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Concert and Talk-Back: Waking Up! Climate Action Jazz Suite with The Five Agents

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Eric Hofbauer and The Five Agents will present Waking Up!, a climate action jazz suite, at Clark University on April 3, 2024 at 7pm in the Higgins Lounge. Immediately following the concert, Hofbauer and drummer Curt Newton will offer a talk-back on arts activism.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities
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If You Become My Friend: A Film Screening and Conversation with Producer and Director Jennifer Potts

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The Higgins School of Humanities is hosting the Worcester premiere of “If You Become My Friend,” a documentary about frefugees who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took control in 2021 and eventually resettled in Worcester.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

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Gallery Talk – Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Join the Higgins School of Humanities on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 10am for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of a video exhibition titled, "Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement," in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Kyra Gaunt

PLAYED: How Music Orchestrates Thick Violence Against Black Girls on the Internet

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Dr. Kyra Gaunt from the University at Albany, SUNY opens the Higgins School's spring 2024 symposium on Movement, revealing the obscured musical contributions of Black girls who twerk while also exposing how music perpetuates patriarchal violence.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

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Nuoc (Water) 2030: A Film Screening and Talk-Back with Director Minh Nguyen-Vo

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Join the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University for a screening of NUOC (Water) 2030 and a talk-back with the film's writer and director, Minh Nguyen-Vo. Stephen Levin, Associate Professor of English at Clark, will moderate the discussion.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Geller Jazz Series: Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums Screening

“Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums,” is a new feature-length documentary on the life and music of Cuban-born pianist and composer, Omar Sosa. This screening will be followed with a Q&A session with filmmaker and Clark Professo Soren Sorensen and Sosa as well as Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita, and manager Scott Price.

Geller Jazz Series: SUBA Trio — Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita, featuring Gustavo Ovalles

A unique fusion, SUBA is a collaboration of Cuban-born jazz piano virtuoso Omar Sosa and Senegalese kora (21-string harp lute) master Seckou Keita that brilliantly embraces jazz, Latin and African influences, and reflects the close and compassionate listening of artists engaged in a captivating musical conversation.

Visiting Artist: Anne H. Berry

Anne H. Berry is a writer, designer, and associate professor in the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on race and representation and ethnic and racial disparities within the field of graphic design.

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Digital Bomarzo: Gallery Talk and Exhibition Opening

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Professor John Garton will discuss “Digital Bomarzo,” an international collaboration aimed at preserving the site of Pier Francesco ”Vicino” Orsini’s 29-acre sculpture park (ca. 1551–85) in Bomarzo, Italy.

Sponsored by: Higgins School of Humanities

Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities

Community Conversation: Growing the Pie

Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

The next installment of our series, “Nourishing Teaching, Learning & Research in the Arts & Humanities,” will include a conversation about Improving financial support for research/creative work,