Joe Blake makes $5 million gift to CSU’s College of Liberal Arts

Originally published on Source by Tony Phifer   Chancellor Emeritus Joe Blake has made a $5 million gift to Colorado State University’s College of Liberal Arts. This gift, the largest in the college’s history, is in recognition of its outstanding, high-quality faculty, students and leadership. It was Blake’s intention that this gift would help cast […]

ACT Human Rights Film Festival celebrates five years of film, community and social justice at CSU

Originally published on Source by Carol Busch On April 3, the ACT Human Rights Film Festival will open at the Lory Student Center Theatre at Colorado State University, celebrating its fifth annual run as Colorado’s only film festival wholly dedicated to the intersection of art and social justice. The nine-day festival, produced by CSU’s Department of Communication Studies, will feature […]

CSU Dance alum Denna Thomsen in the new movie, The Turning

CSU Dance alum, Denna Thomsen (’07) attended the premiere of the new move, The Turning on Tuesday January 21, 2020. Thomsen plays the role of Jessel. In the new horror drama, directed by Floria Sigismondi, a young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl’s problematic brother uncovers secrets […]

‘The Samuel Beckett Experience’ cuts deeper than absurdity

By Scott Powell; Reprinted with permission from the Rocky Mountain Collegian It’s easy to be intimidated by Samuel Beckett. He’s the kind of playwright who, to the general public, has largely devolved into nothing more than a sneering inside joke among elitist members of the theater world — the kind of playwright often name-dropped at […]