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Boy Meets Tractor Showcases Creativity and Humor with a Swarthmore Bent
Boy Meets Tractor (BMT), Swarthmore’s only sketch comedy group, will be hosting its Spring Show today at 8:30 in Sci 101. Four new video sketches and six live sketches will premiere…
Tri-Co Film Festival Transports, Inspires
This past Wednesday evening, an eager audience was gathered in an old-fashioned, narrow theater, waiting for the lights to dim. The delicate light fixtures on the high walls were reminiscent…
Preview: Meryl Sands’ Honors Directing Thesis, Unstuck
Grieving is as much about imagination as it is about memory. Our construction of the past is based on our perceptions of events and we activate our imagination to create…
Gallery: Chekhov in the Courtyard
The Revolutionary Theater class performed a pair of pieces collectively called “Chekhov in the Courtyard” yesterday afternoon in Kohlberg Courtyard. The class, taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Brian…
Poet Eamon Grennan Delights at Evening Reading
Eamon Grennan, an Irish poet and the author of more than ten poetry collections, read a selection of poems to a rapt audience last Thursday. Grennan’s soothing voice and scenic,…
Oil Painting Class Displays Work in McCabe; Adds Color, Perspective
Colorful works by this semester’s Oil Painting class were installed in McCabe last week, completely filling the first floor foyer. Paintings range from intensely vibrant to pastel, dreamy to vivid.…
Senior Art Majors Present in the List Gallery, Showcasing Diverse and Affecting Work
Arranging an exhibition requires a strong sense of spacing and shapes, much like what goes into making the individual art pieces that make up a collection. The List provides the…
2013 Newton Book Collection Competition Concludes
Ben Goossen ’13 won the A. Edward Newton Student Book Collection Competition for the fourth time this year with his collection “The Hobbit: A Journey from Tolkien to Us…
“Burn This” Balances Dark and Light, Death and Life
The theater department’s production of “Burn This,” written by Lanford Wilson and directed by Jeanette Leopold ’13, is exquisite. In one of the first scenes, Anna (Anita Castillo-Halvorssen ’15) delivers…
Architecture Class Exhibits Proposals to Redesign Sharples
Students taking Professor Min Kyung Lee’s Contemporary Architecture course have been working on redesigning Sharples this semester. Their plans, which were exhibited last weekend in the Kitao gallery, will eventually…