2015 Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival Guide

April 30–May 3, 2015 LITfest April 27-May 1

Welcome to ARTS FIRST 2015, Harvard’s annual spring celebration of student and faculty creativity. We’re excited to bring you this four-day festival of performing and visual arts, which showcases the extraordinary range of artistic activity across the campus.

This year’s festival includes a stunning lineup of student and faculty works at a variety of venues including the beautiful open-air Plaza and the gloriously re-opened Harvard Art Museums. Highlights include LITfest, Arts Medal recipient Damian Woetzel, the Harvard Civil War Project, jazz John Lithgow ’67 compositions and improvisation from Master of the Arts at Harvard the class of Vijay Iyer, the HarvardRadcliffe Orchestra performing Dvořák under the baton of Maestro Federico Cortese, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake like you’ve never seen it before and a Spring Forward storytelling lineup that will culminate in Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. You can read about all of these and more in this guide.

Our goal is, as ever, to give our students and the greater Cambridge-Boston community the opportunity to experience the arts – as practitioners and audience members – during this concentrated annual extravaganza. Harvard’s year-round commitment to the arts is ever growing and includes the debut of a concentration in theater, dance and media, the expanded Harvard Ed Portal with a performance space and, with the renovation of Quincy and Leverett Houses, additional performance and art-making spaces.

This is a truly creative time to be at Harvard. And ARTS FIRST is our testament to the talent and promise of the arts in all our lives and in our world. We hope you have a wonderful time seeing art and making art with us this weekend.

John Lithgow ’67 Master of the Arts at Harvard Drew Gilpin Faust President, Harvard University Rakesh Khurana AM ’97, PhD ‘98 Dean, Harvard College Morgan Chu ’76 President, Harvard Board of Overseers Jack Megan Director, Office for the Arts at Harvard Producer, ARTS FIRST

ARTS FIRST 2015 2–9

Festival Highlights

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Festival at a Glance Performance Fair and Map

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General Information

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Public Art

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Theater

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Special Thanks

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Visual Arts

Music Highlights and

Festival Credits

More information and schedule updates

ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts #ARTSFIRST Twitter @HarvardArts Facebook Harvard Arts Instagram @harvard_arts Office for the Arts at Harvard: 617.495.8676

Venues are accessible, and events are suitable for children, unless otherwise noted.

Parking

FREE PARKING FOR ARTS FIRST VISITORS on Saturday, May 2 from 10 am–6 pm, in Harvard’s Broadway Garage on Felton Street, off Cambridge Street, near Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Other Parking Locations (for a fee):

Charles Hotel Garage, Bennett Street Church Street Parking Lot, Church Street Harvard Square Parking Garage, Eliot Street Smith Campus Center Basement Garage, Holyoke Street University Place Parking, University Road

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L ITF EST Monday, April 27–Friday, May 1 LITfest features internationally acclaimed authors and editors, readings of new work, panel discussions and hands-on workshops.

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Claudia Rankine, author of the National Book Award finalist Citizen: An American Lyric, reading and conversation co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room

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Emmy Award-winning creator, producer and writer of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner on the rise of literary television

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Conversation about the writing life with John Berendt ’61, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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Panel on the narrative of medicine and illness with poet and editor Meghan O’Rourke (Radcliffe Institute), Suzanne Koven (Harvard Medical School), Arthur Kleinman (Anthropology and HMS) and Karen Thornber (Comparative Literature)

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Discussions and readings with alumni, students and faculty

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Creative writing workshops, including sessions on sijo with David McCann (Korea Foundation) and a hands-on experience with letterpress at Bow & Arrow Press

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Literary walking tour of Harvard campus and historical Cambridge with Daniel Berger-Jones

LITfest is produced by the Harvard Department of English, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Woodberry Poetry Room and Harvard Writers at Work.

For full schedule, visit litfest.fas.harvard.edu

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H ARVAR D ARTS M E DAL CEREMONY Damian Woetzel MPA '07, Dancer and Arts Leader Hosted by President Drew Gilpin Faust Conversation moderated by John Lithgow '67 Thursday, April 30, 4 pm Farkas Hall Admission free and open to the public, tickets required (limit two per person); available through the Harvard Box Office beginning April 21 for Harvard affiliates and April 23 for the public.

During more than two decades at New York City Ballet, Damian Woetzel was a virtuoso dancer who made the most complex moves look fun and, with his own stellar work, made an immense contribution to the world of dance. "Woetzel is power blasting through different orbits at once," wrote Dance Magazine. "The style, ebullience, clarity and commitment he showed onstage as a dancer at New York City Ballet has completely transferred to his activities offstage and behind the scenes."

A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School of Government and director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and Harman Eisner Artist in Residence Program, Woetzel aims to further the value of the arts in society, focusing on education, social justice, economics and diplomacy.

“I always look for options that yield something unexpected,” Woetzel said in The New York Times. “What I crave is to get into these unique venues and make something that really hasn’t been done before, where people are without a net, and you have no idea what is going to happen. It’s the same for me, whether it’s the education work I do or the programming.

That’s how you live. You participate. You take risks.”

Woetzel serves on the Kennedy Center Honors Artists Committee and the Knight Foundation National Arts Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Harvard University Task Force on the Arts, and he is on President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

The Harvard Arts Medal is given each year to a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and has made a contribution through the arts to education or the public good.

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ON T HE P L AZ A Welcome to the Plaza, an artistic crossroads for students, faculty and community to gather in celebration of the arts.

All events on the Plaza are free and open to the public.

Friday 5:30-7 pm: Jazz on the Plaza

Enjoy a jazz club ambiance under the Plaza tent. Music by the Harvard Jazz Band, with Don Braden ’85, conductor/tenor saxophonist.

Special guests include Vijay Iyer and Ralph Peterson, Jr.

Saturday 11 am: Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, with soloist Sasha Scolnik-Brower ’17 and Maestro Federico Cortese. Enjoy the performance with coffee and pastries available for purchase onsite beginning at 10:30 am.

12 pm: Swan Lake: For the Birds!

A transformative (and hilariously transformed!) event features scenes from Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet. With Hasty Pudding Theatricals, River Charles Ensemble, Harvard Ballet Company and a corps de ballet of Harvard faculty: Rakesh Khurana (Dean of Harvard College), Tom Dingman (Dean of Freshmen) and distinguished professors Steven Pinker, Diana Eck and others! Hosted by Harvard’s Master of the Arts John Lithgow ’67, intrepidly assisted by the Harvard University Band.

12:30 pm: Welcome from John Lithgow ’67 1-5 pm: Global Arts on the Plaza

A lineup of international performances including mariachi, jazz, traditional Chinese music, Korean hip hop, Irish step dancing, dabke, breakdancing, Gilbert & Sullivan and much more. See pull-out schedule at center of guide for Performance Fair details.

Sunday 1 pm: Spring Forward: Stories and Music for a New Season

The Sloth, Harvard’s live storytelling hour, presents six storytellers, each with seven minutes, no notes and (mostly true) tales on the theme of “spring.” Created by Deborah Foster (Senior Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology), Jacob Barton ’17 and Emily Warshaw GSE ’15. The afternoon culminates in a performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring by the Eurydice Chamber Ensemble.

9 pm: Whiplash

Hailed as “spellbinding” by The New York Times and winner of three Academy Awards, Whiplash, written and directed

by Damien Chazelle ’08, tells the story of a determined student jazz drummer and his power struggle with an abusive conservatory band director. Enjoy this outdoor screening of a gripping film with Harvard ties. Free popcorn and drinks.

Sponsored by the Office of the President.

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MAKE ART Look for white tents and join art making with students and staff on the Plaza. Photography, ceramics, theatricals and more will awaken and engage the artist in you.

Saturday 1-5 pm

Living Sculpture

Join instructor Allison Newsome and sculpture students from the OFA Ceramics Program for live figure demonstrations celebrating the Harvard Art Museums' work that inspires them.

Scan, Touch, Play

Develop kinesthetic and sensory awareness through playful movement activities. Ilya Vidrin GSE '15.

Snapshots: A Study of Metamorphosis in Art

Have your picture taken and answer: How has art transformed you? Snapshots will be pieced together to form a composite whole face representing the diversity of the community.

Presented by Harvard College Art Society: Pamela Chen ‘16, Sam Wattrus ‘16, Ariana Kam ’16 and Catherine Li ’18.

Wheel Throwing

Try your hand at creating a masterpiece. Join artists for demonstrations using the pottery wheel and sculpting with clay.

Your Solo Is Waiting – Get in on the Drama

Share the limelight with actors from Hyperion Shakespeare Company. Grab a script and play the lead!

J.K. Simmons (left) and Miles Teller in Whiplash, the Academy Award-winning film directed by 5 Damien Chazelle '08. Photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. See it Sunday night on the Plaza.

HARVAR D A RT MU SE U M S Discover the rich collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, newly united in a stateof-the-art facility designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Encounter works from the ancient world to the present, and from the Americas, Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Asia in the revitalized Calderwood Courtyard and galleries. Visit the Lightbox Gallery to explore the intersection of art and technology, and return to attend a lecture, performance or film. The renowned collections and unique spaces inspire new ways of looking and thinking about art for all visitors.

32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617.495.9400 | harvardartmuseums.org Open daily 10 am–5 pm | See website for ticket information.

Free admission Saturday, May 2.

Harvard Art Museums Highlights Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals

A new presentation of Rothko’s 1962 murals commissioned by Harvard University features an innovative, noninvasive digital projection conservation approach.

Rebecca Horn: Work in Progress

A select group of the artist’s multiples, photographs and paintings explores her work as constantly building on itself and drawing from earlier inspiration and production.

Tours by Student Guides Friday 2 pm, Saturday-Sunday 11 am

Tours by Harvard undergraduates focus on a small number of objects and provide visitors with a unique view of the building and collections. Each tour is limited to 15 visitors; multiple tours are offered for each time. Meet in the Museums’ courtyard, in front of the LCD screens. Free with museums admission.

The Harvard Art Museums. Photo: Nic Lehoux.

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Interior of the new Harvard Art Museums. Photo: Nic Lehoux

ARTS FIRST Highlights Red by John Logan Friday 7 pm (Harvard student premiere. Free and open to all Harvard students, with open galleries to follow for attendees. Tickets: Harvard Box Office); Saturday & Sunday 1 pm (Free and open to the public.

Seating is first-come, first-served.)

Red, John Logan’s play about painter Mark Rothko, explores the boundaries of art and apprenticeship. Staged in conjunction with the Museums' special exhibition, Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals. Directed by Max McGillivray ’16, produced by Andrew Gelfand ’15 and Megan Jones ’16.

90 minutes. Red contains adult themes and language and is appropriate for ages 14 and older.

Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St. Please use entrance on Broadway.

Mark Rothko’s Panel One (Harvard Mural Triptych) © 2014 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society, New York.

Performance Fair in the Calderwood Courtyard Saturday 3-4:50 pm

Hear chamber and choral music during student Performance Fair concerts. For details, see pull-out schedule at center of guide. Free.

Adolphus Busch Hall Gallery hours Saturday 10 am–1 pm ARTS FIRST Performance Fair 1–5 pm

Part of the Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall houses the Busch-Reisinger Museum founding collection of plaster casts of medieval art and, in addition to hosting public programs and performances, is open to the public on Wednesdays, 1-5 pm and Saturdays, 10 am-1 pm. Busch Hall hosts student events during the Performance Fair on Saturday, May 2, 1–5 pm. For details, see pull-out schedule at center of guide. Free.

29 Kirkland St.

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HARVARD CIVIL WAR PROJECT Harvard Civil War Project is a multidisciplinary arts and academic series—including concerts, theatrical performances, panels, lectures, public art, exhibitions, gallery talks, academic coursework and public conversations presented by more than 10 Harvard affiliated departments—addressing the impact and meaning of America’s historic conflict.

The greatest crisis in our nation’s history, the American Civil War still reverberates today. This historical watershed, its aftermath and its contemporary resonances are the focus of HCWP, which was inspired by the National Civil War Project and the 150th anniversary of the war’s conclusion.

“The Harvard Civil War Project draws on the remarkable academic and creative strengths that exist across the University to consider the significance, past and present of a great milestone in American history,” said Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University and a historian of the Civil War and the American South. “It supports new insight into our nation's experience of the war and advances the still-unfinished work of creating a more perfect union.”

Throughout the spring, HCWP participants have explored the complex, contested meanings and outcomes of the war. The events during ARTS FIRST continue the discussion.

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A visitor interacts with Deep Wounds in Memorial Hall. Photo: Kris Snibbe.

Deep Wounds Monday-Friday 10 am-6 pm, Saturday-Sunday 12-6 pm

An explorer of the “soul” in technology, artist Brian Knep has created a large-scale digital/video installation that weds this pursuit with psychological inquiry. Deep Wounds draws on the architectural and historical context of Memorial Hall—built to honor Harvard alumni who fought for the Union in the American Civil War—to consider the universal and complex challenges of conflict, transgression and reconciliation. Commissioned by the Office for the Arts Public Art Program, Deep Wounds is free and open to the public. Runs through Thursday, May 7; closed April 19.

Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St.

Memory’s Keeping: David Lang’s Battle Hymns Harvard Dance Project (Jill Johnson, Artistic Director), HarvardRadcliffe Collegium Musicum (Andrew Clark, Conductor) and Boston Children’s Chorus (Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director)

Saturday 8 pm

This New England premiere of Battle Hymns by the Pulitzer Prizewinning composer David Lang is a collage of texts about war: a speech of Abraham Lincoln, parlor songs of Stephen Foster and a soldier’s letter to his wife. The performance also features the premiere of a new work from Harvard’s inaugural student choral composition competition: a setting of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Hymn, written for the Memorial Hall cornerstone laying ceremony in 1870.

Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St.

Tickets: Harvard Box Office, Smith Center, 1340 Massachusetts Ave. 617.496.2222 | boxoffice.harvard.edu

A Heartrending Cry: Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus (Edward Elwyn Jones, Artistic Director)

Sunday 4 pm

Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, written in 1936, made an uplifting plea for peace and sounded a fervent warning at a time when Europe was moving toward another catastrophic war. Three Walt Whitman poems are framed by words from the Latin Mass, the Old Testament and John Bright’s famous House of Commons speech during the Crimean War. The concert also includes William Schuman’s A Free Song, which was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize in music in 1943.

Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St.

Tickets: Harvard Box Office

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Harvard Ballet Company

Festival at a Glance including

Saturday Performance Fair & Map

APRIL 30–MAY 3, 2015 For updates and event details visit ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

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THURSDAY 4–5

Farkas Hall 10-12 Holyoke St.

5–6

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Harvard Arts Medal Ceremony honors dancer and arts leader Damian Woetzel MPA ‘07 See page 3.

Free tickets: Harvard Box Office

Grafton Street Pub & Grill

Harvardwood Reception ARTS FIRST celebration with Boston members of Harvardwood For Harvard community only 5-7 pm

1230 Massachusetts Ave.

Deep Wounds Memorial Hall 45 Quincy St.

Inspired by Memorial Hall, this site-specific installation by artist Brian Knep explores the universal challenge of unfinished healing and reconciliation. Part of the Harvard Civil War Project.

10 am-6 pm See pages 8-9.

6-7 pm Adams House Arts Space 10 Linden St.

7-8 pm

Adams House Klezmer Band

Jake's Women Comedy by Neil Simon Tickets: Harvard Box Office

10 Garden St.

Bachelorette

Farkas Hall

Comedy by Leslye Headland Tickets: Harvard Box Office

10-12 Holyoke St.

24 Quincy St.

Knafel Center CGIS North 1737 Cambridge St.

9–10 pm

A 3-hour Klezmerpalooza offers Eastern European Jewish folk/dance music

Agassiz Theatre

Harvard Film Archive

8–9 pm

VES Film/Video and Animation Screenings 1-4 pm & 7-10 pm

Harvard Student Art Show Opening Original artwork from Harvard graduate and undergraduate student artists See page 20.

Leverett Library Theater 28 Dewolfe St.

Two Girls and a Guy Romantic drama by James Toback '66 Free. Tickets: tgaag2015@gmail.com

Loeb Mainstage 64 Brattle St.

Middletown

Play by Will Eno Tickets: Harvard Box Office & Loeb Box Office

MORE PERFORMANCE DETAILS Visual Arts and Public Art: 18-21 Theater: 22 Music: 23 Plaza highlights in yellow: 4-5 Full descriptions of all events, including participants and up-to-the-minute repertoire: ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts

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FRIDAY 3–4

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VES Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception

Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St.

VES Open Studios Five floors of work from VES studio art and photography courses. See page 20.

Memorial Hall

Deep Wounds

45 Quincy St.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 11 Divinity Ave.

10 am-6 pm. See pages 8-9.

Musical Hues

Dudley World Music Ensemble plays in the galleries; you draw. Art supplies available.

Jazz on the Plaza

The Plaza

Harvard Jazz Band, Don Braden '85 and special guests including Vijay Iyer and Ralph Peterson, Jr.

See page 4

IGP Dinner Party

SOCH/Hilles

Improv + dinner Free. Tickets: IGP@hcs. harvard.edu

5th floor 59 Shepard St.

7-8 pm

8–9 pm

Agassiz Theatre

Comedy by Neil Simon Tickets: Harvard Box Office

10 Garden St.

Bachelorette

Farkas Hall

Comedy by Leslye Headland Tickets: Harvard Box Office

10-12 Holyoke St.

Harvard Art Museums' Menschel Hall 32 Quincy St.

Harvard Film Archive

9–10 pm

Jake's Women

Red Play by John Logan In conjunction with the Rothko exhibit at Harvard Art Museums.

See pages 6-7.

This performance is for Harvard students only.

Open Galleries For attendees of the preceding performance of Red only

VES Film/Video and Animation Screenings

24 Quincy St.

Leverett Library Theater 28 Dewolfe St.

Two Girls and a Guy Romantic drama by James Toback '66 Free. Tickets: tgaag2015@gmail.com

Endgame

Loeb Ex Theater

Play by Samuel Beckett Free. Tickets: exendgame@gmail.com

64 Brattle St.

Loeb Mainstage

Middletown

64 Brattle St.

Play by Will Eno Tickets: Harvard Box Office & Loeb Box Office

Lowell Lecture Hall

Phantom of the Opera silent movie

Kirkland & Quincy Sts.

Memorial Church Harvard Yard

Widener Library Steps Harvard Yard

with live orchestral accompaniment by the Harvard Pops Tickets: Harvard Box Office

Athalia Harvard University Choir and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra perform Handel's oratorio

Memory Library See page 18.

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SATURDAY 11 am–12 pm

East Asian Lang. Ctr.

Japanese Tea Ceremony 10-11 am, 11:15 am-12:15 pm, 12:30-1:30 pm $10 at the event

5 Bryant St.

Sunken Garden Radcliffe Yard

12–1 pm

Sunken Garden Children’s Theater Performance 1

Performance 2

Performance Fair Opening Events The Plaza See page 4

Swan Lake: For the Birds!

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor

1–2 pm

In & Around Harvard Yard Harvard Dance Center 60 Garden St.

2-3 pm

3-4 pm

Performance Fair

American Girl Book Club Participatory dance demo with Harvard Ballet Company

Deep Wounds 12-6 pm. See pages 8-9.

Peabody Museum

Studentled Tours

Studentled Tours

11 Divinity Ave.

See page 21.

See page 21.

Make Art Stations

The Plaza

Join the fun. See page 5.

SOCH/Hilles

Harmony One-on-One

5th floor 59 Shepard St.

Music recital by local students of Phillips Brooks House affiliates

7-8 pm

10 Garden St.

Farkas Hall 10-12 Holyoke St.

Harvard Film Archive

4-5 pm

An exciting lineup of live music, dance and theater by more than 100 student arts groups in 11 locations. See pull-out grid on next page.

Memorial Hall

Agassiz Theatre

Hasty Pudding Theatricals, River Charles Ensemble, Harvard Ballet Company and Harvard faculty, hosted

by John Lithgow ’67 with Harvard Marching Band

8–9 pm

9–10 pm

Jake's Women Comedy by Neil Simon Tickets: Harvard Box Office

Bachelorette

Comedy by Leslye Headland Tickets: Harvard Box Office

VES Film/Video and Animation Screenings

24 Quincy St.

Leverett Library Theater 28 Dewolfe St.

Two Girls and a Guy Romantic drama by James Toback '66 Free. Tickets: tgaag2015@gmail.com

Loeb Ex Theater

Endgame Play by Samuel Beckett Free. Tickets: exendgame@gmail.com

64 Brattle St.

Loeb Mainstage

Middletown

Play by Will Eno Tickets: Harvard Box Office & Loeb Box Office

64 Brattle St.

Paine Hall Behind Science Center

Sanders Theatre 45 Quincy St.

Widener Library Steps

14 Yard Harvard

Bach Society Orchestra: Works by Pärt, Mendelssohn and more Tickets: Harvard Box Office

Memory’s Keeping: David Lang’s Battle Hymns Harvard Dance Project, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Boston Children’s Chorus. See pages 8-9. Tickets: Harvard Box Office

Memory Library See page 18.

SUNDAY 1–2 pm

2–3 pm

Jake's Women

Agassiz Theatre

Comedy by Neil Simon Tickets: Harvard Box Office

10 Garden St.

Bachelorette

Farkas Hall

Comedy by Leslye Headland.

Tickets: Harvard Box Office

10-12 Holyoke St.

Harvard Art Museums' Menschel Hall 32 Quincy St.

Lowell House Courtyard 10 Holyoke Pl. (Use entryway F just past front gate)

3–4 pm

Red Play by John Logan Free and open to the public See pages 6-7.

1812 Overture

Russian Bell-Ringing Concert

Tchaikovsky’s 1812 with kazoos, cannons and bells

Mather House

Chamber music

Senior Common Room

10 Holyoke Pl.

Baroque to modern

Memorial Hall

Deep Wounds

45 Quincy St.

Peabody Museum 11 Divinity Ave.

The Plaza See page 4

12-6 pm. See pages 8-9.

Studentled Tours

Studentled Tours

See page 21.

See page 21.

Spring Forward: Stories and Music for a New Season The Sloth storytelling hour and performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring by the Eurydice Chamber Ensemble

25th Annual Powwow

Radcliffe Yard 10 Garden St.

Sever Hall 101 Harvard Yard

Native American drumming, dancing and performances

Crunch Comics Workshop Collaborate on an epic comic book

SOCH/Hilles

Arjuna's Meditation

5th floor 59 Shepard St.

Sunken Garden Radcliffe Yard

Shadow puppet play with gamelan music directed by Jody Diamond. See page 23.

Sunken Garden Children’s Theater 12 pm & 1 pm

4–5 pm

Art

Lowell House

Play by Yasmina Reza Free. Tickets: artforartsfirst@gmail.com 5-6:30 pm

Junior Common Room

10 Holyoke Pl.

Sanders Theatre 45 Quincy St.

A Heartrending Cry: Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. See pages 8-9.

7–8 pm Loeb Ex Theater 64 Brattle St.

5–6 pm

8–9 pm

9–10 pm Endgame

Play by Samuel Beckett Free. Tickets: exendgame@gmail.com

Whiplash See page 4

Outdoor screening of Academy Awardwinning film written and directed by Damien Chazelle '08 9-10:45 pm

Sanders Theatre

Dudley World Music Orchestra

The Plaza

45 Quincy St.

Tickets: Harvard 15 Box Office

SATURDAY PERFORMANCE FAIR 1:00-1:20

Grace Notes Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St.

Amped Up Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub Basement, Memorial Hall Kirkland & Quincy Sts.

The Dudley Consort Sings 12-voice Renaissance polyphony

Burne Holiday Rockalicious originals and covers

1:30-1:50

2:00-2:20

Mather Chamber Music

2:30-2:50

Harvard Organ Society

Classical violin duet Whitney Thornburg '15 Annika Gompers '18

A recital

Harvard Rap Collective spitting over classic and original beats

Sweet soul music for grooving

3:30-3:50

4:00-4:20

Camerata Obscura: Songs of War and Peace

VoxJazz

The Lambda Singers

Sacred and secular polyphony of the Renaissance

There's a Rap for That

Harvard Soul Jazz Quintet

3:00-3:20

The Solars Throwback folk-rock with big harmonies and riffy riffiness

Menschel Hall, Lower Level

Soundings for a New Space Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St.

Creative Music in Motion Holden Chapel Harvard Yard

Classical Reflections Memorial Church Main Sanctuary Harvard Yard

Uniquely American Sound Paine Hall Behind Science Center

Folk and Fun Phillips Brooks House The Parlor, Harvard Yard

Global Arts

Red John Logan’s play about painter Mark Rothko explores the boundaries of art and apprenticeship.

Staged in conjunction with the Museums' current special exhibition, Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals. 90 minutes.

Red contains adult themes and language and is appropriate for ages 14 and older.

Free and open to the public

Tree Palmedo '16, trumpet Alex Graff '17, guitar

Chase Morrin '15/NEC '16, piano; JK Kim (Berklee), drums; Jonathan Chapman (Berklee), bass Performing as Spicy Hot Jazz

Choral Fellows of the Harvard University Choir

Brattle Street Chamber Players

Choral music from Renaissance to contemporary

The Corn Knight Chase Morrin '15/NEC '16, piano Yaniv Yacoby '15, marimba

Veri and Rob Voice, piano, ukulele, guitar Veri Seo '15 Rob Dei Dolori '17

Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 by J.S. Bach

Ripples of Thought New works for voice and ensemble on the relationship between words and music Jake Wilder-Smith '16, composer

RecKlez

For solo piano

Alex + James Jazz, R&B and neo-soul medley for guitar and voice Alex Graff ’17 James Ramsey '15

Spring Band

Stephanie Johnson '18

Three Letter Acronym

Cover songs for solo piano

Long form improv comedy

Harvard Hillel's Klezmer Band

Acoustic alternative songs Zoe Kessler '17 Adam Jiang '17

Rhythm Section Bros

Chinese Music Ensemble

Selections from Mozart and Sibelius

Selection from spring repertoire

Harvard Magic Society

Unconventional STOMPstyle percussion piece

Tree of Life New composition by Sam Wu '17 for solo piano (Chuhan Zhang '17 Yale) and solo painter (Wa Liu '17 Yale)

Din & Tonics, KeyChange

See magic up close and learn a few tricks

Krokodiloes

Harvard Piano Selections: Porgy Society: An and Bess, and American Adventure As Thousands Cheer

Bean + Soup

River Charles Ensemble

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Emma Frucht '17, George Meyer 15, Stella Chen '15, Sasha Scolnik-Brower '17, Sophie Scolnik-Brower ‘12

Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, selections from Chopin

Jazz/soul standards and original numbers Josh Bean ‘16 Joshuah Campbell ’16

Mozart Society Orchestra

Yard Stage

Two chamber works inspired by the Harvard Art Museums.

Sean Rodan '17, Sam Wu '17, composers

Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann

The Lighthouse Keepers Covers and originals in a mixture of indie, folk and pop

Choral Music at the Calderwood: Harvard Glee Club & Radcliffe Choral Society American composers and folk traditions

Special faculty performance with guests

Schubert's Death and the Maiden Mather String Quartet

THUD (The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers)

Jammin' A Cappella

New Works for a New Museum

George Ko '16: Music from Paris

Chinese folk and pop songs using traditional Chinese instruments

In front of Memorial Church, Harvard Yard

Indie rock and blues band with a soulful vocalist

Sitan Chen '16: Chopin's Op. 28 Preludes

Conventional jazz featuring the Harvard Jazz Band rhythm section

Tercentenary Theatre

Original jazz arrangements and tunes

Ensembles from Music 173r: Gabe Gladstein '17, Caetano Hanta-Davis '18, Tamara Jafar (GSD), Anand Krishnamurthy (GSAS), Jacob Lurye '18, Ryan Park-Chan '18, Jonah Philion '18, Aditya Raguram '18, Rose Whitcomb '16, Anya Yermakova (GSAS)

Traditional Mexican folk music

Open-air Arts

Jocelyn Arndt '17

Chase Morrin '15/NEC '16, piano; George Meyer '15, viola; Carlos Snaider '17, guitar; Garrett Parrish MIT '17, drums; Eden Girma '18, voice

In front of the Science Center

Memorial Hall Kirkland and Quincy Sts.

Dudley House Jazz

Bach Cantata BWV 82 “Ich habe genug.” Harvard Early Music Society featuring Charlotte McKechnie ‘15

Original compositions and improvisations by students and guests of Professor Vijay Iyer

Plaza Tent

Sanders Theatre

Early vocal chamber music performed a cappella

Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51.

Calderwood Courtyard

Mariachi Veritas Showcase

Big Music for a Big Space

Spring showcase by six-person co-ed vocal jazz ensemble

4:30-4:50

Laughter & Light Opera: A Gilbert & Sullivan Sampler Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players

Asia Stewart '18 Tania Rivers-Moore '15

Solo and four-hand piano works by American composers

On Thin Ice Short-form, unscripted improv comedy

Schubert's Die Winterreise Song Cycle Amir Bitran '16 Frederick Metzger '18

Kate Diaz '19

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Show choir performing numbers from musical theater and cinema

Harvard College Stand-Up Society

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Joe Tabasco '15 Karen Chee '17

DanceFest Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble, Expressions Dance Company, Ghungroo Senior Boys, Asian American Dance Troupe, TAPS, South Asian Dance Company (Bollywood), Passus Step Team, Crimson Dance Team, Harvard Middle Eastern Dance (belly dancing), Candela Dance Troupe, Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company, Asian American Dance Troupe, Harvard Ballet Company, Harvard Breakers Organization, Movers and Shakers, Harvard Bhangra, Ballet Folklorico de Aztlán, HSPH Student Dance Club (hip hop), Mainly Jazz

Harvard University Band

Bach Society Orchestra

Harvard University Flute Ensemble

Work by Mendelssohn

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Harvard fight songs and pop covers

King of the Catwalk

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Original children's musical on belonging, featuring a dog and mouse trying to master the catwalk

Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble opens DanceFest in the Yard and processes to Plaza tent

Tree of Life (continuation) Solo piano and solo painter Sam Wu '17, composer

...that April morning... (after Samuel Beckett)

Callbacks, Fallen Angels

VoiceLab, With Interest

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Glee Club Lite, Collegium Underground

Harvard College Opera Selections from Hansel and Gretel, Così fan tutte, L'incoronazione di Poppea and a cantata by Handel

At the Gate of Graceland

Harvard Wind Ensemble Student-written compositions

Tree of Life (conclusion)

Poems inspired by Graceland on a day when Elvis' housemuseum was closed

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PUBL I C ART IN H A RVARD YARD Memory Library Saturday 2-2:20 & 4-4:20 pm, Friday-Saturday 7:30-8:15 pm

This commemorative installation features recordings from Widener Memorial Library patrons and workers, and the public is invited to narrate stories on Saturday afternoon. The evening performances on Friday and Saturday will translate these oral histories into a public art performance. Shu Cao Mo GSE ’15 with Yvette Drury Dubinsky and Joe Steele GSD ’16.

Steps of Widener Library

The following projects can be seen Thursday–Sunday.

Beyond the Bark

Using the magnificent trees of Harvard Yard, Beyond the Bark tells a story about common wood products and their origins.

Jared Friedman GSD ’15 and David Kennedy GSD ’16.

Old Yard, near Stoughton Hall

Bioptimized

What happens when morphology, the study of the form and structure of organisms, is adapted to the realm of architecture?

Nicholas Jacobson GSD ’15 and Ahmed Hosny GSD ‘15.

Old Yard, near Yard Stage

Path, Replaced

An interactive installation looks at an old path through new eyes. Wilson Qin ’15 and William Orman ’16.

Old Yard, near Hollis Hall

Spring Relief

Glad winter is over? The 15 metal figures in this large outdoor sculpture celebrate movement and joy—and relief—and offer a snow-free landscape. Lauren Volpert ’17.

Old Yard, near Weld Hall

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Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum: Global Health in Focus

ART I N T H E HOUS E S Adams House Residual City: Film by Dean Adam Muri-Rosenthal Thursday 6-9 pm

Navigating the relationships between waste, consumption and mortality, this documentary presents a stark Venetian reality that defies deeply ingrained preconceptions about the City of Water.

Recycled Landscape

Thursday-Friday 6-9 pm

An exhibition of Harvard icons made from recycled materials.

Adams House Arts Space, 10 Linden St.

Kirkland ARTS FIRST Exhibition Thursday-Friday 6-9 pm Kirkland House, Senior Common Room (Entryway A) 95 Dunster St.

Mather House Pottery and Woodturning Opening Reception Friday 7 pm Friday–Sunday 9 am-9 pm

Exhibition of pottery and works crafted as a part of the Mather woodturning class.

Mather House, Three Columns Gallery, 10 Cowperthwaite St.

Exhibition at Quincy Friday–Sunday 10 am-6:30 pm

A series of photographs explores the harmonic reliance that humanity has on all other forms of life. Saad Amer ’16.

Quincy House Courtyard, 58 Plympton St.

(Dis)connected Opening Reception Thursday 6-8:30 pm Friday–Sunday 1–6 pm Impressions inspired by Jean Sibelius.

Dudley House Dining Hall, Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard

A C AR EER I N THE ARTS Harvardwood Reception Thursday 5-7 pm

Celebrate ARTS FIRST with Boston members of Harvardwood, a nonprofit organization that provides professional resources and opportunities for Harvard community members in the arts, media and entertainment fields. Open to the Harvard community.

Grafton Street Pub & Grill, 1230 Massachusetts Ave.

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E XHI BI T I O N S Visual and Environmental Studies Film/Video and Animation Screenings 2015 Thursday 1-4 & 7-10 pm, Friday–Saturday 7–10 pm

Open Studios Friday 5-7 pm

Five floors of work created in VES studio art and photography courses during the spring 2015 term.

Studio Thesis Exhibition 2015

Opening Reception Friday 5:30-7 pm Saturday-Sunday 1-10 pm, through May 31 Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St.

Beyond the Success Paradigm: Alumni Stories of Success, Set-backs and Self-discovery Thursday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm, April 28-May 3

Portraits of Harvard alums and their narratives explore notions of success and failure. Presented by Harvard Photography Club and the Success-Failure Project. Continues May 4-29 at the Bureau of Study Counsel, 5 Linden St. Science Center Arcade

Harvard Museum of Natural History Pop-up Exhibit: The Global Exposure Project Thursday–Sunday 10 am–5 pm

Showcase of the 2015 Harvard Business School Art Society’s photography competition.

26 Oxford St.

Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano & the Art of Afro-Cuba Thursday-Saturday 10 am–5 pm, through May 29

This exhibition explores the contributions of a Cuban visual arts and cultural movement that thrived between 1978–1983.

Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mt. Auburn St.

The Ephemeral City Thursday-Friday 7 am–7 pm

Exhibition by the Graduate School of Design focusing primarily on religion to examine forms of temporary urbanism worldwide, particularly in South Asia and Latin America.

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), CGIS South, 2nd Floor, 1730 Cambridge St.

Harvard Student Art Show Thursday 6-8 pm, Friday-Saturday 12-6 pm, Sunday 11 am-2 pm Original artwork from graduate and undergraduate student artists from all 12 schools at Harvard.

Knafel Center, CGIS North, 1737 Cambridge St.

Little Free Library Thursday–Sunday

Campus Services mini book-sharing library, with paintings by Joy Jing ’17.

The Plaza

Big Picture Community Photography Exhibit Thursday–Sunday 9 am–5 pm

Homeless photographers view the Big Picture.

Andover Chapel, Harvard Divinity School

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Harvard Semitic Museum Pop-up Exhibit: Harvard Ceramics Studio Friday–Saturday 10 am–4 pm

View clay creations from students in the Anthropomorphic Vessels class. Free.

Special Gallery Hours: Saturday 10 am-4 pm

Monuments from Mesopotamia; From the Nile to the Euphrates 6 Divinity Ave.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Student-Led Tours Friday 12:30 pm, Saturday-Sunday 1 pm & 2 pm

Harvard students lead tours of the Peabody Museum.

Musical Hues Friday 3–4 pm

The Dudley World Music Ensemble plays in the galleries; you draw what you hear. Art supplies available.

11 Divinity Ave.

Global Health In Focus Friday 12–6 pm

Global health inequities through the camera lens—a passing exhibit.

Science Center Arcade

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Special Gallery Hours: Saturday 11 am–4 pm Finding Our Way: Exploring Human Navigation; Time, Life & Matter: Science in Cambridge

Navigation: Student Projects Saturday 2–4 pm

Experience the art, tools and techniques of navigation used through the ages and across the globe with students from the Science of the Physical Universe course.

Inside the Science Center, Room 251

Ukigumo Hakaze (Floating Clouds, Rustling Leaves) Saturday-Sunday 12-5 pm

Japanese language data visualization meets origami in an exploration of the creative process.

Arts @ 29 Garden, enter on Chauncy St.

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Arts of War: Artistry in Weapons Across Cultures, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

THE AT ER Art Sunday 5 pm

Yasmina Reza's play on how our aesthetic tastes define our friendships and ourselves.

Free. Tickets: artforartsfirst@gmail.com Lowell House, Junior Common Room, 10 Holyoke Pl.

Bachelorette Thursday-Saturday 8 pm

Leslye Headland's vicious look at modern friendships and how the people you hate most are sometimes your best friends.

Tickets: Harvard Box Office, boxoffice.harvard.edu Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke St.

The Donkey Show Saturday 7:30 & 10:30 pm

The ultimate disco experience—a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, roller skaters and hustle queens inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Diane Paulus, director.

Tickets: American Repertory Theater, amrep.org Oberon, 2 Arrow St.

Endgame Friday–Sunday 8 pm

With biting comedy and titillating sadness, Samuel Beckett portrays a family at the end of all things.

Free. Tickets: exendgame@gmail.com Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 Brattle St.

Jake's Women Thursday-Saturday 7:30 pm, Sunday 2:30 pm

Neil Simon’s comedy about a novelist who faces marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life.

Tickets: Harvard Box Office, boxoffice.harvard.edu Agassiz Theatre, 10 Garden St.

Middletown Thursday–Saturday 8 pm

When Mary Swanson moves to Middletown, she learns that not everything is what it seems. Playwright Will Eno has been hailed as “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.”

Tickets: Harvard Box Office, boxoffice.harvard.edu Loeb Mainstage Theater, 64 Brattle St.

Red Friday 7 pm (Harvard students only; tickets required) Saturday-Sunday 1 pm (Free and open to the public)

John Logan’s play about painter Mark Rothko. See pages 6-7.

Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy St.

Two Girls and a Guy Thursday–Saturday 7:30 pm

Two women confront their two-timing boyfriend. A romantic drama by James Toback '66.

Free. Tickets: tgaag2015@gmail.com Leverett House Library Theater, 28 Dewolfe St.

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MUS I C Athalia Friday 7:30 pm

Harvard University Choir (Edward Elwyn Jones, Conductor) and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (Phoebe Carrai, Conductor) perform Handel's stellar oratorio.

Memorial Church, Harvard Yard

Bach Society Orchestra Saturday 8 pm

Wenn Bach Bienen Gezüchtet Hätte by Arvo Pärt Violin Concerto in E minor by Mendelssohn, Stella Chen '15, violin.

Paine Hall, behind Science Center

Arjuna's Meditation Sunday 2-4 pm

Gamelan music directed by Jody Diamond and shadow puppets by Matthew Cohen combine music, humor and epic battles.

SOCH/Hilles, Room P-02 (fifth floor), 59 Shepard St.

HMS Chamber Music Society Sunday 2-4 pm

An afternoon of chamber music, performed by Harvard Medical School students and colleagues.

JBM Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, Harvard Medical School

1812 Overture Sunday 3 pm

Tchaikovsky’s 1812 with kazoos, cannons and bells.

Lowell House courtyard, 10 Holyoke Pl., use entryway F just past front gate

Dudley House Orchestra Spring Concert Sunday 9 pm

Music of Dvořák, Messiaen and Schubert.

Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St.

Please see additional music listings for Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Harvard Jazz Band, River Charles Ensemble, Eurydice Chamber Ensemble, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus on pages 4, 7 and 9. Many more music listings can be found in the Performance Fair pull-out schedule.

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performance, ARTS FIRST 2014.

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S PECIAL T HA N KS Harvard University Board

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Overseers, 2014-2015

Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University, ex officio Paul J. Finnegan, Treasurer, Harvard University, ex officio Morgan Chu, President, Board of Overseers Scott A. Abell Flavia Buarque de Almeida Photeine Anagnostopoulos Michael Brown Susan L. Carney Walter K. Clair Cheryl Dorsey Christopher B. Field Richard W. Fisher

Verna C. Gibbs Linda Greenhouse James E. K. Hildreth Walter Isaacson James E. Johnson Nicholas D. Kristof Deanna Lee Jane Lubchenco Michael Lynton Karen Nelson Moore Diana Nelson

Tracy P. Palandjian Nicole Parent Haughey Sanjay H. Patel Swati A. Piramal Lesley Friedman Rosenthal Cristián Samper Kathryn A. Taylor Gwill E. York Kenji Yoshino

Thanks to Harvard community members who provided talent, time, energy and support for ARTS FIRST 2015. Special thanks to our collaborators and friends in the Office of Campus Services and the team at Harvard Alumni Association. Very special thanks to the Office of the President and the Board of Overseers for their invaluable support.

John Lithgow ’67, Master of the Arts at Harvard Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University, and the staff in the Office of the President Rakesh Khurana AM '97, PhD '98, Dean of Harvard College Diana Sorensen, Dean of Arts and Humanities Meredith L. Weenick, Vice President for Campus Services a standing ovation to:

CiCi Yu ’13 Sheryl Chen GSE '13, Volunteer Coordinator Lisa Wilks Ball, Assistant Volunteer Coordinator The incredible Harvard buildings and grounds staff!

Harvard Arts Resource Council Advisory Committee

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Carlton Cuse ’81, Co-Chair Robert Kraft ’76, Co-Chair Neal Baer ’79 GSE, ’82 GSAS, ’96 HMS Paul Buttenwieser ’60, ’64 HMS, ’00 HKS Lynn Chang ’75 Sandy Climan ’77, ’79 HBS, ’79 SPH Barry Cohen ’74, ’77 HBS, ’77 HLS Ron Daniel ’54 HBS, ’05 UNV Greg Daniels ’85 Susanne Daniels ‘87 Andrew Farkas ’82 Sandy Farkas Lucy Fisher ’71 Alan Gilbert ’89 Lauren Greenfield ’87, ’88 GSAS

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Charles Hirschhorn ’79 Thomas B. McGrath ’76, ’80 HBS Stanford Makishi ’87 Jeffrey Melvoin ’75 Andrea Miller-Keller ’63 David E. Moore, Jr. ’78 Jim Nuzzo ’94 HLS Keri Putnam ’87 Mia Riverton Alpert ’99 Sylvia Scheuer David Scudder ’57 Thomas Viertel ’63 Irene Weigel ’70 Lisa Wong ’79 Edward Zwick ’74

The OFA gratefully acknowledges the generous involvement and support of its advisors.

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FE STIVAL C R EDI TS ARTS FIRST 2015 Operations Team Jack Megan, Director, Office for the Arts; Producer, ARTS FIRST Marin Orlosky Randow '07-'08, ARTS FIRST Coordinator Deena Anderson, Program Associate, Learning From Performers Alicia Anstead NF '08, Editor, Harvard Arts Blog Lara Adams, Associate Director of Common Spaces Operations Tara Benedict, Senior Program Director, Marshal’s Office Tina Bowen, Production Manager, Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex Tina Chance, Staff Assistant, Office of the Governing Boards Eric Engel, Director, Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex David Friedrich, Assistant Dean for Student Life, Harvard College Mary Lou Kearns, General Manager, Harvard Dining Services Dana Knox, Production Coordinator, College Theater Thomas Lee, Director, Learning From Performers and Communications, OFA Jason Luke, Associate Director, Custodial and Support Services, Campus Services Cathy McCormick, Director of Programs, OFA Madeline Meehan, Director of Events Management, Campus Services Brice Norton Hennelly, Technology and Operations Manager, OFA Erin Northington, Manager of Student Engagement Programs, Harvard Art Museums Ruth Polleys, Program Manager, Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex Aimee Ricciardone, Executive Assistant to the Director, OFA Bill Sheehan, Assistant Director, Audio/Visual Services, Campus Services Teil Silverstein, Project Consultant, ARTS FIRST Stephanie Troisi, Student Services Coordinator, OFA

2015 Student Producers Performance Fair Setenay Gel ‘17 Samuel Hagen ‘18 Joy Jing ‘17

Selena Kim ‘15 Betty Lema ‘17 Laura Peterson ‘16

Annie Schugart ‘18 Kristen Shim ‘17 Faye Zhang ‘17

DanceFest Julia Cataldo ‘15 Tessa Markewich ‘16 Bridget Scanlon ‘15 Swan Lake: For the Birds!

Lilly Riverón ‘17, Director and Principal Choreographer Sam Wattrus ‘16 and Rose Whitcomb '16, Co-Musical Directors Sam Clark ‘15, Artistic Liaison, Hasty Pudding Theatricals

2015 Guide Emily Vides, Designer Marin Orlosky Randow '07-'08, Production Manager Alicia Anstead NF '08, Editorial Consultant Selena Kim '15, Contributing Designer

Cover Design/Logo Design Stoltze Design

Photography Inside back cover: Jacob Belcher/OFA. All others, unless specified, courtesy of the artists.

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2 015 A RTI ST DEVELOPMENT F E L LOWSHI P RECIPIENTS

Alice Abracen '15 Aislinn Brophy '17 Reina Gattuso '15 Devon Guinn '17 Heeyoung (Angie) Jo '16 Madeline Lear '17 George Meyer '15 Rebecca Panovka '16 David Sheynberg '16 Sarah Yeoh-Wang '17 Yan (Faye) Zhang '17

Artist Development Fellowships support the development of promising and/or accomplished student artists who have identified an opportunity for transformative artistic growth.

Fellowships are awarded annually by the Faculty Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Read about current and past Fellows and their work on the Harvard Arts Blog: ofa.fas.harvard.edu/wordpress

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