Mining for jewelry materials, including precious metals and stones, can be detrimental to natural ecosystems and wildlife. Monday’s community-made jewelry exhibition and panel discussion showed that this need not be the case and offered a sustainable alternative.
Featuring foods from Scandinavia, Spain, the French Basque region, Germany, Switzerland and Cuba, a travel-themed party drew a crowd of over 180 people to the Fireside Inn & Suites in West Lebanon on Saturday evening. Hosted by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, an organization intended to support learning among retirees and community members, the party concluded with an auction of posters from around the world.
From transforming long, cardboard carpet tubes and plastic straw into a flute to converting old tennis rackets and fire alarms into percussion instruments, Bash the Trash takes an artistic approach to sustainability, co-founder John Bertles said. Bash the Trash, founded in 1988 in New York City, will host workshops and “trash mob” concerts, as part of the Hopkins Center’s new Community Venture Initiative.
Seventh-grade students flooded into Alumni Hall Thursday for a Sister-to-Sister conference, an annual event that this year addressed issues related to self-esteem and interpersonal relationships. Hosted by Link Up, a mentorship and community-building campus organization, the conference invited 120 female students from six local middle schools to participate in activities and talks with 16 undergraduate facilitators, 10 Link Up members and other volunteers.
Anchored by a drag show featuring Alyssa Edwards of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and a keynote address by Laverne Cox of “Orange Is the New Black” fame, this year’s Pride Week lineup mixes new events with older offerings. Programming will continue through Saturday evening, concluding with an awards ceremony for leaders in the LGBTQ community.
Displayed in the shape of a rising sun on the wall, the African weapons in the new Hood Museum of Art exhibit, “Art of Weapons,” form intimidating yet beautiful rays. Meant to mimic the grand Victorian style common to elite homes and museums, the exhibit explores themes that include colonialism and gender binaries.
With less than a month left until the 42nd annual powwow, the 11 students on this year’s planning committee are wrapping up preparations for the program, which celebrates various Native American cultures through food, song, dance and drum. Based on previous attendance, around 1,500 people are expected to participate, making it the one of the largest student-run powwows in the Northeast.
The requests put in for pianist and social activist Gabriela Montero’s improvisation session on Monday night at 13 East Wheelock Street, or the “White House,” flitted from the visual to the auditory to the emotional. Tonight, however, Montero will start her Spaulding Auditorium performance in a more traditional manner, playing Brahms’s Three Intermezzi (Op. 117) and Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major (Op. 17).
The requests put in for pianist and social activist Gabriela Montero’s improvisation session on Monday night at 13 East Wheelock street, or the “White House,” flitted from the visual to the auditory to the emotional.
A purple octagon with mustard yellow spots draws in the viewer’s eyes. Stepping closer, it becomes apparent the octagon was created from interwoven and overlapping pieces of fabric laid at crisscrossed and parallel directions. On further inspection, the spots form a pattern of ovals, triangles and semicircles, and around the octagon is an abstracted rose shape radiating non-uniform stripes. Two edges of the abstract shape are folded and appear almost dog-eared, drawing the viewer’s eyes back to those elements of the painting with further questions.