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‘Hoop Dreams:’ 20th anniversary

January 17, 2014  |   Alumni, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Faculty, Mentoring, Student, Top Stories, Uncategorized

Hoop Dreams won numerous awards, but as Peter Gilbert explains, it was the story that made Hoop Dreams live on, not the technology.

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Spring is the air

January 8, 2014  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community, Events, Top Stories

Take a glance at the variety of world-class theatrical and musical performances, gallery exhibitions and visiting artists series that students, faculty and staff can anticipate this spring at the Forest.

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Lovefeast: A unifying tradition

December 11, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Campus Life Highlights, Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, Student, Top Stories

Christmas decorations, music, and the smell of sweet coffee filled Wait Chapel as more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alums and friends of the University gathered to celebrate the 49th annual Lovefeast.

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Afternoon at the improv

November 21, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Faculty, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Mentoring, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories

The theatre and counseling departments have partnered, through an IPLACe-funded initiative led by Phil Clarke and Sharon Andrews, so undergraduate theatre students can sharpen their improvisational acting and counseling students can gain realistic counseling experience.

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Still life vs. real life

November 13, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Humanities Highlights 2013-2014, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Biology professor Kathy Kron and the 11 students enrolled in Biology 105: Plants & People met at Reynolda House Museum of American Art to learn firsthand how biology is incorporated in the current exhibition, “Things Wondrous and Humble: American Still Life.”

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Dancing to the world beat

September 24, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Top Stories

Wearing silk saris and carrying parasols, Sonalee’s New Generation Dance Company brought “Bollywood” dance styles to campus during Wake Forest’s fifth annual World Cultural Festival. Watch video of the event.

Secrest Artist Series patron passes away

September 23, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Community, For Alumni, University Announcement

Marion Secrest, who endowed the Secrest Artists Series, passed away on Sept. 20 at the age of 107.

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A change of seasons at Secrest

September 11, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories

Scott W. Klein, professor and chair of the English department, was recently named artistic director of the Secrest Artists Series, a signature performing arts series at Wake Forest. The 2013 series opens on Thursday, Sept. 12, with the Carolina Chocolate Drops in Wait Chapel.

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Casa Artom opens doors for La Biennale

June 26, 2013  |   Alumni, Arts & Culture, Faculty, Humanities, International, Student, Top Stories

Casa Artom, Wake Forest’s residential study center on Venice’s Grand Canal, became a gathering place for artists, curators, collectors and art critics during the opening of La Biennale di Venezia this summer.

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Arts & Humanities highlights

June 14, 2013  |   Arts & Culture, Campus Life, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College

Arts and humanities are naturally woven into academics at Wake Forest. From a concert to promote environmental conservation and a student art buying trip to a Musicircus and an interdisciplinary symposium on biotechnology, students enjoyed opportunities to learn through a variety of lenses during the 2012-2013 academic year.

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