I spoke with alumna Lisa Hori-Garcia ’96, an actress, activist and artist currently living in Denver. We spoke about her time at Smith College, what…
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On April 23, Drag Queen BenDeLaCreme performed her one-woman show “Ready to Be Committed” at the Academy of Music. Although DeLa is perhaps best known…
“He still brought her flowers,” read Jane MacLaughlin ’24, thus kicking off the Student Creative Writing extravaganza at the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center on April 14. Sponsored by the Smith English Department, the extravaganza featured nine student writers who read selections of their works, five of whom were seniors.
Artist Yu-Wen Wu sits at the head of the table ready to address the fellows of the Democracies Redux group with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. As an interdisciplinary artist working closely with the leaders of this Kahn group, professor Sujane Wu and professor Payal Banerjee, Wu has spent this year with the Smith community to address anti-Asian hate through art, archives, and storytelling.
“Etiquette,” a performance hosted by the Smith College Department of Dance, offers a striking, unconventional approach to performance.
Jiayan Sun and Edward Arron stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause, and moments later, with the first triumphant slamming of piano keys of “Grand Duo sur des thèmes de Robert le Diable,” the concert began. This was the sixth and final performance of Sun’s series “The Timeless Genius of Chopin.”
“Maya Lin: Mappings,” a collection of Lin’s works commenting on the relationship between humans and the environment, will be in exhibition at the Smith College Art Museum through Aug. 7.
“I think we can expect that people will be pretty upset tomorrow,” Phoebe Collins '22 announced to the eight Smith students packed into her postage stamp-sized dorm. I felt the excitement in the room bouncing off the walls—a kind of childlike giddiness that can only come from doing something that you know will earn you a scolding.
From their two-bedroom house in Western Massachusetts, darkwave band Boy Harsher pushes the boundaries of experimental music. The Florence-based duo, Jae Matthews and Augustus “Gus”…
At the Best of Valley Voices Story Slam at the Academy of Music on Feb. 20, 10 New England residents competed without props, notes or costumes to tell the best story.