Porsha Olayiwola, the Jacob Ziskind Poet in Residence, Boston Poet Laureate and World Poetry Slam Champion, will read from her work. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.

Gather with friends, enjoy light refreshments, and celebrate the opening of the Rose's latest exhibition. Peter Sacks: Resistance presents the artist's newest body of work: a series of intricately layered portraits of individuals who resisted political, racial, or cultural oppression. Paying tribute to these resistors, the show uses the power of art to transmit their legacies to future generations. Also on view will be re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum and Frida Kahlo at the Rose Art Museum.

Performance by Brandeis students in collaboration with Sojourn Theatre. Performances run approximately 20-30 minutes followed by an audience discussion facilitated by Sojourn Theatre artists and Brandeis students.

All performances run approximately 20-30 minutes, followed by an audience discussion facilitated by Sojourn Theatre artists and Brandeis students.

Tickets: Brandeis students may pick up one free ticket per ID at Brandeis Tickets in the Shapiro Campus Center or the Spingold box office. General admission:$20/$15/$5, available through brandeis.edu/tickets. Sponsored by the Department of Theater Arts with support from the Brandeis Sustainability Fund and the Brandeis Arts Council.

American photojournalist, portrait photographer, and author Ellen Warner will discuss her project, “The Second Half,” the basis for her book, The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty, published by Brandeis University Press. Portraits from the book will be on view in Kniznick Gallery through October 29, 2022. An opening reception for the exhibition will follow, with copies of Warner’s book available for purchase and signing. Presented by the Women's Studies Research Center with co-sponsorship by the Brandeis University Press.

The Rose Art Museum presents Encore Presentations, a new series highlighting the museum’s long history of engaging emerging and leading contemporary artists in critical conversations. This Encore Presentation features a discussion between artist Mark Bradford and Anita Hill, University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Best known for his large-scale abstract paintings created out of paper, Mark Bradford (b. 1961) is one of the leading figures in contemporary art today. His work explores social and political constructs that objectify marginalized communities and the bodies of vulnerable populations. This conversation was held and recorded in 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition Mark Bradford: Sea Monsters and as part of the Art | Blackness | Diaspora series.

Bradford's monumental installation Waterfall (2015) is currently on view in re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum.

This Encore Presentation will be hosted online via Zoom. Registration is required.

Image: Anita Hill and Mark Bradford.

Vera Iliatova ’97 creates charged images that often depict women at awkward moments of impending melodrama. She grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia and immigrated to the United States when she was 16. She received a BA and a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art from Brandeis, and an MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale, with further study at the Skowhegan School of Art and a residency at Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. In 2018, Iliatova was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting. Her work has been shown across the US and in Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain and is represented by Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York City.

If attending the talk online, please register in advance. Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts.

Hannah Chalew '09 is an artist, educator, and environmental activist from New Orleans. Her artwork explores what it means to live in a time of global warming with a collective uncertain future, and specifically what that means for those living in Southern Louisiana. By exploring the historical legacies that got us here, her practice helps imagine new possibilities for a livable future. Hannah has a BA from Brandeis and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work is held in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Shona McAndrew '12 (b. 1990) was born in Paris and lives and works in Philadelphia. She is known for paintings and sculptures that depict women in their personal spaces. Drawing from a variety of historical and personal references, the artist renders fleeting yet intimate moments of vulnerability in the daily lives of women seldom portrayed in art history.

She holds an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Psychology and Painting from Brandeis. Recent solo exhibitions include Art Omi, Ghent, NY; The Abroms-Engel Institute of the Visual Arts at UAB, Birmingham, AL; the Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; CHART, New York; and Spring/Break Art Show, New York.

Please register for the talk in advance. Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts.

Registration details to be announced. Please visit the WSRC online for more information.

Elisa Albert '00 will read from her newest novel Human Blues (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster), a "dive into the molten core of feminism, fame, creativity, compliance, art, commerce, idolatry, autonomy, menstrual cycles, and the fertility-industrial complex.” She will be interviewed by author Stephen McCauley, her former Brandeis professor and current co-director of the Creative Writing Program.

Albert's fiction and essays have been published in n+1, Tin House, Bennington Review, The New York Times, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, Philip Roth Studies, Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, The Cut, Time Magazine, Post Road, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Washington Square, The Rumpus, The Believer and in many anthologies.

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Research Center with co-sponsorship by the Creative Writing Program.

Jump start your day with an informal concert by members of the Garifuna Collective of Belize and Honduras, whose new album ABAM experiments with new rhythms, recording concepts, and even some "organic electronic" music and dub techniques. The concert will be followed by a free light buffet lunch. For the full schedule of residency events, visit brandeis.edu/musicunitesus. Sponsored by the Department of Music and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.

MusicUnitesUS Presents The Garifuna Collective: Afro-Indigenous Music from Belize & Honduras

Belize's celebrated Garifuna Collective – a seasoned group of musicians that spans generations, carrying the torch for their unique Afro-Amerindian cultural heritage and weaving soulful melodies with rhythms both indigenous and African – caps off their weeklong MusicUnitesUS residency with a performance that is sure to spark the history and soul of Garifuna culture into vivid life. For the full schedule of events, visit brandeis.edu/musicunitesus. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Tickets $20/$15/$5, and free for Brandeis students with ID, available through brandeis.edu/tickets.

SpeakEasy Stage Company invites the Arts at Brandeis e-list to attend the Boston premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery, directed by Brandeis MFA alumna Marianna Bassham. Complimentary tickets to see this acclaimed drama--a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize--are available for the following performances only:

To reserve your tickets (limit two per person), please click on the date that you would like to attend and fill out the form.

THE STORY: One week after the Charlottesville riots in 2017, four young conservatives gather in a Wyoming backyard to gossip and reminisce. They’ve assembled to honor Gina, their mentor and the newly inaugurated president of a far-right Catholic university. But as their celebration runs deep into the night, the reunion explodes into vicious insults, political accusations, and stunning revelations. Hailed as “a work of singular distinction, for which the word ‘remarkable’ is, if anything, an understatement” by The Wall Street Journal, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING is a daring look at the heart of a country at war with itself.

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