 | Wed., Sept. 25 at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Nina Olff, poet Originally from NYC, Nina is a creative artist, an educator and a researcher. She has worked at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero, and as a classroom teacher and in other positions in the public school system and in higher education. Nina is a published author and poet, a visual artist and a musician. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including The Women’s Review of Books and The Teaching Artists’ Journal. In her spare time she is working on scripts and learning to sing. Her current day job at MIT is as an administrative assistant. |
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Wed., Nov. 20 at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Poetry reading: Michele Harris Michele Harris will read from a manuscript in progress. Michele Lynn Harris received her B.A. in English from Allegheny College and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UMass Boston, where she volunteer teaches Literature for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She was awarded the Paul G. Zolbrod prize and the David A. Kennedy prize in poetry. Her poems have appeared inprint from California’s Falling Star Magazine to a glass-bottle publication from Dirtflask in the U.K. She has also been published in Anderbo, The Prose-Poem Project, Eclectica, Escarp, Stirring, Uncanny Valley, Anatomy & Etymology, The Columbia College Literary Review, The Susquehanna Review, and others, and has a poem forthcoming in CICADA. Her manuscript Blackdamp explores the cultural, historical, and emotional geography of rural Western Pennsylvania–a landscape once lit orange by the blast furnaces of steel mills, pockmarked by industry, and now amnesically pastoral. She hopes to resuscitate the memory of this place where woods have grown over whole towns, where a flood struck so deadly it caused fires, and where flowers grow Bunsen-blue among jagger bushes. |
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Wed., Dec 4 at 12 noon • MIT Chapel (W15) CONCERT : Meridian Singers Web site: http://web.mit.edu/meridians/
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Wed., Dec 11 at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Details as they come in…….watch this space! |
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Wed., Dec 18 at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Kerry Kelley, singer/ songwriter Smooth, catchy and vocally driven… |
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Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM • Kresge Auditorium 2014 MIT Excellence Awards : |
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Wednesday, March 19, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Howard Martin Howard Martin is a multi-instrumentalist and improviser focused on the intersection of and tension between conventional and extended technique. When he doesn’t play for a while, he misses it in his lungs and fingertips. Howard will explore the resonances of the Killian Hall space in a long format solo tenor saxophone performance. |
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Wednesday, March 26, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Michael Yarsky is a Boston-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He currently works as the administrative assistant for the Biosafety Program of MIT’s Environment, Health, and Safety office. In addition to being a bassist for numerous pit orchestras and jazz ensembles at Tufts University, he has performed his solo work in Boston, New York City, and Pittsburgh. In 2012 he self-released his first album, Hi Heaviness, an indie-folk record infused with flamenco and finger-picking techniques reminiscent of Leonard Cohen and Lindsey Buckingham. In 2013, he began studying classical guitar under Berklee professor David Newsam. In preparing for his second album, he aims to acquire more proficiency in classical techniques and incorporate those techniques into his work. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Michael holds a BA in Economics from Tufts University. Visit his website at www.yarsky.info to stream or download his record for free. Saunder Choi is a Filipino composer, and one of the more accomplished choral writers from his country for his age. His works have been performed in many different international festivals and concerts, including the Philippine Madrigal Singers’ UNESCO Artists for Peace 2009 awarding ceremony in France, the 2010 Guido d’Arezzo Polifonico Choral Competition in Italy, the 2011 World Choral Symposium in Argentina, the 2012 World Choir Games in Cincinnati, OH, the 2013 Oregon Bach Festival, ACDA National/Regional Symposium, etc. He was a 2012 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award finalist and received the 2013 Leroy Southers Award from the Berklee College of Music Composition Department. His piece was recently selected for the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s 1st Young Composer Initiative orchestra readings. As a vocalist, he has sung as a soloist at Boston’s Symphony Hall with the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra and sings professionally with the First Church Boston Choir. Born in Manila, Philippines, Choi holds a BA in Communication Arts from the De La Salle University-Manila and recently graduated with a BM in Composition with a minor in Conducting, summa cuma laude, from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. His teachers include Andrew List, Vuk Kulenovic and Marti Epstein. |
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Fri, March 28, 8pm • Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Join flamenco guitar virtuoso Juanito Pascual as he celebrates the Map and directions – Free Parking next door at Broadway Garage -the 50-second video trailer for the show, -the “While My Guitar Gently Weeps Video” -Harvard ticket website. |
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Wednesday, April 2, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Molly Ruggles Molly Ruggles is a singer, songwriter & pianist. She directed bands at Opryland in Nashville and has played in Boston area jazz & folk clubs. At MIT she works for ODL/OEIT as an educational technology consultant, helping to bring innovations into the classroom as well as facilitating the xTalks speaker series. She also teaches a freshman songwriting course. Website: http://mollyruggles.com |
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Wednesday, April 16, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Kerry Kelley A singer, a guitar and ukelele player and a songwriter, Kerry plays in a trio that includes Mike Tworoger on bass and Addison Maupin on drums. Both Kerry and Mike work in Drosophila research labs in the Biology Deparment here at MIT. The band is called The Outliers and play the local club scene around Cambridge and Boston. Musical influences include artists such as k.d. lange, Alison Moyet, St. Vincent and Aimee Mann as well as bands like Radiohead, Pink Floyd and The Pretenders. Please visit her website and join The Outliers mailing list to keep up to date on everything and to get free downloads of music http://www.kerrykelleymusic.com. |
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Thursday, April 24, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) John Maloney and Second Wind Second Wind presents “Spring in the Workshop of Andrea Gabrieli: Music of Andrea Gabrieli and his students”. The program will include music by Andrea Gabrieli, his nephew Giovanni, Sweelinck, and others, with special emphasis on Hans Leo Hassler. Second Wind performs music on period wind instruments including sackbut (ancestor of the trombone), dulcian (ancestor of the bassoon), and cornetto (an unusual brass/woodwind hybrid with no modern equivalent). Performers: Susan Galereave, Eric Kernfeld, Rigel Lustwerk, and John Maloney |
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Wednesday, April 30, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Esmeralda Barreiro, stand-up comedian Esmeralda Barreiro, will present a brand of delightfully crude, but family-friendly, comedy. She draws from only her own real personal experiences. She has performed all over the state of New York. Also, she is awesome you should really come to this event. |
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Wednesday, May 14, at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111) Danielle Bajumpaa reads poetry Danielle Fontaine (Bajumpaa) has recently received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poems have earned honorable mentions in Writer’s Digest and The Academy of American Poets contests and, as a finalist, her poem “Bottle” appears in the Modern Grimmoire Anthology. Her work can also be found on NPR’s “Here and Now” website as well as in Prick of the Spindle, Front Range, Juked Poetry and others. |
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Wednesday, May 21, Noon-1 pm The Meridian Singer’s present Web site: http://web.mit.edu/meridians/ |
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