“Small Mouth Sounds,” the creative component of Nina Jakobson’s ’24 senior theater thesis, follows six participants on a five-day silent retreat as they struggle to find their true selves, guided by their unseen meditation leader (Leo Kaplan ’26). Jakobson stumbled upon the script last spring when her friend Kieran Gettel-Gilmartin ’25, an actor in the […]
There was an undeniably electric energy in the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism on Wednesday, Feb. 28, during the inaugural meeting of the Wesleyan Review of Books. 18 students from all grades gathered to discuss the magazine, led by Emmett Gardner ’26. Gardner, inspired by the New York Review of Books and the London Review […]
“What Comes Next?”—a staged reading of a play written by Senica Slaton ’26 and produced by the SHADES Theater Collective—was read in Russell House on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. The play follows five Black and Latina girls in mid-1960s Montgomery, Alabama as they live out their teenage years, confront the culture of racism […]
Writer and editor Gabrielle Bruney ’14 visited campus for the Ask Me Anything writer’s series on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The series is co-hosted by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism and the Gordon Career Center, focusing on alumni and their careers as writers, editors, and creators. Bruney has written about television, film, music, […]
As readers of this article may be a part of the last group of people who were on Tumblr during its heyday, I am sure that many of you fellow writers/performers/women will remember this quote that floated across our screens, privately and quietly devastating when we discovered it at the tender age of 13—and still so […]
The musical duo MGMT—the University’s own Andrew VanWyngarden ’05 and Ben Goldwasser ’05—has long been a case study in reinvention. With their first record, Oracular Spectacular (2007), they put out the three hits that have likely been paying their bills ever since. The singles from that album—“Kids,” “Electric Feel,” and “Time to Pretend”—were the kind of […]
Ali Eckstein can be reached at aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.
Ali Eckstein can be reached at aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.
The snowy walk to Crowell Concert Hall, the sparkle of salwar-kameez and kurtis under winter coats, and the echo of Disco Deewane during rehearsal presaged a successful Samsara performance on Saturday, Feb. 17 for many of us South Asians on campus. Samsara is a cultural performance put on annually by Shakti, the South Asian student group. […]
“Archival Methods in the Eclectic Collection(s),” an exhibition curated by Emma Steckline ’24 in partial fulfillment of her history capstone, opened in the Olin Memorial Library on Dec. 8, 2023. The exhibition takes up three glass display cases, otherwise known as vitrines, and is set up opposite the other student-curated gallery in Olin, “Sum of […]