SCU Center for the Arts and Humanities

Excited that our former Sinatra Artist in Residence, W. Kamau Bell, headlines at the San Jose Speaker Series tonight. Check it out! https://www.sanjoseseries.com/wkamaubell

Next week! Images 2021 Thursday, February 4, 2021 Friday, February 5, 2021 7:00 p.m.... Department of Theatre and Dance Striking performances that’ll make you want to dance! Our annual Images dance concert features faculty, guest artists' and select student works. Images showcases our dancers overwhelming talent, displayed across genres - from jazz and tap to modern and hip hop. Intriguing collaborations with costume and lighting designers as well as diverse music round out this breathtaking evening. https://apps.vendini.com/e/viewEmail.php See more

The Winter 2021 virtual residency with Sinatra Chair Rhiannon Giddens concludes on Monday at noon with a live musical performance, followed by audience Q&A. Learn about frame drums, accordions, banjos and more as Rhiannon and Francesco perform music together on these instruments from their home studio in Dublin, Ireland. Ask questions in the live stream discussion board. Free and open to the public--see the link below! Instruments Corner... Monday, January 25 12-1:30 pm See more

NEWSFLASH! Tomorrow, Friday Jan 21, there will be special roundtable discussion on Decolonizing Music Education organized by Christina Zanfagna, associate professor of Music and 20-21 Sinatra Fellow. Christina will be joined by Rhiannon, Francesco Turrisi, and two special guests: Loren Kajikawa, Associate Professor of Music at George Washington University, and Charles Mc Neal, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Community at the San Francisco Opera. This roundtable addresses h...istories of exclusion and white privilege in music education in the U.S. and the world. How can music scholars, educators, professionals, and musicians identify, understand, and evaluate anti-colonial or decolonizing practices even as they are often entrenched in Western models of music making and colonial logics? While focused on how music is taught and learned, the conversation is sure to apply to any discipline. Friday, January 22 12-1:30 pm Register (free and open to the public) for the Decolonizing Music Education roundtable here Join the live webcast here

Another Frank Sinatra Chair in the Performing Arts event tomorrow, January 20th! Rhiannon and Francesco will join students from the Global Music & Cultural Politics SCU Music course to discuss how they conceive of World Music and how they approach crossing music’s borders in their own practice. In addition, Rhiannon, as the new Director of the cross-cultural musical organization and former Sinatra Artists-in-Residence, the Silk Road Ensemble, will talk about the ensemble’s new project focusing on the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1800s.