Sunny Jain: Love Force
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8:00pm
CFA Theater
BUY TICKETSCatch a preview of the latest music theater work by composer Sunny Jain, 2023–2024 CFA Artist in Residence. Love Force is a powerful ritual of gathering, using hybrid musical styles and building on the composer’s own experience of diaspora, that illuminates the power of song to create unity in the face of divisive systems of oppression.
Learn more about Sunny Jain's "Love Force."Lecture Demonstration: National Bunraku Theater [New Location]
Monday, September 30, 2024 at 12:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
A very rare opportunity to experience traditional Japanese bunraku puppet theater up close with the National Theatre from Osaka, Japan. The group's Connecticut debut will be co-presented by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts and Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
Read more about the lecture demonstration with the National Bunraku Theater.National Bunraku Theater
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 7:30pm
Quick Center for the Arts, 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield, Connecticut
RESERVE NOWSee a stunning production of traditional Japanese bunraku puppet theater as the National Theatre from Osaka, Japan, returns to the United States for the first time in nearly two decades. The group's Connecticut debut is co-presented by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts and Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts.
Learn more about National Bunraku Theater.AFTERWORDS: assembly—Saidiya Hartman ’83, Hon. ’19 in conversation with Kaneza Schaal ’06, moderated by Kiara Benn ’20
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 4:30pm
Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism, 116 Mount Vernon Street, Room 102, Middletown, Connecticut
Saidiya Hartman ’83, Hon. ’19 will be in conversation with Kaneza Schaal ’06 moderated by Kiara Benn ’20 as they discuss Litany for Grieving Sisters. The new performance work is a ceremony for life at the end of the world based on Hartman’s text (originally published in the journal Representations, 2022).
Read more about AFTERWORDS: assembly.Indian Dance Showcase
Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 3:00pm
World Music Hall
Connecticut-based choreographers Sarada Nori and Rachna Agrawal will be joined by Wesleyan students Akhil Joondeph '26 and Tanvi Navile '25 to showcase short performances from a range of different classical dance styles, including North Indian Kathak, South Indian Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam, and Odissi from Eastern India. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Hari Krishnan, Professor of Dance, Global South Asian Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Read more about the 48th annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan, with events from Thursday, October 10 through Saturday, October 12, 2024.Anna Deavere Smith's This Ghost of Slavery
Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Renowned playwright, actor, and educator Anna Deavere Smith, the Center for the Arts artist in residence for 2024-2025, presents a staged reading of "This Ghost of Slavery: A Play of Past and Present," which was published in The Atlantic in 2023.
Learn more about Anna Deavere Smith's "This Ghost of Slavery."
Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 3:00pm
Olin Library, Gribbel Room 202A (second floor)
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8:00pm
CFA Theater
Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 8:00pm
World Music Hall
Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 2:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
