This week at Arts Scholars...

Welcome back!

Harold, Heather, and Kenna hope you have had a good first week back on campus! It's been far too quiet without you!



Field trip sign-ups are live!

• Susan, by Ahamefule J. Oluo
  Date: Friday, February 7, 8pm
  Venue: The Clarice
• The United States Botanic Garden
  Date: Sunday, March 1, noon
• New York City
  Dates: Friday, March 27-Sunday March 29
• Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, UMD Symphony Orchestra
  Date: Friday, May 8, 8pm
  Venue: The Clarice
• The Cost of Living
  Date: Sunday, April 5, 2pm
  Venue: The Roundhouse Theatre, Bethesda, MD

Become a Peer Mentor
As a Peer Mentor, you will serve as a resource for first-year Scholars as they navigate through the academic challenges associated with college experience. Peer Mentors check in with their mentees throughout the academic year and direct them to resources available on campus that can enrich their academic performance. What is the role of a Peer Mentor?

• Provide information about academics and involvement opportunities to mentees and direct them to student support services on campus.
• Help mentees evaluate educational choices and encourage them to share concerns and goals.
• Act as a liaison between the students in their Scholars program and faculty and staff.
• Apply here

Colloquium Updates

Pentathlon Events

Presentation
ACTnow Conversation: On Being Mixed Race
Tuesday, February 4
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Adele H. Stamp Student Union
Free, no tickets required
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2020/actnow-ahamefule-j-oluo
Ahamefule J. Oluo is an award-winning musician, composer, writer and stand-up comic. His sister, Ijeoma Oluo, is a New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed public speaker. As black-identifying, multi-racial siblings raised in Seattle by a white single mother, the siblings' lives and careers have straddled racial lines and artistic genres - exploring the nuances of race, culture and how we treat each other.

Music
Leyla McCalla Quartet (USA)
Friday, January 31
8:00 PM
MilkBoy ArtHouse 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park, Maryland 20740
Regular: $25; Student/Youth: $10
http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2020/leyla-mccalla-quartet-usa
New Orleans-based, New York-born, Haitian raised. Cellist Leyla McCalla's succinctly elegant folk music is her way of processing the nation's current political environment, where many of the issues are financial, but they're rarely simply financial. The former Carolina Chocolate Drops member deepens her examination of Creole identities in her sound by bringing together her voice and her cello with fiddle, clarinet, piano and electric guitar. At the forefront of her work is her Haitian identity, singing many of her tunes in Creole, which she classifies as a language of resistance, especially as she explores its connections to New Orleans.

• Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, February 5 + 7 @ 8pm

Earthly desire or spiritual conviction? A devout monk seeks to convert an alluring courtesan, but realizes too late that he is driven by lust and not religion. She finds redemption. He does not. Maryland Lyric Opera presents Massenet's rarely staged, intoxicating masterpiece Thaïs. Sarah Joy Miller, a rising American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut last season, sings the iconic title role. Louis Otey co-stars as Athanaël. MDLO Young Artist Institute alumni round out the cast. MDLO Music Director Louis Salemno conducts and Claudia Zahn directs this new production, in collaboration with scenic and lighting designer Harry Feiner. 

Opportunities

Take a class in Studio A
Sign up by February 2
Studio A is the non-credit art class space in the basement of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union for UMD students, staff and community members. The Studio A spring course and workshop listing is online now, and spring classes start February 2nd! Visit the class listings to see what is being offered and to sign up! Classes and workshops include topics from Drawing and Painting, Taichi, Embroidery, Photography, Ceramics, Dance, Yoga, Guitar, and Adobe Suite.
Visit Studio A at stamp.umd.edu/StudioA