Block Museum offers a feminist perspective to Arab histories through film series
Rayna Song, Reporter
October 28, 2020
The Block Museum of Art hosted “Liberating History: Arab Feminisms and Mediated Pasts” to celebrate Arab women's filmmaking and present a feminist perspective to past Arab histories. The online event includes five screenings from Oct. 8 to Oct. 31 that can be accessed for 24 hours following the...
“Stranger Than Fiction: This is America” exhibition explores contemporary America through a political lens
Jorja Siemons, Reporter
October 28, 2020
Dittmar Memorial Gallery is combining political symbols and pop culture iconography this fall with “Stranger Than Fiction: This is America,” featuring visual artworks created by artists Henry Sandifer and Nguyen Tran. The exhibit, open to the public through Nov. 15, unpacks issues such as systemic...
Meet this year’s NU Alumnae of the Year Award recipient: Tony award winner Heather Headley
Rebecca Aizin, Arts and Entertainment Editor
October 28, 2020
Heather Headley left her junior year at Northwestern fully expecting to return the following September. That year, she made her Broadway debut instead. Headley’s credits include “Ragtime,” “The Lion King” and “Aida,” for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in 2000. Most recently,...
Halsey’s Black Creators Funding Initiative recipient and NU alumnus Robert Cunningham creates web series How to L0ve
Rebecca Aizin, Arts and Entertainment Editor
October 27, 2020
After watching Wimbledon and noticing how the ball runners were constantly hit by tennis balls, Northwestern alumnus Robert Cunningham (Communication ‘18) decided to start a comedic web series “How to L0ve” centering around the experiences of these behind-the-scenes tennis workers as they run onto...
2020 Cultural Fund Grant recipients discuss plans amid the pandemic
Laya Neelakandan, Reporter
October 26, 2020
Musicians, museums, theatres and visual arts organizations make up some of the recipients of the 2020 Cultural Fund Grant Program awarded by the Evanston Arts Council. As arts-focused organizations pivoted their plans in response to the pandemic, the Cultural Fund Grant stepped up to support local organiza...
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