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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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