Arts & Events

Student produced. Student written. Student directed. Student acted. Student run. The Town Crier theatre festival gives Puget Sound students a wonderful opportunity to gain experience in every aspect of theatrical production. Months of careful preparation culminated in the Seventh Annual Town Crier Speaks Festival on Oct. 10-12, divided across three evenings of laughter, tears, thoughtful reflections and glimpses into the vast realm of the theatrical experience. Go was about a failing show told from the perspective of the back-stage crew. A production of King Lear-in-space goes horribly wrong when sound...

By SABINE GLOCKER   At age 14, Leon Ichaso was sent to an airport in Cuba where his father told him, “Look at me well, because you will never see me again. I believe in this revolution and this is where I am staying.” After leaving Cuba and Fidel Castro, he said he had two options: “to become a 14-year-old alcoholic” or to create healthier coping methods. This is what film became to him—a coping method and an escape. In his talk on Oct. 10, he discussed filming a movie...

By SABINE GLOCKER   The Oct. 11 Symphony Orchestra concert entitled “Romantic Smorgasbord” is a perfect example of the term smorgasbord. According to dictionary.com, the word means “an extensive array or variety.” Huw Edwards will conduct the group, who will play four pieces. Opening the evening of musical talent will be Samuel Barber’s “First Essay for Orchestra.” Finished in 1938 by the American composer, the piece “starts off slowly and quietly and then it gradually crescendos into a more dramatic brass heavy section,” Jenna Tatiyatrairong, a sophomore clarinet performance major,...

By OLIVIA PIERCE FREEMAN   The Kittredge Gallery opened two new exhibits by artists Randy Bolton and Holly Senn on Monday of this week. Randy Bolton has worked in many visiting artist positions across the country and currently works as the Head of the Print Media Department and the Artist in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His artistic approach is one intended to lure the viewer in on a second glance. His art is inspired by illustrations from children’s books and science texts, as he recognizes the...

By AUDREY KAUFMAN   Aspiring entrepreneurs, listen up! You could win $100. Tacoma Entrepreneurial Network’s (TEN) annual event, “Innovate! Create!” is a challenging competition for entrepreneurs. While “Innovate! Create!” takes place here on campus at the University of Puget Sound, the event also attracts students from all over Tacoma. Students from any of Tacoma’s institutions of higher education, (including Evergreen State College, University of Washington Tacoma, Pacific Lutheran University  (PLU) and of course, University of Puget Sound) are allowed to participate. At “Innovate! Create!”, students are given a problem to...