Seven minutes in heaven
Talk about short film! The latest installment of the Tufts University Art Gallery's "Art @ Lunch" lecture series will feature a filmmaker who truly knows what it means to keep things short and sweet.
Joshua Mosley, an assistant professor of new media art at the University of Pennsylvania, has been recognized with numerous awards for his ability to convey profound philosophical observations in a matter of mere minutes on the screen. His films combine a vast array of media, including stop-motion clay and puppets, rapidly cycled charcoal and ink-wash backgrounds, and original musical scores.
Mosley's latest work, a 7.5-minute, mixed media animation short entitled "A Vue," will be screened in the Aidekman Arts Gallery at 12:15pm on Wednesday. In "A Vue," an unlikely romance between a park ranger and a corporate public relations officer leads to a discussion of the relationship between one's personal life and one's job.
Mosley will be present at the Gallery to discuss "A Vue" and his other work after the screening, and his work will be displayed on the New Media Art Wall throughout April and May.
Are you having a yen for Yenta?
Didn't your bubbe always hope that you'd bring a nice Jewish boy home from college one day?
"Matchmaking in Judaism has always been a big part of the [popular] culture," explains Tufts sophomore and Vice President of Outreach at Hillel Sarah Rapaport. This Wednesday at 10:00 p.m., students can tune in to Channel 23 to watch a broadcast of a special Jewish edition of the notorious TUTV series "Jumbo Love Match."
Rapaport describes the featured episode as part of an overall mission of Outreach to spread the word about Hillel on campus. She defines Outreach's purpose as appealing to the "Jewish community at Tufts and trying to bring people in the through the doors of Hillel that maybe wouldn't have thought to visit otherwise."
But Rapaport notes that she could not have done so without the help of the production and filming crew at TUTV. Rapaport comments that Outreach's collaboration with the helpful TUTV staff was "a nice way to get programming outside of Hillel and integrate with another Tufts group."
"It should be interesting to watch a couple upperclassmen be a little bit silly."
"And who knows," Rapaport adds, "maybe someone will fall in love!"
Global warming taken seriously at Oxfam
Its no joke, the hole in the ozone layer is growing, and three Tufts groups want to make sure that the whole community know about it.
To celebrate the culmination of Tufts' Sustainability Week 2005, the Environmental Consciousness Outreach (ECO), Amnesty International, and Tufts Institute for the Environment (TIE) are co-sponsoring a concert at Oxfam Caf?© on Friday, April 1 at 9 p.m.
Organizers of the event have brought in three bands to provide entertainment: Timelaps, a Tufts acoustic rock band, The Foundation, a hip-hop group from Boston, and Kervin, a New York rock band.
The April Fools' Day event also commemorates Fossil Fool's Day, a nationwide social action drive to demand clean and renewable energy sources.
--compiled by Kelly Rizzetta and Brian Wolly
