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Making it look easy
February 17, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
If you visited the Mainstage Theatre during one of the many rehearsals for Grapes of Wrath, you would have found senior Suzanne Spicer with her big book — making sure lighting cues, prop usage, costume changes and the entrances and exits of all the performers have been meticulously noted for every act and scene.
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The Prop’s the Thing
February 14, 2011 | Arts & Culture, For Parents, Humanities, Research, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Props are often vital to a play’s storyline — such as the upcoming “Grapes of Wrath” — but no one ever really thinks about them until the gun doesn’t fire at the right time. “We tend to not pay much attention to props until they’re not working,” said Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre JK Curry, who has edited a recent book on props.
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‘Juno’ director to speak at film festival
February 10, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Speakers, Top Stories
Oscar-nominated director Jason Reitman (“Thank You for Smoking,” “Juno,” “Up in the Air”) will discuss filmmaking and his career at the fourth annual Reynolda Film Festival.
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Year of the Rabbit
February 2, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year and the ‘Year of the Rabbit’ with several events on campus, including a traditional Lion Dance performance and a dumpling-making class.
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Celebrate spring with music
January 26, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
The Department of Music offers concerts and recitals throughout the spring season. Take a look at the schedule and listen to some samples from a variety of sources.
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Funky and fun
January 24, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
In Abraham Inc., Klezmer, funk and hip-hop come together in a surprising musical collaboration. Associate Professor of English Dean Franco talks about why this Secrest Artists Series performance defies cultural boundaries.
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Hands on art
January 20, 2011 | Admissions, Arts & Culture, Events, For Parents, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in professor Bernadine Barnes’s History of Prints class chose the theme and prints for the Los Suenos exhibition opening today in the campus art gallery. The display tells a short story about three Spanish artists: Goya, Miro and Picasso.
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Hanes, champion for arts, passes away
January 17, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Community, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
The Wake Forest family mourns the passing of Phil Hanes, a force for developing the local and national arts scene. The Hanes family donated the President’s home to Wake Forest, and the Hanes Art Gallery in the Scales Fine Arts Center is named after Phil and his wife, Charlotte.
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Celebrating MLK Day
January 10, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Events, Top Stories
Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State will co-host the 11th annual joint celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with events on Jan. 15-17 on both campuses. Wake Forest will host a basketball tournament and the MLK GospelFest, featuring Tye Tribbett.
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Alumna overcomes cancer, creates art
January 6, 2011 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, Top Stories
When Emily Drew Mash (’07) faced a rare form of cancer in 2009, she returned to what she loved and had studied at Wake Forest: printmaking. Now Mash has been in remission for more than a year, and her art will be part of a show opening in Winston-Salem this month.
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