Keyword: VIOLENCE
This September CFA will launch the inaugural year of its Keyword Initiative. We invite students and colleagues from Boston University and the Greater Boston area to participate in a year of creative discussion and action on this year’s theme: VIOLENCE.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every layer of society is touched by violence. It weaves through the individual and into family and culture, threading its way through war and sports, medicine and politics, constantly fueled by a voracious news media, and via this overload finds its way back to the individual again. Violence is one of the world’s most complex problems, and finding solutions requires a holistic, interdisciplinary approach.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
– John F. Kennedy
We invite members of the community to join us by attending or hosting activities related to performances or exhibits that comment on different aspects of violence. This initiative welcomes participation by our own students, and faculty, as well as commission and presentation of works from alumni and other members of the community.
Violence….horrible and heroic, disgusting and exciting, the most condemned and glorified of human acts.
– Randall Collins
BU alumna Nancy Livingston and her husband Fred Levin, have made a generous gift that will help support the yearly development of this initiative. The official event schedule of all Violence related programming will be posted to this website in August. We eagerly invite your diverse perspectives on this issue, and welcome all suggestions and feedback as an integral part of the collaborative process. Please contact us for more information or to get involved.