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Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

"More than anything, what I think this play truly understands about our lives in this age of the internet is just how intimate and intertwined the comical and the tragic is — the quotidian and the catastrophic."

“Love and Information” finds harmony in shocks and glitches

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor November 7, 2024

If you want to know how theater can respond to our current cultural moment of Brat summers and endless doom-scrolling, you need not go any further than Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center, where Caryl...

Margaret Bender, the chair of the Anthropology Department and a Linguistics faculty member,
introduces Jeffrey Bourns and his talk “The Deverbal Origins of Cherokee Adjectives.”

Linguist Jeffrey Bourn’s talk aids the preservation effort of the endangered Cherokee language

Emma Leonard, Contributing Writer October 25, 2024

The Cherokee language, native to western North Carolina, is in danger of having no first-language speakers — with approximately 2,000 first-language speakers existing today. A variety of factors contribute...

"Nakayasu began her writer’s workshop in Benson Center by outlining her own philosophy and approach to translating, describing herself (somewhat jokingly) as an emancipated-ultra-idio-translator."

Sawako Nakayasu reveals the practice behind the poetry

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor October 21, 2024

Sawako Nakayasu is a poet and translator who has garnered international acclaim for her impressive command of English, Japanese and French and her distinct approach to translation. When she came to Wake...

Wake Forest's Anthony Aston Players kick off the 2024-2025 theater season with "The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940."

Wake Forest Theatre department stabs into the Fall season

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor September 23, 2024

The Wake Forest Theatre Department opens its Fall catalog with Cindy Genrich’s interpretation of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” a potent mix of satirical silliness and Nancy-Drew-esque mystery.  The...

Several art, music and theater events can be expected on campus this semester.

Arts & Culture preview: Fall 2024

Adam Coil and Lydia Derris September 19, 2024

There is a lot to look forward to in the Arts & Culture scene this Fall semester at Wake Forest, and as your A&C editors, we want to give you a sneak peek into some of the biggest events that you...

Group Q&A session after the reveal.

2024 Reese Collection reveal

Sheryl Zhang, Contributing Writer September 15, 2024

A panel of eight Wake Forest students brought home eight contemporary artwork as additions to the Reese Collection, from a trip to New York over the last spring break. The art pieces represented a variety...

"More than anything else, one thing about the Lilting Banshees that always stands out is their enthusiasm for their craft and their strong bond with one another."

Welcome to Wake

Prarthna Batra and Carolyn Malman September 8, 2024

On Aug. 28, we attended one of the Lilting Banshees' sold-out performances at the Scales Fine Arts Center. The Banshees never fail to raise hype around their performances and continually deliver in their...

"The Lilting Banshees, delivered their last performance of the year: “Pants Down.”"

“Pants Down”: The Banshees Deliver Again in Their Last Performance of the Year

Carolyn Malman, Staff Writer April 23, 2024

On April 3, Wake Forest’s most infamous comedy troupe,  The Lilting Banshees, delivered their last performance of the year: “Pants Down.” I attended the 8 p.m. performance, which was one of two...

John and Fanny Dashwood, played by Bennett Haara and BG Cave, hold hands in the intimate setting of the Ring Theater as they share a tender moment at the crux of the performance.

‘Sense and Sensibility’: WFU Theater ‘Combines humor with sentimentality’

Carolyn Malman, Staff Writer March 7, 2024

From Feb. 16 to Feb. 18 and Feb. 22 through Feb. 25, the Wake Forest Theatre Department presented “Sense and Sensibility,” a play by Kate Hamill adapted from Jane Austen’s novel. On Feb. 22, I attended...

The “Words, Music, Memory: (Re)presenting Voices of the Holocaust” exhibition was created to translate the words of Holocaust victims into living works of art. (Courtesy of the Timothy S. Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology)

LAM Museum displays ‘Words, Music, Memory: (Re)presenting Voices of the Holocaust’ Exhibition

Skyler Villamar-Jones, Staff Writer March 1, 2024

Commemoration of significant events requires the preservation and interpretation of stories across generations. For the voices of Holocaust victims, it requires the talent of artists to reimagine their...

"Steele frequently employed metaphors and imagery of trapped birds in cages to describe his visual artistry work of the inmates." (Courtesy of Grant Baldwin)

Lorenzo Steele Jr. offers a sobering look into the American prison system

Prarthna Batra, Senior Writer February 9, 2024

Last week, the students of Wake Forest University, in collaboration with Wake Forest Law, had the great privilege of engaging with the art of Lorenzo Steele Jr. — a former New York City Corrections officer,...

Catanzano records her first draft of “World Lines” at Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in 2018 and meets over Zoom. (Courtesy of Amy Catanzano)

‘Quantum Poetics’ marries quantum physics and poetry

Adam Coil, Senior Writer February 7, 2024

Amy Catanzano is an associate professor of English in creative writing and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest. On Wednesday, Jan. 31, she streamed her talk titled “Quantum Poetics: On Physics and Poetry,”...

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