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Nation & World
‘Arts First has come back to life’
For the first time since 2020, Arts First returned to live performances on Harvard’s campus.
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Arts First and all over
The 11-day Arts First festival kicks off April 19, with programming featuring some of Harvard’s best visual arts, music, dance, and performance.
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Hitting the right note
The four-day Student Composers Festival begins this week, featuring work by 30 Harvard students and recent alumni. The festival is the creation of Veronica Leahy ’23.
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Arts First, last, and in between
This weekend’s Arts First festival showcases performances, exhibitions, and art-making opportunities for and by Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, including international dance, many music genres, stand-up and improv comedy, theater, public art, poetry, experimental performances, and much more.
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Heard the one about the comedy writer?
Nell Scovell ’82 schools Harvard students in the art and science of joke writing.
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A mic drop for Tom Lee
Tom Lee, head of Harvard’s Learning from Performers program, is stepping down after 23 years.
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Arts First at 25
Since 1992, Arts First has had a profound effect on more than just the students who go on to become professional artists.
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Creative, cultured, and diverse
The annual Arts First festival showcased many forms of imaginative expression and creativity across Harvard.
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Making art, making community
A student-led art installation, conceived in response to the Report on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, goes into the Houses this week, then out for public viewing at Tercentenary Theatre later this month.
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‘The Kid Who Would Be Pope’
Harvard’s Office for the Arts Director Jack Megan isn’t just a supporter of artistic talent, he’s a talented artist himself. Megan and his brother Tom co-wrote the musical “The Kid Who Would Be Pope,” which won the Richard Rodgers Award for emerging theatrical talent and is having a stage reading off-Broadway.
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The shape of things to come
The Office for the Arts’ Ceramics Program, one of Harvard’s longest and most celebrated, moved this month from its home of 26 years at 219 Western Ave. in Allston just a few blocks down to 224.
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Club Passim plays to its Harvard audience
Club Passim remains a vital part of the Harvard Square scene, as well as a venue that has attracted Harvard students for decades.
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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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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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Arts prove intensive
Across campus, students participated in a series of arts intensives during January’s Wintersession that let them tap their creative talents.
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Harvard at 375
The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.
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Hooray for Harvardwood
As a liberal arts college, Harvard doesn’t train its students for jobs in Hollywood. But student clubs, a liaison network, and individual drive prompt some toward entertainment careers, a fact reflected in this year’s Oscar nominees.
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Ending on a high note
After more than three decades as the head of Harvard’s choral program, Jim Marvin prepares to say farewell. In tribute to Marvin, more than 400 alumni from the choirs will return to campus this weekend (April 30 to May 2) to celebrate his long career with a series of receptions and group sings, and a…
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Red hot for bluegrass
Harvard hosts one-day symposium on bluegrass music, past and present on Saturday (Feb. 6).
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Undergrads act up
A new collaboration among the A.R.T. Institute, Harvard’s Office for the Arts, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club offers students an intense, three-week immersion program involving graduate-level training in the dramatic arts.
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All fired up
The Harvard Ceramics Program turns 40 this year and says goodbye to its longtime director Nancy Selvage.
