Second Annual Arts Festival, sponsored by the Office of the President of  Boston College, Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., the Arts Council of Boston College and the Office of Community Affairs.

Highlights of the Festival

Arts Festival Hotline:  552-ARTS (552-2787)

Directions to BC and Arts Festival Map (.pdf files; click here to Download Acrobat Reader)

Return to BC Arts Organizations Page

Art Exhibitions
Thursday, April 27 and Friday, April 28
12:00-8:00 pm Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects 
from the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne
Devlin hall, McMullen Museum 
Guided Tours available 
12:00-Dark Out of the Studios: Work by Student Artists
Painting, drawings, ceramics and photography. 
Some work will be available for sale. 
O'Neill Plaza, Plaza Gallery 
12:00-8:00 pm Interiors 
An exhibit of work by student artists in a variety of media, 
based on the theme of "interiors". 
Alley Gallery, Devlin Hall, 4th floor

Student Photography exhibit.
Devlin Hall, first floor 
On-going Abacadabra
Collaborative Sculpture from the 1999 Boston College Arts Festival. 
O'Neill Library, main floor 

Student Photography exhibit.
Fulton Hall (first floor student lounge) 

 
Visual Arts Events and Film Screenings
Thursday, April 27
12:00-5:00 pm  Collaborative sculpture project by Mark Cooper, Fine Arts department.
O'Neill Plaza 
1:00 pm  Classic Animation clips presented for the Campus School 
Campion Hall TV studio 
3:00 pm  Hour of the Star
by Susan Amaral (1985) with an introduction by Professor Deborah Levenson-Estrada, History department, Latin American film. 
Devlin Hall room 026
Friday April 28  
12:00-5:00 pm Ceramics demonstration by Brad Pratt, Fine Arts department 
O'Neill Plaza
1:00-4:00 pm Best of Student Film & Digital Technology projects
Devlin Hall room 013
2:00-5:00 pm Open figure drawing session with John Steczynski, Fine Arts department.Devlin Hall room 413
 
Performing Arts Events
Thursday, April 27
12 Noon  Opening Ceremony and Student Awards Presentation 
by William Leahy, S.J., President BC, 
O'Neill Plaza 
12:15 pm BC bOp!, with the Swing Kids 
O'Neill Plaza
12:30 pm Rublev Choir 
Russian sacred and folk music. 
Gasson 100
1:00 pm  Contemporary Theater of Boston College 
A staged reading of an original work by Claire Darby '02. 
Gasson 100
1:30 pm  Dramatics Society 
Staged readings of three one-act plays. 
O'Neill Plaza

Making the Call by Jane Martin 
Misreadings by Neena Beber 
The Philadelphia by David Ives 
2:30 pm  BC Sharps
Female a cappella group. 
O'Neill Plaza
3:00 pm Chamber Music Society 
with members of the Hawthorne String Quartet perform 
the Mendelssohn Octet. 
Gasson 100

Dance performances
by Dance Ensemble, Dance Teams, The Dance Organization, 
and Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble. 
O'Neill Plaza
4:00 pm Brass Ensemble 
O'Neill Plaza 
5:00 pm University Chorale 
O'Neill Plaza

My Mother's Fleabag
Improvisational theater troupe. 
Gasson 100 
6:00 pm  Voices of Imani
Gospel music
O'Neill Plaza
7:00 pm  Boston Kleztet
klezmer music with dance lessons. 
O'Neill Plaza 
8:00 pm  Concert Band 
Gasson 100

University Theater's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience 
Admission is $10/$5 Call 552.4800 for ticket information. 
Robsham Theater
Performing Arts Events 
Friday, April 28
12 Noon  Irish Studies Music Program
O'Neill Plaza
1:00 pm  Scenes from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience 
O'Neill Plaza
2:00 pm  Liturgy Arts Group 
O'Neill Plaza
3:00 pm Dance performances 
by: Dance Ensemble, Dance Teams, The Dance Organization, 
and Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble. 
O'Neill Plaza
4:30 pm  Dynamics
Mixed voices a capella group 
O'Neill Plaza
7:30 pm  Swing Dance with BC bOp! 
Swing lessons given by Swing Kids 
O'Neill Plaza
8:00 pm University Theater's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience 
Admission is $10/$5. Call 552.4800 for ticket information. 
Robsham Theater. 

Bostonians
O'Connell House
Culinary Arts Events 
Thursday, April 27 (only)
1:30 pm  Dessert plate presentation 
by BC Executive Chef, Chris Eiseman. 
O'Neill Plaza
3:00 pm Garnishing 
by BC Executive Chef, Chris Eiseman. 
O'Neill Plaza
Literary Arts Events 
Friday April 28, gasson 100 
Faculty Readers
12:00-12:20 pm Ed Hardy 
(fiction) 
12:20-12:40 pm Susan Roberts 
(poetry) 
12:40-1:00 pm Clare Dunsford 
(creative nonfiction) 
1:00-1:20 pm  Andrew Von Hendy 
(poetry) 
1:20-1:40 pm Susan Monsky 
(fiction) 
1:40-2:00 pm  Wendy Mnookin 
(poetry) 
2:00-2:20 pm Suzanne Matson 
(fiction) 
2:20-2:40 pm  Elizabeth Graver 
(fiction) 
2:40-3:00 pm James Najarian 
(poetry) 
Student Readers
3:00-4:30 pm Senior Writing Concentrators 
4:30-6:00 pm  Stylus Contributors