November 9, 2021, ZSR Auditorium The Department for the Study of Religions and The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies come together to present Saba Taj. Described by the HuffPost as “socially conscious queer Muslim woman of color in America,” Saba Taj is a […]
October 20, 2021, DeTamble Auditorium The Wake Forest University Classics Department brings musician and Classics B.A. Joe Goodkin to campus to perform his adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. Joe’s first-person songs capture the horror, grief, and love that permeate the Iliad and the combat experience. Sung […]
October 13, 2021 “Learning From the Old Masters: Copley, Katz and the Science of Painting Conservation” was an open lecture sponsored by the IAC, the Department of Chemistry, and University Art Collections in partnership with Hanes Gallery. Heather Galloway, founder and owner of Galloway Art […]
August 20, 2021 Music Carolina is bringing back another dance and live music event, in partnership with the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Featuring the choreographic work of Christina Soriano, Janice Lancaster and Monet Beatty (’20), audience members moved through three locations for a brief and […]
May 7, 2021 The students of WFU Choir Director and Music Department faculty Dr. Chris Gilliam spent the spring term learning works by all female-identifying composers. Gilliam organized a guest artist workshop and collaborative virtual performance featuring the work of (among others) Alysia Lee, Kennedy Center […]
May 7, 2021 “Say Her Name” is a 4-minute choral work by Alysia Lee. This performance was a collaboration between the Wake Forest Choir and the Winston-Salem State Singing Rams, supported by the WFU Interdisciplinary Arts Center and the Slavery, Race, and Memory Project. Additional support was […]
April 14-18, 2021 “Interstitial 3” was a weeklong rehearsal residency and video installation at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). It was a collaboration between WFU staff member Steve Morrison (Communications Strategist for the Arts), Chris Yon/Taryn Griggs, a group of triad area dancers, […]
March 31, 2021 Guest artist discussion with Gregg Mozgala with students in THE 372 Contemporary Drama Class. Mozgala is an award winning writer, actor, dancer, and activist with Cerebral Palsy who has founded the theatre company, Apothete. He talked with students in THE 372 and followed […]
March 18, 2021 Viewing of a 90-minute dance performance titled “Peony Dreams: On the Other Side of Sleep” for students in EAL 222, “Themes of Chinese Literature,” and HST 352 “Ten Years of Madness, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976,” plus a guest lecture by and conversation […]
March 10, 2021 Tiffany Waddell Tate (‘07, MA ‘11) a former WFU theatre student, and now CEO of Career Maven Consulting as well as Associate Director of National Engagement at Wake Forest University, was a guest lecturer in THE 290 Resilient Practices for the Actor.