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Philip Kan Gotanda is a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and one of the most prolific playwrights of Asian American-themed work in the United States. In the first episode of a three-part series, Gotanda talks about growing up in Stockton, California, after World War II and the anti-Japanese racism that he couldn’t name as a child, but that he’d go on to write about as an adult. Philip Kan Gotanda is a professor in the Department of Theater, D...

An overweight woman rejects fat activism. Fri May 7, 2021 I was born fat, and Ive been fat all my life. I was my mothers ninth pregnancy. She was an immigrant, often working two full-time jobs as a factory worker and cleaning woman. She said she had nothing to offer me, not even love, so she compensated with food. Food was often noodles dressed with margarine for dinner and grits garnished with margarine for breakfast. You had to eat a lot of that to get anything close to your nutri...

Jobs to go in $3.2m cut to UTS FASS UTS FASS Dean Alan Davison said that FASS would “need to adjust its academic staff profile”. May 1, 2021 Jobs will be lost with the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) seeking to cut salary levels for 2022 by $3.2 million as a consequence of a “challenged” financial state and “decreased student demand” in FASS courses.” In an email to staff seen by Honi, FASS Dean Alan Davison said that FASS would “need to adjust its academic staff...

SLAM faces axe; two departments likely to be cut with job losses expected The Departments of Studies in Religion and Theatre and Performance Studies are likely to be closed entirely. April 29, 2021 In a meeting this afternoon, about 90 staff in the School of Literature, Art and Media (SLAM) were informed that their School could be abolished under a scheme codenamed ‘Operation Bluestar.’ SLAM faces extinction despite posting a surplus last year. ‘Operation Bluestar’ involves the complete...

Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute to Co-host Global Museum Launch Middle Ea… Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute to Co-host Global Museum Launch Middle East Premiere of White Cube (2020) Published April 13th, 2021 - 07:36 GMT Renzo Marten, White Cube (still), 2020. Digital video, colour, sound. 79 minutes. Image courtesy of Renzo Marten. Copyright © Human Activities, 2020 Highlights Taking place online on 17 April 2021, the Middle East premie...

Experience The Gardens at Texas A&M through a new light Academy for the Visual Performance Arts introduces a new app for a unique immersive experience and last updated 2021-04-08 13:49:28-04 BRAZOS COUNTY, TX — Live performances were another experience stripped away by the pandemic. Growing Harmony is a free app that will take you on a musical journey. The catch is you have to be in The Gardens at Texas A&M University for it to work. "When you enter the garden, the app knows where you are...

Voices of the Earth deals with the troubled relationship between humans and the natural world. Compiled by Charles Junkerman and Rush Rehm Voices of the Earth brings together some of the greatest environmental voices from across the centuries to celebrate the anniversary of Earth Day. With a cast of 90 different characters – poets, naturalists, scientists, politicos, deniers, and heroes, Voices of the Earth presents a kaleidoscope of views on the earth we inhabit, and the existential crisi...

Toggle Sidebar New Book: “All the Rage” All the Rage (Nightboat Books, 2021) is a new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, “conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of Black desire, resistance, and joy.” Description: All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the present condition of racism in the United States—a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity—from a variety of perspectives: being B...

“Grounded in a thorough mastery of scholarly literature on eighteenth-century French theatre, McMahan’s study ingeniously interprets Luigi Riccoboni and his troupe as theatrical migrants who used comedy as a means of cultural diplomacy. . . McMahan’s innovative approach to  commedia dell’arte as a “transnational brand” offers a robust contribution to Theatre and Performance Studies scholarship.” (—Daniel Smith, Michigan State University, USA)   “...

Queen Mary University of London In 2020, Arts and Culture at Queen Mary University of London invited UK-based artists to converse with academics from across the university, using its Higher Education Innovation Fund. A dentist spoke to a sculptor. A mathematician to a choreographer. A dramatist to an opera singer. While an unforeseen pandemic limited human contact for many of us, these artists and academics found ways to talk. They held conversations about climate change, mental health, housewo...