / it’s only teenage wasteland.” The song’s otherworldly warning seems to be woven throughout the artwork in “Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials,” an exhibit that documents the past, present and future of plastics and human existence. The 20th century got to enjoy the thrilling innovations of plastic, inadvertently creating an archive of the costly convenience of daily life. Now, the upcoming waves of youth will inherit what is left of this material’s legacy: an impending wasteland. “Entanglements” confronts the viewer with the medium’s metamorphosis, asking whether the possibilities of plastic can ever make up for the destruction it wreaks.