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Visit by UNIVERSES Founders/Artistic Directors Steven Sapp ’89 and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp ’92

The Bard Community is invited to a talk and conversation focusing on Sapp’s and Ruiz-Sapp’s experiences and artistic development from their time as students at Bard, to founding UNIVERSES in 1995, and their company's continued success and development in its twenty-six years as a national theater company of color.

Thursday, September 9, 2021
5:30–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
UNIVERSES is home to a core group of multi-disciplined writers and performers of color, who fuse  theater, poetry, dance, jazz, hip hop, politics, blues and Spanish boleros into their own unique brand of theatre-based performances. The group breaks the traditional theatrical bounds to create its own brand of theater. Founded in The Bronx, New York in 1995, the members of UNIVERSES came together in the urban poetry and music scene of the late 1990s, at venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. UNIVERSES’ original plays include Slanguage, (included in the anthology, The Fire This Time, African American Plays for the 21st Century, TCG), Ameriville, The Ride, The Denver Project, One Shot in the Lotus Position, Blue Suite, Live from the Edge, Party People (performed at The Public Theater in New York City in 2016), and AmericUS, which premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse, 2019-2020. UNIVERSES is the Ensemble in Residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. 

Sapp and Ruiz-Sapp have taken their company, (members include ’03 Bard Alum William Ruiz (a.k.a. Ninja) and Gamal Chasten) around the world, electrifying crowds, inviting and challenging old and new generations of theater makers, theatergoers, and newcomers to envision a new American Theater.Sponsored by: Bard Performing Artists of Color; Bard Theater and Performance Program; Dance Program; Dean of the College; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs.

For more information, call 845-758-7970, e-mail jlown@bard.edu, or visit https://theater.bard.edu.

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Ink Art and New Music Creative Exchange Project: Virtual Lecture in Collaboration with Hong Kong University and M+ Museum, Hong Kong

Composing for Mixed Ensemble of Chinese and Western Instruments

Monday, September 13, 2021
8:30–10 am

Online Event
This event is part of the “Ink Art and New Music” Creative Exchange Project

This lecture will introduce modern and contemporary ink art, an area of artistic expression that reinterprets traditional ink painting and calligraphy and encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, and even animation. Using works from the permanent collection of M+, the new visual culture museum in Hong Kong opening in November 2021, the talk will highlight important themes and breakthroughs in the development of ink art since the 1950s and artists from diverse backgrounds who have invigorated the centuries-old heritage.

This Zoom webinar masterclass is open to the public for viewing.
Register for free online at: https://www.art-mate.net/buy_ticket/60265

Speaker:
Dr. Lesley Ma
Curator of M+, Hong Kong
 
Moderator:
Jindong Cai
Director of the US-China Music Institute, Bard Conservatory of Music
 
Student Composers:
Austin Leung, Hong Kong University
Samuel Mutter, Bard Conservatory of Music
OGA, Bard Conservatory of Music
Jing Wang, Hong Kong University

Copresenters: US-China Music Institute; Bard College Conservatory of Music; Hong Kong University Cultural Management Office; Hong Kong University Department of Music; M+ Museum, Hong Kong

Cosponsors: Asian Cultural Council; Endowment Funds for Music & Fine Arts; Lee Hysan FoundationSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail uschinamusic@bard.edu, or visit https://muse.hku.hk/programmes/inkart-lecture1/.