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Weekly updates on the Arts at Babson, Olin, and Wellesley. Styles include art, music, dance, theatre, and film.
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BABSON COLLEGE
Microclimates: Mixed Media Art by Alison Williams. 10am-7pm. Hollister Gallery and Exterior
Ongoing until October 29.
Allison 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, Allison has
created glass houses for biology to overlap with creativity. Allison 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.
sept 23.
Microclimates: Artist Talk with Alison Williams.
1pm-1:30pm. Hollister Gallery
Ask questions about Alison Williams’ artwork and explore the exhibit in the Hollister Gallery.
[clubs]
BFAA –Babson Fine Arts Association
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Pottery Club
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Art Club
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OFF-CAMPUS
sept 23.
MFA College Night. 7pm-11pm. 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, but on College Night, Thursday, September
23, we’re throwing a party just for you. All you need to do is show your college ID to join
hundreds of college students and enjoy all that the Museum has to offer:
Free concert...It’s a surprise, but come
early because you won't want to miss it.
(First come, first served.)
Free dance party...We'll be spinning
electro, hip-hop, and "a little bit of
everything"
Free snacks...munch on Mexican,
compliments of Chipotle
Free prizes...you’ll just have to come
to see what we are giving away!
Cool musical instruments from harpsichords, clavichords, early pianos, zithers, reed organs,
mouth organs, flageolets (say what?), and even musical glasses. And of course, lots of ART.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
Calculated Risks: New Work by Faculty Artists. 11am -5pm. Chandler Gallery
Ongoing until December 12.
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.
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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
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.
sept 28.
Lunchtime Gallery Conversation. 12:30pm-2pm. The Davis Museum
This is an hour long conversation between multiple artists and scholars in the galleries, echoing
the pairings of artists and scholars in the exhibition catalogue. Speakers will explore the
forseeable as well as the unanticipated dialogues and interconnections that arise between
artworks, colleagues and artists. Light lunch to be served in the Davis Museum lobby
beforehand.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
sept 19.
Russian Art-Song in the 19th Century. 12:30pm. Jewett
Auditorium
Seattle-based baritone Michael Drumheller will present a
selection of Russian classical songs from the
1800s, including works by Glinka,
Muggorgsky and Borodin. The
centerpiece of the concert will be Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of
Death, a cycle of four intensely moving solo vocal works from the 1870s
considered by many to be the pinnacle of Russian art-song in the 19th
century.
SAVE THE DATE
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oct 6.
Beacon Brass Quintet. 12:30pm. Jewett Auditorium.
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 [email protected] how you
can take private music lessons at Wellesley.
Babson College Radio
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Babson Entertainment Initiative
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Babson Musicians Union
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Babson/Olin Jazz Emsemble
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Rocket Pitches
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Conductorless Orchestra
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Powerchords
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Jazz
Wellesley College:
Choir, Chamber Singers, Collegium Musicum, Orchestra, Chamber Music Society, Wellesley
BlueJazz, and Yanvalou.
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BABSON COLLEGE
sept 23.
BDE Pub Night. 10pm-12am. Roger’s Pub
Support the Babson Dance Ensemble at this fundraising event in Roger’s Pub. There is a $2
cover/entrance fee.
SAVE THE DATE
AMAN Dance and cultural show, BDE Show, and more.
[clubs] AMAN
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Babson Dance Ensemble (BDE)
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BAPSA
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ODP
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WELLESLEY COLLEGE
sept 23.
A Midsummer’s Night Dream: Actors from the London Stage. 7pm. Diana Chapman Walsh
Alumnae Hall
Ongoing until Sept 25.
Returning for the fifth year, Actors from the London
Stage is a theatrical tour de force beloved by the
Wellesley community. This year, they will bring
Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, with its lovers and lunatics, to vivid life in
the spare, elegant and inventive style of the
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company’s previous wildly successful productions of King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
Jordan Lecture: An Accident of History. 4:30pm. Clapp Library, Lecture Room
As recent events have made so painfully clear, massive technical systems can - and do - fail
catastrophically. When they do, we as a society struggle to understand why – what combination
of the “human” and the “machine” is responsible? Professor Galison’s lecture will explore the
powerful technical, sociological, moral and philosophical questions at stake as we strive to
determine who or what is to blame for these catastrophic failures.
sept 28.
Distinguished Writers Series: Peter Carey. 4:30pm. The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center
for the Humanities
Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia in 1943. Two of his eleven novels have won
the Booker Prize, and his most recent novel was published in 2010.
SAVE THE DATE
oct 6.
Lecture: The Making of a Woman. 7:30pm. Diana Chapman Walsh
Alumnae Hall
[clubs]
TheatreWorks
Vagina Monologues
Babson Players
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FWOP
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OFAC
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Butterfingers
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BABSON COLLEGE
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sept 28. Global Film Series - Night of the Pencils. 7pm. Sorenson Theatre
Director: Hector Olivera. (Argentina)
A searing look at Argentina's "Dirty War" of the 1970s and 80s, The Night of the Pencils tells the
story of six teenagers who, while lobbying for free bus passes for high school students, get
accused of subversion by the then-reigning military dictatorship. Based on actual events, the
film is a testament to the indelible mark on the Argentinean psyche left by the junta’s brutal
suppression of its citizens. This complex portrait of the students, their parents, and their
captors offers a genuinely moving and convincing picture of the ordeal that the students, along
with the entire Argentine populace, endured.
SAVE THE DATE
Oct 19, Children of Heaven Director: Majid Majidi. (Iran)
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 third-place 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.
Nov 8, Raise the Red Lantern Director: Zhang Yimou (China)
Set in the 1920s during China's warlord era, the award-winning Raise the Red Lantern focuses
on a young woman struggling to exert control over her own life. After her father's death, 19-
year-old 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.
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