Christopher Coleman, assistant professor of digital media studies (DMS) at the University of Denver, says he wants to show his animations to as many people as possible. On Dec. 17, one of his videos was shown in one of the world’s most visible stages, New York’s Times Square. It was […]
An airplane flies over a row of suburban houses. Parents have a conversation while watching their children play baseball. A woman stands inside a bedroom, peering through a window to the sunny street outside. They’re scenes of mundane, everyday life, but as depicted by painter Joel Sheesley (MFA ’74), they […]
“Blazing the Trail: Denver’s Jewish Pioneers,” an exhibit that documents Denver’s first Jewish residents, will be on display at DU’s Penrose library through mid-February. The story is told through 12 panels illustrated with photos and includes other documents and household items. Jeanne Abrams, professor of Judaic studies at DU and […]
Two Minneapolis-based performing groups — all-male chorus Cantus and Theater Latté Da — present a true story from World War I in All is Calm, the Christmas Truce of 1914 at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts on Dec 10. The story is about a young German soldier who […]
Malcolm Lynn Baker’s first stab at starting a DU record label didn’t go so well. Fresh from a 10-week sabbatical during which he studied 32 college labels around the country in fall 2007, Baker, the director of jazz studies and commercial music at DU, returned to campus full of ideas. […]
Musician Al Hood has found the perfect gig at the University of Denver. Hood, an associate professor of trumpet at DU’s Lamont School of Music, plays dozens of concerts per year in crowded jazz clubs, swanky concert halls and ornate cathedrals around Denver. When he’s not on stage, Hood coaches […]
Ask Arda Collins why poetry is important, and the acclaimed poet will be the first to admit it’s not a popular genre that will ever “fly off the shelves.” “I think of it as important in the same way as if you spent a day with someone going to the […]
Rebel, a New York-based baroque ensemble, will play in Denver on Tuesday, Nov. 17, as part of the Newman Center Presents series. The ensemble has earned an impressive international reputation. “The music and sound of Rebel is timeless. They have a unique, highly expressive approach to baroque and classical music,” […]
Mariza, a Portuguese fado singer, will perform at the Newman Center for Performing arts on Nov. 14 as part of a three-month, 47-city tour of North America. Mariza is the reigning “Queen of Fado.” Fado is called the “Portuguese blues” because of its mournful tone. As a musical form, it […]
A DU professor and some of his students will be part of one the largest site-specific art commissions in an American museum this fall. The commission — called “Embrace!” — features 17 artworks by top American and international artists that were created to ‘develop a dialogue’ between the art and […]
The Lamont Society of Music hosts exclusive concerts throughout the year for its members to raise money for the Lamont School of Music’s students and programs. “Music is capable of bringing people together,” says Andrea Howland Cobb, president of the Lamont Society. “Please join me and the Lamont Society to […]
For songs that ended up as staples at church services and youth camps, spirituals have a subversive history. “A lot of the songs had all kinds of secret meanings that were passed from person to person and community to community,” says Arthur Jones, founder of the DU-based Spirituals Project. “The […]
The athletic and exuberant dancers of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will step their way onto the stage at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 20. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Jim Vincent, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2009. The company has […]
A screening of the new PBS “American Experience” documentary The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) will premiere on campus Oct. 14. The film, which highlights one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s most popular New Deal programs, will be shown in Sturm Hall’s Davis Auditorium at 6 p.m. Admission is free. “The film looks […]
It’s been 11 years since gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was lured from a Laramie bar, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead. It’s a sad anniversary, but it’s one the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project thought was worth recognizing. The company already has paid […]