Story by Nicole Towne, SMTD Publicity Intern It’s a Tuesday evening at the University Center for the Arts. Director Walt Jones sits at a table just below a stage filled with birch trees, women dressed in long skirts and corsets, and men outfitted in street clothes and tall black boots. Jones mimics the sound of […]
By Nicole Towne, UCA Publicity Intern This October, two of the biggest names in jazz will turn 100. Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, born 10 days apart, will be remembered with a performance by Colorado State University’s jazz ensembles on Sept. 28. “Dizzy and Monk are two of the fathers of modern jazz,” said Peter […]
In the wake of recent national and local demonstrations of racial intimidation and terrorism, the ACT Human Rights Film Festival along with the departments of Communication Studies, Ethnic Studies and History, and the Black/African American Cultural Center are hosting a free campus-wide event, “Symbols and History of Lynching in America.” Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the program occurs on Wednesday, September 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Lory Student […]
Most would consider the hip-hop and classical genres incompatible, separated by a wide spectrum of musical composition unlikely to collaborate in any constructive way. Kevin Sylvester (stage name Kev Marcus) and Wilner Baptiste (stage name Wil B) of Black Violin are here to disprove that notion with a powerful convergence of the two. As the […]
On Thursday, Sept. 21 at 6:30 p.m., Eric Prince, director, and Wes Kenney, conductor, will give a pre-show discussion as part of a College of Liberal Arts-wide initiative to expand awareness of issues of diversity, inclusion, and free speech. We hope you’ll join us! And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it […]
Dr. Greg Dickinson, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, has been selected to serve as editor for Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, a peer reviewed journal of the National Communication Association, for three volumes that will appear between 2019 and 2021. The journal publishes original scholarship […]
The Parks as Portals to Learning Program uses repeat photography to help Rocky Mountain National Park staff assess resource management.
What’s the first thing you would do if you won $20,000? For Devan Kallas, it was call her dad in the middle of the night while simultaneously waking her roommates with her screams of joy. Devan Kallas, a senior art student concentrating in drawing and graphic design, was awarded first place in the student division […]
