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Scenes of Connection: An Exploration of Intimacy Direction

February 1

Creative Writing

Princeton Launch of Dear Yusef

February 5

Film

Themes and Journeys of Artists and Filmmakers in New Jersey

February 6

Fund for Irish Studies

Fund for Irish Studies: Conversation with Ruth McGowan & Derbhle Crotty from the Abbey Theatre

February 7

Creative Writing

C.K. Williams Reading with Sarah Thankam Mathews

February 11

Theater & Music Theater

Safe Harbor, an interactive play by Dominic Dominguez ’25

February 14

Creative Writing

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading by Hanif Abdurraqib & Douglas Stuart

February 18

Fund for Irish Studies

Fund for Irish Studies: Reading by Colm Tóibín

February 21

Visual Arts

2025 Thomas Edison Film Festival Premiere Screening

February 28

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Black and white photo of the clean lined, modern exterior of a racnch-style home in Seaview Community, Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Frontier Spirit: Paul R. Williams in California and Nevada—Photographs by Janna Ireland

From 2016 to 2022, award-winning photographer Janna Ireland captured the built works of Paul Revere Williams (1894–1980), the first Black architect licensed in the western region of the United States and the first Black member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). This exhibition pulls from Ireland’s two photographic projects on Williams’ designs. Located at SOA North Gallery; gallery hours: Weekdays 7 AM-8:30 PM; Saturdays 10 AM-8:30 PM; Sundays 1-8:30 PM. Reception on Feb. 6 at 6 PM. Exhibition access services include captions, guides & pamphlets.

Campus Partners
Free
North Gallery, School of Architecture
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
Musicians So Percussion and Caroline Shaw sit in a casual group photo in a shadowed interior room.

Who Turns Out the Light: Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion featuring Ringdown

On the toes of their Grammy nomination, Sō Percussion (including past Princeton Arts Fellow Jason Treuting) returns to Richardson Auditorium for their winter concert. Music from Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion’s Grammy-nominated album Rectangles and Circumstance, as well as their first album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part. No tickets required.

Music
Free
Richardson Auditorium
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
Green aurora borealis lights in a dark sky form the shape of a heart over a dark mountain landscape silhouette.

Scenes of Connection: An Exploration of Intimacy Direction

Scenes of Connection is an exploration of intimacy across forms: what is love? How does love spring up across and through life, for different people and different souls? A collection of scenes directed by Orion Lopez-Ramirez '26 with intimacy direction by Kat McLaughlin '25. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
Green aurora borealis lights in a dark sky form the shape of a heart over a dark mountain landscape silhouette.

Scenes of Connection: An Exploration of Intimacy Direction

Scenes of Connection is an exploration of intimacy across forms: what is love? How does love spring up across and through life, for different people and different souls? A collection of scenes directed by Orion Lopez-Ramirez '26 with intimacy direction by Kat McLaughlin '25. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
Stage set with a sofa, cardboard boxes, actors in costume, and blue and purple lighting.

Design & Production for Theater Co-curricular Classes

Featured

Explore the technical capacities of the LCA and learn how you can incorporate them into your work. Each session focuses on a different aspect of design and production for live performances: Design Student Q&A on 2/3; Tess James leads Intro to Vectorworks on 3/17. Open to Princeton students. Drop-in; no registration necessary.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Students only
Lewis Arts complex
Sam Gravitte stands playing guitar and singing at a mic onstage with other musicians behind him.

Theater Performance & Audition Co-curricular Classes with Sam Gravitte ’17

The Program in Theater & Music Theater welcomes back alum Sam Gravitte ’17 (Wicked on Broadway) to offer a combination of bespoke coaching and class-format lectures. Classes will include workshops on Acting Through Song, On Camera Audition techniques, and a special day of Wicked original Broadway choreography. Open to Princeton students. Drop-in classes; no registration needed.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Students only, Workshop
Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio, Lewis Arts complex
Tons of small colorful circles scattered in an abstract way.

Seeing the Big Picture: An Experimental Film Series

Featured

Organized by prof. Christopher Harris, a film screening series featuring 16mm analog films by internationally celebrated experimental filmmakers working at the forefront of artists’ films in a variety of idiosyncratic forms, using handmade methods, and unconventional materials. Includes Learning to Be Human, a special program on 4/14 showcasing rare 16mm educational films from the late ‘60s and early ’70s on loan from the Harvard Film Archive. Each screening followed by conversation with filmmakers. No tickets required.

Film
Film Screening, Free
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
Black and white photographs hang on the wall

Fall 2024 Media Arts Show

The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work created by students in the fall courses in graphic design, photography, and filmmaking. Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 AM-8:30 PM; Weekends, 9 AM-8:30 PM.

Visual Arts
Exhibition, Free
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
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