Events for Sat, March 6th, 2021 - Fri, March 12th, 2021
March 2021
Theatre Honors Presentation: Fiona Selmi
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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- Arts at Williams
Theatre Honors candidate Fiona Selmi '21 presents a reading of “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron. Reservations required. Following a group of 13-year olds on a competitive dance team, clawing their way to the top of the Boogie Down Grand Prix competition and striving towards being the “best” in every sense of the word. In a world where “cuteness is death…
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Theatre Honors Presentation: Fiona Selmi
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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- Arts at Williams
Theatre Honors candidate Fiona Selmi '21 presents a reading of “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron. Reservations required. Following a group of 13-year olds on a competitive dance team, clawing their way to the top of the Boogie Down Grand Prix competition and striving towards being the “best” in every sense of the word. In a world where “cuteness is death…
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Online Event | Art-Inspired Yoga with Emily Kamen
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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- Arts at Williams
Looking at Thomas Sills’s oil painting titled "Summer," this online yoga class brings a splash of sunshine to the long Berkshire winter. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RV1GxgZPTAGPg4y1nntb1Q
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How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism, Lindi Von Mutius '03, The Trust for Public Land
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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- Academic/Teaching/Research
"How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism," Lindi Von Mutius, Director of Board Operations & Strategy, The Trust for Public Land.
Sponsored by the Class of 1960 Scholars Program in Environmental Studies & The Center for Environmental Studies.
Haiti, Beauty, and Justice in 2021: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Évelyne Trouillot
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
In a recent essay, the award-winning Haitian author Évelyne Trouillot writes, "...my writings, stemming from my lived experience and my aesthetic and social vision for a more beautiful and just world, are presented to readers who are not always acquainted with my reality..." The same can be said of the internationally acclaimed author Edwidge Danticat whose writing set in Haiti and…
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Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency advocates to the #MeToo movement, Americans and citizens of democracies worldwide are losing confidence in what we once called the system. This loss of faith has spread beyond government to infect a broad swath of institutions—the press, corporations, digital platforms—none of which seem capable of holding us together. The…
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The Faraway Brought Close: Poetry and the Work of Feeling
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Jessica Fisher, Associate Professor of English, will present the third in a series of six talks in the Faculty Lecture Series this spring. Open to the public. All are welcome!
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Practice & Process in Indian Drawing: A Workshop with Artist Murad Mumtaz
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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- Arts at Williams
In this workshop, artist and Assistant Professor of Art Murad Mumtaz demonstrates drawing techniques seen in Indian miniature painting. This free program will be presented online via Zoom.
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Dance on Screen: "The Unseen Sequence" directed by Sumantra Ghosal
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
One event on Sat, March 13th, 2021 at 7:00pm
One event on Sun, March 14th, 2021 at 11:00am
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- Arts at Williams
- Cost
- Free
Dance on Screen Film Festival How can the camera expand our experience of dance? In five films, we will watch together as diverse dance traditions are brought to life. Live Q+A’s with filmmakers and choreographers will reframe dance from multiple viewpoints, and bring vibrant choreography from around the world to wherever you may be. Dance on Screen Film Festival is…
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Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade: "Star Choir", Phase 2: Process
Join us for an introduction to a multi-part engagement with interdisciplinary artists Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade. Star Choir, Phase II: The Process. In a time when Earth is no longer habitable, a band of humans attempt to colonize Planet 85K: Aurora. A performance for six voices, six instruments, and animated video scenography, Star Choir explores a world occupied by an intelligence invisible…
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