ResLife Creates New Regulation Governing Program Houses’ Abilities to Host...
After confusing deliberations between the administration and ResLife student staff, program houses can now host only as many concerts and parties as it hosts program-specific events. The Office of...
View ArticleFilm Series: Dheepan
2015. France. Dir: Jacques Audiard. With Antonythasan Jesuthasan. 115 min. Three Strangers pose as a family to flee war-torn Sri Lanka, but the Parisian projects where they settle become another...
View ArticleWes Students Join Area Residents in Action Against Dakota Access Pipeline
“Our politicians are turning a blind eye to the protesters and to the native peoples as a new tyranny of oil is taking over our government” – Josh Nodiff ’19 On Friday, September 9, Dragonfly Climate...
View ArticleFilm Series: The Room
2003. USA. Dir: Tommy Wiseau. With Wiseau, Greg Sestero. 99 min. Wiseau plays Johnny, a successful banker whose life gets torn apart when his fiancee Lisa starts seeing his best friend, Mark; Wiseau...
View ArticleQueer Community Open Forum
From José Luis Sánchez ’18: We want to hear what you envision the Wesleyan queer community to look like for the 2016-2017 school year. We want to know your expectations and concerns. Queer spaces?...
View ArticleFilm Series: Le Havre
2011. France/Finland. Dir: Aki Kaurismäki. With André Wilms. 93 min. 35mm print In this urban fairytale, a failed author takes under his wing a young illegal immigrant from Africa. With European...
View ArticleInteractive Media Workshop w/ Cardinal Pictures and Eko!
Emily Feher ’17 writes in: Do you like digital storytelling?? Do you like $$$??? Eko is pioneering a new form of media in which video responds to a person’s actions and interests in real time. Come to...
View ArticleRosh Hashanah
Lila Levinson’18 writes in: Welcome in the Jewish new year with song, Torah, and apples and honey! Rosh Hashanah schedule is as follows: Sunday, October 2nd (Erev Rosh Hashanah) 6:00 pm – Services in...
View ArticleFilm Series: In a Foreign Land (En Tierra Extraña)
2014. Spain. Dir: Iciar Bollain. Documentary. 72 min. Since Spain’s economic crisis began, over 700,000 Spaniards have left othe country in search of a better life, Spain’s highest profile female...
View ArticleFilm Series: Dr. Strangelove (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the...
1964. UK/USA. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. With Peter Sellers. 94 min. 35mm print. When a trigger-happy general orders a nuclear attack on the USSR, the POTUS and his advisors race against the clock to...
View Article“Wesleyan Student Starter Pack” Memes: A Compilation
I forgot to include “I have an all male team for my thesis film and the department is paying me money to do it” On Monday morning, I woke up to find that a meme I had created had been posted to...
View ArticleAjùa Campos Presents: Convocation 2016
Lauren Salazar ’17 writes in: Join Ajúa Campos as we jumpstart Latinx Affirmation Month 2016 “Making Latinidad: Affirming Our Intersectionalities” Come to our first event, Convocation, which will...
View ArticleArtist talk by Nancy Ottmann Albert –“Documents in Black and White”
Nancy Ottmann Albert (MALS ’94) will speak about her photographic exhibition “Documents in Black and White,” currently on display in the Special Collections & Archives exhibit cases. The works are...
View ArticleHalloween Costume PSA + a Playlist to Exorcise Your 2016 Demons
Alright, look, I know orange palm trees aren’t the same as pumpkins but… It’s that time of year again – Halloween! Are you ready to stuff your face with chocolates? Carve pumpkins with your confused...
View ArticleHome Demolitions, Susya, and You
Anna Fox ’19 writes in: Susya is a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank that is currently under threat of demolition in order to expand the Israeli settlement next door. Join...
View ArticleFilm Series: Hamilton’s America
2016. USA. Dir: Alex Horwitz. Documentary. 84 min. You’ve watched Lin-Manuel Miranda on SNL, sung along to the cast album a little too loudly at parties, and (if you’re lucky) seen the Broadway smash...
View ArticleFilm Series: Moonlight
2016. USA. Dir: Barry Jenkins. With Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp. 110 min. ““Moonlight” is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at...
View ArticleFilm Series: A Place in the Sun
1951. USA. Dir: George Stevens. With Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor. 122 min. 35mm print. An ambitious pauper with remote ties to wealth stretches his identity to the breaking point when his...
View ArticleFilm Series: Juice
1992. USA. Dir: Ernest R. Dickerson. With Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur. 95 min. Dickerson’s Harlem-set crime drama may be almost a quarter century old, but its focus on the issue of police brutality in...
View ArticleWhy Collaborate?—Why Fukushima? Dance, Photography, History
A cool presentation happening tomorrow: In this presentation, Visiting Artist in Dance and the College of East Asian Studies Eiko Otake and Professor of History, East Asian Studies, Science in...
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