Debut Poetry Collection from Viral Poet Patrick Roche '14

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A Socially Acceptable Breakdown is the debut full-length collection from poet and performer Patrick Roche '14. The poems pull from personal narrative to craft a journey of coping with and processing anything that may not be socially acceptable—mental health, grief, sexuality, body image, and more—and learning how to dismantle any stigma facing us in order to create our own joy and hope, all while exploring these themes through lenses of pop culture, memory, myth, and magic. Order your copy at https://buttonpoetry.com/product/a-socially-acceptable-breakdown/.

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We need your help to broaden the number of alumni Princeternship hosts in the arts!

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Princeternship is a career exploration program for undergraduate students centered on work exposure in fields of interest with alumni. In Princeternship, alumni create and host opportunities for students that integrate job shadowing, skill development and relationship-building in one-on-one or small-group settings.

Princeternships occur over students’ winter break (late December through January) and can be an in-person experience for one to five days or a virtual experience for one to four weeks.

We need your help to broaden the number of alumni hosts in the arts! All you would give is a bit of your time to have a deep impact on a fellow Tiger’s future. Reach out to Micaela Ensminger Ortiz at micaelae@princeton.edu for more information!

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Follow, new opera with libretto by Aaron Landsman, premieres September 8

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LCA faculty member Aaron Landsman wrote the libretto for Follow, a new opera about truth, news, and how stories evolve beyond our intentions. A collaboration with Portuguese composer Igor Silva, US performer Stephanie Pan and Dutch musicians Ensemble Klang, Follow premieres at Gaudeaumus Music Week, and will have further shows throughout The Netherlands, and in Portugal. Look for Follow in the US in 2022.

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Conscious Living Brings Mindful Travel to PBS Stations

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Conscious Living is an entertaining lifestyle television series that travels the planet on a hunt for what it takes to be a mindful human. Through the adventures of its EMMY award-winning host, Bianca Alexander (P'93) and her husband, vegan chef Michael, the show takes viewers across the globe while inviting them on a surprising journey inward.

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"Castrati Singers in the European Sacred Music Tradition”--A free video lecture by Elisabeth Kotzakidou Pace, Ph.D. is now available at the Academy of Sacred Drama

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In July, Elisabeth Kotzakidou Pace, Ph.D. delivered a video lecture at the Academy of Sacred Drama entitled “The Original Sin: Castrati Singers in the European Sacred Music Tradition,” and a conference paper at the 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music organized by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire entitled “Where did all the Altos go? Voice-type symbolism and the representation of the Female Principle in J. S. Bach’s Church Cantatas, Masses, and Passions.”

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New pandemic-inspired urban poetry from alumna ('74) Amy Madden

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The 4th collection of poetry from alumna Amy Madden Taylor '74. A veteran New Yorker and New York Blues Hall of Fame bassist, Amy has weathered the evolution and disintegration of the music scene in the city. With soul and nostalgia she continues, in this fourth collection, to harvest the grit and heart of what remains in a volume that reads as the lyric-score of a stunning urban opera.

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For the Record EP Merch Launching on August 5th!

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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!

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Arts At Work Summer Series July 7 - August 10

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Arts At Work Summer Series July 7 - August 10

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.

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Re: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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Re:mancipation...Artist Sanford Biggers & The Chazen Museum of Art take on the Monumental task of rethinking Thomas Ball’s controversial sculpture

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.

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Chelsea Music Festival - Weaving the Moment available thru July 2021

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Chelsea Music Festival - Weaving the Moment available thru July 2021

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.

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"Conversations on Choreography" - Online Summer Sessions

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"Conversations on Choreography" - Online Summer Sessions

"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.

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New Work in WashPost and Tricycle

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New Work in WashPost and Tricycle

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.

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Chelsea Music Festival - June 25-26, 2021 - Weaving the Moment

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Chelsea Music Festival - June 25-26, 2021 - Weaving the Moment

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.

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Princetonians Play Prominent Role in Sanford Biggers's Rockefeller Center Campus-Wide Takeover, Featuring "Oracle"

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Princetonians Play Prominent Role in Sanford Biggers's Rockefeller Center Campus-Wide Takeover, Featuring "Oracle"

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.

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Check Out My New Book of Poems All About the Pandemic!

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Check Out My New Book of Poems All About the Pandemic!

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.

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Dancing with the Revolution

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Dancing with the Revolution

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.

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