Visiting Artists

Musical theater acts of kindness and vigilance

Huang Musical theater composer Timothy Huang started writing because he wanted to change the “nature of representation” for Asians and Asian Americans. He's at Harvard this week working with the Asian Student Arts Project and the original musical The East Side.

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Sara Porkalob: Unstoppable

Sara Porkalob The playwright and performer of Dragon Lady and Dragon Mama says she couldn't find narratives like hers in the playwriting canon. So she wrote her own.

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A life of its own

Detail The Harvard Advocate launches the Women’s Issue with a series of free events featuring students and professionals including graphic memoirist Amy Kurzweil and fiction writer Samantha Hunt.

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Deeply fascinated

Jo Yang during a rehearsal of Endlings Photo by Jonathan Carr Director Sammi Cannold HGSE '16 talks about the pool that is 40-feet deep and the women's story at the center of the new play Endlings at American Repertory Theater.

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Writers gotta write

Min Jin Lee by Tony Rinaldo If you want to write something, "reality can't stop you," says Radcliffe Fellow and bestselling author Min Jin Lee. She is the guest artist at an Office for the Arts lunch for students on Nov. 28.

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Kiran Gandhi HBS ’15 on making art

Photo by Wendy Figueroa Kiran Gandhi HBS ’15 is a drummer, activist and entrepreneur who has played with M.I.A., Kehlani, Thievery Corporation and others. She visited Harvard to share her story and her experiences in the music industry.

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Everyone loves tap dancing

Ayodele Casel Tap dancer Ayodele Lee wanted to be Ginger Rogers in high school. Then she became obsessed with the art form in college. Now she's one of its leading practitioners.

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Min Kahng: From manga to musical (to Harvard)

Four Immigrants manga image Composer and writer Min Kahng talks about developing a musical based on a Japanese comic and immigration themes. On Oct. 10, he will also offer a free vocal workshop for singers at Farkas Hall and a free lecture at Houghton Library.

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David Crosby: Here to make you boogie

Croz Courtesy davidcrosby.com The legendary folk-rock musician David Crosby will visit Harvard for a public forum conversation with students and a music professor. The conversation starts here with our blogger.

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Showing up for Drag Night

Lily Velona ’18 talks about embodying art, finding community and seeing Yara Sofia at Queen’s Head Drag Night during Visitas.

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Harvard Arts Blog Editorial Team

Gareth Anderson ’19

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Gareth Anderson ’19 comes from Canada and is a history and literature concentrator. He’s an avid musician (playing, composing, arranging...

Isa Flores-Jones ’19

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Isa Flores-Jones ’19 is a sometime citizen of Sacramento, California. She lives in the Dudley Co-op and writes for the features board of the Harvard Advocate. She studies History and Literature, with a focus on the intersection of American environmental and labor history.... Read more about Isa Flores-Jones ’19

Samantha Neville ’19

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Samantha Neville ’19 is from Tucson, Arizona and is a resident of Dunster House concentrating in English with a secondary in French.... Read more about Samantha Neville ’19

Sasha Barish ’20

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Sasha Barish ’20 is a writer and musician from Berkeley, California concentrating in Classics and Linguistics.... Read more about Sasha Barish ’20

Truelian Lee '21

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Truelian Lee ’21 is from New York and grew up in Connecticut. She is a member of The Harvard Crimson and CrimsonEMS....

Alicia Anstead

Associate Director for Programming;
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Alicia Anstead NF '08 is associate director for programming at the Office for the Arts and editor-in-chief/co-founder of the Harvard Arts...

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Visiting Artists

Musical theater acts of kindness and vigilance

Sara Porkalob: Unstoppable

A life of its own

Deeply fascinated

Writers gotta write

Kiran Gandhi HBS ’15 on making art

Everyone loves tap dancing

Min Kahng: From manga to musical (to Harvard)

David Crosby: Here to make you boogie

Showing up for Drag Night

Harvard Arts Blog Editorial Team

Gareth Anderson ’19

Isa Flores-Jones ’19

Samantha Neville ’19

Sasha Barish ’20

Truelian Lee '21

Alicia Anstead

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