Category: Curricular Connections

This Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 at Weitz Cinema, David Henry Hwang, a Tony Award-winning playwright, musical librettist, and TV writer, will share his life-long and elusive search for cultural and artistic authenticity.

This Friday Jan. 20th 4:30pm – 5:30pm, Bojana Cvejić (born in Belgrade/Serbia), a performance theorist and performance maker based in Brussels, will join a conversation the Carleton community in Wetz 236 (Larson Family Meeting Room).

FELT ROOM premieres this Friday, Jan. 13 from 7 to 10 p.m., including a reception and panel discussion from 7-8 p.m. with dance professor Judith Howard and BodyCartography principals Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. It will be host in the Kaemmer Family Gallery in the Weitz Center for Creativity’s Perlman Teaching Museum. Come experience this unique installation designed by Olive Bieringa of BodyCartography with guest dancers and members of the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company which seeks to engage both performers and audiences with a series of live dance performances.

This Friday, Nov. 11th at 7:30pm in Weitz 172, senior Theater Arts majors Annie Wang and Sasha Blinnikova will be debuting their comps performance, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, the play they first read two years ago in​ ​their Beginning Acting class.

This Friday and Saturday, Semaphore will present its fall concert in Weitz Theatre at 7:30 pm. This concert will include works by faculty member, Jane Shockley — whose piece is titled The Inside Story and is inspired by the video The Inner Life of the Cell — as well as student choreographers Mike Bahn and Hunter Brown, and guest artist Olive Bieringa, who is part of the choreographic duo BodyCartography.

This Saturday, Oct. 29th, Spirit of Nature, a group of the world’s top performers of traditional Chinese instruments, will present “Music from China” along with Chinese Music Ensemble from 8 pm to 9:30 pm at the Concert Hall.

The Carleton Players will debut “Grounded” by George Brandt and directed by David Wiles this Friday, October 21st at 7:30pm at the Weitz Theatre. More performance times and tickets reservations can be found at https://apps.carleton.edu/arts/events/tickets/

In honor of 150 years of proud Carleton history, The Perlman Teaching Museum at the Weitz Center brings on an ongoing exhibition INDEPENDENCE OF THOUGHT: An Unfolding Story 1866-2016 in its Braucher Gallery from Sept. 23 to Nov. 16, 2016.

Carleton’s International Film Forum presents films from all around the world in weekly screenings at the Weitz Center Cinema. The Fall 2016 series runs from September 26th through November 14th. Most screenings are on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. (click headline for full details)

This weekend, Carleton French Professor Cherif Keïta performed the “Epic of Sundiata” with accompaniment by Trio da Kali, a group of Mande musicians from southern Mali for the British Library in London.