Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

04/17/2024

04/11/2024

Sink into the mystical power of Shabbat through conmunal singing. The Brandeis community is warmly invited to join guest artist Yoni Avi Battat '13 for oneg piyutim, a song circle of Middle Eastern Jewish melodies. Yoni will lead singing of melodies for Shabbat texts, some of which you may know, and some you may not!

Friday, April 12, 8:45 pm following Shabbat dinner, Levine-Ross in Upper Sherman (Hassenfeld Conference Center).

Sponsored by Brandeis Hillel and part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.

04/08/2024

How can the arts contribute to a shared understanding of history? On Tuesday, April 9, two artist-led programs in the Festival of the Arts commemorate the Holocaust.

4 pm, Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis Library | Photography and Social Justice: Judy Glickman Lauder.

Philanthropist, humanitarian, and photographer Judy Glickman Lauder has been photographing Holocaust sites throughout Europe since the late 1980s, and her work is held in prestigious institutions around the world. In this talk moderated by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Glickman Lauder will discuss what photography teaches us about social justice and resilience.

7-8:30 p.m., Sherman Function Hall, Hassenfeld Conference Center | Day of Remembrance: part one (part two is Wednesday, 10 am - 5 pm)

This two-day series of events is an opportunity to reclaim the memory of people who died in the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga, Latvia, as well as the history of unmarked graves in the Waltham area. Directed by Karen Frostig, Women’s Studies Research Center scholar and professor of art, Lesley University.

For more information and to register, please visit https://www.brandeis.edu/arts/festival/index.html

Images: Judith Glickman Lauder; Harbor, Gilleleje, Denmark
Karen Frostig, Whereabouts Unknown

04/05/2024

UPDATE: The Sunday, April 7 Folk Fest and Craft Market will take place indoors. We're moving both events to Sherman Function Hall in the Hassenfeld Conference Center, next door to the Shapiro Campus Center. You'll stay warm and dry, and the Chubby Chickpea food truck will be parked right outside! Additional parking across the street in H-lot.

Schedule of events:
https://www.brandeis.edu/arts/festival/schedule/sunday-4-7.html

Interactive map:
https://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/map.html?bldgid=0101-1

Super Sunday is family/community day at the Festival of the Arts. In honor of Leonard Bernstein's legacy as an educator, we offer an extraordinary array of FREE musical performances and art activities throughout the afternoon.

03/29/2024

Experience art that synthesizes visual art, sound, and space on Thursday, April 11, 7:30-9:30 pm, in Slosberg Music Center. Utilizing spaces all throughout the building, student artists in Professor Erin Gee's "Sound and Space" class will present their interdisciplinary pieces in an open house format throughout the building. Made possible by a grant from the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts.

Festival of the Arts: April 6-14, campuswide. Schedule and more information may be found at https://www.brandeis.edu/arts/festival/

03/29/2024

03/23/2024

Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy stellar performances by folk and acoustic ensembles from around New England at the Brandeis Folk Fest on Sunday, April 7, from 11 am-4 pm in Fellows Garden (next to Shapiro Campus Center).

Folk Fest artist Pamela Means says, "I've been compared to Tracy Chapman and Ani DiFranco or a cross between Suzanne Vega and Jimi Hendrix. And heir to the legacy of Nina Simone. But, really, I'm just me."

We think that's true of all our artists: rich in shared legacy, completely authentic.

Adding to the mix is the Create@Brandeis Craft Market, where Brandeis students and staff will be selling their handmade jewelry, clothing, artwork, and more.

More info on the artists at the link below. Part of the Super Sunday festivities at the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, with FREE performances and activities all afternoon.
https://www.brandeis.edu/.../schedule/sunday-4-7.html

03/22/2024

It's Featured Artist Friday, when we introduce the special guests in the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis, April 6-14, 2024.

Philanthropist, humanitarian, and photographer Judy Glickman Lauder has been photographing Holocaust sites throughout Europe since the late 1980s, and her work is held in prestigious institutions around the world. In 1992, Glickman Lauder traveled to Denmark to photograph and document the heroic efforts by the Danish people to rescue the 7,000 Danish Jews in the country during N**i occupation. Her photography exhibition, “Resistance and Rescue: Denmark’s Response to the Holocaust,” was exhibited in more than 90 locations and the photographs were published in her 2018 book “Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception.”

Photography and Social Justice: Judy Glickman Lauder
Tuesday, April 9, 4 p.m.
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Sponsored by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Institutional Advancement

Register at tinyurl.com/BrandeisLauder

03/15/2024

Congratulations to Sam Long GSAS MFA'25, recipient of a grant from Arts Engagement to create new work for the Festival of the Arts!

Sam will give a demonstration and talk on the Buchla synthesizer, an important piece of 20th century music technology. He'll demonstrate how the first composers in Brandeis’ electro-acoustic music studio were among the inventors of live electronic music, thanks to the Buchla.

"Young People’s Synthesizer Concert," Sunday, April 7, Noon-12:30 and 1-1:30 p.m., Slosberg Music Center.

The Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts takes place April 6-14, 2024. Stay tuned to meet more of our artists.