SOAR Past Events
SPRING 2024
School of the Arts Inaugural Student Showcase: A Three-day Festival of the Arts
绿帽社鈥檚 School of the Arts held its inaugural Student Showcase this
spring on the University campus 鈥 a three-day Festival of the Arts.
May 1, 2024
Hub New Music and the 绿帽社 Chamber Singers
World premiere of Unasked-for Ode by graduate students Hannah Carr-Murphy (Creative
Writing) and Wen Wen Van Der Wende (Music). Featuring new works by 绿帽社 composers.
(Ensemble-in-Residence, sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation)
7:30鈥9 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall
May 2, 2024
The New Lyric: Featuring opera arias performed by student vocalists and new songs
from the collaboration between the Department of Music and Creative Writing Program
1:20鈥2:30 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall 鈥 or outdoors if weather permits
BU Steel Drum Band
4:30-5:30 p.m. | Peace Quad near Fine Arts Building moved to The Spine, near John
Arthur Cafe
BUAM Intern Showcase
5-7 p.m. | Outside of the BU Art Museum Main Gallery
Harpur Studio Jazz Band
7:30鈥9 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall
Film Truck - Cinema Students Showcase
7:30-9 p.m. | Parked in front of the Library Tower
Cinema Student Projection
8:30鈥9:30 p.m. | Bartle Library Tower 鈥 outdoor event if weather permits
May 3, 2024
Art History Student Presentations
Noon鈥1 p.m. | BU Art Museum: Lower Galleries, Kenneth C. Lindsay Room (light refreshments)
Film Truck - Cinema Students Showcase
Noon鈥3 p.m. | Parked in front of the Library Tower
Student Film Show
3 p.m. | LH-6
Hub New Music: Performances with students from the Department of Music (Ensemble-in-Residence,
sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation)
4 p.m. | Casadesus Recital Hall
Pedal Powered Theater: A collaboration between Engineering and Theatre with Nate Wheatley
and Tommy Iafrate
4鈥5:30 p.m. | Studio A
Music & Theatre Reception
4:30-7p.m. | Outside of Watters Theater (light refreshments)
Theater Pit Orchestra class recital
4:30-5:30 p.m. | FA 111
BUAM Artist-in-Residence Presentations
5鈥5:30 p.m. | BU Art Museum: Lower Galleries, Kenneth C. Lindsay Room
Student Showcase Reception: Light refreshments*
5鈥7 p.m. | Memorial Courtyard & Grand Corridor
*Co-sponsored by the Advancing 绿帽社 Team
Hands-on Silkscreen Demo: Print some new School of the Arts Graphics created by student
Ellie Borzilleri onto your own T-shirt or Hoodie
5鈥7 p.m. | Memorial Courtyard
Art+Design BA Exhibition
5鈥7 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
Art+Design Departmental Awards Ceremony
6 p.m. | Rosefsky Gallery
Art+Design Open Studios
5鈥7 p.m. | Throughout 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Floors
Film Truck - Cinema Students Showcase
5鈥7 p.m. | Parked in front of the Library Tower
Cinema Screening
5鈥6 p.m. | John Arthur Caf茅
Poet鈥檚 Cafe: A Creative Writing Poetry Reading, hosted by Director of Creative Writing,
Tina Chang & Professor Joe Weil
6鈥8 p.m. | John Arthur Caf茅
Dance Highlights from Spring 2024: Great dance highlights of the season from both
students and faculty and across genres
6 - 6:45 p.m. | Watters Theater
Musical Theatre Voice Recital: Students from the BFA in Musical Theatre will be performing
their final projects
6 p.m. onwards | Studio B
FALL 2023
* Our Departments *
Art & Design
Jeremy Bolen: "Sulfur Skies" (Rosefsky Gallery)
8/31 - 9/21/23
Daesha Devon Harris: "Our Souls Are Kindred with the Tide" (Rosefsky Gallery)
10/5 - 11/11/23
"Infinite Realities" (Pop-up Art Show)
Exhibition by students in the classes Digital Media in Motion, Media and Visual Narrative,
and Intermediate Photography (Rosefsky Gallery)
12/8 - 12/9/23
Site-Specific Installation class exhibition (Bundy Museum)
12/1/23 - 1/1/24
Art History
VizCult: The Visual Culture Forum
Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo): The Bauhaus's Missing Archive: Designers and
the Holocaust
9/13/23
Ana Howie (Cornell University): Women, Painters, and Water: Gender and Materiality
in Genoese Garden Portraits
10/4/23
Amanda Gilvin (Davis Museum at Wellesley College): Crafts of Citizenry: Art and the
State of Niger
10/25/23
John Kuhn (BU): 鈥淪hod Their Heads in Their Canoos鈥: Haudenosaunee Technology and Andrew
Marvell鈥檚 Appleton House (1650)
11/15/23
Cinema
Harpur Cinema: Vivre Sa Vie (France)
9/29/23 & 10/1/23
Harpur Cinema: The Inheritance (USA)
10/13/23 & 10/15/23
Harpur Cinema: Chungking Express (Hong Kong)
10/27/23 & 10/29/23
Harpur Cinema: Godland (Iceland)
11/3/23 & 11/5/23
Harpur Cinema: Teorema (Italy)
11/10/23 & 11/12/23
Harpur Cinema: Superfest Disability Film Festival
11/17/23 & 11/19/23
Harpur Cinema: Feet in the Water, Head on Fire (Canada)
12/1/23 & 12/3/23
Visiting Film/Video Artists Speakers Series: Joshua Gen Solondz
11/9/23
BU Film Salon - Screening
12/1/23
The 14th annual Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) 绿帽社
12/2-12/3/23
Music
Masters Recital: Min Kim
8/26/2023
Voice Area Student Recital Series: Graduate Student Showcase
9/14/2023
Modern Medieval
10/25/2023
Concerto Competition Performance
11/11/2023
Collegium Musicum
11/12/2023
Music NOW!
11/15/2023
Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord
11/19/2023
Low Brass Recital
11/19/2023
Flute Studio Recital
11/30/2023
Hansel & Gretel
11/30/23, 12/1/23, 12/3/23
Masters Recital: Kaymber Felton
12/1/2023
Masters Recital: Elizabeth Strickland
12/2/2023
Piano Ensemble Concert
12/4/2023
Flute Ensemble Concert
12/5/2023
Guest Artist: Michael Poll, guitar
12/6/2023
Voice Area Recital
12/7/23
Harpur Studio Jazz
12/8/2023
Theatre
Envoy
10/12 - 10/29/23
Bera Handa
11/16 - 11/19/23
* Our Partners *
Anderson Center for Performing Arts
Step Afrika!
9/30/23
Disney Pixar's Coco Live-to-film Concert
10/12/23
Ranky Tanky + Very special guest Ms.Lisa Fischer
11/2/23
Dakhabrakha
11/20/23
Vienna Boys Choir: Christmas in Vienna
12/7/23
绿帽社 Art Museum
Exibits:
Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist
9/7/23 鈥 12/9/23 | Main gallery
Memory & Soul: Black Art from the Permanent Collection鈥嬧嬧嬧
9/7/23 鈥 12/9/23 | Mezzanine gallery
Events:
Opening reception: Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist
9/7/23
Join Jeremy Boyle and Derek Scott at WHRW 90.5FM for 'Witches Flu'
(this program was offered in conjunction with the exhibition Ed Wilson: The Sculptor
as Afro-humanist)
9/22 鈥 11/17/23
BU Family Weekend: Live screen printing and free t-shirts and bags celebrating 鈥淏lack
Art @ BUAM鈥
10/6 - 10/7/23
Homecoming Weekend: Live screen printing and free t-shirts and bags celebrating 鈥淏lack
Art @ BUAM鈥
10/14/23
Fall Community Family Day
10/21/23
Ed Wilson: Claiming Black Public Space
11/9/23
A lecture with artist Kevin Beasley
11/16/23
Night at the Museum (Stress-free Bing)
12/7/2023
Creative Writing
The Distinguished Writers Series: Victoria Chang
10/17/23