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Peace through music
By Helen Rouner February 27, 2013 • 0
“When you play music, you can’t offend anyone or hurt people, but you can make people feel your passion,” said Siwar Mansour, an 18-year-old Palestinian violinist and ukulele player in Heartbeat: The Israeli-Palestinian Youth Music Movement.
The YCBA’s exhibit showcases art from the reign of Edward VII.
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YCBA highlights opulence of Edwardian era
By Yanan Wang February 27, 2013 • 0
Extravagance abounds in the Yale Center for British Art’s latest major exhibition.
“Theory of Flight” — a show by the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — explores one human's obsession with flight.
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‘Theory of Flight’ takes off
By Anya Grenier February 27, 2013 • 0
Almost a year after the launch of The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, the interdisciplinary initiative’s first performance venture will take flight this weekend.
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Bach, reinterpreted
By Dana Schneider February 27, 2013 • 0
Wednesday night, School of Music composers will add a contemporary twist to the music of Bach in collaboration with the Yale Baroque Ensemble.
The Kubler-Thompson Gallery of Indo-Pacific Art explores the art of cultures from Madagascar to Easter Island.
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Indo-Pacific Art Gallery broadens YUAG offerings
By Kamil Sadik February 25, 2013 • 0
This Sunday at the Yale University Art Gallery, visitors got an inside look at one of the museum’s newest collections.
The School of Art’s panel series on Saturday was focused on art issues unique to the Internet age.
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Art school panels highlight issues in contemporary art
By Josephine Massey February 25, 2013 • 0
On Saturday, the School of Art hosted its first series of panels featuring students, curators and professional artists discussing issues in contemporary art.
The Dramat's Freshman Show, "The Laramie Project," uses the murder of a gay college student in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998 as a lens to examine themes of intolerance and loss.
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With ‘Laramie,’ a heavier freshman show
By Helen Rouner February 22, 2013 • 0
This weekend, the Yale Dramatic Association will stage its annual Freshman Show featuring an all-freshman cast and crew.
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Design studio channels Nike brand
By Yanan Wang February 22, 2013 • 0
When it comes to corporate partnerships, a class of graduate architecture students is saying “just do it.”
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Movement as communication in ‘The Void’
By Eric Xiao February 21, 2013 • 0
A new play this weekend explores how movement can fill the communication gaps left by speech.
The Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards performed for students, workers and professors in the Calhoun dining hall during lunch on Wednesday.
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Grotowski residency comes to Yale
By Anya Grenier February 21, 2013 • 0
Students, workers and professors in the Calhoun, Branford and Davenport dining halls were serenaded during lunch Wednesday in a series of “interventions” announcing the Yale arrival of the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.
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Multimedia artists present tribute to Hughes
By Virgil Blanc February 20, 2013 • 0
In the spirit of Langston Hughes, artists who work with media from video to pastel to performance have come together to celebrate Black History Month.
Castor et Pollux
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Undergrad opera breaks new ground with ‘Castor et Pollux’
By Anya Grenier and Sarah Swong February 20, 2013 • 0
Nearly 70 Yale College students will come together this week to resurrect a show last performed in America before most of them were born.