MAY 21, 2013 // ASIAN AMERICAN COMEDY, Free Your Mind, Nice Girls Crew
A perfect synopsis of the Nice Girls Crew visit to Stanford yesterday by Lynn herself! http://theactorsdiet.com/2013/05/21/free-your-mind-and-the-rest-will-fol...
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MAY 15, 2013 // Activism, Art of protest, Ebony Childs, screen printing
"The Art of Protest" exhibit features 26 original silk screen poster prints from campus social movements from the 60s and 70s. The exhibit premiered at the Harmony House (561 Lomita Drive) on Friday, May 3rd and will be open to the public Monday to Friday 9:30am – 5pm until May 28th. Read more from one of the organizers of the exhibit, Ebony Childs, and her inspiration for planning this incredible project.
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MAY 9, 2013 // Free Your Mind, Improvising, post-multicultural art
As part of the Arts Immersion program of the Stanford Arts Institute, Clara Luu was able to attend the NYC 1993 Exhibit at the New Museum during Spring break. The FREE YOUR MIND: Improvising Post-Multicultural Art panel on Monday, May 6 gave her the opportunity to learn more about the context through which the exhibit was made. Read more about her continued journey through her birth year.
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APR 23, 2013 // Free Your Mind, Improvising, Jazz, Paul Berliner
Paul Franklin Berliner is an American ethnomusicologist, specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems. He is best known for his popular ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira, The Soul of Mbira, for which he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Berliner recently visited Stanford as guest lecturer in the FREE YOUR MIND: Improvising Jazz and African Freedom class. Read more on how he inspired Kareem Alston, an IDA Fellow, to continue pursuing his dream.
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APR 14, 2013 // ID21, Improvising, Vijay Iyer
On April 8, Grammy-nominated composer-pianist, Vijay Iyer, sat down with Jeff Chang, Executive Director of IDA, to discuss how Iyer explores improvisation within his music. Music has always been something that we did, he claims, and as such all music is inseparable from body. Isaac Ghansah, Class of 2013 and an avid jazz listener, reflects on the conversation between Iyer and Chang. He writes,"Improvisation just feels more natural...If I can equate music to language for a moment, once you know some words and how to put them together, talking is just talking." Read more about Iyer's and Ghansah's impressions on improvisation.
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