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Joshua Sobol. Courtesy photo One of Israel’s foremost playwrights and intellectuals will visit Emerson College on Thursday, March 30, to talk about how the arts can be used to fight … Continue Reading How Can the Arts Help Fight Oppression?
The Bill Bordy Media and Conference Center at Emerson College Los Angeles was packed on March 23 as 15 students and alumni pitched their ideas for screenplays, television pilots, and … Continue Reading Comedies Rule Third Annual PitchFest
Achoired Taste is one of four Emerson College a cappella groups, and one of seven groups total, that will perform in Acappalooza this Saturday, April 1. Courtesy photo. This year, … Continue Reading Acappalooza to Be Held on Saturday: More Groups, More Heart This Year
Poet, playwright, and activist Claudia Rankine spoke to a packed Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre Friday about the need to confront whiteness in America, why “internalized dominance” is a better term than … Continue Reading Renowned Writer Claudia Rankine ‘On Whiteness’ and How to Move Forward
Newly appointed Supreme Judicial Court Justice Elspeth Cypher ‘80, talked to Emerson students about her time at the College, the challenges of law school, and about the importance of facts … Continue Reading SJC Justice, Alumna Elspeth Cypher on Honoring Facts, Writing Well
Emerson students at the USITT Conference in St. Louis. Front row, left to right, Rachel Lockett, Marta Sarrión Arrúe, Emily Cuerdon, and Taylor Starr. Back row, left to right, Jamie Carty, … Continue Reading Stage Tech Gold Medals Happen in Threes for Emerson Team
Clockwise, from top left: Reuters President and Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler; Boston Globe Director of Digital Content Katie Kingsbury; Peter Casey, director of news and programming at CBS Radio/WBZ Boston; and … Continue Reading Event to Tackle Role of Journalism, Communication in Preserving Democracy
Tom Rogers sat down with the Emerson community this week to talk about the current state of television and Internet content, interactive sports media, and the lessons he has learned … Continue Reading Cable TV Pioneer Talks About Present, Future of Interactive Media
With arts funding under attack in President Trump’s draft budget released last week, Emerson’s Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson are teaming up with MASSCreative … Continue Reading Emerson to Rally in Support of the Arts
A new tool launched by Emerson’s Engagement Lab promises to help civic leaders navigate the long journeys and bumpy roads of trying to get quality public input into a … Continue Reading Engagement Lab Shows the Way to Better Public Engagement with Roadmap