Art Is All Around!
The Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis was founded in 1952 by the brilliant composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Each spring, the Brandeis campus blooms in a celebration of creativity and community, with work by national and regional artists as well as Brandeis faculty and students. All festival events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
The Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts is sponsored by the Brandeis Office of the Arts.
Saturday, April 30
Musical innovation is all around.
BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon
noon - midnight, Slosberg Music Center
Twelve hours of innovative and experimental new electronic music by an international roster of musicians and composers. Performers include Mari Kimura, Michael Lowenstern, Shanna Gutierrez, Krista Reisner, Geoffrey Burleson, The Phoenix Ensemble, Phillip Staudlin, Talea Ensemble and Joshua Gordon (Lydian String Quartet).
Works by: Luigi Nono, Mario Davidovsky, Steve Reich, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury, Kaija Saariaho, Michele Van der Aa, Joshua Fineberg, Eric Chasalow, Hans Tutschku, Thomas Kessler, James Dashow, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, John Mallia, Butch Rovan, Dennis Miller and others.
For a complete schedule, visit the marathon website. Curated by Eric Chasalow and produced in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Funded through the generosity of the Brandeis Arts Council, the Poses Fund, the Theodore and Jane Norman Fund, and the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University, with additional support from Parsons Audio and the Computer Music Studio at Boston University.
Jamfest CANCELLED
Great Lawn
2 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Bring your guitar, ukulele, drums or voice and jam out. Sponsored by the Brandeis Justice League.
Period. The End?
6 p.m., Spingold Theater Center, Merrick Theater
Do you enjoy talking about sex? Advertising? Want to learn more about how advertising for pharmaceuticals shapes the decisions we make? Lexi Kriss'11 has transformed her senior HSSP research on the effects of pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising into sexy monologues! Featuring Abigail Clarke '12 , Rachel Copel '11, Kate Davis'14, Maya Grant '13, Kerry Herman'11, Abi, Katznelson '11, Linda Li '13, Natasha Quidwai '14, Janel Rabbani '11, Julie Stein '11 and Marisa Turesky '13. Sound design: Kiril Lozinskiy '11; lighting/ tech: Nati Peleg '13. For more information, email akriss@brandeis.edu.
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
By Bert V. Royal
Brandeis Theater Company
8 p.m., Spingold Theater Center
(preshow dance party, 7:15 p.m.)
An irreverent, affectionate satire of teen angst and anomie. America’s most-beloved comic strip kids are now in high school. CB’s dog is dead, his best friend Van is a quasi-intellectual pothead, and his once-sunny sister is a brooding Goth outsider. Augh! Not so good grief all around. Featuring Stephen Badras ’13, Jordan Brown ’12, Nicole Carlson ‘14, Meg Evans ’12, Dan Katz ’12, Rebecca Miller ’13, Robert St. Laurence ’11, and Leila Stricker ’13. Directed by Summer L. Williams. Adult themes and language abound.
Tickets are $18–$20. Contact Brandeis Tickets at 781-736-3400 or order online. Also Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Boris’ Kitchen: Cooking Up Trouble
8 p.m., Carl J. Shapiro Theater
What’s cooking? Brandeis’s irreverent sketch-comedy troupe will have your belly aching with laughter from its biting parodies of campus life, pop culture, and the news. (Also on Friday at 8 p.m.)
In the Name Of
8 p.m., Mandel Center for Humanities, room G10
A new play by Renana Gal ’12, based on her own experience as a 19-year-old conscientious objector in Israel. Maya must convince a military court of her reasons for not supporting Israel’s security war and the military occupation of the Palestine territories. Produced by the Free Play Theatre Cooperative and featuring Noam Shuster ’11, Melissa Howard ’12, Dotan Horowitz ’12, Aidan Horowitz ’12, Emily Rubin-Falcone ’13 and Anthony Rios ’11. Ages 16 and older.
False Advertising
Chums, 10 p.m.
The student comedy group False Advertising performs long-form and musical improv in the Chums coffeehouse. For more information, go here or email ajsalinger@gmail.com.