Screening of the film and a conversation with filmmaker Nina Paley Boston University’s Program for Scripture and the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Distinguished Teaching Professorship welcome filmaker Nina Paley to Boston University. On April 4 we will present a showing of the groundbreaking animated film Sita Sings the Blues, followed by […]
U.S. Premiere of an exciting new work by Israeli composer Matti Kovler Join Boston University’s Program for Scripture and the Arts, The Jewish Cultural Endowment and the Boston University Humanities Foundation as we present The Escape of Jonah, an oratorio written by Matti Kovler, a Russian-born Israeli composer. This work of music theater retells the […]
Professor Paul Humphreys Join us for a screening of “the song that can be sung is Not the Eternal Song,” a musical setting of nine chapters selected from the Daodejing for women’s chorus and harp. The film draws images from four live cameras that document a 2008 performance in Los Angeles. A film/art installation by […]
Trouble the Water A free screening and discussion with directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, and Brian Nobles, a featured subject of the film. Moderated by Dale P. Andrews, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology in the Boston University School of Theology. From the film’s Web site: “Winner of the Grand […]
Sandow Birk, adapter and illustrator of Dante’s Divine Comedy In 2004-2005 Sandow Birk illustrated and, with Marcus Sanders, adapted Dante’s Divine Comedy, placing Dante’s classic text within the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Tokyo. Working with director Sean Meredith and puppeteer Paul Zaloom, and utilizing the vocal talents of […]
Franz Wright was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Midwest and Northern California. He has published more than 15 collections of poetry and 5 translations of modern and contemporary French and German poets, including Ranier Maria Rilke. In 2003 he received the Voelcker Prize for Poetry and in 2004 he was […]