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Second Sunday at Home
December Second Sunday at Home: Celebrating with Color and Pattern Explore the art of Yinka Shonibare with greeting card and book cover making activities, as featured in the upcoming exhibition When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art. Join our Zoom session with hands-on art activities, interactive Q & A, art stories and more. You can register for the event here. Check back closer to the event for more information on the activity guide. You will also find…
Find out more »CANCELED – Pink Martini Holiday Spectacular
Pound for pound, no other band does what Pink Martini does. Fronted by the dynamic vocalist China Forbes, Pink Martini has performed with more than 50 of the world’s great orchestras and recorded nine albums. With the combined power of a dozen musicians, they offer a rollicking mix of classical, jazz, and old-fashioned pop. Come break in the holidays with a swingin’ good time at the Bing.
Find out more »An Interdisciplinary Evening of Astronomy, Conceptual Art and Cinema
Daniela de Paulis (Artist in Residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands) on her conceptual art based on space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (live from Europe) Janine Marchessault (Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University) on “Media, Utopias, Ecologies” (live from Canada) Detailed bios at: www.lasertalks.com Daniela de Paulis is a former contemporary dancer, a trans-disciplinary artist, licensed radio operator and radio telescope operator. From…
Find out more »SJW Saturdays 3
Stanford Jazz Workshop’s third and final SJW Saturdays event is on December 19, featuring live online presentations by SJW faculty members Valerie Troutt (Black Women in Jazz), JJ Kirkpatrick (The New Orleans Jazz Trumpet Family Tree), and Jim Nadel (Backstage with Jim Nadel). You’ll love these engaging and informative webcasts, and you also get all-weekend access to pre-recorded video lectures, lessons, panel discussions, and more.
Find out more »Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols
Join us for a virtual service of lessons and carols as we celebrate the timeless story of Jesus together, while apart, this Christmas Eve. Featuring scripture readings by Stanford students and music by Robert Huw Morgan, the Memorial Church Choir, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Laura Dahl, and Stephen Sano. It is our hope that the sights and sounds of Memorial Church will lift your spirits this Christmas. The live stream will be available on the ORSL website and KZSU 90.1 FM on Christmas Eve.
Find out more »Sunday Organ Recital
Greet the new year with a recital of joyful music featuring works by Marcel Dupré, Herbert Murrill, Johann Sebastian Bach, and others performed on the organs of Memorial Church. The video link will be available on the ORSL website on the day of the recital.
Find out more »Healthy Living Registration Opens
Winter Healthy Living registration begins at 9:00 a.m. Choose from apps, coaching packages and intervative online classes on topics like mood, back health, nutritious home cooking and more. Healthy Living offerings are STAP/EA-approved and eligible BeWell and HealthySteps to Wellness incentives.
Find out more »Lunchtime Music from MemChu (Virtual Gathering)
Enjoy a lunchtime virtual organ concert featuring music performed by University Organist, Dr. Robert Huw Morgan at historic Stanford Memorial Church Click here to access the livestream link.
Find out more »January Friday Course Clinics
Have a question as you prepare to teach in winter quarter? Want to practice using a tool or Zoom feature, or brainstorm ideas for particular course or assignment? Want to make some adjustments after the first week? Then stop by a Friday Course Clinic. Each Friday Course Clinic will have a number of campus teaching, learning, and technology experts on hand for one-on-one consultations. Stay in the main room to listen in, or participate in a group conversation. You may stop in…
Find out more »Second Sunday at Home
The Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection offer family-friendly art activities every Second Sunday of the month! Join our Zoom session with hands-on art activities, interactive Q & A, art stories and more. Check back closer to the event for more information on the theme of the month and the activity guide. https://museum.stanford.edu/museums-home#SecondSunday You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/second-sunday-family-art-making-tickets-125549218091 The session will also be streamed via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cantorarts. You can watch past editions of Second Sunday…
Find out more »David Rumsey Map Center Office Hours via Zoom for Consultations – Winter Quarter
For Stanford students, faculty and staff: the David Rumsey Map Center is holding online Office Hours via Zoom for consultations. Come join us with any questions you have about our maps, how to find the maps you need, and tools that can help you incorporate maps into your scholarship. Office Hours via Zoom for consultations will be held from 11am-12pm every Monday from January 11 until March 8, 2021. No registration is required, but you will need to log in…
Find out more »600 Highwaymen: A Thousand Ways
Guided by a score of instructions, questions, prompts, and physical directives, people who have never met build a series of performances for one another. Each installment of 600 Highwaymen’s A Thousand Ways explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical. Act One: A Phone Call. (Dec 2–6, 2020 and Jan 13–17, 2021, approx. 1 hour long) Act Two: A Meeting. Face-to-Face. (February 2021, subject to change) Act Three: An Assembly.…
Find out more »CANCELED – Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Branford Marsalis
The conductorless ensemble, noted for its unique approach to collective leadership onstage and off, returns to the Bing for the first time since 2014. This time they’re joined by saxophone virtuoso and NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis, one of the world’s most celebrated jazz artists, in a classical turn. The program features Gioachino Rossini, Joaquín Rodrigo, Claude Debussy, and more
Find out more »Where Do We Go From Here? | Documentary Film Festival
For this year’s King Holiday, the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University will host a free, four-day webinar and film festival, from the evening of Jan. 15 through Jan. 18, 2021. On the eve of the presidential inauguration, the festival will feature over 15 documentaries as well as musical performances and panel discussions that speak to Dr. King’s unanswered question: “Where do we go from here?” The films made available through our festival will cover a…
Find out more »Conversations with Latin American Authors Series: Autobiografía del algodón (Cristina Rivera Garza)
Stanford CLAS, UC Davis Global Studies y UC Davis Hemispheric Institute on the Americas presenta la serie Conversaciones con autoras y autores de América Latina (Conversations with Latin American Authors): Viernes 15 de enero de 2021 | 1:00 pm PST: Autobiografía del algodón La poeta y escritora Cristina Rivera Garza, ganadora del MacArthur Fellowship 2020, presentará su nuevo libro con comentarios por el periodista y escritor Juan Villoro. Registración de Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/criveragarza Live-stream: https://tinyurl.com/livestreamRG *El evento será transmitido en español.…
Find out more »CANCELED – Patti LuPone: Far Away Places
Actress and singer Patti LuPone has graced the worlds of theater, film, and television for decades. The two-time Tony winner was the original Evita on Broadway and the original Fantine in London’s Les Misérables. LuPone’s solo shows draw from her mega-selling albums and theatrical appearances to highlight her brilliant vocal power, vivacious storytelling, and commanding stage presence.
Find out more »Robbie Kubala on Desire-Satisfaction in Proust
Robbie Kubala is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University, where he also taught in the Core Curriculum. His research interests include normative ethics (esp. non-ideal moral theory), aesthetics (esp. aesthetic normativity), and philosophy in/of literature (esp. Proust).
Find out more »Inside the Center: Book Talk with Usha Iyer
Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema While the very mention of Bollywood evokes images of big-budget song-and-dance spectacles, there is little scholarship on dance in Indian cinema. Film scholar and Humanities Center fellow Usha Iyer will discuss her new book, Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, which is an ambitious study of two of South Asia’s most popular cultural forms, cinema and dance. Iyer examines film dance and female performance in popular Hindi cinema from the 1930s to…
Find out more »STUCK@HOME, Stanford Medicine Virtual Concert
STUCK@HOME Stanford Medicine Virtual Concert We believe in the power of music to heal and unite, particularly during uncertain times. Join us! Stuck@Home Concert January 21, 2021 5:30PM – 6:30PM (PDT) This event is free and open to the public. Please register in advance here: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fY69HZDmRYeAxHbmJxTLGw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Find out more »CANCELED – Gong Linna & Bang on a Can All-Stars: Cloud River Mountain
Superstar Chinese fusion singer Gong Linna sets new lyrics to centuries-old Chinese melodies backed by the musicians of Bang on a Can. Gong’s husband, German composer Robert Zollitsch (Lao Luo), composes many of the brilliantly staged pieces. In 2010, Linna’s performance of the song “Tan Te” on Chinese national television to billions of viewers made her an overnight sensation, vaulting her to celebrity status. In recent years she has starred on television in China, but she remains largely undiscovered in…
Find out more »CANCELED – Huff: Cliff Cardinal
One of Canada’s most important emerging theatrical voices, Cree actor and playwright Cliff Cardinal’s acclaimed solo play delivers an unabashed view of the realities facing Indigenous youth growing up on First Nations Reserves across Turtle Island (North-Central America). Huff is a wrenching yet darkly comic tale of Wind and his brothers, caught in a torrent of solvent abuse, struggling to cope with the death of their mother. Huff is a story of Indigenous resilience and, ultimately, hope for the next generation.
Find out more »“Time in Maps” Virtual Book Launch
The David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Department of History invite you to join us at the book launch on January 22, 2021 commemorating the publication of Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to our Digital Era, now available from University of Chicago Press. Edited by Stanford’s Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer, it features a foreword by Abby Smith Rumsey. All three will be in conversation about the book at the event. The publication of this book stems from the Time in Space:…
Find out more »CANCELED – iskwē: acākosīk
A Juno Award–nominated electro-pop artist, iskwē, which translates to “blue sky woman,” spotlights the importance and plight of Indigenous peoples and territories in Canada. Her command of music styles includes jazz, R&B, industrial pop rock, post-rock, and trip-hop, centuries of historic injustice, systemic racism, and environmental degrada-tion fuel her powerful lyrics. The Bing Studio will be transformed into a visual installation to be experienced prior to the concert. Then, in the concert hall, indigenous instrumentation and vocalizations combine with projected…
Find out more »CANCELED – An Evening with an Immigrant: Inua Ellams
Born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered by many to be Boko Haram territory, awardwinning poet and playwright Inua Ellams left Nigeria for England in 1996 at age 12, moved to Ireland for three years, and then returned to London to work as a writer and graphic designer. Littered with poems, stories, and anecdotes, Inua tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, experiencing prejudice and friendship in Dublin, performing…
Find out more »CANCELED – Sundays with the St. Lawrence: Haydn, Alessandrini, and Dvořák
Hailed by the New Yorker “not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection,” the acclaimed St. Lawrence String Quartet continues its fabled partnership with Stanford. The quartet remains a cultural cornerstone of the University, directing the music department’s Chamber Music Program, concertizing at Stanford Live, hosting a popular summer seminar, and running the Emerging String Quartet Program.
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