Events for February 26, 2018
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ArtsEmerson premieres The White Card by CLAUDIA RANKINE
In this stunning world premiere at ArtsEmerson, The White Card unfolds a meticulously crafted story, raising uncomfortable questions about what — and who — are on display. Exploring contemporary headlines and cultural touchstones, CLAUDIA RANKINE's The White Card refuses to remain “just a play,” safely entrenched on the stage. Like her 2014 New York Times bestselling […]
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For the Love of Arts Criticism
The Arts Fuse is initiating a series of monthly discussions (the final Mondays in February, March, and April) on the threatened state of theater and arts criticism, particularly in our mainstream media: The Boston Globe and NPR stations WGBH and WBUR. Admittance is free -- but donations (of any size) to The Arts Fuse, an […]
Find out more »How To Catch A Falling Knife: Poetic Play as the Practice of Negative Capability
In this talk DAVID RIVARD discuss how poets engage playfully and boldly with beauty and form as counterforces to existential anxieties, and how play both leads to a finished poem and remains alive in it, still ongoing. I will discuss others' poems as examples of this aliveness and then share a "behind the scenes" look at […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.