“New Nostalgia” at Boston College Arts Festival

With the theme of “New Nostalgia,” the 24^th annual Boston School Arts Pageant will deliver collectively College neighborhood members to discover custom and innovation.  Greater than 1,400 College artists will take part within the three-day showcase  April 28-30, and a few 50 occasions will show the expansive skills of BC college students, college, and alumni in music, theater, dance, inventive writing, movie, portray, sculpture, and extra.

A spotlight will probably be appearances by particular visitor alumnus Jeff Augustin ‘08, an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose performs have been carried out at high-profile festivals and venues throughout the nation. Augustin’s tv credit embrace The Morning Present (Apple TV+) and The Good Lord Fowl (Showtime). Through the pageant, Augustin will probably be introduced with the Boston School Arts Council Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement.

“We’re thrilled to return to a vibrant stay 2022 Arts Pageant after two years of social distancing,” stated Arts Council Chair and Affiliate Professor of Theatre Crystal Tiala. “This 12 months’s alumni award recipient, Jeff Augustin, is a Haitian-American writing about how folks heal, cope, and form our personal narratives. He’s taking a brief break from his film in manufacturing within the Dominican Republic to take part in our pageant.”

This 12 months’s theme was developed by Arts Pageant scholar leaders considering of easy methods to “deliver again” the Arts Pageant to its pre-COVID presentation, organizers say: New Nostalgia “pays homage to custom and innovation as we transfer ahead in a brand new world, whereas we lengthy for what we knew earlier than. The 2022 Arts Pageant shines a highlight on what we have not misplaced⁠—our drive to create, specific, and contribute by way of the humanities. The Boston School neighborhood is wealthy with writers, actors, musicians, artists, and creators of every kind; we offer the stage and partitions and the humanities take over.”