On Saturday, Oct. 2, the IdeasCityWS Festival comes to Bailey Park as art, tech, design, and culture lead the conversation forward. Featuring interactive exhibits from two dozen local creative organizations, we’ll engage with a range of working ideas poised to move our communities forward as we reimagine a post-pandemic Winston-Salem.
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Wake Forest University is accepting nominations for the newly established Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award. The award will honor world-renowned artists who reflect Maya Angelou’s passions for creating, performing and teaching. The Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence honor celebrates exceptional artists for combining achievement in the arts and a commitment to improving the human condition.
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In October 2019, Wake Forest University Facilities staff participated in “From the Ground Up,” an original dance performance held on Hearn Plaza. Directed by Allison Orr (’93) of Forklift Danceworks in Austin, the production elevated the dedicated people whose skillful work often goes unseen. To commemorate the anniversary of this groundbreaking event, IdeasCityWS will host a “Beta Bonfire” panel discussion on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 5 p.m., looking back at the production through the lens of workforce development.
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Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty Christina Soriano, Daniel Kim-Shapiro, Jed Macosko and Kristen Beavers on each of their funded proposals.
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When first-graders at Brunson Elementary were learning about birds, 17 Wake Forest students visited their classrooms to connect the biology lessons with the arts by exploring how birds move and leading bird-themed creative projects.
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Housekeeping staff, arborists, turf crew members, locksmiths and carpenters were among the nearly 70 participants performing on Hearn Plaza in the original dance piece “From the Ground Up.” Performances were held on Oct. 3, 4 and 5.
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The Office of the Provost e-mailed this announcement to students, faculty and staff on Sept. 24:
Dear Wake Forest Community,
As members of the Commencement Speaker Advisory Committee, we look forward to engaging our graduating students and other members of the university community in the selection process of our 2020 Commencement speaker.
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Congratulations to Christina Soriano, associate provost and associate professor of theatre and dance, whose proposal entitled “A Randomized Trial of Dance of Mood, Balance and Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Wake Forest University Health Sciences.
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Christina Soriano, associate provost for the arts, has been named a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. Soriano, who is also associate professor of dance and director of the University’s dance program, is one of eight change-makers in the United States who will begin a one-year fellowship at the Kennedy Center Arts Summit on April 29.
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Wake Forest’s Interdisciplinary Performance and Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe) has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts to help fund an interdisciplinary collaboration with Forklift Danceworks – an organization based in Austin, Texas, that uses creative collaboration to spark conversation and inspire change.
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