Arts & Culture

“Odeon,” Ephrat Asherie Dance’s original work bound for Macky Auditorium Nov. 18, combines storied Afro-Brazilian rhythms and sounds with contemporary hip-hop, house, vogue and other choreography styles that are part of the current lexicon of street and club dancers in New York.

Described as one of the most important graphic novelists working today, Bechdel is known for “Dykes to Watch Out For” and a famous test of gender representation in movies.

This free event at the Boulder Theater is part of Buffs One Read, a campuswide program produced by the University Libraries and Student Affairs that builds community through the shared reading of one book.

Visit the Latin Quarter of Paris, where an idealistic poet falls for a frail but resolute “gaia fioraia.” This timeless, sweeping tale depicts the exuberant lives of struggling young artists in the throes of love, envy, betrayal and heartbreak.

Murderers, ghosts and dead monarchs—Shakespeare’s creepiest characters have sprung from his pages and trapped him in a prison cell while they run amok in this immersive campus performance. Get your ShakesFear tickets!

Add the Sandbox, The HIVE, the CU Museum of Natural History, NEST Studio for the Arts and the Music Library to your campus Culture Crawl.

Add the B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance, the CU Art Museum, the International Film Series, the Earth Sciences and Map Library and Fiske Planetarium to your Culture Crawl, a free campus event for all.

The Media Archeology Lab, the Center for African and African American Studies, the Heritage Center and Norlin Library will be part of Culture Crawl, an event celebrating cultural heritage sites and groups with activities, performances, games and shows at 14 campus locations throughout the day.

Kicking off with two days on hip-hop and social justice, the new Art, Activism and Engaged Humanities series will boast everything from musical performances to poetry, printmaking and speeches throughout the year—a cross-disciplinary effort to make the humanities more accessible to the public.

Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Join the University Libraries.