The First Annual Boston College Arts Festival

 

April 28-29, 1999

First 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. 

Over 500 performers and support staff  put on 36 events, including concerts, dance, art exhibitions and demonstrations, film screenings and theater performances. 

Events were held in a variety of on-campus locations, including O'Neill Plaza, Gasson 100, the McMullen Museum of Art, Robsham Theater Arts Center, Bapst Library and Devlin Hall.

Arts Festival Sculpture installed in O'Neill Library - Sept. 10, 1999

Real Video Clips of the Festival:
Swing Dance with BC bOp! -clip 1
Thursday 8 pm
BC Chamber Music Society Performance
Student Art - Real Video Tour of the Exhibition
 Swing Dance with BC bOp! -clip 2
Boston Brass
A cappella performances
Ceramics Demo, Collaborative Sculpture, Sidewalk art
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Credits:  sponsors and participants

Thursday, April 29

O'Neill Plaza -- Main Tent

The Art and Information Tent
 
Jean McKeigue (right)

Sandra Savicka, volunteer

Nichole R., John Michalczyk (right)

Nichole R., Charles Meyer, 
John Michalczyk

Jeffery Howe, Mark Cooper, 
Peggy McCone

Jeffery Howe

Art -- Exhibitions and Demonstrations
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Art Exhibitions:

"Saints and Sinners:  Caravaggio and the Baroque Image"

Student Art

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Art Demonstrations:

Ceramics Wheelthrowing

Collaborative Sculpture Project -- Mark Cooper

Sidewalk Art - Artplosion
 

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Real Video Tour 
of the Student Art Exhibition
Photography Exhibits

Dance Events
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Dance Demonstrations
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Real Video Clip
of the 
Swing Dance
with BC bOp!
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Swing Dance with BC bOp! -clip 2

Film Presentations
 
"A Blast from the Past -- 
Science Fiction Film Review"
John Michalczyk and Judith Wilt
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Faculty Films
Sorceress, by Pamela Berger
The Magic Stone, by Pamela Berger
Of Stars and Shamrocks, by John Michalczyk
Dalai Lama, by Charles Meyer
Student Films
Classic Animation Clips
-- Presented to the Campus School 
Students by film students

Musical Events
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Musical Performances
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Real Video Clip
of BC Chamber Music 
Society Performance

Poetry and Fiction Readings, Devlin Terrace Cafe Tent
 
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Poetry and Literary Readings

Theater Events
 
"Into The Woods"
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Stuart J. Hecht
Dramatics Society

Photography by Jeffery Howe, John Michalczyk, and Marcus Villanueva '99.
Web design by Jeffery Howe.