Fresh off of a successful run at New York Live Arts in Dec, The Catskill Mountain Foundation presented Zvidance's MAIM (Hebrew for Water) at the Orpheum Theater in Tannersville, NY on Jan 19, 2020. The piece centers around water and our relationship to it as climate change and global relocations alter our access to and use of water. Choerographer Zvi Gotheiner was born on a kibbutz in Israel and learned early on the social and political issues surrounding clean water. Projection design by Joshua Higgason, lighting by Mark London, and compositions by Scott Killian. More information

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

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Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT. 

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”