Celebrating world cultures
Categories: Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Global Wake Forest
Kairoff gets second NEH grant
Professor of English Claudia Kairoff and a research colleague have received a second major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to edit the works of the early 18th century British poet Anne Finch.Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery
Theatre is a “Smash”
Professor of Theatre Cynthia Gendrich loves comedy, so she is in her element directing “Smash,” the Wake Forest University Theatre 2010-2011 season opener. The play runs through Sept. 26.Reflections on Concert Choir’s Italy tour
Director of Choral Ensembles Brian Gorelick remembers the Concert Choir’s international performance tour to Rome, Anzio and Assisi.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
Tony Bennett concert tickets available
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
What do you see in the Andes?
First-year students visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Aug. 23 as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book, new students studied a painting, “The Andes of Ecuador.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Secrest series features eclectic mix
From a Grammy-award winning chamber orchestra to a Norwegian jazz pianist, Wake Forest’s 2010-2011 Secrest Artists Series will feature an eclectic offering of musical genres, beginning with Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” in September.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
Camp teaches young radio reporters
Middle-school students learned how to be radio reporters and then put their new skills to the test by conducting real interviews during WFDD’s first Radio Camp. Listen to their interviews with basketball center Ty Walker, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan and more.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
Paul Bright’s collages exhibited at Italian estate
For the third time, Paul Bright is exhibiting his works of collage in a historic space in Italy. "Suono e Carta" ("Sound and Paper") will be on display later this month and in September at Belriguardo, the Renaissance estate of the Este family outside of Ferrara, between Venice and Bologna.Categories: Arts & Culture, Global Wake Forest
Reynolda House named a Southern gem
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of three North Carolina houses included in the new book, “Great Houses of the South,” which features many of the South’s most notable historic houses dating from 1700 to 1940.
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