Last Saturday, Swarthmore’s spoken word group, OASIS, hosted its annual qualifier for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. This is the fourth running year that OASIS has sent a team to the invitational, which this year will take place in Richmond, Va.
The second show at Olde Club this year, featuring artists Brianna Cash and Xenia Rubinos, was subdued and intimate at times, and made you want to dance at others. The show started at 10 p.m. last Thursday, November 6, and ended at
“Dramaturgy” is a strange word of German origin that refers to the composition of the principal components of staged performance. As I have come to understand via the hasty analysis of a few Wikipedia pages, this entails presenting a story in a
Last Saturday, in honor of Día de los Muertos and Halloween, constituents of the college’s department of modern languages and literatures teamed up to bring a wide selection of international horror films to the Language Resource Center. The French department kicked off
“You know,” began Chris Densmore, curator at the Friends Historical Library, “These names, they’re not just dead, white, rich men.” The dozen relatives, alumni and students stood awkwardly around Densmore, blocking the entrance to McCabe Library. History is not only a performance,
The music department’s Midday Monday Concert Series offers monthly classical programming for a single-digit number of interested college students and a reasonably-sized mass of local retirees, bused in to find their seats about 45 minutes early. Each concert begins at 12:30 –
“I think I’m gonna die because it’s pasta bar, today, pasta bar, hurray.” This weekend, look forward to the reveal of Swarthmore’s very own musical, or more specifically Sharples Dining Hall’s. “Sharples: The Musical!” will present us with show unique to our
Last week, the college welcomed screenwriter and director Todd Haynes and producer Christine Vachon to campus. They were the guests of Sager Series events curated by Professor and Chair of Film & Media Studies Patty White. On Monday October 20, Haynes presented
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
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.
