Macuxi artist and geographer Jaider Esbell’s “Cattle in the Amazon: Despised Invaders to Prized Possessions?” exhibition is currently on display at Pitzer College. The exhibit mainly features works by Esbell, a visiting professor who is originally from the Amazon region of Brazil. In addition to his works, the exhibit features
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Bridges Auditorium Displays Holocaust Education Exhibit “The Courage to Remember”
The Museum of Tolerance’s “The Courage to Remember” traveling Holocaust exhibit is currently on display at Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium. The exhibit features approximately 200 original photographs and a 40-panel visual narrative of the Holocaust. “The Courage to Remember” was created as a commemorative and educational display in 1988 by
Pitzer Launches Eat Your Sidewalk Project
“How can we imagine food and eating practices within a new ecological framework that goes beyond both nature and culture? What will this mean for questions of ‘food security,’ ‘eating locally,’ the ‘commons,’ and our urban environments?” These are the questions that Spurse, a team of ecological designers, will be
Slow Dancing at Bridges Explores Human Movement in Slow Motion
The Pomona College Museum of Art will project David Michalek’s award-winning video “Slow Dancing” on the façade of Big Bridges Auditorium at Pomona College every evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. from Sept. 27 through Oct. 5. Michalek is a New York-based artist whose work ranges from photography, drawing,
LGBT Activist Zach Wahls Asks “What Makes a Family?”
LGBT activist Zach Wahls gave a talk at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum to an audience of 5C students and faculty as well as Claremont community members this past Wednesday, Sept. 18, entitled “What Makes a Family?” Wahls gained national recognition Jan. 31, 2011, after a YouTube video
Sephardic Singer Comes to the 5Cs
Sarah Aroeste is one of very few artists today who actually writes and sings her own music in Ladino, the 500-year-old Judeo-Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews. Claremont Hillel chose to bring Aroeste to campus because of her connections to the past. “We brought her to campus not only to
Student Acting, Directing Drives Complex Coming-of-Age Story
In the dark space of the Large Studio at Pomona College’s Seaver Theatre, a female, computer-automated voice recited driving directions. The combination of the monotonous, impersonal voice-over and the play’s trigger warning (“How I Learned to Drive is a dark comedy that deals with themes of pedophilia, molestation, and sexual
Student-Run Seersucker Mag Launches Stylish Website
“Have something unique to share? We want to publish it,” reads the bottom of the homepage for the efficiently designed seersuckermag.com. At a first glance, the numerous headlines with their corresponding authors and images make it clear that Seersucker is a group effort inviting everyone to have their voice heard