Creative Arts
The Nicholson Center is pleased to support events in the Creative Arts, by sponsoring and co-sponsoring lectures and workshops by writers, musicians, and artists involved in creative work either in Britain or with relevance to British Studies.
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Dunedin Consort – In Concert, 11/15, 7:30pm
Dunedin Consort Friday, November 15 // 7:30PM Mandel Hall (Reynolds Club) “The Dunedins approach the score with a scholarly angle…but it’s the heart rather than the head that informs their music making.” – BBC Music Magazine Bearing the ancient Celtic...
Doc Films: Black Britain Mini Series
In collaboration with The Nicholson Center for British Studies Doc Films presents Black Britain 5/05 - 5/19 Presented in collaboration with the Nicholson Center for British Studies, this mini-series will showcase four essential films centering Black life in...
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema, 3CT, 11/16-11/18
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema Thursday, November 16–Saturday, November 18, 2023 Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 201 and Cobb Hall 307 On Mrinal Sen’s birth centenary, we celebrate his legacy on radical artistic practice....
The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts: Winter Quarter Screening Series & Symposium — March 3-4, 2023
The Nicholson Center for British studies was proud to be a co-sponsor of the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts. In 1976, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists and activists organized the first ever Black women’s film festival: the Sojourner Truth...
Bhanu Kapil: How to Wash a Heart
In 2021, Nicholson collaborated with the Hong Kong Literary Festival and the University of Chicago Contemporary Migrations Working Group in hosting an online reading by and discussion with the prize-winning British Asian poet, Bhanu Kapil. Kapil’s latest work, How to...