Creativity Fair shows students' flair
Tomorrow afternoon, student crafters will take the place of the omnipresent Kaplan hawkers and outside jewelry merchants in the Campus Center. The Tufts Creativity Fair, taking place on the Campus Center patio from noon until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, will showcase the wares of about 10 Tufts students.
The fair "encourages crafters to have a venue to sell their things," said event organizer and junior Mackenzie Rawcliffe.
The idea for the event came to Rawcliffe after she sold truffles for Valentine's Day this year. "I was thinking of selling in the Campus Center," she said, but she would not have been able to turn a profit due to the $50 daily fee for selling wares. Rawcliffe then approached Young Entrepreneurs at Tufts (YET) with the plan to bring many crafters together at once.
"We're hoping this will be something we do every year or every semester," said Rawcliffe. This year's Creativity Fair premiere will feature vendors selling items including handbags, T-shirts, jewelry and a reprise of Rawcliffe's truffles.
GAY-pril showers bring... highly anticipated queer films?
It's not just April this month - it's GAY-pril. In honor of Gay Pride Month, the Tufts LGBT Center, the Queer Women's and Men's Groups, the Tufts Film Series (TFS) and the Safe College Conference are sponsoring the screening of three queer films on campus in a GAY-pril Film Series (GFS) titled, "Finally!: Highly Anticipated Queer Films."
Thanks to rights gained by TFS, audiences were treated two weeks ago to one of the earliest opportunities to see the acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) outside of theaters.
"We wanted that one because it's huge right now," said sophomore Ari Rosenbaum, one of the GFS coordinators. "The other two [films] are good for a nostalgic look back at the history of the gay rights movement."
Rosenbaum was referring to the next two films in the GFS repertoire: 1985's "Desert Hearts" about a professor who finds herself drawn to a self-assured lesbian on a Nevada ranch, and "Making Love" (1982), the story of a married L.A. doctor falling for a swinging novelist named Bart. Both films were among the first to show the development of gay identity in a sympathetic light; today, they offer an intriguing and entertaining look back at LGBT-themed cinema in the pre-"Brokeback" era.
"Desert Hearts" and "Making Love" will both screen in Barnum 008 at 8:00 p.m. with the former being shown this Tuesday, April 11 and the latter on Wednesday, April 26.
- compiled by Kate Drizos and Anjali Nirmalan
