"Next Year" (a new song!)
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Sharing a new song with my hopes that we’ll all be making music together again soon!
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Crowdfunding Campaign for Asian-American Debut Studio Album — Nathan Phan '19
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"What type of Asian am I? The Model Minority? The Unfeeling Robot? The Oriental Fantasy? The Yellow Peril?"
Read MoreA Special Place For Women: A Novel
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My new novel comes out May 11th, and has already been featured by Cosmo and Good Housekeeping as one of their top summer reads. A Special Place for Women is the funny, wild, twisty story of an undercover reporter who infiltrates a secret club for the elite millennial women of NYC, only to find hat self-proclaimed girlbosses and occult-obsessed bohemians who make up the membership are far more powerful than she expected.
Read MoreComposer Lewis Flinn's "The Curtain Call Mixes" to be released May 3, 2021
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After more than a year without live performances, the ovation is set to make its long-awaited return with the release of composer Lewis Flinn’s ('89) "The Curtain Call Mixes", a first-of-its-kind album of curtain call cues he composed from Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional theatrical productions. The Curtain Call Mixes will be re-leased by Silent Voice Publishing on Monday, May 31, 2021, and will be available for streaming and download everywhere.
Read MoreMy new EP Featuring AAPI/BIPOC Artists Aims to Promote Understanding and Tolerance and Combat Racism
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Heritage and Harmony: Silver Linings, an album spotlighting music by under-represented composers, will be released on May 1st. The music on this EP is composed and performed by AAPI/BIPOC musicians - each piece helped get me through the pandemic year, which started with my being assaulted for being Asian, and ended with my entire family getting sick with COVID -19. All proceeds will go to KACF, an organization that supports our AAPI community and is committed to fighting for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Read MorePublic Art: “Taking Pause” Explores What is Irreplaceable to Us
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“What is irreplaceable to you?” Capturing diverse answers from the local community, a public art installation now graces Dohm Alley, near the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon Streets. The Princeton University Humanities Council and the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) are co-hosting the exhibit that runs through October. It features portraits and stories arranged by ACP Artist-in-Residence Robin Resch, a Princeton-based photographer who earned her Master’s in Architecture from Princeton University in 2003.
Read MoreJohn Sichel's 2nd Cello Sonata
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John Sichel '81's 2nd Cello Sonata was performed on March 28th, 2021 by Jonathan Spitz, principal cellist, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Dr. Anna Keiserman. The performance was part of the Mozaika Chamber Music series at Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ. You can watch and hear the performance at…
Read MoreAnimated Music Video by Blanker (John Norwood, '06)
/Blanker is a one-man DIY project, with John Norwood ('06) handling all vocals, instrumentation, and production. Given the impact of the pandemic, Blanker's latest album, Scare City, was entirely written and recorded out of Norwood's 1 BR Brooklyn apartment.
Read MoreIt's All Greek to Me
/Richard Arthur Olson '65 wrote “It’s All Greek to Me,” which takes place in a philosophy class at a fictional college on Zoom, where it was performed and recorded. It’s the eve of Election Day 2020 (also All Souls Day), and they are studying Plato, including the death of Socrates. The discussion involves not only how to live but also turns to current events and gets rather personal among the students of widely different backgrounds. It might be described as a comedy of manners. Directed by Rania Ajami '01. Both the trailer and the full video (one hour) can be found through the link below — it's free!
Read MoreEpiphany Magazine open for submissions
/Epiphany is now open for submissions to our Spring/Summer 2021 Issue: The Empire Issue, a collection of stories, poems, essays, writing in translation, visual art, and genre-bending work from 20-30 contributors in all stages of their careers, celebrating humanity's resilience, diversity, and creativity; the impact of Covid-19 and quarantine; social hierarchies including patriarchy, heteronormativity, race, and class; our country's history of exclusion, opportunity, and growth; and all concepts of power, in one beautiful print journal. The Empire Issue will be guest-edited by Sameer Pandya, author of the novel Members Only and the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long listed for the PEN/Open Book Award.
Read MoreArt Historian Emily L. Spratt collaborates with Acclaimed French Chef Alain Passard on Gastronomic Algorithms
/Art Historian, artist, and data scientist Emily L. Spratt collaborated with the French Chef Alain Passard to use AI to analyze and generate experimental images of the renowned vegetable forward dishes of the Three-Star Michelin restaurant Arpège in Paris. In a paper that recently came out in Leonardo, MIT Press, Dr. Spratt explains the gastronomic algorithms project and how the duo explored the creative process behind the art of plating through their emulation of the portraits of the Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. In the fall of 2019, the results of the collaboration were exhibited in the exhibition Au-Delà du Terroir, Beyond AI Art as a part of the Global Forum on AI for Humanity that was hosted by President Emmanuel Macron in Paris at the Institut de France. For more information see, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZcFPd4eN41PuysJlDNuD0X0O_USomVOm/view.
Read More"Sister Roger's Gayborhood" Podcast Returns for Season 2!
/Roger Q. Mason '08 and Lovell Holder '09 are back for another season of conversations with queer folks from every industry about how their identities have shaped their professions! Recent Princeton graduates Claire Thornton '19 and William Keiser '19 join for a special chat, with additional exciting alums coming soon. And don't miss the past episodes featuring all the awesome Princetonians who appeared in Season 1, including Jordan Kisner '09, Jacob Candelaria '09, Heather Rae Martin '08, and Alex Bisignano '09. Available now wherever you listen to podcasts!
Read Moreinfant smile: a hand-bound first book of poems
/44 4" x 6" books of poetry hand-bound in Minnesota during 2020 available for sale. sliding scale.
Read MoreCharity Digital Single Featuring Broadway's George Salazar & Taylor Iman Jones from Brandon Michael Lowden '09
/Hear Broadway stars George Salazar (Be More Chill) and Taylor Iman Jones (Head Over Heels) on "Prom Night 2208," a charming new story song with lyrics by Brandon Michael Lowden '09 and music by Alexander Sage Oyen, available wherever you stream or purchase digital music. All proceeds from this digital single, recorded remotely during the pandemic, will be donated to Black Lives Matter.
Read MoreCelebrate Women's History Month with a New Musical on Film
/Flower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, January-February, pp. 50-57, 2021.
Flower House featured in “Six Overlapping Pavilions Create a Flower-Shaped Home in Massachusetts,” Dwell Magazine, 2021, https://www.dwell.com/article/flower-house-no-architecture-21db69e1.
Flower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, Apple News, 2021, https://apple.news/ArSktZw7NQ4KI9aWeCNo3zg.
Read MoreFlower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, January-February, pp. 50-57, 2021
/Flower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, January-February, pp. 50-57, 2021.
Flower House featured in “Six Overlapping Pavilions Create a Flower-Shaped Home in Massachusetts,” Dwell Magazine, 2021, https://www.dwell.com/article/flower-house-no-architecture-21db69e1.
Flower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, Apple News, 2021, https://apple.news/ArSktZw7NQ4KI9aWeCNo3zg.
Read MoreA Love Song to The Earth - Inspirational Music Video
/A Love Song to The Earth is an inspirational music video by pianist and performing artist, Jessica Roemischer. Filmed in a dramatically beautiful location in Sydney, Australia, it conjures through piano music and story a vision of the world healed.
Read MoreThe Arts Council of Princeton is pleased to introduce fine art photographer Robin Resch '03 as our latest Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence
/The Arts Council of Princeton is pleased to introduce fine art photographer Robin Resch as our latest Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence.
Read MoreDebut Album from Abbie from Mars '20: Quick Universe Leap
/Abbie Minard '20 recently released her debut album under the moniker Abbie from Mars, her longtime radio-and-art-making persona. Quick Universe Leap is a collection of songs and sketches which she dared herself to complete in the first month of 2021.
Stream or download from Bandcamp: https://abbiefrommars.bandcamp.com/album/quick-universe-leap
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in the Arts Circuit Recordings + RSVP to the Spring 2021 Antiracism in Action Event!
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Last fall, ODUS Arts announced the kickoff of their newest program: The Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in the Arts Circuit (EDI Circuit). This program encourages collaboration between alumni mentors and student leaders of performing arts groups while working to center equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism in Princeton’s arts community.
Thirty-five student leaders across a variety of arts groups served as the inaugural cohort. They were mentored by Princeton Alumni Ronee Penoi ‘07, Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. ‘09, and Adam Hyndman ‘12, collectively the Alumni Arts Alliance (A3). Since October, they have attended a series of conversations and guest speaker panels that explored the intersection of artistry and antiracism in the context of understanding systems/structures, equitable recruitment, and building trust in the arts community. The program concluded with a multi-day Summit.
If you are interested in viewing the Summit events, you may find them at the links below:
EDI in the Arts Summit Kick-off
Liberated Structures in the Performing Arts
This spring, members of the EDI cohort will present living drafts of their antiracist aspirations for the student performing arts ethos. Please join the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students as they spotlight student arts groups making substantial change in their leadership, recruitment, and curatorial processes. Click here to RSVP to the Spring 2021 Antiracism in Action event.