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A night of Italian music and culture at DPAC

Allison Elshoff | Monday, April 3, 2023

Last Friday, the Center for Italian studies hosted its annual Italian Community Concert in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Singers included Notre Dame faculty and students, who came together to perform an array of fantastic Italian music for a sold-out crowd. The Center for Italian Studies, in conjunction with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies

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Chinese department celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival

Caroline Collins | Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The Chinese department and the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, in the LaFortune ballroom Sunday, Sept. 26. The celebration featured student performances, traditional decorations and Chinese food.  The Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is one of China’s biggest and most important

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Notre Dame Folk Choir presents moving rendition of ‘The Passion’

Marcelle Couto | Tuesday, April 12, 2022

On Sunday, audiences gathered at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart to contemplate the Passion of Christ through a unique artistic medium. The story that inspired innumerable dramatizations throughout the centuries was now featured in a contemporary adaptation, conjoining various genres of popular music in a work designed to vivify and elucidate the Passion of

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Notre Dame to host virtual performance as part of 2021 ND Forum

Observer Staff Report | Thursday, October 14, 2021

Notre Dame will host a keynote event Oct. 27 featuring actors reading scenes from Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” in a virtual production as part of the 2021 ND Forum, “Care for our Common Home: Just Transition to a Sustainable Future,” University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in an email Thursday. The virtual production will consist

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University hosts ‘AcaFest’ featuring Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s a cappella groups

Evan McKenna | Friday, May 7, 2021

“AcaFest,” Notre Dame’s premier a cappella event, has seen much turbulence in its short history. In the past, the event took the form of a “battle” between various student musical groups, asking attendees to vote for the winning group via text. In 2019, after a four-year hiatus, the event returned as a collaborative showcase between

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SUB’s AcoustiCafe highlights student performers, adapts to new guidelines

Patrick McMonagle | Thursday, August 27, 2020

As campus enters its second week of virtual instruction and closed public spaces, live music is in scarce supply. [email protected] email digest lists no concerts, and solely instrumental masses underscore the large portions of liturgy usually celebrated through singing. Ending this absence of musical groups, the Student Union Board’s AcoustiCafe will resume their 9:30 p.m.

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Students perform ‘The Great Gatsby’

Alexander Daugherty | Monday, April 15, 2019

The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg survey the audience as they settle in for Anton Juan’s stage adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.” When the show starts, an unsettling short film, depicting fragments of 1920s culture in the United States, projects over Eckleburg’s gaze. The lights slowly rise over a party that most certainly could not

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Young the Giant and Sure Sure concert review

Ryan Israel, Dessi Gomez and Nia Sylva | Monday, February 25, 2019

Friday, indie-rock bands Sure Sure and Young the Giant played at Stepan Center for the Student Union Board’s spring concert. Our Scene writers offer their impressions of some of the concert’s best moments. Sameer Gadhia By Ryan Israel, Scene Writer Sure Sure put on a fitting opening performance, and there’s no arguing that — but

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Break the wheel: Love and shadow in Actors from the London Stage’s ‘King Lear’

Alexander Daugherty | Monday, February 11, 2019

The Actors from the London Stage (AFTLS) are a gift from God to Shakespeare scholars and lay audiences alike. Five actors take on the often-extensive casts of each play they produce. Every year, AFTLS comes to Notre Dame for one week each semester to perform one of the Bard’s well-known works. This time, AFTLS came

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Dante Now! event aims to make Dante’s Italian works accessible to students

Alexandra Muck | Friday, September 29, 2017

Members of the Notre Dame community will read works of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” in Italian during a flash-mob-style event called “Dante Now!” on Friday at 2 p.m. The participants will perform in groups starting at various locations across campus, and they will convene at the Grotto to read a final excerpt together, after which there will be a lecture

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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