Arts & Events

By Courtney Seyl Every two years, Collins Memorial Library holds the Book Collecting Contest, a nationwide event that many private and public universities partake in. The Book Club of Washington provides the funds for two prizes: a $500 prize for a single collector and a $250 prize for best essay. Collins also provides a $200 award for the Collins Choice Award. The person who wins the $500 grand prize will also have the opportunity to go to Nationals. “The aim of this competition is to encourage full-time students at Puget...

By Anya Otterson Anyone and everyone who has ever scrolled through Pinterest and daydreamed about making the innovative projects that the site boasts will be excited about a new event taking place in Washington. If you’re looking for something awesome to do this weekend, look no further than the first-ever Pinspiration Market, which will be held in Puyallup from Feb. 10-11. This massive exposition of handmade and up-cycled goods brings Pinterest to reality and breathes life into the online site with its fresh take on the experience of going to...

By Anya Otterson   Adding on to the  big year Kittredge Art Gallery has already had is What Happened Here: Puget Sound Alumni Show. This is yet another event during Kittredge’s 75th anniversary. The exhibition displays the art of past University of Puget Sound studio artists who were particularly outstanding students. All sorts of different media are displayed, from pottery to sculpture to painting. A sculpture made of LED lights and a waterfall of brightly-colored petals that cascade onto the floor are just two of the many eye-catching works. One...

By Parker Barry Last Tuesday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. a small group read and analyzed James Joyce’s most challenging text: Finnegans Wake. These readings, lead by professor Bill Kupinse, take place every Tuesday in Wyatt 206 — although last week a small group moved into professor Kupinse’s office. The readings are open to all students, faculty, and locals looking for an interesting discussion about literature. Last week, the group consisted of two professors, two students, my father, and me. Though the group may have been small, we tackled an...

By: Georgia Diamond Gustavson As the University of Puget Sound’s theatre productions begin to draw near, Michelle Bank, junior and director of the Town Crier production “Happy B-Earth Day,” has been working hard to find Al Gore.   “He’s like the missing man of 2016, he really is,” Bank said. The play, written by Allie Lawrence, is one of six ten-minute pieces that will be performed in this year’s 15th annual Town Crier Festival. She is hesitant to reveal too much about the play, or to pinpoint its exact style, but...

By Daniel Wolfert It was as she gathered her notes and clippings for her Feb. 9 lecture at the University of Puget Sound that Susan Stryker – transgender woman, Ph.D. and associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona – received an unexpected email from Michael Howerton, editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Examiner. Howerton’s email was a request for Stryker’s input on the question of gender neutral pronouns, an issue facing many newspapers and other public interest publications today. Torn between the use of the colloquial...

By Georgia Gustavson Back in Russia in 2012, Vladimir Putin was on every T.V. channel, flooding the media with his promising messages as the inevitability of his fixed “election” to the Russian presidency drew near.  One act that cut through all the noise and reverberated around the world, however, was a “punk prayer” shouted in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, pleading to make Putin go away.  Donned in neon dresses and fluffy face masks, members of Pussy Riot traded their freedom for a singular moment of protest in recent...

It was another rainy, blustery night in Seattle, Washington. The wind was blowing especially hard, and what better place to find refuge than in an explosive, inclusive art show that could morph into a dance party? Held by Lion’s Main Art Collective, last November’s “Erasure” event was a huge and unique success. That night the Nuclear Exchange Studio and VCR gallery was turned into a vibrant space full of interdisciplinary art. There were both two and three dimensional visual pieces, performance art, video, music and dance. The variety of mediums...