Novel approach: Performance artist types  Elkin’s ‘The Dick Gibson Show’ live on KWUR

Novel approach: Performance artist types Elkin’s ‘The Dick Gibson Show’ live on KWUR

As part of his “100 Novels Project,” performance artist Tim Youd is retyping, word for word, “The Dick Gibson Show,” Stanley Elkin’s novel about a late-night disc jockey, on KWUR, WashU’s student radio station. Assuming the role as overnight DJ himself, Youd will type until 5 a.m. every morning until May 1. This will be the 84th novel Youd has typed in full.
¿Te puedo contar algo?

¿Te puedo contar algo?

“¿Te puedo contar algo?”, an evening-length concert featuring new and original works by MFA candidates Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón in Arts & Sciences, will explore the nature, power and necessity of grief March 21 and 22 in WashU’s Edison Theatre.
A Beautiful Fight

A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

“A Beautiful Fight” examines the potentials and limits of capoeira Angola to cohere a multiracial community committed to antiracist struggle.
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