Stanford Arts
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The Anderson Collection celebrates 10 years
Since its opening in 2014, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University has become a home to thousands of students, faculty, staff, artists, and community members. Two anniversary exhibitions invite visitors to share the Anderson family's love of living with art and experience masterworks in a welcoming environment.
‘Spirit House’ illuminates the spiritual and spectral boundaries between life and death
A major survey at the Cantor Arts Center showcases an intergenerational range of emerging and established contemporary visual artists of Asian descent.
The Cantor Arts Center presents Spirit House, a major group exhibition foregrounding how contemporary artists of the Asian diaspora challenge the boundary between life and death through art. On view from Sept. 4, 2024, to Jan. 26, 2025, the exhibition comprises nearly 50 works of art by 33 artists, including large-scale paintings, digital media, ceramic sculpture, photography, and significant new acquisitions within the museum’s permanent collection.
Encounters: Where Creative and Scientific Inquiry Meet
A new limited series podcast from Denning Visiting Artist Janani Balasubramanian
What happens when art meets science? Stanford alumni and host Janani Balasubramanian returns to campus to explore the dynamic intersection of these two disciplines throughout their residency in the Denning Visiting Artist Fund. Discover how interdisciplinarity drives breakthrough, from the physics of the interstellar medium to the myths of ancient times, featuring leading researchers and innovators.
From Sea to Studio
Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist collaborates with Oceans researchers at Hopkins Marine Station
A new visiting artist program at Stanford is bringing together a sculptor and ocean scientists to create a sculpture based on the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Their collaboration aims to raise awareness of the impact of human activity on the environment.
Upcoming Events
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Exhibition
An Expanded Lens
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Bringing It Home
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SCRABrraaNNG! The Explosion of Futurist Poetry
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The New Deal & The Federal Writers’ Project
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Archive Rooms Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries
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Arnold J. Kemp | First Comes Dark Notes
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Dwelling: New Acquisitions
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From Stone and Plate: Lithographs and Intaglio
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Conference/Symposium
Majors, Minors, and More!
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Livien Yin: Thirsty
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Spirit House
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The Faces of Ruth Asawa
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TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory
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When The Angels Came… 10th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
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Tour
Public Tour | Spirit House
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Performance
Lou Henry Hoover Carillon Performance
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Performance
Katherine Goforth: Cabaret Songs
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Ensemble OH?: Songs of an In-Between
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale: Vivaldi, Venice, and the Four Seasons | Avi Avital, mandolin and leader
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PERFORMANCE | “Three Sisters” By Anton Chekhov
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Highlight Tour
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Public Tour | Cantor Highlights: 1 PM
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Highlight Tour
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Public Tour | Cantor Highlights: 3 PM
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Performance
Comedy Live: Mike E. Winfield
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Stanford Philharmonia
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
An Evening with Alan Lightman
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Performance
Xavier de Maistre
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Performance
Voice Students of Nova Jiménez
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Film/Screening
Stanford Cinematheque: BEAU TRAVAIL, WALKER, and FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE
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Exhibition
De la Tierra: Indigenous Ceramics from West Mexico Transcending Time and Space
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Workshop
Multimedia Creative Workshop with Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
PANEL | A Conversation On Anton Chekhov
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Pediatric Grand Rounds (CME): Where Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine Intersect with Indigenous Healing Wisdom
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Exhibition
Special, Unique, and Rare: Disasters
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Exhibition
Hoover Tower Exhibition Drop-In Tour: “The Battalion Artist”
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Silicon Valley Talks: Chaim Gingold, “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine”
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Performance
NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Melody Holmes
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Exhibition
Disasters: A PopUp Exhibition highlighting a variety of calamities from the Bowes Art & Architecture Library
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
SLE Presents: An Evening with Haleh Liza Gafori
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Performance
Nobuntu
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Reading with Deesha Philyaw, part of the Lane Lecture Series
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Tour
Spotlight Tours Thursday
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BOSP Jamaica Info Session
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Performance
Culture and War: Ukrainian Perspective (Cultural Forces’ Concert of Gratitude)
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Tour
Spotlight Tours Thursdays
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Lunchtime Curator Talk | Dwelling with Veronica Roberts
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Fernanda Espinosa on Dwelling the America(s)
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Studio Lecture Series: rafa esparza
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Performance
SLSQ Emerging String Quartet 2024 – The Balourdet Quartet
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Of Microbes and Mushrooms, Science and Sculpture
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GOLD & WATER: The Poetry of Rumi, with Haleh Liza Gafori
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Stanford Jazz Orchestra with Dani and Debora Gurgel
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Stanford Symphony Orchestra
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Senior Recital: Tristan Peng, piano
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Narrow Keyboard Open House
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Performance
Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert
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Stanford Wind Symphony
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Stanford Chamber Chorale: Choral Colors
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SJW Presents: Fall 2024 Big Band Showcase
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Stanford Symphony Orchestra
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The Voice Studio of Kathryne Jennings – Sing On!
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The Variety 73 – Singing In Style
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Daniel Shapiro Piano Masterclass
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Film/Screening
Lijin Lecture | Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology: Walter Frisch, Columbia University
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Performance
Stanford Percussion Ensemble
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Art & Boba Talk with Tuan Andrew Nguyen — STUDENT-ONLY EVENT
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NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Greer Ellison
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Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan
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Performance
University Singers
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Class/Seminar
Adventure Clinic – Intro to Astrophotography
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Weintz Art Lecture Series: Lamia Balafrej
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Evening Curator Talk | Spirit House with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
“Global Approaches to Sacred Space” Workshop: Fr. Maximos Constas, “The Momentum of Grief”
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Performance
NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of Louise Costigan-Kerns
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Stanford Baroque Soloists
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Stanford Symphonic Chorus & Peninsula Symphony Orchestra: An American Celebration
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Tour
Public Tour | Papua New Guinea Sculpture Walk
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Performance
Stanford Symphonic Chorus & Peninsula Symphony Orchestra: An American Celebration
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Noontime Music at MemChu & CommuniTEA
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NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of Frank Lévy
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Early Music Singers – A Garland of Madrigals
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Evening Curator Talk | Spirit House with Kathryn Cua
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NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of Elizabeth Schumann
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Fall 2024 Open Studios
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Film/Screening
2024 Fall FILMPROD114 Screening
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Religious/Spiritual
Festival of Lessons & Carols
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Rite of Spring: Yang Liping & Peacock Contemporary Dance
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Senior Recital: Karthik Seetharaman, piano
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SJW Presents: 2024 Fall Jazz Festival
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Friends of Music Presents: Holiday Musicale
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Isidore String Quartet
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Azure Family Holiday Show
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Stanford Flute Ensemble – 2024 Fall Concert
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Fall 2024 Chamber Music Showcase 1
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Film/Screening
2024 Fall MFA Documentary Film Screening
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Jazz Mafia Holiday Heist
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Fall 2024 Chamber Music Showcase 2
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale |A Bach Christmas | Ruben Valenzuela, conductor
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Exhibition
Meet the Makers!
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Performance
Forms & Frequencies | Evicshen
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Chanticleer
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Annual Sing/Play Along Messiah
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Meow Meow Feline Festive Holiday
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Boleros de Navidad featuring Tres Souls
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Dr. Robert Huw Morgan: Holiday Organ Concert
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SJW Presents: A Jazz Celebration of the Music of A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Religious/Spiritual
Ecumenical Christmas Eve Family Service
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Patty Chang: On Mothers, Melons, Lakes, and Whales
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Art & Boba Talk with Patty Chang — STUDENT-ONLY EVENT
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Inter-Arts Info Session
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Lunchtime Curator Talk | Spirit House with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
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Lunchtime Curator Talk | Livien Yin: Thirsty with Kathryn Cua
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Performance
Comedy Live: Isabel Hagen
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Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ & Blood Moon Orchestra: Harps of Asia
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Performance
Maryna Krut
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Exhibition
Xiaoze Xie Installations
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Kinship Across Time: Heesoo Kwon & Livien Yin
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Art & Boba Talk with Livien Yin — STUDENT-ONLY EVENT
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Stegner Fellow Reading with Stephanie Horvath and Rogelio Juárez
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Inter-Arts Info Session @ RAG
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Jahari Stampley Family Trio
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Kev Choice
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Arooj Aftab
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Sundays with the St. Lawrence | Featuring the Stanford Cello Choir
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Studio Lecture Series: Guadalupe Maravilla
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Sufjan Stevens: Reflections | Featuring Timo Andres and Conor Hanick
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David Lang before and after nature
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Stella Chen | Featuring Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
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Stegner Fellow Reading with Fatima Jafar and Sena Moon
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Geoff Sobelle: FOOD
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Renée Fleming, soprano
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Lecture/Presentation/Talk
Music and Mind: A Conversation with Soprano Renée Fleming and Dr. Andrew Huberman
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Exhibition
2025 First-Year MFA Exhibition
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Stanford Medicine Orchestra with Joshua Roman | Immunity
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Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band
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Reading and Conversation with Ellen Bryant Voigt, part of the Lane Lecture Series
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Comedy Live: Alex Edelman
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A Night in the Piano Bar: Brandon James Gwinn
Meet Artists
Ali Namayandeh
Stanford’s new Doerr School of Sustainability is integrating theater and environmental justice with the premiere of “Hidden Strawberries,” a play by Ali Namayandeh. Debuting from October 16-19 at the Stanford Live Bing Studio, the production focuses on the experiences of California farmworkers affected by escalating wildfires.