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- West African Drumming and Dance
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, December 18 at 8:00pm - Ebony Singers Winter Concert
Crowell Concert Hall
Monday, December 7 at 8:00pm - Javanese Wayang Kulit (Puppet ...
Saturday, December 5 at 8:00pm - Nicole Stanton: Threshold Sites
Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio
Friday, December 4 at 8:00pm - Eiko & Koma: Time is not Even,...
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Thursday, November 19 at 5:00pm - Know Thyself: An Evening of Ja...
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, November 13 at 8:00pm - Rhodessa Jones: Theater for th...
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, November 12 at 8:00pm - Paul Villinski: Emergency Resp...
Zilka Gallery and CFA Green
Saturday, September 12 at 12:00pm - Singer/Songwriter Amy Crawford...
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, November 7 at 8:00pm - Eilen Jewell and the Sacred Sh...
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, November 6 at 8:00pm
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts Featuring choreographer and Artist-in-Residence Iddi Saaka and Master Drummer Abraham Adzenyah, joined by students and guest artists. This invigorating performance showcases the vibrancy of West African cultures through their music and dance forms.
Time:8:00PM Friday, December 18th
Location:Crowell Concert Hall
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Threshold Sites: The Ultimate Meal explores the relationships between body/self, home/community, and environment/ecosystem through the lens of food. Associate Professor of Dance Nicole Stanton, Associate Professor Katja Kolcio, and Wesleyan students, created the piece collaboratively with vocalists Magda Kolcio, Nestor... Kolcio, Irma Pylyshenko, Wolodymyr Pylyshenko as well as Michael Singer Assistant Professor of Biology and Gina Ulysse Associate Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology. This multi-medium performance weaves dance, song, spoken word... and a meal. It includes a new work commissioned by Feet to the Fire and made possible by leadership support from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a program funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
TONIGHT at 8pm in the Dance Studio located on Pine Street (next to Exley, across from Weshop)
Free admission: if interested, call the Dance Department x3488
Time:8:00PM Friday, December 4th
Location:Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
The Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble directed by I.M. Harjito, with guest musicians and dhalang (puppet master) Sumarsam, will present a Javanese shadow puppet performance (wayang kulit).
Saturday, December 5, 8pm
World Music Hall
Tickets are $4 for Wes students!
$5 General, Seniors, Faculty & Staff
Call 860-685-3355 or visit www.wesleyan.edu/boxoffice for tickets.
Time:8:00PM Saturday, December 5th
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Come and enjoy an evening of great gospel music with Wesleyan's Ebony Singers under the direction of Pastor Marichal Monts. This event will cause you to clap, sing, cry, be lifted and inspired.
Monday, December 7, 8pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Tickets are only $5 for Wes students!
$7 General, Seniors, Faculty & Staff
Time:8:00PM Monday, December 7th
Location:Crowell Concert Hall
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Come see the preview performance of Wesleyan's production of The Skriker THIS WEDNESDAY at 8pm in the CFA Theater! Tickets in sale at the box office or www.wesleyan.edu/boxoffice.
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Location:CFA Theater
Time:8:00AM Wednesday, November 18th
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Award-winning, Japanese-born dancer/choreographers and artists Eiko & Koma are long familiar to the Wesleyan community as teachers and performers. This exhibition is one of the inaugural events of the multi-year, multi-faceted Retrospective Project, which examines Eiko & Koma's artistic legacy. Utilizing video, textile...s, smells, and other objects from their old and new performance works, Eiko & Koma will create a textured landscape, illuminating how the intersection of space and time is dense with memories and possibilities. During the Zilkha show, Eiko & Koma will often be seen working in the space and will be available to converse with viewers. In the next three years, the Retrospective Project will travel to several contemporary art centers throughout the United States.
Opening reception Thursday, November 19th at 5pm.
Performance begins at 530.
Free admission!
Time:5:00PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Location:Crowell Concert Hall
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 6th
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Jazz pianist and composer Noah Baerman augments his longtime trio into a septet with four in-demand New York jazz artists, all with Connecticut roots. The focal point of the concert will be the world premiere of Baerman's "Know Thyself," an extended work made possible by Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and ...Presentation Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Baerman has recorded five acclaimed albums as a leader, featuring such jazz luminaries as Ron Carter, Ben Riley, Robin Eubanks and Steve Wilson and he has been a guest on Marian McPartland's NPR program "Piano Jazz." He has also made a name as a jazz educator and author, with nine instructional books published to date. He directs the Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble and since 2002 has been a Visiting Lecturer in Liberal Studies at Wesleyan. Baerman's ensemble includes Wayne Escoffery, saxophones; Erica von Kleist , saxophones; Amanda Monaco, guitar; Chris Dingman, vibraphone; Henry Lugo, bass; and Vinnie Sperrazza, drums.
Tickets are $15 general admission, only $6 for students! To purchase, visit the box office or www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 13th
Location:Crowell Concert Hall
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts Omar Sosa TONIGHT and SATURDAY! Grammy-winning Afro-Cuban jazz artist Omar Sosa performs at Crowell Concert Hall TONIGHT and TOMORROW at 8pm! Grab student tickets at the box office for $6.
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Come the special opening reception for "Mike Disfarmer: Photographs" this evening from 5-7 in the Zilkha South Gallery. Get your portrait taken for free! Come in costume (30s and 40s) or use one of ours.
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get your Portrait taken at the Zilkha Photo Booth!
Location:CFA, Zilkha South Gallery
Time:5:00PM Friday, October 9th
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
Disfarmer, which premiered in January 2009 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, is a puppet theater work inspired by the life of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959). Disfarmer operated a photography studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas, where for years locals and tourists lined up to have their pictur...es made. Using glass plate photography long after it was obsolete, Disfarmer left his subjects to decide for themselves how to act in front of his lens. When thousands of these glass plates were discovered in the 1970s, Disfarmer’s photographs were acknowledged as a stunning achievement for their exquisite artistry, their profound empathy for their subjects and their invaluable documentation of a way of life that has all but vanished from the United States. How could a man who openly disdained his fellow citizens portray them with such compassion?
Director and designer Dan Hurlin, working with playwright Sally Oswald and composer Dan Moses Schreier, has recreated a visceral sense of Mike Disfarmer’s interior and exterior worlds, illuminating the contradictions in the life of this American hermit and portrait artist. The production features the American style of “tabletop” puppetry; projections of Disfarmer’s photographs and images produced by old optical techniques; and a sound score with haunting music from antique recording technologies, re-contextualized and mixed with modern sampling techniques. Made possible by the Expeditions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Tickets are $8 for students. Purchase at the box office, at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa or by calling 860-685-3355.
Friday & Saturday,October 16 & 17, 8pm
CFA Theater
Time:8:00PM Friday, October 16th
Location:CFA Theater
Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts Visit the NEW CFA BLOG! Behind-the-scenes notes about upcoming events at http://cfa.blogs.wesleyan.edu/
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