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Wellspring: Humanities and Arts During Covid-19, Issue Three
Posted by Andrew Cohen
“A people also perish when they fail to keep alive the values that make them human, the wellsprings of their sanity.” —Ben Okri
This week, “Wellspring: Humanities andArts During Covid-19,” showcases more original prose and poetry by our immensely talented СèýFaculty, a student video on jazz music, and inspiring links to fantastic creative possibilities offered by museums and arts organizations around the globe.
Сèý’s Humanities and Arts Highlights:
- this fascinating essaywritten for a Film Studies course at PSU that he took as part of his sabbatical in 2017, Sylvania English Faculty, Patrick Walters,discusses the work ofBéla Balázs, whoseTheory of the Film(1930), “examines the close-up’s productive, illuminating uses in cinema.
- shared by the Sylvania Multicultural Center, international student, Grace Liang,discusses the history of jazz music and demonstrates various techniques as she plays the classic tune,“Fly Me to the Moon,” made famous by Frank Sinatra.
- This week,Two Deep Breaths,the bi-weekly poetry postingcurated byСèý Writer-in-Residence and Cascade English Faculty, Justin Rigamonti,features a poem by Cascade English Faculty, Melody Wilson, titled recently published in the online collection, “The Decameron: Stories From the Pandemic.”Two DeepBreathsaims to“tocelebrate spring, to lift your spirits, to help you catch your breath.”
- In case you missed it, here’s a recent articlefrom Сèý News aboutthe inspiring efforts by Rock Creek Music Faculty, Samuel Barber, to bring students together for“learning, performing, and community building”through video conferencing.
Looking beyond Сèý:
- If you are starting to feel stir-crazy as a result of sheltering-in-place,take a look at thisof Russian ballet dancersfrom The Mikhailovsky Theaterpracticing their moves athome with kitchen items.
- For the artists out there, The Getty Museum in Los Angeles recently started theirchallenge where quarantined folk around the world recreate Getty artwork(some of it quite well known) with household items.The Getty was inspired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which launched an Instagram platform called
- If you always wanted to build a monument,check out thetocelebrate International Archeological Day and“try your hand at replicating some of the most iconic archaeological sites of all time.”
- Even as the pandemic spreads,were announced this week. Winners include Colson Whitehead (Fiction), W. Caleb McDaniel (History), Michael R. Jackson (Drama), Jericho Brown (Poetry), and Anthony Davis (Music).
- Last but not least,The National Theater in London has been airing work from their archives on its Youtube Channel, and this week you can watch an incredible performance of,starring Benedict Cumberbatch.The play is available to watch until May 7th.