The Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies (TFMS) at St. Mary’s College of Maryland will host its sixth annual film series, “Ethnography and Alterity,” at 8:15 p.m. on Monday evenings, October 1, 15, and 22, in the college’s Cole Cinema (Campus Center). Kicking off the series on October 1, will be award-winning filmmaker and Find out more »
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s History Department Presents “Comrades in The Cosmos: Soviet Science Fiction Film Series”
The History Department of St. Mary’s College of Maryland is pleased to present “Comrades in the Cosmos: Soviet Science Fiction Film Series.” The Soviet Union had a great tradition of science fiction, which has remained largely unknown in the U.S. These films dramatize issues of the threats and potential of technology, the limits and nature Find out more »
Open Auditions for St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Production of Japanese Kyôgen Comedies
Asian performance specialist and professor of theater at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Holly A. Blumner, will bring a series of new Japanese kyôgen comedies in translation, in both traditional and contemporary stagings, to the Bruce Davis Theater. Auditions for “Laughing at Life: A Performance of Kyôgen Plays” will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Hosts Film Screening and Discussion with Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Leadership
“Stealing Trust,” a documentary created by the Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition that investigates the predatory and fraudulent practices of businesses that negatively affect Maryland consumers, will be shown on Wednesday, April 18 at 6:00 p.m. in Cole Cinema of the Campus Center on the St. Mary’s College campus. Following the film screening, Franz Schneiderman, the Find out more »
Merideth Taylor Announces Opening of Final Performance Piece
“The Big Picture App?,” an original, multi-media production conceived and directed by St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Professor of Theater and Dance, Merideth Taylor, opens Thursday, March 29 at 8 p.m. in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center, on the college campus. Produced by the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies, Find out more »
Film Gives Voice to those Denied
Haitian-Panamanian filmmaker Michèle Stephenson will screen her film, “Faces of Change,” and then take questions at 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, in St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Cole Cinema in the college’s Campus Center, the final film in the college’s 2012 series, Out of Bounds: Feminist Films and Filmmakers. “Faces of Change” highlights the story Find out more »
Film Studies American Dream of Owning a Home
Social anthropologist and filmmaker Jenny Cool will screen her film, “Home Economics,” and then take questions at 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Cole Cinema in the college’s Campus Center as part of the college’s 2012 film series, Out of Bounds: Feminist Films and Filmmakers. “Home Economics” (1994) takes an Find out more »
Feminist Films and Women Filmmakers
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s fifth annual film series, Out of Bounds: Feminist Films and Filmmakers, will focus on the work of women filmmakers and women’s filmmaking collectives. It kicks off with Yun Suh, who will screen her film “City of Borders” at 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in Cole Cinema in the college’s Campus Find out more »
Open Auditions for SMCM’s Spring Production Jan. 18
Auditions for St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s final show of the 2011-2012 theater season, “The Big Picture App?,” will be held Wednesday, January 18, from 4-6:30 p.m. in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center, on the campus. Callbacks will be Friday, January 20, from 3-5 p.m. Performance dates are March 29-April 1 Find out more »
The Human Story Behind Race
What is it like to be African American at St. Mary’s College, and in St. Mary’s County? If you are white, what would you like to ask a black student? Why can it be so difficult to talk about race? Award-winning playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings interviewed about 50 faculty, alumni, staff, and students on the Find out more »