Category: Events

Last Sunday the Edwards Collective went to see the Book of Mormon off Broadway. The plotline is hard to sum up but it’s about two young Mormons sent to proselytize in Uganda. It pokes fun but is still respectful – the general message of the play seemed to be to do what makes you happy.… Continue reading The Book of Mormon

  Last Thursday, several of us went as a group to see Princeton University Players’ production of In the Heights at Frist Theatre. When thinking of trips to propose for the Collective, my first instinct is to propose off-campus trips to see exhibits and shows that we otherwise would not have the opportunity to see.… Continue reading PUP’s In the Heights

  On the final weekend of Intersession, we were lucky enough to break out of the Orange Bubble and see the temporary exhibit DREAMLANDS: IMMERSIVE CINEMA AND ART, 1905–2016 at the Whitney Museum. We first stopped at the Chelsea Market for some delicious burgers and fried Oreos, and then we made our way to the exhibit,… Continue reading Whitney museum trip

  Last Saturday we went to Man of Good Hope at BAM, a musical about a Somali refugee traveling down east Africa to end up in South Africa and eventually America. You witness his life through four different characters played by the same man, through different stages of his life. What struck us was how much discrimination,… Continue reading Man of Good Hope at BAM

  It was wonderful to meet Ari, a former Edwards Collective member who has travelled around the world the last two years researching for his book. At the dinner, he shared his poems and his writing process with us. He also described what it’s like to pursue an artist’s path after college, which was great to… Continue reading Ari Satok talks to the Edwards Collective

In an essay for the Graduate School website,  Aaron Roberston ’17 reflects on life and community in the Edwards Collective. Read “The Edwards Collective Explored” here. 

A feast made with apples:   From a morning run:   Photos courtesy of Lulu Chen ’17

“I tried reading Sense & Sensibility once,” I confessed. “But I stopped because they were talking about money and it was boring.” “WHAT?! The money part is a satire!” The beauty of living together is that, after revealing my woeful ignorance, a fellow member of the Edwards Collective convinced me to give the story another… Continue reading Austen’s Sense & Sensibility by the Bedlam Theatre Company

In October, we went to the Metropolitan Opera to see La bohème. The opera is both light and tragic, both relatable and humorous. There’s a swordfight on a rooftop. And the music is always swelling and crashing in waves because, well, Puccini wrote it. Here’s Gunnar Rice (’17) and Maggie Kurkoski (RGS) afterwards, with their… Continue reading La bohème  

Refuse the Hour was the most thought-provoking event I was able to attend in the fantastic spread of Fall 2015 Edwards Collective events. Below are a few thoughts I wrote down in my notebook about Kentridge’s avant-garde chamber piece. Timecodes are based on https://vimeo.com/113399512 Metronomes and clocks give structure to time (1:39) Are the structures produced are relative to/dependent… Continue reading Things to consider when experiencing Kentridge’s “Refuse the Hour”