Live Performance
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Student-Led Exhibition Tour
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!
Wesleyan student gallery assistants will lead a guided tour of the current exhibitions in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. Explore the artists, themes, and curatorial context behind each show, and take part in a conversation about the work on view. Each tour lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Fries Arts Building Opening Celebration
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street, Middletown, Connecticut
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 2:00pm
Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street, Middletown, Connecticut
FREE!
Join us for an open house and dance party to celebrate the new Fries Arts Building (FAB), an expanded home for the arts at Wesleyan University. While the FAB’s most important function is to offer teaching space, for this one day, the Director’s Council (a student-led committee that works closely with the Director of Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts) will turn the FAB on its head. Today, the theater becomes a concert stage, the dance studio becomes an art gallery, and the drawing and design studios host beginner-friendly arts activities for all ages!
WesGrooves Social Dance Series: West African Dance with Iddi Saaka [NEW TIME]
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 5:00pm
Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street, Middletown, Connecticut
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 5:00pm
Fries Arts Building, 56 Hamlin Street, Middletown, Connecticut
FREE!
The fourth event in the new WesGrooves series of social dance events with a vision to create community connection through rigorous play and creative movement will feature a West African dance lesson from Associate Professor of Dance Iddi Saaka followed by a dance party featuring Wesleyan’s African Pop Music Band, directed by Assistant Professor of Music John Dankwa PhD ’18, as the culmination of the opening celebration of the new Fries Arts Building.
Film Screening with Live Gamelan Music: Setan Jawa
Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
FREE!
Setan Jawa is a mesmerizing silent black-and-white film brought to life through a powerful fusion of live gamelan and electronic music, conceived by acclaimed Indonesian director and producer Garin Nugroho with music is composed and performed by Peni Candra Rini and Andy McGraw, in collaboration with I.M. Harjito and Sumarsam.
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