“Wizard Who Only Knows One Spell, With His Many Enemies”
Arts & Culture
In the CLMA gallery, Prageeta Sharma finds a language for abstraction and loss
Pomona Professor of English Prageeta Sharma joins efforts with the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art in “She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space,” curated by Chloe Martinez, poet-in-residence and Claremont McKenna lecturer in religious studies. Combining poetry and various mediums of art, the exhibition gathers artists from Claremont and the greater Los Angeles area who challenge inherited ideas of ‘women’s work,examining how women’s labor and craft has been devalued as art and work.
Year of the fire horse: Lunar New Year celebration hosted by TASA, Canto Club and Tea Circle
Stepping into the Gold Center, the Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA), Claremont Cantonese Club (Canto Club) and Tea Circle hosted their annual Lunar New Year’s event on Feb. 20.
Open Mic Night brings together student creatives from across the 5Cs
On Tuesday, Feb. 24, students gathered together for Open Mic Night at Dom’s Lounge, an event co-hosted by the Pens & Poetry Club and Pomona Student Union (PSU).
SACSE hosts Ath talk: ‘Who Fuels the Sex Trade?’
On Friday, February 20, the Athenaeum hosted advocate Cristian Eduardo and lawyer Yasmin Vafa for a talk titled “Dismantling Demand: Who Fuels the Sex Trade and at What Cost?”
Claremont Drag Club celebrates queer joy and chosen family in ‘Bad Romance’
While drag faces mounting attacks across the country, Claremont students proved the art form is alive, messy and louder than ever.
Inscriptions: ‘Leave Society’ and scabies
Liam Riley PO ‘26 tells some stories about saunas, smoking meats and retrieving a treasure from a spider-infested RV. He discusses the many uses of books and why he loves Leave Society by Tao Lin.
Anime Film Features: Cracking open a desolate world
In a desolate land with ruined buildings and a gloomy atmosphere, there lies a young girl and her egg. Along the way, she comes across an older boy, who joins her in trekking through these dismal wastelands while wishing to see what is inside the egg that she fiercely protects. In Angel’s Egg, Columnist Joon Kim PO ’26 explores a world like no other, finding himself with far more questions than answers regarding the meanings behind this narrative.
Stories Retold: ‘Wuthering Heights’ reaches new lows
In this article, Ava Chambers PO ’28 reviews the movie adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë remade by Emerald Fennell. She praises the beauty of the scenery but laments some major deviations from the source material.
Notes from Abroad: The Architecture of Reinvention
Ananya PO’27 discusses the balance between fitting in and being herself in this article. Through a series of metaphors about travelling abroad and architecture, Ananya details her ongoing journey to strike this balance.