With a sold-out crowd of 1,000 in Cahn Auditorium, ReFusionShaka united three of Northwestern’s top dance groups: Fusion, Refresh and rhythm ensemble Boomshaka. Each performance also featured two or three guest groups. Every November, ReFusionShaka draws thousands of students and alumni to Cahn for a two-hour set highlighting each group individually with a few full company dances.
Welcome to Recaptured — a weekly roundup of The Daily’s photojournalism, featuring our reporters’ most memorable moments. This week’s Recaptured includes the combination dance performance ReFusionShaka, an exhibit with rare items in Deering Library and a close finish for football at Wrigley Field.
Community members waited for the tree lighting ceremony in Independence Park — which reopened in June after two years of renovations — Saturday evening. To the crowd’s surprise, colored lights lit up not just the evergreen tree by the entrance, but also the sprawling branches of the larger tree behind it. After the tree lighting, the Frozen Robins carolers performed in the park, following an afternoon of music in front of various Central Street businesses at the business district’s annual Holiday Stroll. (Yong-Yu Huang/The Daily Northwestern)NU lost to No. 18 Michigan 24-22 Saturday at a packed Wrigley Field. Wolverines’ kicker Dominic Zvada drilled a 31-yard game-winning kick. Despite securing five turnovers, the Wildcats were unable to complete a 12-point comeback. NU heads back to the “The Friendly Confines” to face Minnesota on Saturday. (Kamran Nia/The Daily Northwestern)More than 20 members of the Evanston and Northwestern communities rallied to urge the University to refrain from making a deal with the Trump administration to restore $790 million of frozen federal funding. The demonstration, organized by Indivisible Evanston, took place at The Arch midday Monday. Protesters handed out flyers and waved signs with messages such as “Stand Strong NU” and “NU Fight Fascism.” (Yong-Yu Huang/The Daily Northwestern)A quiet exhibition on the first floor of Deering Library highlights some of the rarest items from the University’s McCormick Library of Special Collections. The library debuted its exhibition of rare materials Monday. The exhibit includes famous U.S. composer John Cage’s manuscript materials, an instrument belonging to guitarist Glenn Branca, as well as hand-drawn books from novelist Richard Wright and French-Cuban writer Anaïs Nin. (Isadora Urio Fernandes/The Daily Northwestern)“Amicus,” an original play written by Communication senior Max Outcalt, premiered Friday and Saturday. Outcalt wrote “Amicus” in a theatre department playwriting class nearly two years ago. Last spring, he applied for the Wirtz Center’s Student Performance Projects, which allows students to submit their works to be performed in Wirtz throughout the year. His play was selected as a Week Nine Performance Project. (Sarah Park/The Daily Northwestern)Starbucks Workers United members from across the Chicago area stepped out from behind the counter and onto the picket line to rally for the finalization of a fair union contract with their multi-national employer in Evanston on Nov. 13. At 4 p.m., more than 30 workers and community members alike filled up the Starbucks on Dempster Street’s parking lot with chants, music and solidarity. (Claire Coffey/The Daily Northwestern)The room falls silent as the members of Zen Society settle into zazen meditation, a form of meditation central to Zen Buddhism. The group meets every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Parkes Hall Multi-Belief Space or Room 204. Zen Society’s faculty advisor, psychology Prof. Marcia Grabowecky, teaches a popular Buddhist Psychology class at Northwestern. (Charlotte Nagel/The Daily Northwestern)More than 30 Evanston community members protested in front of the AT&T storefront on Chicago Avenue on Sunday, calling for the company to drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security. The protest was one of 18 statewide protests Sunday against AT&T’s contracts. The demonstration comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents have been in Evanston, Chicago and surrounding areas as part of ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz, first announced in early September. (Allison Kuester/The Daily Northwestern)NU women’s basketball defeated Maryland Eastern Shore 69-54 at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Friday. The Wildcats were led by junior guard Casey Harter, who tallied 19 points. Sophomore forward Tayla Thomas posted a double-double, tallying 16 points and 11 rebounds. NU defeated DePaul on Monday for its fourth straight win, and it takes on Cleveland State Friday. (Steven Ng/The Daily Northwestern)
