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ARTS FIRST week is here! April 27-May 3      
 
Come celebrate the arts at Harvard this week! ARTS FIRST, the university’s annual arts showcase of student and faculty creativity, takes place April 30-May 3 at 11 university venues including the open-air tent on the Plaza, Sanders Theatre, Paine Hall, Harvard Art Museums and historic buildings throughout the Yard. Produced by the Office for the Arts, the festival is a public event with 150+ free performances and artmaking activities for Harvard and Boston-Cambridge community members of all ages. .
 
TODAY: LITfest, a free five-day lineup of workshops, talks, panels and readings with some of the world’s most fascinating literary thinkers, kicks off. Poet Claudia Rankine will present “The Making of Citizen” at 6 PM in Houghton Library, and Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, will present “The Rise of Literary Television” at 8 PM in Sever Hall.
 
2015 ARTS FIRST Festival Highlights
View guide online>
4.30.15
  • Harvard Arts Medal Ceremony at Farkas Hall, 4 PM
    Dance and Arts Leader Damian Woetzel MPA ‘07
    Conversation with Woetzel and Harvard Master of the Arts John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ‘05
    Medal ceremony with President Drew Gilpin Faust
    Free tickets available now  

5.1.15
  • Jazz on the Plaza, 5:30-7 PM
    Harvard Jazz Band
    Don Braden ’85, conducting
    Guest appearances by Vijay Iyer and Ralph Peterson, Jr.

5.2.15
  • Performance Fair Kickoff on the Plaza
  • Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Maestro Federico Cortese conducting, Sasha Scolnik-Brower ’17, soloist, 11 AM
  • Swan Lake: For the Birds!, a send up of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet featuring Harvard Ballet Company, River Charles Ensemble, Hasty Pudding Theatricals and “special soloists” Dean Rakesh Khurana, Dean Tom Dingman, Prof. Diana Eck and Prof. Steven Pinker, 12 PM
  • Welcome from Harvard’s Master of the Arts John Lithgow ’67 and Harvard University Band, 12:30 PM
  • Performance Fair: Ongoing performances and activities at 11 venues throughout Harvard, 1-5 PM  
  • Performance Fair at a glance>

5.3.15
  • Sunday on the Plaza at ARTS FIRST
  • Spring Forward: Stories and Music for a New Season,” featuring The Sloth, Harvard’s “storytelling hour” with (mostly true) tales about spring, and Eurydice Chamber Ensemble performing Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, 1-2:30 PM
  • Screening of Academy Award-winning film Whiplash, written and directed by Damien Chazelle ’08; free popcorn and soda, 9 PM
Also:
Deep Wounds through 5.7.15
Part of the Harvard Civil War Project, Brian Knep’s installation in the transept of Memorial Hall combines technology and history to explore the complexities of the American Civil War.

Two concerts take place in Sanders Theatre during ARTS FIRST: Memory’s Keeping: David Lang’s Battle Hymns, 8 PM, 5.2.15; and A Heartrending Cry: Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 4 PM, 5.3.15.
 
ARTS FIRST by the numbers!
150 performances
101 performing groups
26 art exhibitions
19 dance groups
11 premieres of student artwork
8 theater productions
6 film screenings
5 interactive art stations
4 art-filled days

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