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Fall 2015 Arts Guide in Review

January 5, 2016
Communications Staff

From forward-thinking writers and doers and world-renowned musicians to student actors, dancers, and singers, the speeches and performances that comprised the first half of the 2015-16 Oberlin Arts Guide were ones to remember. Experience the conversations and achievements again by looking through this photo gallery. Not included in this gallery are photographs from the ODC/Dance (formerly Oberlin Dance Collective) Evening Showcase, which took place November 4 in Warner Center.

Arts Guide events resume February 3, 2016, with an Artist Recital Series performance from bass-baritone John Relyea and pianist Warren Jones. Visit the Oberlin Arts Guide 2015-2016 webpage to see all upcoming Arts Guide events.

Photo Gallery

Fall 2015 Arts Guide in Review

A man waving as another walks away
MacArthur Fellow and Founder of the Equal Justice Institute Bryan Stevenson approaches the podium in Finney Chapel. Stevenson kicked off the 2015-16 Convocation series on September 9.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A man performs piano on stage for an audience
Marcos Madrigal, representing the International Piano Academy Lake Como, performs on September 27 in the first concert of the 2015-16 Artist Recital Series. The evening also included performances by Alessandro Deljavan and Ran Jia and celebrated the Conservatory of Music’s new partnership with Lake Como.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A woman speaks from behind a podium
Author Zadie Smith continues the 2015-16 Convocation Series with her talk, Why Write?: Creativity and Refusal if you want to add it in. on September 29.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A man and a woman embrace
Oberlin Theater performs Wedding Band, which tells the story of a secret interracial relationship between an African American woman and her German American suitor set in South Carolina during the first world war and an influenza outbreak.
 Photo credit: Zach Christy
A group performs a dance on stage
Dance Diaspora performs Horace Silver: Song For My Father & Other Matters Pertaining To The Heart October 2 and 3 in Warner Main Space. See more photos on the Source (https://www.oberlin.edu/news/dance-diaspora-performs-fall-show).
 Photo credit: John Seyfried
A woman presenting a speech
Investigative journalist and author Sonia Shah ’90 delivers her talk Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond on October 27 in Finney Chapel.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
One violinist plays while another watches
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff teaches a guest master class in the David H. Stull Recital Hall on October 31. Tetzlaff performed the previous evening in Finney Chapel as part of the Artist Recital Series.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A woman holds a glass of water
Martine Rothblatt thanks the audience for its applause following her convocation on November 5 in Finney Chapel.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A man in roman armor kisses the hand of a woman while two other women look on
Opera Theater performs The Rape of Lucretia, directed by Jonathon Field and conducted by Timothy Weiss, November 11, 13, 14, and 15. The production was augmented by programs designed to help audiences contextualize the opera’s content from a variety of perspectives.
 Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko
A woman performs a trapeze routine
Gabrielle (Teddy) Ment performs New Light in the annual Fall Forward dance showcase on November 13 and 14. See the Dance at Oberlin Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/danceoberlin/timeline) for more photos from this event.
 Photo credit: John Seyfried
A man waving as another walks away
A man performs piano on stage for an audience
A woman speaks from behind a podium
A man and a woman embrace
A group performs a dance on stage
A woman presenting a speech
One violinist plays while another watches
A woman holds a glass of water
A man in roman armor kisses the hand of a woman while two other women look on
A woman performs a trapeze routine

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