Artist Talk by Ari Benjamin Myers: Rehearsing the Future—On the “Kunsthalle for Music” and Some Recent Works

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 7:00pm
Adzenyah Rehearsal Hall, Room 003 (Daltry Room), 60 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown

FREE!

Ari Benjamin Meyersperformative works and installations exist between music and the fine arts, and in 2017 he institutionalized his approach by founding the “Kunsthalle for Music” for the exhibition of musical performances and music-based art.

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Alaa Shehada from The Freedom Theatre

Monday, April 1, 2024 at 5:00pm
Theater Department Studio, 275 Washington Terrace, Middletown, Connecticut

FREE!

Theatermaker Alaa Shehada will share a video about the work of The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp and perform his one-person show, followed by a discussion/talk back with the audience.

Read more about Alaa Shehada.

Donald Berman Piano Concert: Other Transcendentalists

Friday, April 5, 2024 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

FREE!

Pianist Donald Berman ’84 returns to Wesleyan to perform a solo piano program, which pairs two works by 20th-century iconoclast composer Charles Ives (1874-1954), in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ives' birth, with four newly commissioned musical portraits of women who were pivotal figures in American Transcendentalism, written by Eve Beglarian, David Sanford, Marti Epstein, and Elena Ruehr. This concert will be the world premiere of Eve Beglarian’s work "as syllable from sound."

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Film Screening and Discussion with Artists: No Rule is Our Rule

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7:30pm
Powell Family Cinema, The Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, Connecticut

FREE!

A screening of the documentary film No Rule is Our Rule (2023) will be followed by a discussion with the directors and producers, Visiting Artist in Residence in the Dance Department Eiko Otake and Wen Hui.

Read more about Eiko Otake and Wen Hui.

Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend: Craig Harris and Friends Play the Music of Sam Rivers

Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Trombonist, composer, and bandleader Craig Harris has performed around the world with a wide range of progressive jazz luminaries, including the inimitable Sun Ra, as well as Sam Rivers, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Haden, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, and Oliver Lake, since 1976. At Wesleyan, Harris’ sextet will make their Connecticut debut, performing the music of saxophonist Sam Rivers (1923–2011) in celebration of Rivers’ centennial anniversary at 8pm. The concert opens at 7pm with a 45-minute set performed by members of the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra, directed by Professor of Music and African American Studies Jay Hoggard ’76, MA ’91.

Read more about Craig Harris and Friends.
Artist Talk by Ari Benjamin Myers: Rehearsing the Future—On the “Kunsthalle for Music” and Some Recent Works
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 7:00pm
Adzenyah Rehearsal Hall, Room 003 (Daltry Room), 60 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown
Ari Benjamin Meyersperformative works and installations exist between music and the fine arts, and in 2017 he institutionalized his approach by founding the “Kunsthalle for Music” for the exhibition of musical performances and music-based art.
Reception: Senior Thesis Exhibitions Week One
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 4:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
The reception for the first week of the annual Senior Thesis Exhibitions, held from 4pm to 6pm. Featuring works by seniors in the Art Studio Program of Wesleyan’s Department of Art and Art History: Malcolm Davol, Daniella Porras, Savannah Ryan, Maya Alicki, Tuong Nguyen, and Rebeca Trevino.
Music Department Colloquium: Donald Berman—“Challenging Authority in Editing Ives”
Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 4:30pm
Adzenyah Rehearsal Hall, Room 003 (Daltry Room), 60 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown

Pianist Donald Berman ’84 of the Longy School of Music of Bard College and Tufts University as well as president of the Charles Ives Society gives a talk entitled “Challenging Authority in Editing Ives.” On Friday, April 5, Berman returns to Wesleyan to perform a solo piano program in Crowell Concert Hall.

Spring Senior Thesis Dance Concert: ENCOUNTER
Friday, March 29, 2024 at 7:00pm
Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street, Middletown

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Senior choreographers present a collection of new works as part of the culminating capstone project of the dance major.

Spring tickets and reservations are available online or by phone at 860-685-3355.

The Wesleyan University Box Office is open for walk-up and phone sales Monday through Friday from 11am to 2pm.

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