When someone says they are going to tell a story, a handful of mental images prepare your horizon of expectations — maybe a parent struggling to get an antsy child to sleep or a peer who never seems to apply a discriminatory eye to the relevance of particular details about their most recent crazy weekend.… Keep Reading
CVMNEXT was hired to contract the “Matchbox” gym and multipurpose facility which opens its doors to the community next week. It’s fashionable. The art of the building itself, the skeleton, is not, however, quite as interesting as the motivations behind the insides. Stepping onto any stationary bicycle in Swarthmore’s Matchbox, the miraculous masterpiece of a… Keep Reading
This weekend’s production of “Guys and Dolls” will revamp the musical classic whilst trying to recreate its original feel. This is going to be Swarthmore’s second concert-staging of a musical, following “South Pacific” last spring. Many of the cast commented on how musical director Andrew Hauze, who also directed the previous production, has put into… Keep Reading
Rehearsals for “Medea” began just like one of the lines of cocaine I’d witnessed, as an innocent bystander, being cautiously sniffed two and a half weeks ago by some faceless and nameless Swattie and his friend in the dark, off a small, rectangular mirror: sitting upon the surreal grass-carpeted stage in the amphitheater like a… Keep Reading
Véronique Tadjo, pioneering francophone author, spoke of her work in various French classes and in a lecture held on Tuesday October 21. She discussed various works of hers, both in French and in translation, over the course of these events. Véronique Tadjo, pioneering francophone author, spoke of her work in various French classes and in… Keep Reading
The week before fall break saw (Ir)reverence: A Multimedia Conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s influential novel “Arrow of God,” hosted by the entire Tri-Co, aimed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the novel “Arrow of God” by incendiary Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It put Achebe’s works in dialogue with… Keep Reading
Hong Kong-based filmmaker and film professor Louisa Wei let her work speak mostly for itself when she presented it to a smattering of students and other community members on Tuesday, October 7 in the LPAC Cinema. She introduced her movie, “Golden Gate Silver Light,” with a few words of background information and a quick clarification… Keep Reading
The Red Lips Project, run by Aditi Kulkarni ’17, has been gaining attention across Swarthmore’s artistic spheres. The project’s main premise is simple: to take pictures of women wearing red lipstick, and attach a quote of them saying what makes them feel powerful. Kulkarni leaves many of the technical decisions in the making of the… Keep Reading