Liberal Arts

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NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

Students in the Liberal Arts Drama Workshop elective perform Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola. Directed by Patrick Keppel, with original music by the Drama Workshop. Please note an open rehearsal is...

Spring Things promotional poster
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NEC: St.Botolph 300

Site-specific installations with temporal elements (performances), exploring spatial and sound-visual relationships.
 
Please join us on May 3rd!
See the program and locations below.

Preliminary...

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NEC: Pierce Hall

Come see the candidates for the Liberal Arts Minor present their Capstone projects. Refreshments provided.

THE NEC LIBERAL ARTS DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
Liberal Arts Minor Capstone Presentations 

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MOMENTS
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NEC: Eben Jordan Ensemble Room

Join the Visual Arts Studio for their final show of the semester!

December 15th, Eben Jordan, 2-4 pm

 

Showcasing work by:

Sam Childs

Rotem Eylam

Seiha Park

Lexine Feng

Chloe Thum

Hila Dahari...

What Washes Over
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NEC: Burnes Hall

A multimedia exploration of how we relate to a changing climate, how we make space for grief, care, action, and resilience, and how we create community and connect with life across the planet. Works...

Visual art
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The Liberal Arts Department at New England Conservatory offers a complement to students’ musical training. Through courses in literature, history, film, and philosophy, musicians gain a better understanding of the cultural, social, and political contexts of the works they perform. Here, liberal arts faculty member Katya Popova talks about why the visual arts are important for today’s musicians, and how she hopes to inspire students’ artistic practices.
Lost Lands
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NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

The Magari Ensemble and NEC’s Liberal Arts Department present LOST LANDS - an immersive concert experience visualizing the effects of rising sea levels on coastal area populations. Join us on May 19th...

Brittany Bryant
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One of the first undergraduates in NEC history to receive a Fulbright fellowship, vocal performance major Brittany Bryant ’23 travels to Enna, Italy this fall to pursue Italian linguistic studies. Bryant spoke with her Italian professor and mentor, Francesca Santovetti, about her linguistics journey and how NEC helped her prepare for the Fulbright Fellowship. 
Bread and Puppet
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NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

"Cantastoria" is a street theater form championed by Bread and Puppet that involves the narration of pictures using song, movement, text and puppetry. The word "canta-storia" comes from Italian (“sung...

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Alison Cotti-Lowell joined the Liberal Arts Department at NEC after spending several years teaching literature and writing at Boston College, where she completed her PhD in English Literature in 2021...