Telluride Film Festival arrives at Dartmouth this weekend
Courtesy of Imdb.com The Telluride Film Festival held each year in Telluride, Colo.
Courtesy of Imdb.com The Telluride Film Festival held each year in Telluride, Colo.
Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Although Friday Night Rock, the student-run organization known for bringing alternative music acts to Hanover, only has one confirmed act, it is looking to follow its incredible 2011-2012 school year with a Fall term full of musically diverse and well-known acts.
This fall's season brings a hearty crop of new television shows, though it is hard to really pick out which rookie might hit it big.
For over a century, many novelists have chronicled the experiences of college students. Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel "Fanshawe," for example, is based on the author's time at Bowdoin College in the 1820s.
In cozy Howe Library, you might catch sight of avid readers huddled over books or preschoolers squirming through story time, but this evening, Howe will serve another role: a performance space for a Shakespearean production.
Based on Rubert Ludlum's novel, "The Bourne Legacy" is the fourth installment in the "Bourne" film series, which until now starred Matt Damon.
In light of the impending election season, the world of the arts outside of Hanover has taken a political turn and will likely continue to do so over the next few months.
In January 2012, major American museum director Maxwell Anderson '77 took over as director of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Courtesy of Blogcdn.com The Dartmouth Film Society's fall series, titled "The Return," features 20 films that highlight the themes of homecoming and reunions, according to Alex Gerstein '15, who collaborated with Abbie Kouzmanoff '15 to create the series. "With the Hopkins Center celebrating its 50th anniversary, it's interesting to look at how the past meets the present," Gerstein said. The films that will be screened this fall all cover the topic of revisiting the past. "I thought the timing was appropriate, what with everyone returning from the summer break," he said.
Courtesy of Collider.com, Filmofilia.com, IMDB.com *Editor's Note It may be the end of summer, but some of the summer's best books, films, music and TV carry over to the fall to remind us of the imminently departing warm weather and relaxation.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff As part of Dartmouths forthcoming Year of the Arts, which aims to increase the arts' visibility on campus over the next school year, the Hopkins Center will offer a full season of recognizable and up-and-coming performers, while the Hood Museum will debut its fall show on Aboriginal Australian Art.
On Sept. 13, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will bring his talents to the Dartmouth stage. The sold-out Hopkins Center concert marks one of the most highly anticipated events of the upcoming fall season. Sarah Wang '14, a music major who will be attending the concert, called Ma a "staple" of the music world. "I could never pass up an opportunity to see him, especially in such an intimate atmosphere," Wang said. Ma's concert will mark the beginning of the Year of the Arts initiative.
Claire Groden / The Dartmouth Staff The College's Sexual Abuse Peer Advisors organized a show spanning visual and performance art that focused on sexual assault recovery in One Wheelock on Monday night.
Nested on limestone and summoned onto canvas by pigments of coffee and beeswax, flocks of solemn birds in various artistic media will be the last guests in the Cynthia Reeves Gallery before it relocates to Walpole, N.H., later this fall.
James Peng / The Dartmouth Staff On Sunday, Programming Board and the student-run FM station 99 Rock co-sponsored the "Live @ the Bema" concert, concluding Fieldstock weekend with an afternoon of performances by New York musician Brent Knight, local bands All About Gladys and the Chris Kleeman Band and the student band TOAST.
Access to the Hood Museum of Art's extensive collection for both academic and personal use has proved an invaluable resource for students and faculty members this summer and in past terms, according to students interviewed by The Dartmouth.
Stephen Schwartz, the composer and lyricist of "Wicked," Taye Diggs, an actor in the Broadway musical "Rent," and Casey Nicholaw, a Broadway director and the choreographer of "The Book of Mormon," all have a unique experience in common an internship at the New London Barn Playhouse.
Moosilauke Ravine Lodge is an iconic staple of Dartmouth that conjures a similar image for many students hyper, colorful-haired Lodj Croo members serenading unshowered, overwhelmed freshmen during Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips.
When Aidan Nelson '12 first informed friends of his post-graduation plans to head to Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to help direct a performance of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," many were confused about where exactly he would be going. "Every time I mentioned I was going to Bosnia for the summer people would be like, Oh you're going to Boston,'" Nelson said.