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2024
January
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces the highlights of 2024 spring season
2023
September
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2023 fall season
January
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2023 spring season
2022
September
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2022 fall season
April
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Wesleyan University's College of East Asian Studies Gallery presents "Strong Bodies for the Revolution: Pursuing Health and Power in the People’s Republic of China" through May 21, 2022
March
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Wesleyan University announces Embodying Antiracism Initiative Fellows
February
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Six free exhibitions on display this spring at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery and the College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield Freeman Center
2021
November
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces Toshi Reagon as 2021-2022 Artist in Residence
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Wesleyan University's College of East Asian Studies Gallery celebrates 25th anniversary of Japanese Garden (Shôyôan Teien) with exhibition on display through Friday, December 10, 2021
October
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents "The Language in Common" through Sunday, December 12, 2021
"The Language in Common," a group exhibition curated by Associate Director of Visual Arts and Adjunct Instructor in Art Benjamin Chaffee, is on view in the Main Gallery of Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery through Sunday, December 12, 2021. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday from Noon to 5pm. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public. Upcoming related events, both virtual and on campus, include a poetry reading by Tanya Lukin Linklater as well as a conversation between her and composer, performer, and installation artist Raven Chacon; a performance and artist talk by Cecilia Vicuña; and an artist talk by Julien Creuzet.
August
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2021 fall season
The general public will be welcomed back to Wesleyan this fall to enjoy Center for the Arts outdoor programming and exhibitions in both the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery and the College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield Freeman Center. All patrons must adhere to and follow the University COVID-19 safety guidelines. Wesleyan requires all visitors to be fully vaccinated. All visitors will need to provide proof of having been fully vaccinated. Public health officials consider an individual to be fully vaccinated two weeks after their final dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Masks are required in all University buildings regardless of vaccination status. Indoor performances as well as special events, including opening receptions in the galleries, will be open to Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff. Vaccinated visitors may attend outdoor events and outdoor activities unmasked. Patrons under the age of 12 are required to wear a mask at outdoor events. Due to current CDC age limits on vaccinations, individuals under the age of 12 will not be permitted at indoor exhibitions.
July
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“Echoes of Attica” play to commemorate 50th anniversary of Attica Prison uprising with free outdoor preview performance in New York on Thursday, August 5, 2021
February
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2021 spring season
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents "Flames of My Homeland: The Cultural Revolution and Modern Tibet" Tuesday, February 23 though Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Wesleyan University’s WESU Middletown 88.1FM to rebroadcast all episodes of “Party in the Bardo: Conversations with Laurie Anderson” Thursday, February 18 through Thursday, May 6, 2021
2020
November
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Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance announces third round of Leadership Fellowship Awards
October
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents "A SCULPTURE, A FILM AND SIX VIDEOS" through November 22, 2020
September
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Wesleyan University’s Theater Department presents “Re-Evaluating the Ground on Which We(s) Stand(s): An Evening of August Wilson with Broadway’s Crystal Dickinson and Brandon Dirden"
August
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2020 fall season
March
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All Spring 2020 Events and Exhibitions at Wesleyan Are Canceled
February
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Wesleyan University's College of East Asian Studies Gallery presents “Guanyu (Gary) Xu: Temporarily Censored Home” February 6 through May 22, 2020
January
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents "Diane Simpson: Cardboard-Plus, 1977-1980" January 28 through March 1, 2020
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts Appoints Interim Director Jennifer Calienes
2019
November
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Wesleyan University's Dance Department presents Winter Dance Concert "FREEDFORM" on December 6 and 7, 2019
October
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Wesleyan University’s Theater Department presents “The Laramie Project” by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project Friday, November 15 through Sunday, November 17, 2019
There will also be a free conversation, "Talk It Out: 'The Laramie Project' - Centering Queer Voices: Documenting Trauma and Resilience" on Thursday, November 7, 2019 with guest artist Leigh Fondakowski, head writer and member of the original production team of the Tectonic Theater Project for "The Laramie Project;" Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Christina Crosby; Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Calvin Anderson; Nathan Pugh '21, student dramaturg for the Wesleyan production; and Visiting Instructor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Michelle Memran.
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Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center presents "Into the Image: Art in Miniature Across the Centuries" October 11 through November 24, 2019
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43rd annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan University Thursday, October 10 through Monday, October 14, 2019
September
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents Brendan Fernandes' "Inaction" October 2 through December 8, 2019
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts announces 2019-2020 Performing Arts Series
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Wesleyan University's College of East Asian Studies Gallery presents “The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA)” September 18 through December 8, 2019
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents "Urban Space, Roman Couture, and A Living Past: Views of Pompeii and Pantheon - Marc Erwin Babej and William Wylie" September 10 through October 6, 2019
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Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center presents "Entering Edo: A World of Pleasure" and "Find Me Unafraid" September 5-26, 2019
June
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts summer series to feature free outdoor concert and street-theater style performance art
May
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts to receive National Endowment for the Arts grant to support performance, residency by Netta Yerushalmy in October 2019
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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts Appoints General Manager Drew Gray
April
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Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Center presents "For Effect: Emphatic Bodies from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age" April 5 through May 26, 2019
March
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Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance announces second round of Leadership Fellowship Awards
February
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Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Center presents “Bestiary” February 8 through March 7, 2019
January
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Wesleyan University's College of East Asian Studies Gallery presents “Sound of Korea” January 31 through May 25, 2019
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents "Audible Bacillus" January 29 through March 3, 2019
2018
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Ford Foundation Grant to Support Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance
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Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery presents “A Body in Fukushima: Recent Work” January 25 through February 15, 2018
2017
October
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Wesleyan University to Offer Residency in April 2018 for Artists Impacted by 2017 Hurricanes
2016
December
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Sarah Curran Named Director of Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts
October
September
August
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2016-2017 season
July
June
May
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Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts summer series to feature United States premiere of dance work, Grammy Award-nominated jazz group