Scripps Live Arts Hosts Local Artist Music Festival

Last Saturday, Scripps Live Arts hosted the music festival, “Sounds from Venus” at Bowling Green, featuring local and uprising artists from Southern California. The event welcomed the talents of local student band I Feel Strange, Lealani, a high school student from Bonita High in La Verne, L.A based artists Arima Ederram and Linafornia, and the

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Sociologist Discusses Ripple Effects of Social Gatherings

On Monday, March 27, writer, sociologist, and ethnographer Alice Goffman, best known for her controversial book “On the Run,” delivered a lecture at Pomona College’s Hahn Hall about her current project, 'Mapping the Fatefulness of Everyday Life.' Goffman opened the lecture with an anecdote about her own personal experience at her

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Musical Activist, Singer-Songwriter Croons at Motley

  On Tuesday, March 21, students and visitors to the Motley Coffeehouse enjoyed a performance by Malynda Hale, an American singer, songwriter, and activist who embeds messages of social justice in her music and is sponsored by vegan make-up company Valana Minerals. Hale performed covers of “I’d rather be” by Clean Bandit, “Latch” by

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Glass Humanities Lecturer Links Art Objects and Oppression

Brown University professor of comparative literature, modern culture, and media Ariella Azoulay delivered the 2017 Stephen and Sandra Glass Humanities annual lecture in Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College on Feb. 21. The Glass Humanities program, established in 2005 through the generosity of Nancy and David Bushnell, brings a leading figure in the

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U.S. Diplomat Discusses Post-War Afghanistan

Karl Eikenberry, Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow and Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative at Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center, gave a lecture on the impact of the War in Afghanistan on Monday, Feb. 13 at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. “The Athenaeum collaborates with students, faculty, and our research

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Gregory Sholette Connects Art to Activism in Pepper Lecture

The Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College hosted its annual Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 8. This year, the auditorium welcomed artist, writer, and activist Gregory Sholette, who discussed the importance of art in the contemporary world, focusing on the subjects

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Claremont Market Shares Delivers Sustainability, Ethics Right To Your Door

Claremont Market Shares celebrated its first market day of the semester this past Thursday, Feb. 2. The group is a student-run food distribution program that works with sustainable, ethical farms in nearby areas to offer affordable boxes of produce to Claremont students, staff, faculty, and the community every week. The farms

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SCAMFest Brings Community Together in Song

On Saturday, Nov. 13, Pomona’s Bridges Auditorium opened its doors to a cappella groups from all around Southern California in the 21st annual Southern California Acappella Music Festival (SCAMFest). Hosted by The Claremont Shades, the event welcomed groups from all the 5Cs, as well as other California schools such as University of Southern California; University

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