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PLAYED: How Music Orchestrates Thick Violence Against Black Girls on the Internet

Photo Credit: ©2021 Jamey Stillings, jameystillings.com Did you know that YouTube kickstarted its video-sharing platform in 2005 by exploiting the interest-driven activities of girls and doxxing the controversial Nipplegate video? Dr. Kyra Gaunt (University at Albany, SUNY) reveals the obscured musical contributions of Black girls who twerk while also exposing how music perpetuates patriarchal violence. […]

New Play Festival

The biennial New Play Festival features three full-length plays written, directed, performed, and designed by Clark undergraduates.

Playfest Show 1: The Road Trip

The Road Trip follows family members Dale, Carol, Logan, and Evelyn down the highway towards their grandparent’s house. A rather boring drive turns into a tense time bomb as time no longer follows a linear path. Relationships are tested, and their love for one another turns into hatred. The world begins to crumble at the seams.

Gallery Talk – Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement

Join the Higgins School of Humanities on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 10am for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of a video exhibition titled, "Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement," in the Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons on the Clark University campus.

Gallery Talk – Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement

Still from "Jump" (2016), courtesy of Stephen DiRado Join us for a gallery talk celebrating the opening of Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement, a video exhibition curated by Matt Malsky, Director of the Higgins School of Humanities. Special guests will include exhibition contributors and Clark University faculty members  Philip Bergmann, Stephen DiRado, […]

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Playfest Show 1: The Road Trip

The Road Trip follows family members Dale, Carol, Logan, and Evelyn down the highway towards their grandparent’s house. A rather boring drive turns into a tense time bomb as time no longer follows a linear path. Relationships are tested, and their love for one another turns into hatred. The world begins to crumble at the seams.

Playfest Show 1: The Road Trip

The Road Trip follows family members Dale, Carol, Logan, and Evelyn down the highway towards their grandparent’s house. A rather boring drive turns into a tense time bomb as time no longer follows a linear path. Relationships are tested, and their love for one another turns into hatred. The world begins to crumble at the seams.

Concert: Modern Mélodies

Baritone Cailin Marcel Manson and pianist Yelena Beriyeva are joined by other Clark performance faculty and a chamber ensemble in an exploration of music and surrealist poetry through the music of Hans Kraša and Francis Poulenc, including the secular solo cantata Le bal masqué.

Playfest Show 2: Palatine

A family holiday dinner set on a palatial space station. There are secrets, drama, and of course: murder.

Clark University Geller Jazz Series 2024

Join us for a musical journey with the legendary Randy Brecker, a virtuoso trumpeter and flugelhornist and a founding member of the groundbreaking ensemble Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Playfest Show 3: Dreamballs

The guest of a cooking show demonstrates how to create a recipe that came to him in a dream by trying to recreate the dream from memory. Factors in his unpleasant life make themselves readily apparent as the dream progresses.