Mammoth Moments in Miniature: Jan. 28 to Feb. 3rd
Mammoth Moments in Miniature provides quick updates on campus happenings. This week’s edition includes an event on substance abuse in pop culture, two music department honors theses, and a reading and conversation with an award-winning author and filmmaker.
Drugs in Pop Culture
On Thursday at 7 p.m., Health & Wellbeing Education will sponsor an event at the Keefe Campus Center Theatre to educate students about the differences between false and factual portrayals of substance abuse in pop culture. Free popcorn and movie snacks will be provided, and students can enter a raffle to win a mini projector.
Music Department Student Composition Theses
Two students, Isabella Lozier ’26 and John Joire ’26, will be presenting their individual honors theses in composition. Lozier’s six-movement work, titled “I’m going, all along,” explores religion, disillusionment, family, doubt, and nature through the lens of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. The presentation will be held on Friday at 7 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall.
Joire’s thesis, titled “Swamp City,” is a four-movement work inspired by the wetlands of Joire’s hometown, Washington, D.C. The piece combines orchestration with field recordings taken in collaboration with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The presentation will be held on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall.
Cathy Linh Che: A Reading and Conversation
On Monday, in a collaboration between the Women’s and Gender Center and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, the college will host writer and multidisciplinary artist Cathy Linh Che. Among countless other accomplishments and recognitions, she is the author of the National Book Award finalist “Becoming Ghost,” and her film “We Were the Scenery” won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. She also teaches Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles.
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