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Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University
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BE HEaRD Poetry Night
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesWe're creating a space for students to share spoken word, poetry, and personal stories in a supportive and affirming environment especially since April is Poetry Month!! BE HEaRD Poetry Night is an open mic and guest performances event on April 8th from 6–7 PM in the Alumnae Lounge. Sign up to attend OR perform here.
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Mother Tongues: Queer Experiments on Stage
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesJoin us for a roundtable conversation with writer-director Shayok Misha Chowdhury, in dialogue with Kareem Khubchandani. This discussion will explore Chowdhury’s body of work as an interdisciplinary theater-maker, with particular attention to questions of translation, diaspora, and sexuality. Together, Chowdhury and Khubchandani will reflect on artistic process, collaboration, and the stakes of storytelling across languages …
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Screening + Conversation: Drag, Kinship, and Mourning
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesIn conjunction with the current exhibition "Across the Universe," Tufts University Art Galleries presents an interactive screening and conversation with exhibiting artist Tomashi Jackson, Associate Professor Kareem Khubchandani (LaWhore Vagistan), and two a special guests — multidisciplinary performer and director of opera and theater Alexander Gedeon from the LA Philharmonic, and Rebecca Uchill, Professor of …
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Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents the program "Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now," a panel discussion in conjunction with the current TUAG exhibition, "Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe." Panelists will be Nia Evans, executive director of the Boston Ujima Project; Cierra Michele Peters, director of communications, culture and enfranchisement at the Boston Ujima Project; Dayna Cunningham, …
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Homelands, Ancestral Knowledges, and Cultural Stewardship
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Arts Galleries presents a roundtable conversation around institutional collecting and cultural representation by and for Indigenous peoples in the Americas. "Homelands, Ancestral Knowledge, and Cultural Stewardship" is the public portion of a multi-day convening that brings together Indigenous curators and cultural producers from Brazil and North America. Developed as an extension of TUAG’s …
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Picturing Us: The Power of the Gaze
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Art Galleries present "Picturing Us: The Power of the Gaze," a conversation with Dr. Deborah Willis hosted by Monroe France, the inaugural Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence at Tufts. France and Willis will discuss Willis’s extensive photographic career, connecting her artistic practice to the work of Christian Walker, a photographer, critic, …
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Reclaiming Our Hands
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesOver the summer, artist Stephen Hamilton collaborated with the Royall House & Slave Quarters to offer "Reclaiming Our Hands," a seven-week program to teach African textile arts to Black students from throughout Greater Boston. Today, Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy will host a conversation with Hamilton and RHSQ executive director …
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