The Rocky Horror Picture Show
From Lucy De Souza (BA ’16, MA ’17, part of this cast forever): Another semester, another Rocky Horror! We would like, if we may, to take you on a strange journey- a journey through the craziest night...
View ArticleAudition for Aporia!
Miranda Hoyt-Disick ’19 writes in: We’re back! If you liked the staged-reading, you’ll love our fully-fledged production of this original student-written musical advised by none other than Lin Manuel...
View ArticleMiddle Eastern Perspectives Meeting: Activism and Solidarity
Middle Eastern Perspectives writes in: We will be meeting today to discuss how Wesleyan can come together as a community to support Muslim students on campus and raise awareness about the #MuslimBan....
View ArticleConsent Blacklight Party
An invitation courtesy of Rémy Hatfield-Gardner ’17: IT’S THE FIRST CONSENT BLACKLIGHT PARTY OF THE YEAR! Tonight is the night to get down WITH CONSENT. Featuring DJs from these groups: 10:30-11:...
View ArticleDate Change for Eli Clare, Annual Disability Studies Lecture!
From Professor Margot Weiss: RESCHEDULED FROM STORM: Please join us Monday, February 13th at 4:30pm in Russell House to hear writer, activist, and poet Eli Clare read from his just-out-yesterday book...
View ArticleReading by Novelist Susan Choi
From Quinn Frenzel ’16: On Wednesday, February 15, 8:00 pm, at Russell House, the Wesleyan University English Department will host a reading by Millet writing fellow Susan Choi. Susan Choi studied...
View ArticleVIDEO: Karmenife Paulino ’15 Delivers Powerful Comedy Set at Malcolm X House
Content warning: the following post and video discuss sexual violence and assault. [Updated 2/16/17, 11:53AM] Check the bottom of the post for photos of the performance from Jejomar Erln Ysit ’19 If...
View ArticleArtful Lunch Series—Sharifa Lookman ’17
A message from Randi Plake in the Office of University Communications: One artwork, one speaker, fifteen minutes. Join the Friends of the Davison Art Center for a presentation by Sharifa Lookman ’17...
View ArticleWesMaps 2017-2018 Is Live (Kind Of) (For the Most Part)
I thought I was going to get work done tonight, but the pre-reg deities had other plans. Welcome to WesMaps 2017-2018, your new form of future-building, stress-inducing procrastination. Truth be told,...
View ArticleSecond Stage Presents: DON’T LEAVE
Second Stage here with this weekend’s show. For tickets, click here! Description: A girl is abducted by the aliens she has been searching for her whole life. Unfortunately, her father has stowed away...
View ArticleCollege of Letters Open House
Emily Furnival ’18 writes in: Have you ever wondered whether the College of Letters just studies the alphabet for three years? Never heard of the College of Letters? Like reading, writing, OR...
View ArticleArtful Lunch Series: Rhea Higgins
Randi Plake writes in: One artwork, one speaker, fifteen minutes. Join the Friends of the Davison Art Center for a presentation by Rhea Higgins, Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Hartford Art...
View ArticleUrban Bush Women -“Walking with ‘Trane”
From the CFA: Urban Bush Women returns to Wesleyan with the Connecticut premiere of “Walking with ‘Trane” (2015), an ethereal investigation conjuring the essence of John Coltrane. Inspired by the...
View ArticleReading by Author Pankaj Mishra
Quinn Frenzel ’16 writes in: The Wesleyan University Writing Programs is hosting a reading by Jacob Julien visiting writer Pankaj Mishra. Pankaj Mishra is the author of a novel, The Romantics, winner...
View ArticleQueer Past, Queer Future
Alumni Jennifer Boylan ’80 and Alexander Chee ’89 read recent work, discuss queer lives and storytelling, and share their own experiences as LGBT writers at Wesleyan. Jennifer Boylan, a professor at...
View ArticleEMG Presents: Analog On
An exciting invitation to a super-cool concert, courtesy of the Experimental Music Group: Analog On is an experimental electronic music ensemble that composes and performs on vintage analog...
View ArticleJewish Resistance at Aipac: Wesleyan Community Action Meeting
Matilda Ostow ’17 and Josh Bloom ’17 write in: hello Wesleyan community!! we (matilda & josh) just completed a two day training with IfNotNow–a movement led by young Jews leading a Jewish...
View ArticleScreening of “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA”
From the Center for Film Studies: Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA examines how guns, and the billions of dollars made from them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. It exposes the ways...
View ArticleAudition for The Laundry Room!
From Rachel Sobelsohn ’17: Audition to be part of a staged reading of The Laundry Room, playwright Rachel Sobelsohn’s Senior Honors Playwriting Thesis, directed by Sam Morreale ’19! The Laundry Room...
View ArticleAn Evening With Girltype Behaviors
It’s Sunday night, and I’m sitting on the ground of the Long Lane Farm parking lot with the members of the Wesleyan band Girltype Behaviors: lead vocalist and keyboardist May Klug ‘19, vocalist and...
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