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Ophir Horovitz: Piano Recital
Program Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue Schubert: Impromptus Brahms: Sonata No. 3
Find out more »Musica Nuda
This Italian duo’s mission is as simple as it is bold: to make music with the bare necessities — a stunning voice and a double bass — free to trace any music back to its core. They have no boundaries, fusing bits of jazz, songwriting, rock, punk, and classical music, using the art of silence as well as sound, underlining the value of a lyric, a story, the meaning of every song whether dramatic, funny, energetic, sarcastic or romantic. They…
Find out more »Voice Students of Kathryne Jennings
The voice students of Kathryne Jennings’s studio perform. Admission Info Free
Find out more »Liesl Odenweller, soprano: Voice Masterclass
Guest artist Liesl Odenweller, soprano, presents a masterclass for Stanford voice students. This event is open to the public. Admission Info Free
Find out more »Aleesa Alexander on Black Codes: The Art of Post-Civil Rights Alabama
The Department of Art & Art History presents Aleesa Alexander, Assistant Curator of American Art at the Cantor Arts Center, who will speak on “Black Codes: The Art of Post-Civil Rights Alabama.” Within the discipline of art history, the terms “outsider,” “folk,” or “self-taught” have been historically applied to artists who have worked outside of prevailing institutional structures. Such classifications have often marginalized the artistic production of untrained, working-class African American artists in the twentieth century, particularly in the Southern…
Find out more »LKSC Fall 2019 Art Exhibition and Reception
The School of Medicine’s Art Committee welcomes you to the new art exhibition featuring the works of Stanford medical students. The rotating exhibit will be displayed in LKSC on the 1st and 3rd floor starting mid-November. Please join us at the opening reception in LKSC 1st floor lobby. Free and open to the public. Monday, November 18, LKSC 1st and 3rd floor, 5:30- 7PM Installation will include acts of bravery from medical students, including: Hannah HalesIrene LiMaya RamachandranClaire RheeJonathon TijerinaGeorgia…
Find out more »The Venice Music Project Ensemble and the Stanford Baroque Soloists: Masterclass
The Stanford Baroque Soloists and instrumentalists from the Venice Music Project Ensemble –– visiting artists for the Shenson Recital taking place the following day –– present this masterclass. The featured repertoire will be two suites from Biber’s Mensa Sonora (1680). This event is open to the public. Admission Info Free
Find out more »Palestinian Performance on the Theatrical Front – Lecture & Discussion with Samer Al-Saber
After the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories, theatre artists created a broad range of plays and productions that, for a brief period, became the leading form of cultural resistance in the West Bank, particularly in East Jerusalem, by articulating versions of the Palestinian identity, critiquing social norms, and challenging the power disparity created by the Occupation. Dr. Samer Al-Saber (Theater & Performance Studies) will discuss the period of 1967 to 1993 in the context of what he calls a…
Find out more »Ravish Kumar- “Gandhi, Godse, and Memory in Modern India”
Ravish Kumar is an Indian TV anchor, writer, journalist and media personality. He is the Managing Editor of NDTV India, the Hindi news channel of the NDTV news network, one of India’s leading TV networks. After NDTV launched its 24-hour Hindi-language news channel — NDTV India — targeting the country’s 422 million native speakers of Hindi, he was given his own daily show, “Prime Time.” As an anchor, Ravish is sober, incisive, and well-informed. He does not dominate his guests but…
Find out more »TAPS CAPSTONE AUDITIONS | “TOO GOOD” Written and Directed by Irie Evans (’20)
Sign up for Auditions: Bit.ly/TooGoodAuditions Sign up to Staff: Bit.ly/TooGoodStaff Too Good is an original full-length play written by Irie Evans. It is a coming-of-age story of self-acceptance, friendship, love, and tragedy that follows seventeen-year-old Cameron Robinson as he navigates his identity. As Cameron starts to fall in love with Dominic, one of his tennis teammates, and hang out with Rachel, an unapologetic queer femme, his heterosexual façade begins to crack. When he comes out, will it be everything that…
Find out more »Critical Practices Unit (CPU) on Robotics and Performativity
In this interdisciplinary and practice-based group, with support from the Vice President for the Arts, we hope to stage collisions between the various humanistic and technological discourses through performances, art-objects, interactive media, and “critical making” projects, which, in some sense to be explored, materialize critical reflection. In fidelity to these objects’ disobedience to any specific field, we want to stress that CPU is for those in the humanities, sciences, and arts. These conversations—spanning computation, performance, race, personhood, gesture, interaction, and…
Find out more »Shenson Recital Series: Liesl Odenweller, soprano, with the Venice Music Project ensemble
Liesl Odenweller, soprano, collaborates with the Venice Music Project ensemble for a program of works by 17th- and 18th-century Venetian composers. Admission includes a post-concert reception with the artists. Admission Info ADVANCE TICKETS: GENERAL $18 | SENIORS $13 (Now on sale!) AT THE DOOR: GENERAL $23 | SENIOR $18 | ALL STUDENTS WITH ID AND YOUTH UNDER 13 FREE (Limited availability)
Find out more »A Gift of Art from Marilyn F. Symmes
See an eclectic selection of prints and drawings that highlight different ways of thinking about works as both images and objects. IMAGE: Su-Li Hung (U.S.A., b. Taiwan, 1947), World Trade Center, 2001. Woodcut. Gift of Marilyn F. Symmes, 2018.9 Admission Info Cantor Arts Center: Open Wed-Mon, 11am – 5pm, Thurs until 8pm. CLOSED TUES
Find out more »Surf Sequence by Ansel Adams
Explore this series of spontaneously-captured surf images, studies of nature, time, and organic line, in the context of Adams’s relationship with water in different forms. IMAGE: Ansel Adams (U.S.A., 1902–1984), Surf Sequence #4, San Mateo County Coast, California, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Used with permission of and © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University, 2019.42.61 Admission Info Cantor Arts Center: Open Wed-Mon, 11am – 5pm, Thurs until 8pm. CLOSED TUES
Find out more »Something to Declare: Border-Crossing with Literary Baggage
A public reading with JUAN VILLORO. In this bilingual Spanish-English reading of his prose, acclaimed Mexican novelist and Tinker Visiting Professor JUAN VILLORO follows the musings of a taxi driver from Mexico City to Chicago, with several stops along the way–don’t miss this unforgettably witty lunch session with one of Latin America’s preeminent novelists!
Find out more »NOON CONCERT: Harpsichord Studio of Elaine Thornburgh
Harpsichord students of Elaine Thornburgh will be featured in this noontime recital. (Program TBA.) Admission Info Free
Find out more »Reading and Reception for: Listen to Your Heart
Join us for a reception celebrating the poetic responses by student poets to the Anderson Collection at Stanford University’s “Collected Ephemera”. Students will read their work and speak about their artistic choices. Anna Krakowsky on Siah Armajani Erin Stoodley on Freddy Chandra Eleni Aneziris on Ellen Galangher Aiyana Herrera on Marisol Escobar Mikel Daniel-Robinson on Julie Mehretu Rebecca Jia on Ann Page Kimiko Hirota on Younhee Paik Darnell Carson on Raymond Saunders Alli Cruz on Kori Newkirk Curator: Mikel Daniel-Robinson
Find out more »A Conversation with Dr. Cynthia Radding
Dr. Radding (UNC Chapel Hill) will engage an informal conversation with Dr. Matt Vitz (UCSD) about her life and career devoted to colonial Latin American environmental, borderlands and indigenous history. Cynthia Radding is the Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History and Latin American Studies at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her scholarship is rooted in the imperial borderlands of the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, emphasizing the role of indigenous peoples and other colonized groups in shaping those borderlands,…
Find out more »Renaissance Monolingualism and the City: A Discussion with Melih Levi
Melih Levi is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature department. He studies the rise of plain style during the mid-Tudor period of the Renaissance and modern revivals of plainness as a rhetorical strategy to escape modernist orthodoxies. The idea of monolingualism as a governing ideology offers powerful insights into language, and identity in the aftermath of nationalist outbursts. Jacques Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other remains one of the most provocative theoretical accounts on the subject. However, many theories, including Derrida’s, conflate…
Find out more »12th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Kayhan Kalhor
The 12th recipient of the annual Bita Prize for Persian Arts is the acclaimed musician Kayhan Kalhor We are pleased to announce that Kayhan Kalhor will perform during the last 20 minutes of the event. We will also be giving out signed copies of his most recent album, while supplies last. Important notes: Please allow extra time for parking and to make your way to the venue. Doors open at 6:00 PM, seating is first come first serve so we recommend…
Find out more »Revising the West: A Discussion with novelists Ruchika Tomar & Shannon Pufahl
Shannon Pufahl Ruchika Tomar Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservation required. Photo Credits: Shay O’Brien (Shannon), Dan Doperalski (Ruchika) Shannon Pufahl grew up in rural Kansas. She teaches at Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Her essays, on topics ranging from eighteenth-century America to her childhood, have appeared in The Threepenny Review and elsewhere. She lives in Monterey, CA, with her wife and their dog. Ruchika Tomar was raised in Southern California. She holds a…
Find out more »University Singers
Robert Huw Morgan directs the University Singers’ program of German Romantic music, including works by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. Admission Info Advance tickets: GENERAL $18 | STUDENTS $13 | SENIORS $13 (Now on sale!) At the door: GENERAL $23 | STUDENTS $18 | STANFORD STUDENTS FREE WITH SUID | SENIORS $18
Find out more »Harlem 100
feat. Mwenso & the Shakes with special guests Hosted by Michael Mwenso, whose band Michael Mwenso and the Shakes draws its inspirations from around the globe, this multimedia variety show created in collaboration with Harlem’s National Jazz Museum captures the Harlem Renaissance’s spirit, sights, and sounds. It highlights the words and music of Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters, and pays tribute to the Apollo Theater, the Cotton Club, and other venues of…
Find out more »Gaieties 2019 – Midterm Impossible: Ghost ProtoCal
Gaieties is an annual, student-written musical extravaganza tradition dating back to 1911. This year marks the 108th anniversary of Gaieties! Performed the week leading up to Big Game, Gaieties is the ultimate celebration of how proud, ridiculous, and clever we are as Stanford students. When Ram’s Head Theatrical Society was founded in 1911, Gaieties was born with it. That year, the group produced the first rendition of the show, known then as the “Football Follies,” a performance to rally students…
Find out more »Isabel Huacuja Alonso “Where are you? Call out to me”
“Where are you? Call out to me”: The All India Radio Urdu Service’s Letters of Longing Shortly after the end of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war and largely in response to Radio Pakistan’s campaign to incite anti-Indian sentiment, Indira Gandhi, then Indian Minister of Information and Broadcasting, inaugurated a new radio service directed at West Pakistan. While the service targeted “foreign” Urdu-knowing audiences, it quickly gained popularity in North India as well, where Urdu was widely understood. In addition to news programs, the…
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