Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays from all of us here at TAD! Make sure you make any and all art you can on your break, and be sure to submit pictures and videos of your works, post on the blog, and stay updated on all TAD activities coming in the next year.

December Events!

August 27th-December 10th: Guest DJ for Culture Buzz on WXAC 91.3 FM

Join DJ Dash as his special guest, select a playlist and talk on-air about upcoming arts and cultural events at the CFA and in the Berks County area.  Requires one week advance notice; email dtanner@alb.edu.  

*Wed., Aug. 27th-Dec. 10th, 4-6 p.m.

November Events!

August 27th-December 10th: Guest DJ for Culture Buzz on WXAC 91.3 FM

Join DJ Dash as his special guest, select a playlist and talk on-air about upcoming arts and cultural events at the CFA and in the Berks County area.  Requires one week advance notice; email dtanner@alb.edu.  

*Wed., Aug. 27th-Dec. 10th, 4-6 p.m.

November 15th: Maelstrom, a silent opera by Jeffrey Lentz & Cocol Bernal

Artist-in-residence, Jeffrey Lentz, and his constant collaborator, Cocol Bernal, are thrilled to premiere the third and final chapter in the award-winning Ubu Saga, a bold and lyrical story of love and redemption told through movement and music alone. In the first installment, Spirale, we were introduced to the adventures of Ubu, an affable king who battled the forces of evil to win the hand of the fair Princess Mira. Last fall, the story continued in Vortex where tragedy struck when the couple found themselves trapped in a lethal love triangle. As the final chapter unfolds, we have reached the eye of the storm. An inexplicable calm pervades the House of Ubu. Queen Mira is dead. The King grieves. Caught in the middle, Princess Charlotte, Mira’s illegitimate child, grows in ignorance of the family secrets that contrive to destroy both her and her father. Will they be saved by the power of love and forgiveness, or swept into the raging currents of the maelstrom?

*Fri., Nov. 15th, 8 p.m., Wachovia Theater

October Events!

August 27th-December 10th: Guest DJ for Culture Buzz on WXAC 91.3 FM

Join DJ Dash as his special guest, select a playlist and talk on-air about upcoming arts and cultural events at the CFA and in the Berks County area.  Requires one week advance notice; email dtanner@alb.edu.  

*Wed., Aug. 27th-Dec. 10th, 4-6 p.m.

October 4: Concert Series #1: Barrio Alegria Dance Co. & Cantar Campesino

Heat up your evening with a showcase of Latin dancing: salsa, merengue, samba and more, featuring performances by Reading’s own Barrio Alegria Dance Company with live music by Grupo Cantar Campesino. If you’re a Salsaholic, check out this show – muy caliente!

*Sat., Oct. 4, 9 p.m., Wachovia Theater

October 25: Albright Angels Sweet Sixteen

Join us for an unforgettable anniversary as the Albright Angels celebrate their sixteenth year of performance. Look for returning alumnae to “come out” and “debut” new material while revisiting some classic repertoire from past seasons.

*Sat., Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., Memorial Chapel

September Events!

September 10th: WXAC's Concert Series at the Pond #2-Djangoholics Anonymous

Albright's official college radio station offers an eclectic mix of music, from the bumping rhythms of Latin DJ's in the morning to a range of student shows in the evenings that feature classic rock, '80's hits, country, alternative, and more.  Wednesday nights in September are perfect for a picnic.  Grab your friends and dinner-to-go, and join us at Sylvan Pond from 6-8 p.m. for a different style of music each week (Djangoholics Anonymous's style will be "gypsy jazz").

*Wed., September 10, 6-8 p.m., Sylvan Pond

September 30th: International Film Series #3: Paranoid Park

(2007, 85 min.) by Gus Van Sant
“Paranoid Park is a swooping, skateboarding, free zone where young men learn to fly. It’s also a haunting, voluptuously beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being suddenly caught in midflight, falls to earth. Like most of Mr. Van Sant’s films, Paranoid Park is about bodies at rest and in motion, and about longing, beauty, youth and death, and as such, as much about the artist as his subject. It is a modestly scaled triumph without a false or wasted moment.”—Manohla Dargis, New York Times.

*Tues., September 30, 7:30 p.m., Klein Lecture Hall

August 27th-December 10th: Guest DJ for Culture Buzz on WXAC 91.3 FM

Join DJ Dash as his special guest, select a playlist and talk on-air about upcoming arts and cultural events at the CFA and in the Berks County area.  Requires one week advance notice; email dtanner@alb.edu.  

*Wed., Aug. 27th-Dec. 10th, 4-6 p.m.

May Events!

May 1st-3rd and May 3-4: Dancing at Lugnasa by Brian Friel

A Domino Players production directed by Julia Matthews

Friel’s story centers on five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in the 1930s. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, a celebration of a pagan god of the harvest. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts, in this haunting tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

*Thur.-Sat., May 1-3, 8 p.m., & Sat.-Sun., May 3-4, 2:30 p.m., Wachovia Theater

May 5th: Green and growing Projects in Theater 

7:30p.m. Wachovia Theater 

May 6th-14th: Annual Juried Student Exhibition and Senior Invitational

This annual exhibition includes a roundup of work by Albright College students made over the past year. Annual prizes and awards are given in four categories during a special reception.

*Awards Ceremony & Reception – Thur., May 8, 4-6 p.m.

^{May 7th: Green and Growing Projects in Theater}

^{7:30 p.m. Wachovia Theater} 

^{May 8th: Albright Student Film and Video Showcase}

^{Filmmakers will be present following the screening for a Q&A session.}

^{7:30 pm.  Klein Hall}

^{May 9th: Improv Spring Finale: Beach Party Bonanza} 

^{6 pm. CFA Mary Miss Amphitheater}

^{May10th: Traditions and Innovation, the Annual Fashion Showcase} 

Celebrate the hard work of Albright's student fashion designers and merchandisers through exhibitions displays and a high energy runway show.

Bollman Gym, $5 students, $10 adults

*Exhibition Showcase – 4-5:30 p.m.

*Runway Show – 5:30-6:30 p.m

May 10th: Celebrate Spring, a Choral Concert

7:30 pm. Memorial Chapel 

May 24th: Meet and Make

Come meet Amanda Barrell, an artist from Hello Bluebird. she will be showing us how to make woven baskets and bracelets. All the supplies is provided!

4 pm. CFA Mezzanine

For passes contact bkrumholz@alb.edu

April Events

April 8- Meet and Make, learn how to knit workshop, 5pm, Freedman Gallery
             Coffeehouse Diversty Poetry Reading, 6-8pm, Freedman Gallery  

April 15th- What Happened? Underground Film and the Art Epidemic in America! An In-Person screening with filmmaker Jerry Tartaglia. Filmmaker Jerry Taraglia will screen and discuss segments of films by Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and Gary Goldberg, featuring superstars Ondine, Taylor Mead, Bill Rice, and others. Jack Smith Films presented courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Part of the International Film Series, all screenings take place on Tuesdays, 7:30pm, Klein Hall.

 For passes contact bkrumholz@alb.edu

March Events

March 8th American Landscape, a Choral Concert
7:30pm, Memorial Chapel

March 25th- Orlando, a film by Sally Potter. Based on Virginia Woolf's novel, Tilda Swinton slips effortlessly into the role of the titular male nobleman who awakens halfway through the film to find himself a woman. Part of the International Film Series, all screenings take place on Tuesdays, 7:30pm, Klein Hall, for passes contact bkrumholz@alb.edu