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The Center for Global Arts
The SiCa Center for Global Arts aims to celebrate cultural diversity and to address issues of race, ethnicity, culture and identity through the arts. The Center for Global Arts, in collaboration with the departments of music, drama, art and art history, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, sponsors an annual Pan-Asian Music Festival, visiting artists, film makers, writers, and musicians. Through a partnership with the New York Public Theater, the Center for Global Arts was instrumental in the workshop of Stew’s Passing Strange, currently in Broadway production, and of David Henry Hwang’s Yellowface.
The Center for Global Arts supports faculty initiatives aimed at integrating the rich cultural diversity in the arts across campus and a broad range of projects including new curricular initiatives such as performance ensemble classes in traditional Chinese music, and the Drama Department’s production of Miracle in Rwanda. As Marcel Proust wrote, “Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another’s view of the universe.”
