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Share Your Story: Hannah Antillon

February 21, 2020 12:00 AM
Communications student Hannah Antillón shares how an experiential learning opportunity has enhanced her time at BYU
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BYU Design professor Doug Thomas featured in BYU Magazine’s “A Thing of Beauty” Series

February 21, 2020 12:00 AM
Thomas discusses how typefaces are beautiful storytellers
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Diane Reich to Speak on Spiritual Guidance in the Life of a Performer in Faith + Works Lecture

February 20, 2020 12:00 AM
The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 5 at 11 a.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall
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Are Disney Princesses Harmful to Young Girls? New BYU Study Says No

February 19, 2020 12:00 AM
Disney princesses excite and inspire young girls all over the world, captivating them with beauty, bravery and royal status. This princess frenzy — a hallmark of the childhood experience — also fuels passionate debates about the unrealistic expectations these characters set, especially concerning body image and romantic relationships. BYU communications professors Tom Robinson, Clark Callahan and Scott Church, along with graduate students Mckenzie Madsen and Lucia Pollock, recently published their research paper “Virtue, royalty, dreams and power: Exploring the appeal of Disney Princesses to preadolescent girls in the United States” which investigates the topic through the eyes of the girls themselves. “This study is unique because it’s talking about Disney princesses, but it’s not an adult talking about them,” Robinson said. “We’re showing what the young girls themselves think and discovered that they do not all think alike.” Read the full article at comms.byu.edu
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Kuné Musicians Emphasize Innovation, Collaboration in BRAVO! Masterclass

February 13, 2020 12:00 AM
Kuné — Canada’s Global Orchestra — visited campus for their BRAVO! Series performance
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Share Your Story: Rachel Keeler

February 12, 2020 12:00 AM
Communications student Rachel Keeler shares how an experiential learning opportunity has enhanced her time at BYU
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Q&A: Grendel Cooks Up Success

February 07, 2020 12:00 AM
On a picturesque seaside knoll, a peaceful dragon is mowing his lawn when Vikings arrive in the bay below. Eager to greet them, the monster brings homemade cookies. But his new neighbors aren’t having it. So begins the 8-minute BYU student animation Grendel, which won gold at the 46th Annual Student Academy Awards. Here student director Kalee S. McCollaum (BA ’18) shares the backstory. How did the story of Grendel get chosen? Grendel, a twist on the Beowulf legend, was originally pitched in storyboard form by animation student Erik K. Hansen (BA ’18). As he went through the slides and added explanations to the visuals, we were all laughing and felt the idea had a good amount of heart and potential. Read the entire Q&A in BYU Magazine's Winter 2020 issue.
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Documenting a Landscape

February 07, 2020 12:00 AM
Raised in Moscow, Idaho, John P. Snyder (’99) was shaped by the landscape around him. “The hills of the Palouse region of Idaho are the residue of violent processes. Airborne dust from volcanoes, massive floods, and glaciation built soil that has become one of the world’s most productive agricultural areas,” notes Snyder. “I grew up looking out into the undulating hills and wondering, ‘What is out there?’” It’s a question the former BYU photographer is still trying to answer. After years of shooting images of BYU’s campus, people, and happenings (1984–99), including innumerable images published in this magazine, he moved back to Idaho in 2007 to explore the contours and preserve the spirit of his homeland. Read the entire article in BYU Magazine's Winter 2020 issue.
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Share Your Story: Mckenzie Rucker

February 06, 2020 12:00 AM
Department of Dance
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Share Your Story: Amelia Mecham

February 06, 2020 12:00 AM
Communications student Amelia Mecham shares how an experiential learning opportunity has enhanced her time at BYU.
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Share Your Story: Auburn Wilcox

February 05, 2020 12:00 AM
Auburn Wilcox shares how an experiential learning opportunity enhanced her time at BYU
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Sundance 2020: The Killing of Two Lovers superbly crafted story about troubled marriage in tiny rural town

January 29, 2020 12:00 AM
The town portrayed in the Sundance premiere of The Killing of Two Lovers is so small that David, who is staying at his father’s home while he and Nikki try to figure out if their marriage is salvageable, easily can see everything going on in the lives of his wife and four kids in the home just down the street. Directed by Robert Machoian, a photography program faculty member at Brigham Young University in Provo, this feature-length narrative offers a superbly crafted, beautifully filmed story about how the difficulties of asking for space to sort things out in a marriage are magnified enormously in a town as small as the one the director chose for the film’s production. Selected for the festival’s NEXT category, the film shines in performances that capture the simmering tensions and spoken words that could derail any good faith intention of reconciling problems in a marriage. And, Machoian – with an impressive, understated, elegant choice of mise-en-scène – gives the viewer the utter irony of the notion of asking for space in a small central Utah town set against an impressive mountain range (although there is no card title specifying the location). The film was supported by the Utah Film Commission. Read the full story by Les Roka at theutahreview.com.
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Arts & Entertainment

BYU Symphonic Band: Of Winds and Fall

7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 14
Join the BYU Symphonic Band as they perform some of the pillars of the wind band repertoire, including Gustav Holst's First Suite in E-flat and other favorites.
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OcTUBAfest

7:30 PM
Thursday, October 16
BYU’s annual two-day tuba festival features students and faculty performing classical favorites as well as arrangements of popular songs, film scores, and folk tunes.
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BYU Symphony Orchestra

7:30 PM
Thursday, October 16
BYU's Symphony Orchestra performs time-tested classics from the orchestral repertoire as well as more contemporary art music.
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OcTUBAfest

7:30 PM
Friday, October 17
BYU’s annual two-day tuba festival features students and faculty performing classical favorites as well as arrangements of popular songs, film scores, and folk tunes.
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Great Expectations

7:30 PM
Friday, October 17
An exceptional ensemble of just eight actors brings Charles Dickens’s beloved epic to life in a brilliant adaptation of yearning, regret, and redemption.
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Aba Diop & the Yermande Family

7:30 PM
Friday, October 17
Senegalese percussionist Aba Diop comes from over a thousand years of unbroken griot lineage: the prestigious and hereditary wisdom-holders, historians, poets, and healers of their culture.
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Great Expectations (Matinee)

2:00 PM
Saturday, October 18
An exceptional ensemble of just eight actors brings Charles Dickens’s beloved epic to life in a brilliant adaptation of yearning, regret, and redemption.
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Great Expectations

7:30 PM
Saturday, October 18
An exceptional ensemble of just eight actors brings Charles Dickens’s beloved epic to life in a brilliant adaptation of yearning, regret, and redemption.
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Student Composers Showcase

7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21
Hear the next generation of musical innovation as BYU composition majors present their works in concert.
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Great Expectations

7:30 PM
Tuesday, October 21
An exceptional ensemble of just eight actors brings Charles Dickens’s beloved epic to life in a brilliant adaptation of yearning, regret, and redemption.
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Clarinet Studio Recital

5:30 PM
Wednesday, October 22
The BYU Clarinet Studio is pleased to share a wide variety of clarinet repertoire.
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Great Expectations

7:30 PM
Wednesday, October 22
An exceptional ensemble of just eight actors brings Charles Dickens’s beloved epic to life in a brilliant adaptation of yearning, regret, and redemption.
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