Category: Humanities

This is a new adaptation of the Hawthorne novel by nationally known playwright Barbara Field (adaptor of the Guthrie CHRISTMAS CAROL), designed by Tony Award-winning (THE WHO’S TOMMY) designer John Arnone, original music to be composed by Hiram Titus, directed by Ruth Weiner.

Arena Theater, 8 p.m.

Javier Gomá Lanzón is director of the most important foundation that promotes cultural activities in Spain: Fundación Juan March.

The Birth of Freedom:  A Symposium on Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man
Monday 2 March at Macalester

Enrico Mario Santi, William T. Bryan Endowed Chair in Hispanic Studies at Kentucky University, will present a talk entitled “Fight the Devil: Fernando Ortiz and the Ghosts of Cuban History” on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 5 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Santi’s presentation is free and open to the public.

The Carleton College Art Gallery will soon open its doors to a fun and fascinating look at one of America’s most favorite forms of visual storytelling, the melodrama. Opening Friday, January 9, “Modernizing Melodrama” explores the history and significance of this popular genre and its ability to introduce representative ideas and powerful stories through film clips, stage and circus posters and lobby cards, mass media, documentary and artistic photographs, and experimental works by contemporary artists. The evening kicks-off with a lecture entitled “Our Melodramatic Fix” presented by renowned film scholar Linda Williams, University of California-Berkeley, at 7:30 p.m. in Boliou Hall, room 104. Following the lecture, a reception will be held in the Art Gallery from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Both opening events are free and open to the public.

On Friday, Sept. 19, the musical project “Africa to Appalachia” played at Carleton College after an invitation from professor of French Cherif Keita. Led by the award-winning Canadian banjo player Jayme Stone and Quebec-based Malian Kora player Mansa Sissoko, the group was scheduled to play locally and Keita convinced them to play in Carleton’s Great Space on short notice. We have some great photos of the event taken by Nate Ryan ’10.