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Tag: Arts First
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Nation & World
Music as fine medicine
For the first time, students at Harvard Medical School in the Longwood area are participating in the annual Arts First festival, the University’s four-day celebration of the visual, literary, and performing arts.
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Matt Damon, on his craft
Actors Matt Damon and John Lithgow met at Sanders Theatre on Thursday for a spirited conversation that kicked off Harvard’s annual Arts First celebration.
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2013 OFA arts prizes announced
The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2013.
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A time was had by all
A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.
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Nation & World
Embracing the arts
The 20th anniversary of Harvard’s Arts First festival, presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Office of Governing Boards, featured 100 music, dance, theater, and multimedia events in a dozen venues.
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Tommy Lee Jones receives Arts Medal
Actor John Lithgow ’67 hosted the annual Harvard Arts Medal ceremony, which recognizes a Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and has made a contribution through the arts to education or the public good. The medal recipient was actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69.
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At his own speed
Artist David Michalek, creator of “Slow Dancing,” a temporary installation on the façade of Widener Library, discussed the evolution of his work during a talk at Boylston Hall.
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Tripping the arts fantastic
Harvard’s Arts First festival is celebrating its 20th year with poetry, performance, and a stunning public art display.
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Tommy Lee Jones named Arts Medalist
Actor and director Tommy Lee Jones ’69 is the recipient of the 2012 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust on April 26.
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Banner year ahead
Harvard gears up to celebrate an event-filled 375th anniversary, embracing what President Faust calls a “tradition of imaginative change.”
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A sound welcome
The arrival of the first components of the new Fisk Opus 139 organ for the Memorial Church was welcomed with song on June 20.
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Real Colegio Complutense seeks visual artists
The Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) is calling all local visual artists to participate in its second annual art exhibit, also part of Harvard’s annual Arts First events from April 28 to May 1.
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Her own creation
Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.
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It’s Arts First at Harvard
The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.
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Arts Medalist named
Kicking off the Arts First festivities, visual artist, writer, and curator Catherine Lord ’70 will receive the 2010 Harvard Arts Medal.
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Arts at center stage
While Harvard the institution is picking up the pace on supporting the arts, Harvard the students — as ever — are busy making the arts their “irreplaceable instruments of knowledge.”
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2008-09: A look back
As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at highlights of the year that was.
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Talent takes to the street
Behind a large white tent in front of the Science Center, Harvard University Dining Services staff members worked over sizzling grills, cooking hot dogs and hamburgers to feed a large crowd of staff, students, and Greater Cambridge residents.
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Arts First fete takes center stage
More than 3,000 Harvard students take to the streets with the 17th annual Arts First celebration, one of the nation’s largest university arts festivals. More than 225 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events comprise the four-day extravaganza, which takes place April 30-May 3 across the Harvard campus.
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Rain doesn’t dampen spirit of Arts First
It was a rainy (not to say explosive) weekend, yet despite the daunting weather, the arts not only endured but prevailed at the University as dance, song, theater, and conceptual art brightened up the Yard and its environs.
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From breaking to Brahms: Everything under the sun to shine at Arts First
For the 16th year in a row, Arts First will color the Harvard campus next weekend (May 1-4) with more than 200 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events and performances.
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Redman ’91 to be awarded 2008 Harvard Arts Medal
In conjunction with Harvard’s Arts First festival (May 1-4), Grammy-nominated saxophonist, recording artist, and jazz bandleader Joshua Redman ’91 will receive the 2008 Harvard Arts Medal. President Drew Faust will present the award to Redman, who is the 14th distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe alum or faculty member to receive this accolade for excellence in the…
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Composer Adams to be awarded Arts Medal
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams ’69, M.A. ’72 will return to Harvard to accept the 2007 Harvard Arts Medal as a part of the Arts First weekend festivities (May 3-6). Adams will take part in a variety of forums that will provide opportunities to learn about his artistic accomplishments firsthand, including a lecture by the…