Linda Sopheap Sou is featured in the latest episode of the Mass Cultural Council's podcast Creative Minds Out Loud. A former executive director of Lowell's Angkor Dance Troupe, she began training with the traditional Cambodian performing arts group at age three (being, as it happens, the daughter of its founder). Check out Creative Minds Out Loud, featuring conversations … [Read more...]
World Premiere of Tracy Heather Strain’s Lorraine Hansberry Documentary
At Mass Cultural Council, we are privileged to encounter a range of exhilarating creative projects. One of the more memorable in the past 10 years is The Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project by Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry (Film & Video Fellows '07). The project explores the life of playwright/activist Lorraine Hansberry, best known for her 1959 play A Raisin … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Cassandra Klos
Cassandra Klos uses photography to explore other worlds and inner mysteries. Her Mars on Earth series captures scientific simulations of the Martian landscape, and here, she discusses how her process and workspace impact her photographic expeditions. Most of my practice takes place out in the world. For the past three years, I have been traveling around the United States … [Read more...]
Michael Dowling’s Brave New Jersey in the Berkshires
Brave New Jersey, a feature film co-written by Michael Dowling (Dramatic Writing Fellow '09), will screen at the Berkshire Museum's Little Cinema this weekend (8/18-8/21). The film explores how a small town reacts to "the original fake news" - the 1938 radio broadcast of Orson Wells' War of the Worlds. In an interview with the Berkshire Eagle, the playwright/screenwriter … [Read more...]
Three Stages: Lainey Schooltree
In Three Stages, artists explore one work of art through three stages in its development. Composer and musician Lainey Schooltree has undergone a years-long journey to create her rock opera Heterotopia. Heterotopia will have a concert performance and book release for its illustrated libretto on Friday, September 29, 2017, at OBERON in Cambridge. Here, she traces its … [Read more...]