Category: Events

  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”

This year for orientation the Edwards Collective visited the Museum of Art and Design in New York to see (and touch) Harry Betoia’s sonambient sculptures. Afterwards we headed to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to watch the chamber opera The Loser.

Over Halloween weekend the Edwards Collective visited Croton-on-Hudson. It was an action-packed weekend which included trips to Dia:Beacon and the Storm King Art Center, apple-tasting at a local Cider Mill, endless baking, quiet reading nooks, halloween costumes and bonfires late into the night.

The Edwards Collective is made up of students with wildly diverse interests. For our 2016-17 orientation, we wanted to engage with art that could tap into a wide range of passions, so we visited the Museum of Arts and Design for a hands-on tour of Harry Bertoia’s Sounding Sculptures. Bertoia intended for his works to be… Continue reading Harry Bertoia’s Sounding Sculptures

On November 19, members of the Edwards Collective ventured into a cold, wet night to view a filmed version of Donmar Warehouse’s 2014 production of Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus (starring Tom Hiddleston in the title role) at the Princeton Garden Theater. The production, which took the color crimson as its defining aesthetic feature, captured a bloody,… Continue reading The National Theatre’s Coriolanus