It is a thrill to have @brettcarsonmusic in the Littlefield Concert Hall preparing for this Friday's Darius Milhaud Concert.

We hope you will join us for this concert featuring works by Darius Milhaud, Lou Harrison, Steed Cowart, Sidney Corbett, Zeena Parkins, and Erik Satie.

Free, 8:00 PM

Links for more information and registration in bio.

We are excited to welcome the 22nd Oakland International Film Festival to Northeastern University this Friday Sep. 13th.

Films will be screened in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall throughout the festival, which runs Sep. 12 to 21.

Learn more and purchase tickets at www.OIFF.org.

@oaklandfilmfestival

Mills Music Now presents the annual Darius Milhaud Concert on Friday, September 27 at 8:00 PM.

Featuring pianist Brett Carson @brettcarsonmusic

Program features Darius Milhaud, Lou Harrison, Steed Cowart, Sydney Corbett, Zeena Parkins, and Erik Satie.

Link to registration in bio.

Photo by Peter B Kaars

TONIGHT — FREE SCREENING of "Powering Puerto Rico" at 7:30 PM in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall.

Professor Eugene Smotkin will join remotely to answer questions about the film and their work with nanogrid technology.

Link for registration in bio.

Mills Performing Arts is excited to welcome all the new students arriving over the next few days to the Oakland campus. We look forward to sharing our programming, including the Mills Music Now Concert Series and the Bridging perspectives Film Series.

More information linked in bio.

Photo by Ruby Wallau

How can we provide power when the grid fails?

Professor Eugene Smotkin envisions what he calls "nanogrids", small clusters of houses sharing power from solar panels and utilizing a system of restored hybrid car batteries.

"Powering Puerto Rico" documents Prof. Smotkin's work following Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Join us for a free screening of the film on September 5 at 7:30 PM at the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall.

Link to registration in bio.

Tyondai Braxton performs a solo set in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, Saturday, October 5 at 8PM.

Mills Music Now is honored to present Braxton as the 2024 David Tudor Composer-in-Residence.

Link to registration in bio.

Puerto Rico, 2017: It all started with a storm and a car battery.

Eugene Smotkin, a Northeastern University professor, was home in San Juan for the summer when two disasters struck: His wife had a stroke and Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, leaving more than 3 million people without electricity. After days of powering a cell phone and a small fan with a car battery, Eugene and his wife were finally able to make it to Boston for the medical treatment she desperately needed.

Back on campus, he has an idea: In conjunction with just a few solar panels, Eugene believes he can make a fully functional, affordable, renewable nanogrid system powered by reconditioned hybrid car batteries. And he wants to do so all over Puerto Rico, giving back electricity to a neglected energy populace at a fraction of the current cost.

Join us on Sept. 5 for a free screening of "Powering Puerto Rico" at 7:30 PM in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall.

Link to registration in bio.

The annual Darius Milhaud Concert will feature pianist Brett Carson playing works by Milhaud, Harrison, Cowart, Corbett, Parkins, and Satie.

Join us on September 27th at 8pm for the launch of the Mills Music Now 2024-2025 season.

Link to registration in bio.

Join us on Thursday, September 5th at 7:30 PM for a free screening of "Powering Puerto Rico", a story of resilience, innovation, and passion as Northeastern University professor Eugene Smotkin responds to the challenges of providing reliable power to Puerto Rico’s residents in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

This is the first film in our new film series "Bridging Perspectives: Exploring Social Justice with the Oakland International Film Festival".

Thursday, September 5 at 7:30 PM in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall on Northeastern University's Oakland campus, located at 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613.

Links for registration in bio.

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Sat. Oct. 29 8pm Improvisation
Mills College at Northeastern University

Registration link in millsperformingarts bio

Mills Performing Arts is pleased to welcome the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble to the Littlefield Concert Hall on Sunday June 5 through our Community Rental program.

Ticket Link in bio.

Come see the musician Maggie Payne!!!
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Come see our experimental music collection!!
#millscollege #oakland #experimentalmusic

Come see works in progress by the creative writing mfa candidates!!!
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Samantha ege piano show!!!
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Come see Chelsea manning in conversation with Susan Stryker!!!!
#millscollege #oakland #transvoices

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Come see rabih alameddine read his new book!!
#millscollege #oakland #readings #rabialameddine

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Come see Angela Edwards at fresh fest 2022!!!
#music #millscollege #bayarea

Come see venita Blackburn read for the next installment of the contemporary writers series, our unique collection of literary performances!!!
#millscollege #bayarea #contemporarywriters

Come see this art show @zehjello curated along with performances about the relationships between art, migration and cultural memory!!!
#millscollege #bayarea #curation #migration #healing

Don’t miss @maryzzelle and @maishalani tonight at X Sound in Littlefield Concert Hall!

#MillsCollege #SoundHealing #MaishaLani #MaryzelleUngo #LiveMusic #BayArea #Oakland

The Music from Mills Classes concert series is only just beginning! From tomorrow until next Monday, there are concerts scheduled every day around the Mills campus! Be sure to come support our incredible students as they share their work this week!

For more information about each event and to register to attend, click the link in our bio titled "Music from Mills Classes Concert Series", and make sure you're following @MillsMusicNow!

#MillsCollege #MillsMusicNow #CCM #CenterForContemporaryMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Choir #Composition #LiberalArts #Oakland #BayArea #Music #ElectronicMusic

Tonight at 8pm is your last chance to see Pathfinding, an evening of three short performances written and presented by the Mills theatre seniors.

From our website: “Pathfinding is a show that lives up to its name. The showcase is about finding one’s path through whatever they may be navigating. Whether it be love, stability, a new life — there is a journey, a path to finding the light at the end of the tunnel. Directors Rhianne Chao, Soph Su, and Jozi Gullickson have each curated a piece for this year’s Senior Showcase: “Camera Shy,” “East or West?,” and “Fool’s Gold.”

This event is free and will be held at the Rothwell Theatre by the Tea Shop!

#OriginalTheatre #MillsCollege #Oakland #LiveTheatre #BayArea #LiberalArts

Tonight at 8pm, don’t miss the Sound Techniques Final Concert, presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music.

For more information or to register for the event, click the link titled “Music from Mills Classes Concert Series” in our bio!

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

#CCM #MillsCollege #ExperimentalMusic #LiberalArts #Oakland #BayArea

This Friday & Saturday, don’t miss Pathfinding at the Rothwell Theatre!

Three short performances created by Mills theater seniors.

Pathfinding is a show that lives up to its name. The showcase is about finding one’s path through whatever they may be navigating. Whether it be love, stability, a new life -- there is a journey, a path to finding the light at the end of the tunnel. Directors Rhianne Chao, Soph Su, and Jozi Gullickson have each curated a piece for this year’s Senior Showcase: "Camera Shy," "East or West?," and "Fool’s Gold”

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#LiberalArts #LiveTheatre #BayArea #OriginalPlay #Theatre #Oakland #MillsCollege

This weekend! "Take a trip around Mills College campus in a contemporary dance, site-specific experience.

Transitions explores Mills Dance Alumni evolving into the next phase of their professional lives as they flourish and thrive through this particular moment of history.

Following a guide, the audience will start at Lisser Hall and enjoy five site-specific works placed around campus. Works will be presented by Mills faculty member Robert Moses, as well as Mills Dance Alumni Arielle Cole, Joseph Hernandez, Alexandra Tiscareno, and Stephanie Tobon."

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#MillsDance #Oakland #BayArea #MillsCollege #PerformingArts #ContemporaryDance #SiteSpecificDance #Performance

Happening tomorrow at 5 PM!

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Labor and the Conditions of Protest: Militancy, Representation, and Aesthetics with Tobi Haslett and Rachel Kushner, Presented by We Are The Voices and Mills College Art Museum:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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While the US novel has tended not to be a site that celebrates militancy, the art world has long taken up images of street protest even as its institutions are funded by military interests. How can artists and writers engage protest without, as the critic Tobi Haslett describes, becoming part of the apparatus through which "radical passion has been gutted, blunted, deflected, suppressed—and frozen into rhetoric, peddled as commodity"? Kushner, whose novels explore crucial histories of resistance, will join Haslett in discussion about what it means to represent militancy now."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

For more information or to register for this event, click the link in our bio!
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#WATV #TobiHaslett #RachelKushner #Protest #Resistance #Militancy #Academia #Aesthetic #AcademicMilitancy #ArtisticProtest #MilitaryInColleges

Don't miss this week's Contemporary Writers Series!

"We hope you will join us next Friday to hear Maha Elsaid, currently teaching Arabic Literature at Mills College as a visiting Fulbright scholar, present her work to us in “Teaching Hip Hop in Cairo”.

In this presentation Maha Elsaid will tell her story of how despite all the restrictions imposed on academics and academic research she was able to push the boundaries through her research and teaching, and create progressive enclaves within a highly conservative institution. Not only did she introduce new disciplines and radical research topics into Egyptian academia, defying the discourse of ‘university status and tradition’, she also managed to enable her students to critically understand the world and empower them with the language to deconstruct hegemonic discourse. Her activism goes beyond the classroom as she was able to empower women across campus as she initiated the first anti harassment unit in a public university in the Middle East, and managed to paint the Cairo University dome orange."

Repost from @MillsMFALit.

For more information and to register for this event, click the link in our bio!

#LiberalArts #MillsCollege #Oakland #ContemporaryWritersSeries #MFA #MahaElsaid

Coming up November 20th and 21st, the Mills College Dance Department presents Transitions, described below:

"Take a trip around Mills College campus in a contemporary dance, site-specific experience.

Transitions explores Mills Dance Alumni evolving into the next phase of their professional lives as they flourish and thrive through this particular moment of history.

Following a guide, the audience will start at Lisser Hall and enjoy five site-specific works placed around campus. Works will be presented by Mills faculty member Robert Moses, as well as Mills Dance Alumni Arielle Cole, Joseph Hernandez, Alexandra Tiscareno, and Stephanie Tobon."

Repost from @MillsDanceDepartment.

#MillsCollege #SiteSpecificDance #ContemporaryDance #LiberalArts #PerformingArts #BayArea #Oakland #MillsPerformingArts

@MeredithMonk's Indra's Net premieres this weekend at the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall and online!

"Final stages of rehearsal before the concert presentation of Indra's Net comes to @millsperformingarts. Can't wait to see you there! Tickets to the In-person event are sold out for both days. If you hope to attend in person, please join the WAITLIST. If you would like to view the performances virtually, please select "General Admission-LIVE STREAM" on the ticket page (LINK IN BIO)."

Repost from @MeredithMonk. For more info and to register for a live-stream link, click the link in our bio!

#performance #livestream #rehearsal #behindthescenes #indrasnet #meredithmonk #performingarts #concert #composer #movement #millscollege #oakland

Don't miss Julie Lythcott-Haims' online event with the Contemporary writers Series tomorrow at 5:00 pm!

"This Friday's Contemporary Writers Series event features Julie Lythcott-Haims, who will be doing a reading of her award winning memoir Real American: Memoir, that chronicles her experience as a biracial person living in White America.

Julie Lythcott-Haims
Friday, November 5, 2021
5:00 pm PST"

Repost from @MillsMFALit.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#MillsCollege #ContemporaryWritersSeries #MFA #Literature #LiberalArts #MillsPerformingArts #Oakland

"We hope you’ll join us for the last Contemporary Writers Series reading of the fall semester, featuring Julie Lythcott-Haims, author How to Raise an Adult, Real American, and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult.

Julie Lythcott-Haims
Friday, November 5 from 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Closed Captioning will be available"

For more information and to register for this event, click the link in our bio!

Repost from @MillsMFALit.

#ContemporaryWritersSeries #Writer #MillsCollege #PerformingArts #MFA #LiberalArts

This Saturday at the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall! Grab your tickets now!

"Sarah Cahill
The Future is Female

Virtuoso pianist Sarah Cahill performs music from her “The Future is Female” project. Most of the composers on this concert are Mills alumnae or former Mills music faculty.

Music by Janice Giteck, Maggi Payne, Elinor Armer, Mary Watkins, Betsy Jolas, Mary Jane Leach, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Meredith Monk, and Theresa Wong."

Repost from @MillsMusicNow.

#SarahCahill #Piano #MillsCollege #MillsPerformingArts #PaulineOliveros #MeredithMonk #TheresaWong #Pianist #LiberalArts #Oakland

Coming up this Thursday, October 28th!

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micha cárdenas, author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (forthcoming from Duke University Press), and Susan Stryker will discuss cárdenas’s new book and trans of color poetics."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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TOMORROW, don't miss the latest Contemporary Writers Series online event with Tina Chang!

"This Friday's Contemporary Writers Series event features Tina Chang. Her newest book Hybrida, "evokes the bottomless love and terror of motherhood as she describes raising her mixed-race son," as the New York Times says."

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For more info and to register, click the link in our bio!

#TinaChang #Hybrida #Poetry #LiberalArts #MillsPerformingArts #ContemporaryWritersSeries #MillsCollege

Saturday, October 30th, come see virtuoso pianist Sarah Cahill play at in the beautiful Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall!

"Sarah Cahill
The Future is Female

Virtuoso pianist Sarah Cahill performs music from her “The Future is Female” project. Most of the composers on this concert are Mills alumnae or former Mills music faculty.

Music by Janice Giteck, Maggi Payne, Elinor Armer, Mary Watkins, Betsy Jolas, Mary Jane Leach, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Meredith Monk, and Theresa Wong."

Repost from @MillsMusicNow.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#SarahCahill #MillsCollege #Concert #Piano #PerformingArts #MillsPerformingArts #LiberalArts #LiveMusic #Oakland

This Friday, check out our online event with Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang!

"We hope you'll join us for our next Contemporary Writers Series reading, featuring Tina Chang, who is Brooklyn Poet Laureate, and her most recent book, Hybrida, was named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by NPR!

Tina Chang
Friday, October 22 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Closed captioning will be available."

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For more info and to register, click the link in our bio!

#MillsCollege #Poet #PoetLaureate #LiberalArts #Oakland #TinaChang #ContemporaryWritersSeries

Tickets go on sale TOMORROW, October 12th, for Meredith Monk's newest work, Indra's Net, "an experiential performance work affirming the interconnectedness of life."

"We are SO excited to announce the premiere concert performances of Meredith's interdisciplinary, evening-length music theater work, "Indra’s Net," on November 12 & 13 @millsperformingarts.

The performances will be held for limited-capacity audiences @millscollege and will be LIVESTREAMED via the Mills Performing Arts website. Tickets available October 12, 2021."

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For more information and to get tickets, find the Meredith Monk - Indra's Net link in our bio!

#MillsCollege #MeredithMonk #Theater #Immersive #Music #MillsMusicNow #PerformanceArt #BayArea #Experimental #MillsPerformingArts

Join us this Thursday at 5:00!

"Labor and the Conditions of Protest: Critical University Studies with Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell

10.14.2021 @ 5 PM PT | RSVP link in bio

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In their pivotal 2018 essay on the "crisis consensus" in higher education, Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell described questions that an abolitionist approach might begin with instead. Should the university be saved? What parts of it are worth saving? Join us for a conversation with two scholars and collaborators who are working together across very different institutions to imagine what might come after, or beyond, the university."

Repost from @WATV_Oak.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#WATV #CriticalUniversityStudies #Academia #HigherEducation #Abolition #AcademicCapitalism #CrisisConsensus #MillsCollege

This Friday, check out the upcoming Contemporary Writers Series reading with Paisley Rekdal!

"We hope you’ll join us for our next Contemporary Writers Series reading, featuring Paisley Rekdal, the Utah Poet Laureate, and the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee!"

For more info about the event and to register online, click the link in our bio.

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#ContemporaryWritersSeries #Poet #Poetry #CreativeWriting #MillsCollege

Join us at the Littlefield Concert Hall TONIGHT at 8:00pm to see music by the great, influential, and prolific composer Darius Milhaud performed live!

"Darius Milhaud playing the piano.

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DARIUS MILHAUD CONCERT

Friday, September 24, 2021
8:00pm PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall

This event is FREE and open to the public.

The Concert will be hosted IN-PERSON and via LIVE STREAM.
Registration is required. In-Person Capacity is limited.
Masks are required of all guests, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status, indoors on the Mills College campus."

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For more information about this event and to register, click the link in our bio!

#MillsMusicNow #MillsCollege #MillsPerformingArts #Oakland #PerformingArts #Concert #Composer

Don't forget to join us for a stellar Trans Studies Speakers Series online event tomorrow! More info in our bio and below.

"Transgress Press: Trystan Cotten, Kim Green, and Brynn Tannehill in conversation with Susan Stryker.

9.23.2021 @ 5 PM PT | RSVP link in bio

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Professor and publisher Trystan Cotten and two of his recently published authors Kim Green (Vicissitudes) and Brynn Tannehill (American Fascism: How the GOP Is Subverting Democracy) will be in conversation with Susan Stryker about Transgress Press, an Oakland-based indie publisher of trans queer feminist books. The conversation and Q&A will discuss Transgress's social entrepreneurial vision and specialization in books that push the norms and boundaries of conventional thought."

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#WATVoak #WeAreTheVoices #TransgressPress #TransVoices #MillsCollege
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This Friday, don't miss Darius Milhaud performing live in the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall!

"Picture description: Darius Milhaud with students at Mills College.

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DARIUS MILHAUD CONCERT

Friday, September 24, 2021
8:00pm PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall

This event is FREE and open to the public.

The Concert will be hosted IN-PERSON and via LIVE STREAM.
Registration is required. In-Person Capacity is limited.
Masks are required of all guests, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status, indoors on the Mills College campus."

Repost from @MillsMusicNow

For more information about this event and to register, click the link in our bio!

#MillsMusicNow #MillsCollege #MillsPerformingArts #Oakland #PerformingArts #Concert #Composer

Mills Performing Arts is thrilled to welcome you all back to the Marilyn McArthur Holland Theater and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall in the upcoming weeks! Be on the lookout here on Instagram and on our website for announcements about upcoming events, in-person and online!

Tonight at 5:00 PM PDT: SOUNDS OF THE SONOSPHERE, POETIC RESPONSES TO LISTENING

Selected Issues in Composition and Improvisation Concert

Directed by Zeena Parkins

Presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music.

For more information and to watch the live broadcast, click the link in our bio!

#millsmusicnow #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege #centerforcontemporarymusic #ccm #zeenaparkins #zpribbon

TONIGHT at 7:00 PM PDT, don't miss the Showcase Concert featuring Mills Student Musicians!

Line-up:

Antonio Caldara, music; lyrics, anonymous
"Sebben Crudele"
Lillith Era: voice
Paul Flight: piano

Stephen Sondheim, music and lyrics
"Send in the Clowns"
Lillith Era: voice
Paul Flight: piano

Maisha Lani
"The Wolf"
Maisha Lani: voice, guitar, sruti box, and production

Maisha Lani
"Bap Boom"
Maisha Lani: voice, bass, and production

Nobuo Uematsu; arr. Sperion
"The Dream Oath" (from "Final Fantasy VI")
Julia "Jett" Barker: voice, and audio/video production
with visual excerpts from Final Fantasy VI

John Cage
"Six"
performed by The Mills Percussion Ensemble
Mamie Willis
Olivia Simon
Kyle Bates
Sam Regan
Jefferson Doyle
Maryzelle Ungo
Directed by William Winant
Audio mix by Sam Regan

Presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

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For more information and to watch the broadcast, click the link in our bio!

#millsmusicnow #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege

Tomorrow at 8:00 PM PDT: INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONCERT

"Mills students showcase their experiments with voltage controlled synthesis, one of the foundational methods of electronic music making. Most works were created on the Moog IIIP analog synthesizer at Mills College's Center for Contemporary Music. All noise and accidents were welcome."

Works by:

Jefferson Doyle
Victory Eyman
Kayleigh Ketcham
Dennise Landaverry
Marlys Mandaville
Meenakshi Marchione
Patrick Mathews-Halmrast
Sam Regan
yinyin
Stan Summy

Class taught by Kaori Suzuki

Presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

For more information and to watch the live broadcast tomorrow, click the link in our bio!

#millsmusicnow #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege #centerforcontemporarymusic #ccm #electronicmusic

TONIGHT at 7:00PM PDT: Mills College Vocal Jazz Improvisation Ensemble presents: FLUX

Directed by Molly Holm
Piano accompaniment by Larry Dunlap

The Singers:

Josie Hall
Kayleigh Ketcham
Iris Kingery
Tyler Mendoza
Monica Miller
Rose Shapiro
Olivia Simon
Maryzelle Ungo
Ruksana Varma

Presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#molly_holm_rinny_zin_records #larrydunlap #millsmusicnow #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege

TODAY and TOMORROW at 7pm, don’t miss "Alone Together"!

Alone Together is a collection of scenes and monologues written for live performance over Zoom.

"Art is needed in today's world and we haven't been able to see much of it lately. This will be a great chance to come back to it."
- Kelly Handler, performer

For more information and to register for this free event, click the link in our bio!

#MillsCollege #AloneTogether #Theatre #Theater #MillsTheater #ZoomTheatre #PerformingArts

TOMORROW! Don't miss Music From Mills Classes: Seminar in Computer Music Concert, with California Institute of the Arts!

Friday, April 30, 2021
7:00 P.M. PDT

To view the broadcast tomorrow, click the link in our bio!

LIVE COMPUTER COLLABORATIONS

Directed by Chris Brown

Patangkris Ensemble Improvisation
composer: Patrick Mathews-Halmrast
performers: Patrick Mathews-Halmrast, Kristian Dahlbom, Angie Edwards, with Gemma Castro, voice

Trig Probability Drone
composer: Stanley Summy
performers: Stanley Summy and Chad Glenn

Come Back To Me
composer: Angie Edwards aka Sharkiface
performers: Jefferson Doyle, Kristian Dahlbom, Angie Edwards

A Žižkov Lullaby
composer: Chad Glenn
performers: Chad Glenn and Stanley Summy

How to Bake a Potato
composed by: Rowan Matthews
Performers: Rowan Matthews, Angie Edwards, Kristian Dahlbom

Marpampas
composers: Kristian Dahlbom and Jefferson Doyle
performers: Kristian Dahlbom and Jefferson Doyle

The Computer Music Seminar this year investigated remote location ensemble performance with computer-based media. These pieces are unedited recordings of live performances of pieces by all members of the class that culminated the semester. The pandemic has made the normal social roles and rituals of live music performance more difficult. Musicians however have perservered, playing together on the internet and making music that could never have existed in another way. Instrumentation includes both live computer music software (SuperCollider and MaxMSP) and electronic hardware instruments (Symbolic Sound Kyma), along with homemade sound installations, and voice. The performance “space” was provided by SonoBus (a free and easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network http:sonobus.net ) and Zoom (video).

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

#millsmusicnow #electronicmusic #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege #centerforcontemporarymusic #ccm #computermusic

This weekend, be sure to catch "Alone Together" - a collection of scenes and monologues written for live performance over Zoom!

For more information and to register for this free event, click the link in our bio!

Photo reposted from performer Jett Barker (@kingoftruands)

#MillsCollege #MillsTheater #LiveTheater #AloneTogether #ZoomTheatre #UCSB

This Sunday, April 25th at 3:00 PM PST, tune in to the first of eight concerts in the Music From Mills Classes Concert Series, the Mills College Choir Concert! The program will include three pieces, Amy F. Bernon's "Oceans and Stars (SSA)" Abbie Betinis' "Lumen" and Lennon/McCartney arr. Ed Lojeski "With a Little Help From My Friends (2-Part)"

This event is pre-recorded and will be released for on-demand viewing at the published time. No registration is required for this event.

To view the broadcast and for more information on upcoming concerts in this series, click the link in our bio and follow the linktree button for the "Music From Mills College Concert Series"!

#MillsCollege #CCM #ExperimentalMusic #MillsPerformingArts #Oakland #Choir

This Saturday, come see some of Mills's own professors and musicians in Celebrating Electronics: Music by John Bischoff
featuring James Fei and Tim Perkis

Saturday, April 24, 2021
7:00pm PST
Free

John Bischoff is a master composer/performer who explores boundaries and exchanges between analog and digital sound in real-time. The subtle interchange between these two realms is a form of musical alchemy, much in the tradition of the legendary composer/performer David Tudor. Bischoff’s circuit/laptop configurations create musical forms both spontaneously and algorithmically: a computer analyzes improvised analog sounds and creates musical structures based upon pre-conceived algorithms. He aptly describes this process as a “hybrid method that falls between traditional composition (invention ahead of time) and free improvisation (invention in the moment).” The conceptual basis underlying his music is rich; and the musical forms he creates are invariably elegant and coherent. That Bischoff creates his compositions live in performance attest to his artistic mastery. He is without doubt a leading composer/performer in the field of electronic music.

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#johnbischoff #millsmusicnow #electronicmusic #jamesfei #timperkis #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege #centerforcontemporarymusic #ccm #computermusic

April 23rd & 24th 7:00 PM PDT, join us for the Undergraduate Thesis Show, Liquid Sunshine, featuring Sophie Conroy.

"Liquid Sunshine is about the dualities in life. It is a reflection on noticing the positive and negatives but choosing to not let the negative dictate the entirety of life. This commentary is made through the use of light and color; following the ups and downs that can be faced at one location, but emphasizing each new location is a reset. Despite this being my reasoning for creating this piece, there is no intension to imprint this meaning on every audience member. It should be taken with an open mind and meaning should be pulled based off of what each individual retains.

Sophie Conroy: This piece is choreographed and danced by Sophie Conroy with music created by Miles Lassi. Sophie Conroy is a graduating senior at Mills College with majors in both dance and biology. She has danced most of her life being trained in a variety of techniques and styles. Despite her years of training this is her first choreographed piece to grace a stage, regardless of the means. The performance will be on April 23 and 24 at 7 PM PST through a free online platform to maintain health during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Repost from @MillsDanceDepartment

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#Dance #Thesis #MillsCollege #ScreenDance #MillsPerformingArts

Coming up April 23rd & 24th - An evening of online thesis dance, split into two shows at 7pm and 7:30pm and featuring work by graduating seniors and graduate students!

"Amidst navigating the throes of adapting to online education, students were devastated to learn of the nearing end of Mills’ roll as a degree-granting college in 2023. At the conclusion of a rich 170-year legacy, the current students of Mills persevere as they prepare a series of showings for their thesis works.
Students work tirelessly to deliver a message of hope as they uphold Mills’ mission to advance gender and racial equity; cultivating innovative research and critical thinking. An evening of screendance has been thoughtfully prepared surrounding concepts of fusion hybridity, abstraction, chance dance, and the artful exposition of marginalized hardships.

At 7pm, join us for the Undergraduate Thesis Show, Liquid Sunshine, featuring Sophie Conroy.

Tune in at 7:30pm for the MFA Thesis Show, UnMuted: Voices Amplified, featuring the works of Arielle Cole, Jazmine Freeman, Joseph Hernandez, José Nuño, Stephanie Tobon, Trevor Polcyn, and Peiyu Yao."

Repost from @MillsDanceDepartment.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#MillsCollege #Dance #Thesis #MFA #ScreenDance #MillsPerformingArts

Join us this Thursday for the next We Are The Voices event: A Discussion of Anti-Asian Racism w/ Helen Zia.

From @watv_oak:

On April 15th—co-sponsored with Mills SAMEAPI Heritage Month— join us for an evening with journalist and activist, Helen Zia (@helenziareal). She will discuss rising hate crimes, racial harassment, and discrimination against Asian Americans since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

#WATVoak #UpcomingEvents #Scholars #DisabilityScholarship #StopAsianHate #TransAesthetics

SWAPAN CHAUDHURI
Master Tabla Player

Saturday, April 10, 2021
7:00pm PST
Free

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is a phenomenon in the arena of Indian Classical Music. Musicians honor him as one of the most respected Tabla players, worthy of highest regard all over the world. His solo and accompaniment concerts as well performances of his compositions for percussion ensembles have received tremendous appreciation from Western and Indian audiences alike. He is associated with various American and European Universities as a visiting professor. Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri’s music is the spontaneous expression of his powerful emotions and his deep knowledge of Tabla. His ingenuity has ushered in a purely new style of Tabla playing. It is undoubtedly through his clarity and elegance of performance, both as an accompanist and as a soloist, that he has achieved such fame throughout the world as a true master of Tabla.

For more information and to register, click the link in our bio!

Presented by the Mills College Music Department, Center for Contemporary Music, and Performing Arts Center

Repost from @millsmusicnow. #swapanchaudhuri #millsmusicnow #indianmusic #tabla #millscollegemusicdepartment #millscollege

Don't miss the next Trans Studies Speakers Series event this Thursday 4/8 at noon PST!

Trans Aesthetics: McKenzie Wark & Shola von Reinhold in conversation with Susan Stryker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Please join host Susan Stryker, Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership, for a conversation with media theorist McKenzie Wark of the New School for Social Research (The Hacker Manifesto; Reverse Cowgirl) and novelist Shola von Reinhold (LOTE), about Black and femme trans cultural production and world-making. Co-hosted by the Mellon-funded We Are the Voices public arts and humanities series and the Mills College Trans Studies Speakers Series.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Don't miss the next Contemporary Writers Series coming up tomorrow from 5 - 6PM!

We hope you'll join us for our next Contemporary Writers Series reading, featuring Aiden Thomas. Thomas’ second novel, Lost in the Never Woods, just debuted.

Aiden Thomas
Friday, April 2 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Closed captioning will be available.

RSVP via Eventbrite link in our bio!

Repost from @millsmfalit.

We hope you'll join us for our next Contemporary Writers Series reading, featuring mai c. doan, whose first full-length book, water/tongue is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award nominee!

mai c. doan
Friday, March 19 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Closed captioning will be available.
RSVP via Eventbrite link in our bio.

Repost from @millsmfalit.

Mills Fundraising Event: Dollar Dance Days:
Jazz with Tawni: Intermediate level

"Focusing on contemporary jazz style, Tawni will lead a fast-paced warm-up to get the bodies ready to dance a choreographed phrase that can be done in a small space. Some jazz dance experience is recommended, but not required! Just be ready to move your body and break a little sweat."

Repost from @millsdancedepartment.

Register via the link in our bio!

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Acclaimed poets and scholars, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening” series. Their works are profound explorations of the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics and of the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

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#WATVoak #WeAreTheVoices #SocialListening #MillsCollege Info reposted from @watv_oak.

Coming up tomorrow: Sarah Davachi – Songlines Series
Artist Talk – Psychoacoustics, Timbre, & Minimalism.

Monday, March 8, 2021 | 7:00pm PST

"This talk will give an overview of my practice as a composer-performer, focusing specifically on work from the past few years which explores timbre and sonic intimacy through the use of psychoacoustic effects, alternate tunings, and minimalist structures. I'll be presenting several older and newer works, discussing the various processes I explore when working with both acoustic and electronic sources and how they vary between recorded versus live performance formats. There will be time at the end of the artist talk for a Q&A period."

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

More information & link to the broadcast in our bio!

#sarahdavachi #millsmusicnow #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #avantgardemusic #newmusicusa #millscollege ##electronicmusic #songlinesseries #centerforcontemporarymusic

Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a Black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence, a bullying incident and later a violent attack in school leave him searching for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places; he develops a hard front and falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth birthday, the family is torn apart when he is murdered as a result of gun violence.

The Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all Black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence, grief, and trauma, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.”

“In this poignant, painful, and gorgeous memoir, Melissa Valentine bravely explores what faces black boys and men, through the eyes of a black woman, sister, daughter, and member of a family whose lives are altered forever, time and time again. The Names of All the Flowers encourages us to be brave too; brave enough to imagine a world that loves black people, in all of our complexities.” —Alicia Garza, cofounder, Black Lives Matter

Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California, whose work explores themes of race, trauma, and healing. The Names of All the Flowers was the 2019 winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She is a 2020 artist fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in Nonfiction Literature. Melissa has also been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, Guernica, Jezebel, and Apogee, among others. She is a visiting professor at UCSC.

A Mills MFA alum, @melissacvalentine will be the next reader in our Contemporary Writers Series this Friday.

Repost from @millsMFAlit. Links in our bio!

#blackwriters #blackhistorymonth #blackwomanwriters #bayareawriters

Coming up tomorrow and Saturday: SIGNAL FLOW FESTIVAL 2021!

Signal Flow is a student-run music festival held every Spring at Mills College featuring the culminating work of graduate students working in composition, electronic music, improvisation and sound art.works by Kyle Bates, Kristian Dahlbom, Chad Glenn, Samuel Regan, Rowan Avery Matthews, and Cory Sibu Tripathy.

ZOOM Receptions will be held after the Broadcast of each concert.

More information and links to both nights can be found in our bio!

#signalflowfestival #millsmusicnow #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #avantgardemusic #newmusicusa #millscollege #electronicmusic #centerforcontemporarymusic #kylebates #kristiandahlbom #samuel_regan #rowanaverymatthews #4macion #corysibutripathy

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

On January 13th, 2021, the world lost a kind and beloved soul — Katherine (Kate) McGinity, a Mills College alumnae and Adjunct Professor of Dance.

Kate was bright, funny, sharp, and well-loved by her community here at Mills. MPA staff member Lillith Era recalls “I had the privilege of taking a class from her in my freshman year and, of course, fell in love with her clever jokes and nurturing-yet-tough teaching style. Professor McGinity was always kind to me and all of her students, and was ever quick to remind us that her door was always open for questions, dance-related revelations, or just to say hello.” For Ann Murphy, Chair of the Mills College Dance Department, “Her loss as a faculty member, colleague, friend and fellow artist are immeasurable. She embodied so many qualities we all long to have or have more of--rigor, wit, heart, mischief and resilience--not to mention a total commitment to dance and theater. She found Mills to be her perfect home both as a student and as an instructor, and I know for a fact how deeply she cared about all her students and dance colleagues. Dance was the greatest love of her life. Now the fabric of the universe has a very large hole where Kate was.”

Donations are being accepted for The Katherine McGinity Fund at Mills College. This fund will support future Dance Scholars who work to support the department she loved.

An online memorial will be held on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 at 5:00 PM PST.

For more information, to make a donation and to register to attend the memorial please visit: www.bit.ly/4-kate

Coming up this Wednesday, March 3rd!

From @millsartmuseum: "Join us for a virtual talk, pre-recorded performance, and Q&A with artist & experimental composer Guillermo Galindo (@galin_dog) who'll discuss their work "Siguiendo Los Pasos del Niño Perdido/Following the Steps of the Lost Child" (2017), now a part of MCAM's permanent collection (!!!) & featured in our digital exhibition "Shifting Perspectives."

We'll screen Galindo’s "Border Cantos," a collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach in which the quotidian artifacts of migration are fashioned into instruments to be performed."

Check out the link in our bio for more information about this event!

#MCAM #MillsArtMuseum #MillsArt #MillsCollege #GuillermoGalindo #BorderCantos #ShiftingPerspectives

Stay tuned for our next B.L.A.C.K speaker series with Danielle Swatzie (@daniswatziee), hosted by @jazminerachel.
Friday, February 26th!

Reposted from @millsdancedepartment.

For more information or to register, click the link in our bio.

#blackspeakerseries #millsperformingarts #dance #danielleswatzie

Happening TOMORROW at 9pm! Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz – “A Step into It: Maryanne Amacher’s Mini Sound Series”

From @millsmusicnow: "Cimini & Dietz offer a Seminar dedicated to the large-scale presentation format Amacher launched in San Francisco in 1985: “THE MINI SOUND SERIES.” Not long after initiating her “MUSIC FOR SOUND JOINED ROOMS SERIES,” Maryanne Amacher was on the lookout for a temporal format that would best allow visitors to navigate her architecturally staged sound works."

For more information or to register, click the link in our bio!

#maryanneamacher #millsmusicnow #amycimini #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #avantgardemusic #newmusicusa #millscollege #billdietz #electronicmusic #ucsdmusic #bardcollege

Coming up tomorrow!!

CHRISTINA DAHL

(Dewing Piano Recital)

Sunday, February 21, 2021
4:00pm PST
Free

Program

Franz Schubert:
Sonata in D major, opus 53 D 850
Allegro
Con moto
Scherzo—Allegro vivace
Rondo—Allegro moderato

Felix Mendelssohn:
Variations sérieuses in d minor, opus 54

Clara Schumann:
Romance opus 11 #1 in eb minor
Romance opus 21 #1 in a minor
Romance opus 21#2 in F major

Johannes Brahms:
Seven Fantasies, opus 116
Capriccio in d minor
Intermezzo in a minor
Capriccio in g minor
Intermezzo in E major
Intermezzo in e minor
Intermezzo in E major
Capriccio in d minor

Christina Dahl is a chamber musician, soloist and teacher who has been on the piano faculty at Stony Brook University for twenty-six years. She has spent summers at the Aspen Music Festival, been a collaborating artist at the Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival, and was a fellow both at the Tanglewood Center and at the Banff Center. Christina was both a faculty member and chair of the piano department at the Eastern Music Festival for nine years, and subsequently joined the faculty at the Icicle Creek Music Center and Yellow Barn Festival and School. She has been a visiting faculty member variously at the Cleveland Institute, Peabody Conservatory and Ithaca College. She has twice been a cultural ambassador for the US State Department. She is in frequent demand as a master class teacher, regularly appearing on such distinguished series as the Steinhardt Piano Series at NYU and the Art of the Piano at CCM.

Learn more or register for the event via the link in our bio!

Repost from @millsmusicnow.

#christinadahl #millsmusicnow #franzschubert #johannesbrahms #claraschumann #pianorecital #millscollege #classicalpiano #felixmendelssohn #stonybrookuniversity

Repost from @millsmfalit: We hope you'll join us for the first Contemporary Writers Series reading of the Spring semester, featuring Layli Long Soldier who is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Layli Long Soldier
Friday, February from 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Registration link in our bio

So excited for this @watv_oak event coming up this Thursday!

Trans is Black and Black is Trans?: C. Riley Snorton and Rod Ferguson in Conversation with Susan Stryker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In celebration of Black History Month, the Mellon-funded “We Are the Voices” public arts and humanities series and the Mills College Trans Studies Speakers Series are pleased to welcome Professor Rod Ferguson of Yale University (Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique) and Professor C. Riley Snorton of University of Chicago (Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity). They will be in discussion with Susan Stryker, Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership, on the emergence of Black Trans Studies, the Black Trans Lives Matter Movement and Black Trans Histories.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Repost from @millsmusicnow. Coming up this Monday!

TAYLOR HO BYNUM

Monday, February 15, 2021
7:00pm PST
Free

For his Songlines presentation, Bynum will share some recent examples of his music, small to big: solo cornet pieces accompanied by short films by choreographer Rachel Bernsen, and an oratorio for orchestra, jazz big band, choir and soloists entitled The Temp, with a libretto by poet Matthea Harvey, The work was recorded live in concert on February 22, 2020 – just weeks before the pandemic shutdown – with a 65-member ensemble combining The Coast Jazz Orchestra under Bynum’s direction and The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Filippo Ciabatti, with an exceptional group of guest soloists: vocalists Kyoko Kitamura and Michael Mayo, saxophonist Jim Hobbs, trombonist Bill Lowe, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and violinist Erica Dicker. Bynum will discuss his process and priorities in his music, and Q&A with the audience after sharing video of the performances.

For more information or to register for the event, click the link in our bio!

#taylorhobynum #millsmusicnow #jazz #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #avantgardemusic #newmusicusa #millscollege #rachelbernsen #cornet #dartmouthcollege #mattheaharvey

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In the aftermath of the Georgia Senate victories, we were witness to the January 6th “Save America” rally and the insurrection at the Capitol, which revealed that some parts of white America are still quite earnest about paying the “price of the ticket” to maintain and defend the privileges of whiteness. Given the pressing need to create a narrative for understanding this ongoing crisis, a narrative that is informed by the Black radical tradition, panelists Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA), Marquis Bey (Northwestern University), and Jenn M. Jackson (Syracuse University) will be in conversation to address questions such as how do we challenge white rage and how do we imagine new ways of being together in the face of it?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Happy New Year! We are back in action and have some exciting events lined up for 2021! Check out this poster from @watv_oak listing some of the Trans Speakers Series events we have planned for the next couple months. For more information on upcoming events, check our website linked in our bio!

Calling Mills-affiliated artists!

To celebrate the end of the year, we invite you to share a creative piece from this year that you are proud of so that we can feature you and your work here on our Instagram throughout the winter break and the beginning of the Spring semester!

To participate, please email your piece to lera@mills.edu. We will be accepting submissions of 30 second to one minute video clips or photos for the project. Please include a brief caption describing the work you are sharing and why you chose it. Please also include your preferred name, pronouns, major and class year!

Please only submit original material which you own fully and have the right to distribute. Upon receipt of your submission Mills Performing Arts will send you a media release form. Any content submitted that includes copyrighted material will not be able to be posted.

Submissions will be accepted and posted on a rolling deadline, but as we would like to feature as many as we can over the coming winter break, the sooner you can get your submission in, the better!

We look forward to seeing your work!

#ArtistsMindfulnessProject #AMP #MillsCollege #Mills @millsmusicnow @millsdancedepartment @millscollege

This Saturday December 12th at 7pm
Link in the bio!

Studio One Night will feature students from Mills Dance and Theater Studies Department presenting short artistic reflections about life as a student in the middle of a pandemic.

While 2020 has been a difficult year it is also an historic year in many ways. Studio One Night embraces this sense of history presenting work that will stand as a testament to what it is like to be a dancer, to make dance and to think about dance all while in isolation.

Is this a brief moment where we are forced to adapt with an expectation towards a return to normalcy? Or is this a deep moment of historically significant transformation for the art form?
Repost from @millsdancedepartment.

Tonight at 8:00 PM PST! Don't miss the Contemporary Performance Ensemble Concert, directed by @steedcowart. Tune in via the link in our bio to watch.

TONIGHT at 5:00pm PST tune in to "KEEPING IT ALIVE!", the Seminar in Electronic Music Performance Concert, via ESS Chicago

The Mills College Music Department and Center for Contemporary Music present a live broadcast of this Fall's seminar in Live Electronic Music Performance concert, directed by Laetitia Sonami

Adam Briggs, Kristian Dahlbom, Jefferson Doyle, Angie Edwards, Sam Regan, Stan Summy and Cory Tripathy perform their recent works. Live electronics, home-made instruments, acoustic instruments, off the shelf and on the shelf tools for a medley of sonic experiments!

Link to performance can be found via the link in our bio.

#millsmusicnow #millscollege #electronicmusic #laetitiasonami #centerforcontemporarymusic #newmusicbayarea

Pictured: Erica Lee, MFA '19, performing in the 2019 Mills College Graduate Concert, "Signal Flow"

Last night the Student Showcase Concert kicked off the 2020 Music From Mills Classes concert series and the performances are in full swing with TWO more concerts tonight! Don't miss the Percussion Ensemble Concert at 4:00 PM PST followed by the Sound Techniques of Recording Concert at 8:00! Admission to both events is free and the links to both can be found in the linktree in our bio.

Can't make it tonight? No sweat! There are seven more concerts in the series coming up in the next couple of weeks. For all the information regarding the concert series please refer to our website via the link in our bio!

Upcoming:
Percussion Ensemble Concert
TONIGHT at 4:00 PM PST

Sound Techniques of Recording Concert
TONIGHT at 8:00 PST

Seminar in Electronic Music Performance Concert, via ESS Chicago
Saturday, December 5 5:00 PM PST

Composition Seminar Concert
Monday, December 7 4:00 PM PST

Contemporary Performance Ensemble Concert
Wednesday, December 9 8:00 PM PST

Seminar in Electronic Music Performance Concert
Saturday, December 12 8:00 PM PST

Mills College Choir Concert
Sunday, December 13 4:00 PM PST

Introduction to Computer Music Concert
Monday, December 14 4:00 PM PST

Music Improvisation Ensemble Concert
Tuesday, December 15 6:45 PM PST

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Presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

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Pictured: Holly Herndon, MFA ‘10

December 5, 2020 at 7pm CT
Mills College Graduate Concert: KEEPING IT ALIVE!

Adam Briggs
Kristian Dahlbom
Jefferson Doyle
Angie Edwards
Sam Regan
Stan Summy
Cory Tripathy

Watch the live stream and donate to the artists at the "Mills College Graduate Concert" link in our bio via our linktree!

The Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College presents a live broadcast of this Fall's seminar in Live Electronic Music Performance, directed by Laetitia Sonami.

Adam Briggs, Kristian Dahlbom, Jefferson Doyle, Angie Edwards, Sam Regan, Stan Summy and Cory Tripathy perform their recent works. Live electronics, home-made instruments, acoustic instruments, and off/on the shelf tools for a medley of sonic experiments.
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Repost via @esschicago!

The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present:

Music from Mills Classes
Fall 2020

Free admission to all events! Find links to all concerts in this series via the linktree in our bio!

Schedule:
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Student Showcase Concert
Thursday, December 3 8:00 PM PST

Percussion Ensemble Concert
Friday, December 4 4:00 PM PST

Sound Techniques of Recording Concert
Friday, December 4 8:00 PM

Seminar in Electronic Music Performance Concert, via ESS Chicago
Saturday, December 5 5:00 PM PST

Composition Seminar Concert
Monday, December 7 4:00 PM PST

Contemporary Performance Ensemble Concert
Wednesday, December 9 8:00 PM PST

Seminar in Electronic Music Performance Concert
Saturday, December 12 8:00 PM PST

Mills College Choir Concert
Sunday, December 13 4:00 PM PST

Introduction to Computer Music Concert
Monday, December 14 4:00 PM PST

Music Improvisation Ensemble Concert
Tuesday, December 15 6:45 PM PST
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@millsmusicnow @millscollege

It's #MillsGiving!
In these difficult times, we are asking for YOUR support to help us continue to provide top-notch education to the next generation of Bay Area performers, artists, and scholars. Please find the link to the fundraiser via the linktree in our bio!

#MillsCollege #Mills #Oakland #SupportTheArts #FundTheArts #PerformingArts #Fundraiser #LiberalArts #BayArea @MillsCollege

Hello friends! Tomorrow, December 1st, marks the fifth annual #MillsGiving fundraising event! This year, our aim is to raise $75,000 across 300 donors. In these difficult times, we are asking for YOUR support! Your contribution will have a tremendous impact on the future of the college, and your support will help us continue to provide top-notch education for our students through the hardships the pandemic has placed on our shoulders. Contributors may select one of three designations for their gift: Mills Greatest Need, Undergraduate Scholarships, or the Student Hardship Fund. You can find the link to the fundraiser via the linktree in our bio!

From the college:
Welcome to the fifth annual #MillsGiving where donors and advocates like you come together to make a heroic difference in the lives of our students, who are working hard—both through a pandemic and an economic crisis—to secure their education and futures.

You are a crucial part of the Mills community—a microcosm of society, representing diverse thought, challenges, and passions. When you bolster this community with the power of your gift, you’re strengthening our society as a whole by preparing students to tackle and solve its toughest questions when they graduate. Thank you.

This year, you can help us gain the support of 300 donors for a total of $75,000. Your gift, of any amount, will aid us in getting there. More than that, when you participate as an Advocate, you can inspire gifts from others, ensuring the campaign’s success. Create a challenge that dares donors to take a specific action for unlocking your gift, or simply create a matching gift to encourage donor contributions. Spread the news of the campaign on social media or in personal messages—and earn Mills swag when you do!

Thank you for seeing the value in a Mills education and for believing in the power of our community.

#MillsCollege #Mills #Oakland #SupportTheArts #FundTheArts #PerformingArts #Fundraiser #LiberalArts #BayArea @MillsCollege

Repost from @kingoftruands! Three of our Theatre Studies seniors will be presenting original works for their theses this week! Link in our bio.

From Jett:
Hi! Some friends and I will be presenting three theatre theses pretty soon! If you’re free on December 4th or 5th from 7:00-8:30 PST, we’d love to have you hop on to our livestream.

It’ll be up on the Mills Performing Arts website, here: https://performingarts.mills.edu/broadcasts/2020/theater-senior.php

There are also Facebook events for both events, if you’d like a reminder!
Friday: https://www.facebook.com/events/1344137212602535/
Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/events/2078480998952577

Repost from @millsdancedepartment. Join us November 30th for our 3rd speaker in our B.L.A.C.K speaker series! From 4:30-5:30pm
Ticket link in our bio!
Movement artist, choreographer, DJ, and music producer Stephanie Hewett, MFA ’17 sits down with host Jazmine Freeman this month to discuss how art and sound can document, convey, and celebrate Black resilience and joy. Originally from the Bronx, New York—formerly the territory of the Indigenous Lenape people—Hewett completed her undergraduate studies in dance from Trinity College before becoming an alum of the Mills College MFA Program in Dance in 2017. Currently, Hewett is in residency with For the Wild, a serial podcast that unearths stories surrounding “land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling.”
Stephanie Hewett is a movement artist, choreographer, DJ, and music producer living in East Oakland. She uses sound to cultivate deeper connections to her Afro-Caribbean lineage through fast, syncopated rhythms rooted in spiritual catharsis and somatic freedom. Her musical research digs into the history of black music focusing primarily on the evolution of Techno, and Palos, the traditional sacred music of the Dominican Republic. She believes the drum is a powerful tool and uses percussion and movement to shape sounds of black resilience, defiance, creativity, liberation, and joy.

B.L.A.C.K. Speaker Series is a monthly online gathering centered on black artistry.

The series, hosted by M.F.A. Candidate Jazmine Freeman, features lively and focused conversations with invited artists, centering on key issues facing Black artists today. Our goal is to come together to engage in thoughtful dialogue with artists about their work and the ways in which their work engages in their blackness.

#MillsCollege #BLACKSpeakerSeries #MillsDance #DanceMFA #JazmineFreeman #StephanieHewett #Dance #Mills #College

Repost from @millsmusicnow. TONIGHT at 7:00pm!

BRENDA HUTCHINSON
(David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)

Saturday, November 21, 2020
7:00pm PST
Free

Covid Coping Mechanisms: A Virtual Variety Show

resented by the Mills College Music Department, Center for Contemporary Music, and Performing Arts Center

Mills Music Now 2020-2021 Online

This is a free online event, but please go to Eventbrite to register for access. Donations are accepted.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brenda-hutchinson-tickets-126487931809

More information at:
https://performingarts.mills.edu/performing-arts-programs/mills-music-now/index.php
�Please like and share our Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/294262388270634

Brenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist. Through her work with large-scale experiments in socially based improvisations and interactions, Brenda Hutchinson has developed a body of work based on a perspective about interacting with the public and non-artists through personal, reciprocal engagement with listening and sounding. She has also been making sounds and singing into one end of a 9 1/2 foot Long Tube since 1990 and has developed a more bionic, electronically enhanced version of the Long Tube that she uses for both solo performance and to improvise with other musicians.

http://www.sonicportraits.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Hutchinson

#millsmusicnow #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #avantgardemusic #newmusicusa #millscollege #brendahutchinson #performanceart #ucsdmusic

Missed [e]Motion yesterday? You have one more chance to catch these talented dancers at 5:00pm tonight!

Repost from @millsdancedepartment:

[e]Motion @ Mills
Presented by Mills College Dance and Theater Studies

Friday November 20th & Saturday November 21st @ 5pm
Registration link available via the link in @millsdancedepartment bio.

An evening of Original Dance Art by Abby Crain, Sheldon Smith and Robert Moses, including site specific, socially focused, high concept work, available both live and on demand via Vimeo.

Mills students and faculty harness the global energy of the day and present works of collective power and individual honor, community reflection and organizational aspiration