Thursday, April 25
IMAGINE ALL THE DREAMERS: THE FESTIVAL BEGINS
| Time | Noon to 12:30 p.m. |
| Location | Shapiro Campus Center Atrium |
| Description | Anything is possible at this unpredictable, improvisational performance celebrating creativity in all forms, led by students and faculty in the Brandeis School of Creative Arts. |
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CREATIVITY
| Time | 12:30 p.m. |
| Location | Women’s Studies Research Center |
| Description | In their annual symposium on creativity, resident scholars at the WSRC discuss the egoless state of mind that can transform reality into another dimension. Panelists: visual artist Linda Bond, composer and poet Cheryl Conner, actor Annette Miller, musician Amelia LeClair. Cultural anthropologist Ellen Rovner, respondent. Moderated by Rosie Rosenzweig. |
HOLLAND COTTER: ART, WRITING, LIFE, WRITING, ART
| Time | 5 p.m. |
| Location | Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center |
| Description | Imagine having a conversation with one of the most influential art critics in the world.
Provocative and poetic, Holland Cotter is chief art critic at the New York Times and has been contributing editor at Art in America. He has written widely about non-western art and received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, “for his wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling.” |
THEATRUM INSTRUMENTORUM:
BRANDEIS AND TUFTS EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLES
| Time | 6 p.m. |
| Location | Berlin Chapel |
| Description | Imagine yourself in the European courts of the 17th century.
The Brandeis Early Music Ensemble, directed by Sarah Mead, is joined by the Tufts Early Music Ensemble, directed by Jane Hershey, to present early Baroque music for a splendid array of instruments and voices. Delight to music by Schein, Praetorius, Marini, Dowland, Jenkins and more. |
THE KINGS OF SUMMER
| Time | 7 p.m. |
| Location | Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar International Center |
| Description | Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, "The Kings of Summer" is a coming-of-age story about three teens who spend their summer building a house in the woods. Their idyll quickly becomes a test of friendship. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and starring Alison Brie ("Community," "Mad Men"), Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation") and Megan Mullally ("Community"). Sponsored by the Film, Television and Interactive Media program. Admission is free; reservation required. Contact Dona Delorenzo, (781) 736-8270 or dlorenz@brandeis.edu |
A CAPPELLA FEST
| Time | 8 p.m. |
| Location | Sherman Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center |
| Description | Imagine our finest student singers united in harmony.
Starving Artists presents the 14th annual A Cappella Fest, featuring Ba’Note, Company B, Jewish Fella A Cappella, Manginah, Proscenium, Rather Be Giraffes, Starving Artists, Too Cheap for Instruments, Up the Octave, VoiceMale and Voices of Soul, with special guests the Lexington High School Pitch Pipes. |
| Admission | $5; goes to support a local nonprofit. |
VISIONS OF AN ANCIENT DREAMER
| Time | 8 p.m. (also Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.) |
| Location | Spingold Theater Center |
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Description |
Imagine new visions of universal myths in a dramatic journey across time and cultures. The haunting classical Greek tales of Orestes and Iphigenia are re-imagined as twin visions of an ancient storyteller who relates the creation of the world, climaxing with the creation of the Furies. A new adaptation of Euripides’ “Orestes” and “Iphigenia at Tauris,” adapted and directed by Eric Hill. Translated by Leonard Muellner and Brandeis students; movement by Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda of the Navarasa Dance Theater. |
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Admission |
$20/$15/$5. A limited number of free tickets are available for this performance as part of the Festival of the Creative Arts on a first-come, first-served basis. Call 781-736-3400 or stop by the Brandeis Tickets box office in the Shapiro Campus Center. Use the code IMAGINE. (Not available online.) |