Recent News from Ann Tashi Slater '84
/Talks about The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Reinaldo Arenas, and our ancestors' stories; an essay in Nowhere magazine about a visit to Havana.
Read MoreAlice Eve Cohen wins 10th Annual National Jewish Playwriting Contest!
/Alice Eve Cohen’s play OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR won the 2021 National Jewish Playwriting Contest. It will receive a workshop production in NYC this season with Jewish Plays Project.
Read MoreFor the Record EP Merch Launching on August 5th!
/After releasing her debut EP of original music, For the Record, Kemi Adegoroye '13 is thrilled to announce that her first merch line is launching on August 5th! These original designs are inspired by the music and the moments behind the scenes in the recording studio. To learn more and purchase the merch once available on August 5th, visit www.kemiadegoroye.com. And in the meantime, get ready, get sweaty, and rock steady!
Read MoreArts At Work Summer Series July 7 - August 10
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Description: Arts At Work provides panels and workshops that offer practical, real-world advice to Princeton students and early-career alumni interested in establishing creative careers.
RSVPs are required no later than 5:00 p.m. EST the day before the event. Zoom information will be sent to registered participants the day before the event.
Arts at Work is co-presented by the Center for Career Development and Lewis Center for the Arts, with support from Princeton in Hollywood, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, and Princeton Arts Alumni.
Read MoreRe:mancipation...Artist Sanford Biggers & The Chazen Museum of Art take on the Monumental task of rethinking Thomas Ball’s controversial sculpture
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The Chazen Museum of Art is supporting artist Sanford Biggers and his collaborators, MASK Consortium (Founding Partners Mark Hines, P94 & Alicia Hines, P95), in addressing institutional racism by studying, and remixing Thomas Ball’s monumental bronze Emancipation Group, installed at Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill section of Washington, DC. This project, titled "Re:mancipation," will include the production of a counter-monument created by Biggers, a series of symposia, and a documentary that will provide audiences with an intimate look at the Consortium’s directive to address social justice and equity through artistic interpretation.
Read MoreChelsea Music Festival - Weaving the Moment available thru July 2021
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Did you miss the Festival weekend? Concert links and zoom recordings are available through July. Festival passes are still available online!
Hear a world premiere by composer Eric Nathan performed by oboists Amanda Hardy and John Ferrillo and filmed at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory. Also hear Debussy's Violin & Piano sonata performed by violinist Augustin Hadelich and pianist Orion Weiss as well as "Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk" by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Clair de Lune by Debussy, and some variations from J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Last but not least hear two US Premieres by Anton Garcia Abril performed by violist Jesus Rodolfo and pianist Reed Tetzloff.
Read More"Conversations on Choreography" - Online Summer Sessions
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"Conversations on Choreography," the first summer season of School of American Ballet's Ballet Connoisseurship seminar series for adults, will run online on Wednesdays, July 7-28, August 25, and September 1, 7:00-8:30 pm ET. All courses are available for individual purchase at $25 each or $125 for the full Summer Season Pass. Speakers include Wendy Whelan, Kyle Abraham, Justin Peck, Sidra Bell, Christopher Wheeldon, Lauren Lovette, Craig Hall, and more.
Read MoreNew Work in WashPost and Tricycle
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I wrote for The Washington Post about what I learned from my son (Class of '22) when he flew back to the nest because of the pandemic (https://wapo.st/3vxQzLG). And in a new piece in Tricycle's Summer issue, I explore how I reconnected with my Tibetan ancestors and myself (https://bit.ly/3fRr2GP). I was recently named a Contributing Editor at Tricycle.
Read MoreChelsea Music Festival - June 25-26, 2021 - Weaving the Moment
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We are thrilled to announce our 2021 virtual Festival, titled Weaving the Moment this June 25th & 26th, which includes an exclusive weekend of concerts, conversation, and culinary excitement through brand new recordings and talks with musicians, artists, chefs, and Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur.
Read MorePrincetonians Play Prominent Role in Sanford Biggers's Rockefeller Center Campus-Wide Takeover, Featuring "Oracle"
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Sanford Biggers's take over of New York’s Rockefeller Center began on 5/5/21 with a campus-wide art installation headlined by Oracle, a monumental bronze sculpture that—standing 25 feet tall and weighing in at over 15,000 pounds—is the Harlem-based artist’s largest work to date. Mark Hines (P94) and Jordan Hines (P23) collaborated with the Artist at various stages of the creative digital process of Oracle.
Read MoreCheck Out My New Book of Poems All About the Pandemic!
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I’m really excited to share my new book, Love Too Can Spread, a collection of my poems all about the pandemic, just recently published.
The book captures the strangeness of this past year with poems of mine on everything from grocery shopping to grief to Grandma’s never-ending challenges with Zoom.
Especially in this transitional moment in the pandemic, I’m confident people will find this book deeply meaningful, as we reflect on all that we’ve just experienced and learned over the past year, and begin looking forward to all that comes next.
V-card (A Vaccine PSA) - a new comedic music video!
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An original comedic music video that will give you a dose of both laughter and immunity! Written, directed, and performed by Sonya Hayden (https://www.sonyahayden.com/).
Read MoreIlana Lucas '07 Elected VP of the Canadian Theatre Critics' Association
/Ilana Lucas ’07 was recently elected Vice President of the Canadian Theatre Critics’ Association (CTCA), a national association of professional critics, entertainment writers and journalists from electronic, broadcast and print media.
Read MoreDancing with the Revolution
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At Princeton, Elizabeth Schwall (Class of '09) wrote a junior paper and senior thesis that formed the foundation for her forthcoming book, Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba. It will be released on May 10th! It examines how dancers asserted control over their bodies and careers and intervened in public discussions about revolutionary politics, race, gender, and sexuality in twentieth-century Cuba.
Read More"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!
Read MoreCrowdfunding 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.
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