A Love Letter to Swarthmore’s Peripeteia
I first heard about the group Peripeteia soon after I arrived at Swarthmore. An email about it appeared in my
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Faculty Teach Classes at Peripeteia Weekend*
In one of the most beloved and intensely “Swarthmorean” traditions on campus, this coming weekend will feature the eagerly anticipated
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Playing with sestinas
Around Again: Playing with Sestinas, a Peripeteia workshop led by Tristan Beiter ’19, served as an hour-long introduction to the
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A new way to draw
One of Peripeteia’s many workshops this weekend was a two-day drawing workshop in Kitao Gallery called Drawing the Movements, taught
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Mushrooms, Mushrooms, Mushrooms!
On Saturday, January 28th, one of my more strange – yet important – dreams came true! I taught a class
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“What is Ash Ketchum eating?” asked Rachel Davis ’19 during her Peripeteia workshop devoted to examining worldbuilding in fiction. “I
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Peripeteia: Data Driven
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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Weekend marks first annual Peripeteia
The past weekend marks the first official Peripeteia, a campus-wide festival designed to share knowledge across disciplines. It consists of
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“What is Ballet?” enlightens students about Swan Lake
Students entering the Matchbox last Saturday afternoon could faintly hear the beautiful orchestration of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet
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“Everyone Doodles” makes art approachable
Last Saturday afternoon, students and community members ventured into SCI 145 in anticipation of one of the many courses offered
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