News and Events
 What a Stranger May KnowA play commemorating the lives of the thirty-two victims of Virginia Tech. By Erik Ehn April 16, 2012 7:30 am St. Ignatius Lawn Santa Clara University is one of 24 universities presenting Erik Ehn’s ambitious “What a Stranger May Know” on that day. Erik Ehn, Director of Playwriting at Brown University and internationally recognized artist-activist, has written 32 plays, one for each of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech and these will be performed as readings on the five-year anniversary of that day, April 16, 2012 across the United States. Ehn is endeavouring to "write the unspeakable" and to make reflective, not informational works in which no one is impersonated. He describes the simultaneous readings of these 32 scripts as "people thinking in time...a memorial action." The goal being "to provide a community with imaginative access to mourning." Since the shootings took place in a hall where French, German and Hydrology were taught, there are many references to these three subjects in the monologues about both students and professors who lost their lives that day. This SCU event involves a cast and crew of 76 people, and is set throughout the St. Ignatius lawn between Kenna, St. Joseph's, Walsh Administration and the Law School. It is a collaboration between SCU students, staff, faculty, alumni and colleagues at other institutions. Assistant Directors Dor Cosby Atkinson, Jeffrey Bracco, Kimberly Mohne Hill, Christine Keating, Eric Loo, Courtney Elkin Mohler and Charlotte McIvor are working with Co-Artistic Directors Kristin Kusanovich and Michael Zampelli, S.J. to create this campus-wide communal event.
Marie ClementsThis spellbinding work explores the human cost of ecological exploitation, nuclear warfare, and economic greed as it traces the mining of uranium and radium in North America to the atomic bombing of Japan in WWII. It is about a thirst for power and wealth at any cost; about the torturous journey to move radium and uranium from mine to market; and the exploitation of the Dene people who exposed themselves and then the world to deadly radioactivity. Full of thought‐provoking words and images, this drama won’t be forgotten. JAI Guest Artist Series welcomes Canadian playwright Marie Clements to campus. Spend two nights at Mayer theatre with this award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway and writer of “Burning Visions,” the Winter 2012 mainstage production of the Department of Theatre & Dance.
Winter 2012 Events
Directed by David Duenas and featuring a great line-up of professional jazz musicians and vocalists Saturday, January 14, 2011 7:30PM | Music Recital Hall - Free Admission Experience a powerful evening integrating jazz and justice in an artful night of music and imagery that takes us through the civil rights movement to the present day. This evening is a delightful and moving program of live jazz that suggests the great hopefulness and freedom inherent in the creative act... a true homage to the human spirit. Great jazz... great jamming... and a great way to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.!
Fall 2011 Events
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