The heart and soul of rock ‘n’ roll is the city of LA. This exhibition explores LA rock through several major focal points—ChicanX rock 'n' roll, Laurel Canyon singer songwriters, LA punk, Punk musician Alice Bag (aka "Violence Girl"), and contemporary LA women rockers. Young people in LA not only learned to support each other […]
First female coach in the NFL, Katie Sowers joins us in conversation. The first woman and openly gay coach to coach in a Super Bowl, former San Francisco 49ers Offensive Assistant Coach Katie Sowers paves the way for equality in the workplace. Coach Sowers is Defensive Coordinator and Director of Operations of the Ottawa University […]
Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar Joseph Allen Boone. Joseph Allen Boone is a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including The Homoerotics of Orientalism, Tradition Counter of Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction, and Imperial Desire: Dissident […]
The Spring 2023 Friday Noon Concert Series continues on October 6 with a performance of music by Paul Wiancko and Bohuslav Martinů featuring Pomona and Scripps music faculty, Maggie Parkins (Pomona), Julie Jung, Kyle Champion, Eric Lindholm (Pomona), cellos; and Jennie Jung (Pomona/Scripps), piano. Don't miss this wonderful cello quartet with piano. Please visit the […]
íyo'toróvim yaraarkokre 'eyoo'ooxono (We the Caretakers Remember our Land) is a groundbreaking live performance event in which Indigenous oral history meets intercultural music performance. The Gabrielino-Shoshone Council represents an intertribal coalition whose ancestral lands include the present-day site of The Claremont Colleges. This event provides an opportunity to learn about current, local Indigenous experience, to […]
Dr Tom Smith is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research focuses on queer approaches to contemporary Germany and he’s currently working on a larger project on queer of color creativity around Germany’s electronic music scene. He publishes widely on contemporary Germany. He was selected as an AHRC/BBC New Generation […]
Join us in conversation with Olympic volleyball player and mental health advocate, Victoria Garrick Browne. Victoria Garrick Browne is a TED Talk speaker, mental health advocate, podcast host, and former Division I Athlete who has amassed 2M+ followers across social media where she's known for her unfiltered campaign, #RealPost. Victoria first began sharing her story […]
On Tuesday October 10th, 2023 students from the Claremont colleges will be giving a student recital in Boone Recital Hall at 7:30 pm. • Doors open at 7:15 pm • Admission is free and open to the public • Food is not permitted in the concert hall • All artists and programs subject to change […]
Making Scenes, Building Communities project nurtures collaborations between UW faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, community members, and scholars of gender, race & sexuality in music and social justice movements. Since 2010, Womxn Who Rock’s has collaboratively organized intentional spaces of belonging through participatory archive, music, and media practices. Guided by Professors Michelle Habell-Pallan, Sonnet H. Retman […]
Ring in the spooky season by rocking out at Scripps Presents' Fright Night, Battle of the Bands! The evening will kick off with a costume catwalk at 6pm, so break out your favorite costume and enjoy a selection of food trucks prior to the event. At 7pm catch performances by student bands Dinner with Me and Blemish […]
The Spring 2023 Friday Noon Concert Series continues on September 29 with a performance of music by Rachmaninoff featuring Pomona music faculty, Phil Young (Pomona), and Jocelyn Chang, pianos. Don't miss these excellent concert of piano duos. *This concert will be held in Lyman Hall* Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information […]
The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges presents The Claremont Concert Orchestra performing symphonic works by Brahms and Dvořák. There will be two performances. An evening concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 21 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on October 22. Concerts will be held in […]
The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges presents The Claremont Concert Orchestra performing symphonic works by Brahms and Dvořák. There will be two performances. An evening concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 21 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on October 22. Concerts will be held in […]
Join us in conversation with Anna Nora, Finnish composer and O'Brien visiting professor at Scripps College Anna Nora is a Finnish composer and choir educator with a special interest in choir methodology for children and youth and in choir conducting pedagogy. She works as an instructor in the Helsinki Conservatory of Music conducting children's and […]
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Producer, and Author Matthew Cherry’s 2020 Oscar winning short film, Hair Love, was adapted into a picture book for Penguin Random House and immediately became a New York Times Bestseller and earned nominations for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Picture […]
Join us in conversation with Megan Phelps-Roper, author of Unfollow: A Memoir Of Loving and Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church Megan Phelps-Roper has championed the power of empathetic dialogue to change minds and connect with those we may disagree with. Her inspiring, moving, and deeply human story of change is also the subject of her […]
The Fall 2023 Friday Noon Concert Series continues on October 27 with a performance of music by Dhiren Panikker and other jazz classics. Don't miss these excellent concert from a jazz trio. Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol. • Doors open at 12 […]
Opening Reception Queer-ish: Photography and the LGBTQ+ Imaginary Saturday, October 28, 2023, 5–7 pm Free and open to the public Join us for food, drink, and a vinyl DJ set by dj diA (Radio Realness and Synthdactyl Program, KSPC) to celebrate the opening of Queer-ish: Photography and the LGBTQ+ Imaginary. Curated by interdisciplinary artist and […]
Join us in conversation with the Award Winning Author, Podcast Host and Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. She is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was […]
The Fall 2023 Friday Noon Concert Series continues on November 3 with performers Anne Harley, Michaela Kelly and Kyungmi Kim playing music by Rachmaninov, Alan Smith, and Léo Delibes. Don't miss this stellar concert of vocal repertoire. Please visit the Friday Noon Concert webpage for current information regarding upcoming concert programs and public event protocol. […]
