Happy Unity Month!!!! Thank you all for making this year's festivities amazing. As this year's festivities draw to a close, we are bringing you a very special treat, but first, a simple question:
Q: What do you get when you bring two groups of amazing student actors together for ONE NIGHT ONLY?
A: A night of spectacular performances by none other than AHANA Theater and Issues Troupe!!!!!!
Yep, you heard right. AHANA Theater and Issues Troupe are joining forces to bring you thought-provoking skits on race relations and perceptions from within the Emory Community. Whatever you do, you are not going to want to miss this. guaranteed. Further details are down below.
AHANA Theater & Issues Troupe
Harland Cinema
7:00PM-9:00PM
The program will be a presentation of two skits one from Issues Troupe and one from AHANA that address multicultural concerns present on campus. The performances will be followed by a facilitated dialogue with the actors.
If you're free on Thursday night, you should head on down to Center for Ethics for the Second Annual Ethics Art Cafe. The Ethics and the Arts Society and WonderRoot Community Arts Center have teamed up again to put together an amazing evening filled with inspirational artists and thought-provoking discussion. Details are down below.
The EthicsArts Cafe will take place on November the 18th (7 pm-9pm), at the Emory Center for Ethics. It is a collaborative arts symposium organized by The Ethics and the Arts Society and WonderRoot Atlanta. This event brings artists from eclectic backgrounds and art forms together under the umbrella of ethics. In doing so, it offers an opportunity to spark challenging conversations about several ethical issues from social identity and marginalization to building a more encompassing sense of community (within and beyond Emory). Artists from the wider community, who use their art as a tool for social change, are invited to showcase their work with the Emory community.
I'm excited for tomorrow!!!! In less than 36 hours, will a performance show, the likes of which you have never seen before. Guranteed!!! Featuring a lot of our favorite home grown acts like, Gozalo, AHANA, TNT, Karma, Apsaras, Capoeira, and so much more. Seriously, who's ready for Friday???
P.S. I hear we might be giving away some more of those cool black shirts with the colorful ribbons, so if you want one, get there early.
PersuAsianis an all female hip hop dance crew at Emory that incorporates sass and swag with a hint of Asian culture. Originally founded as a small dance team Spring of 2008, the team hoped to reach out to the Asian-American community on Emory Campus via a modern dance style rather than typical traditional Asian dance. Since then, the group has evolved into a dynamic and reputable dance team, and by incorporating dance-fans in their routines, Persuasian uniquely fuses the traditional East Asian dance-forms with modern hip hop. Persuasian often performs for the Asian community on Emory campus at annual events such as Korean Culture Night, Lunar Banquet, and the China Care Fundraiser Banquet, in addition to major campus-wide events such as Cultural Beats, Essence, and AHANA dance. Persuasian has also participated in Atlanta-wide competitions such as Kollaboration ATL II, Kollaboration ATL III, and Culture Shock.
I'm sure some of you - particularly those who frequent the Anthropology Dept - may already know Dr. Vidali (Spitulnik), but most people probably don't know that she is also a playwright. She's written a play based on some of her research into the nature ofmedia hype and how it affects peoples' perceptions of socio-political issues. The play will showcase at the theatre lab in the Schwartz Center on November 13 - 15. I've seen the play and honestly speaking, it's really thought-provoking and insightful. If you have some spare time next weekend, I encourage to go check it out. All the details are below.
RE-GENERATION: a Play about Political Stances,
Media Insanity, and Adult Responsibilities
by Debra Vidali (Anthropology, Emory University). Directed by Ken Hornbeck
Meet 15 young adults as they struggle with the meanings of political engagement, media insanity, and social responsibility. Views collide, collude, and concur...
RE-GENERATION’s dialogues come directly from interviews that anthropologist Vidali conducted with young adults in Atlanta. 90 voices rendered into 15. Now it’s your turn to see, listen, text, and talk.
Performances are free and open to the public. They will be followed by refreshments & recorded audience discussion.
Sponsored by: Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory University Center for Creativity & Arts, Campus Progress, Generation Response, Emory University Center for Ethics, Slow Food Emory, and Theater at Emory.
At long last, It's finally complete . Here's the latest promo video for this year's festivities along with some other stuff that we've been working on behind the scenes. Simply put, we are excited about this year's celebrations. ARE YOU?
P.S. Look for a cameo by the one and only J Wag.
We Are Gold and Blue
Isn't it funny how life works sometimes?
Many of us go around feeling lonely
Even though there are literally thousands of people just like us
Maybe that's the curse of Emory's geography
Pockets of separate planets wrapped into one disjointed universe
Tunnel-visioned with no cognizance of any world outside of our own
It seems crazy to think that we all go to the same school
Sometimes suffer the repercussions of a bad lunch from the DUC
And constantly wish that Dooley would
Come let out of that God-awful test we did not study for
Sometimes I think we are too wrapped up
In the asinine hullabaloo of everyday life
Like that meeting I have to go to
Or the test I have to study for
And for Pete's sake why won't my lab experiments work
To really stop and take a moment to see what makes us all special
We are a community of scientists and artists
Thinkers and dreamers
We are business people and hippies
We are superficially serious and secretly goofy
We're bent on saving the world
Even though sometimes we act like we don't care
We've all got burdens we refuse to share
We're LGBT and straight
We're Buddhists, Muslims, Wiccans, Christians,
Jews and Hindus, Agnostics and Sikhs
We're even Atheists in more ways than we care to admit
We're Israelis and Palestinians, Tibetan and Chinese
We are every race, color, gender, and creed
But no matter how we divide amongst ourselves
Or what campus we're on
Come what may
Whether hell or high water
Or sun or rain
You and me will forever be
Gold and Blue
Special thanks to:
President Wagner
Dean Wong
Soe Thien
Andi Dirkschneider
Mike Faccini
Amy Li
Marc Cordon
Tito Felix
Joe McBrayer
Sameer Sayani
Jon DeMar
Malcolm DeCure
And many many others too numerous to mention.
PPS As Always, Let us know what you think.
Many of you have probably seen Mariangela walking around campus and have absolutely no idea who she is. The usually soft-spoken, light-hearted college student packs a head full of secrets and a heart full of love. As president of the nascentEthics and the Arts Society, she's constantly working show the world that art can serve a purpose other than beauty.
(Don't tell her I told you this, but she's working on an album that promises to be PHENOMENAL.)
If you're curious to see what she has been up to, then I encourage you to check out the first track off the album. Seriously, it may be the best three minutes of your life.
A: A night of spectacular performances by none other than AHANA Theater and Issues Troupe!!!!!!
