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Encounter Machines

Monday, March 3, 2025 at 5:00pm
The Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown

FREE!

Encounter Machines is a work-in-progress manifesto that seeks to find new relevance between architecture and opera, exploring questions of scale, queerness, fragmentation, failure, and more. The text draws on Peter Zuspan’s work designing spaces for performance (including the National Sawdust and Bushwick Starr) as well as his ongoing research on the spatial limits and possibilities of new and experimental opera. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the multidisciplinary artist Helga Davis.

Javanese Gamelan and Dance Spring Concert

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 7:30pm
World Music Hall

FREE!

The Wesleyan Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, under the direction of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Sumarsam MA ’76 and University Professor of Music Harjito, presents a spring concert of the classical music and dance of Central Java, featuring Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Dewati Rahmayani from the Royal Palace of Yogyakarta, and the world premiere of two commissioned works by composer Jlin, one of which will be performed live by the Javanese Gamelan Ensemble.

Read more about the spring Javanese Gamelan and Dance concert, featuring the world premiere of two commissioned works by composer Jlin.

Kitchen Céilí and Friends: Traditional and Original Music from Ireland, North America, the British Isles, and India
Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Formed in 1993, the core group of Kitchen Céilí includes Banjo/Mandolin/North Indian Vocal/Guitar Instructor Stan Scott PhD ’97; Dorothea Hast PhD ’94 on vocals, tin whistle and recorders; Sam Scheer on vocals, guitar and banjo; and George Wilson on vocals and fiddle.

Listening Session
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 12:00pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

During this lunchtime listening session, everyone attending will experience focused group listening as a communal practice. Participants can sign up to share a piece of recorded music, which will be played for the group in silence, collectively listened to, and discussed. First-come, first-served free pizza.

Toneburst Sampler
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 7:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall

Wesleyan’s Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble presents new and arranged works for live electronics under the direction of Professor of Music Paula Matthusen.

Talk by Keller Easterling: Medium Design
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

Designer and writer Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale, will present the talk Medium Design.

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