Last week, classes were held for the first time in the newly completed art building, which was the result of sixteen months of designing, demolition, and construction.
Read moreIn Defense of Poetry Night: “A Preparation for Silence”
"But what if the fine art of reading poetry isn’t so fine after all?"
Read moreThe "Wroundtable"
Experienced raconteurs, fledgling story-tellers, and “potential writers” are invited to bring their work to the student-led literary group, the Wroundtable.
Read moreApart
Art unties the knots and leaves strings of thought strewn across our lives.
Read moreTheater Department Survives
Almost everyone at Covenant has been to a theatre department production in one form or another—whether it was a musical, a Laugh Track performance, or an intense drama such as “Edith Stein.”
Read moreArt and the VMA's
MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) have, historically, featured the most current and shocking work in music entertainment since 1984 when Madonna gave her infamous Like a Virgin performance.
Read moreThis Summer in Music
One of the reasons I love summer is I have all the time I want to listen to new music.
Read moreInterview on Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Samuel Beckett and first published in French in 1949.
Read moreHave a Moment with Monet
This morning I slipped into the passenger seat of my friend's car and coasted down the mountain.
Read moreSIP Series: Nina Brock & Gordon Carpenter
After producing Covenant’s first New Play Festival as one of the last Theatre graduates, Nina Brock says that the stage has taught her invaluable lessons in leadership, vision, and illumination.
Read moreEd Sheeran
As his world tour continues to play sold-out stadiums in Brazil and the USA, yet another single from Ed Sheeran’s latest album, x (pronounced multiply), is slated to be released soon.
Read moreCultural Clash at the Hunter
Combining traditional Japanese woodblock prints with American street art, Gajin Fujita leads viewers into a hybridity of Japanese and American visual culture.
Read moreBroadchurch
On the Jurassic coast of Britain lies a charming, tight-knit little town called Broadchurch. But in the opening scenes of the BBC’s series of the same name, we learn that this town is not as blissful as one might think. After a visually gripping sequence of what appears to be a young boy committing a midnight suicide, the town of Broadchurch is re-introduced as an endearing, everyone-knows-everyone kind of community.
Read moreSIP Series: Meagan Drew & Ethan Hard
For the past three months, the campus community remained peacefully unaware of the lethal danger spawning in the Jackson Art Building. Perhaps the demolition of the near-by Art Barn should’ve been a sign that the area housed a biohazard. Perhaps visual art and pre-nursing student, Meagan Drew would’ve thought twice before cultivating some of the most rampant and unanticipated viruses of the past century—AIDS, Measles, and the newly discovered Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome.
Read moreThe New Play Festival Review
In lieu of a spring musical this year, Covenant’s Theatre department presented the New Play Festival, a collection of ten student-written plays, each ten minutes in length. The Festival was presented this weekend with performances on Thursday and Friday nights, as well as a matinee performance on Saturday. Preparation for the production began in October with the reading of proposed plays, and the festival was put on entirely by students.
Read moreSIP Series: Caleb Stoltzfus and Olivia Stein
Caleb Stoltzfus was travelling by train to his tutor’s studio in Philadelphia when images of the Escalon—the saints’ resurrection—slid out of his head and into his sketchbook.
Read moreCinderella Review
Ever see your college-aged friends squeal over coloring books? Watching Cinderella in the Majestic theatre felt exactly like squealing over coloring books, or like curling up in bed having bedtime stories read to you. The first day of spring, with Rita’s free Italian ice beforehand with four other girls, it was a fine day to take a break from being an almost-twenty-something.
Read moreWhen a Joyful Noise Has Four Corners
It is almost guaranteed that Sacred Harp singers will be the ones who wake the dead at the Second Coming.
Read moreSIP Series: Adrienne Siegenthaler and Jamison Shimmel
Growing up in Cullman, Alabama, English major Adrienne Siegenthaler understands how true to life the snake-handling, charismatic characters of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction can be. She also sympathizes with O’Connor’s bemused yet appreciative attitude toward churches where the “gospel is the crazy, shocking, and unbelievable.” This theme became the crux of her 10 minute SIP presentation Thursday, March 19th.
Read moreTo Pimp a Butterfly
On March 16, Kendrick Lamar dropped his new album To Pimp a Butterfly a week early. The album was an instant success, shattering Spotify’s streaming records set only a few weeks earlier by Drake’s If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late. Despite its success, Lamar’s new album is much less accessible than his 2012 album Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. To Pimp a Butterfly sees Lamar shifting gears, working with producers such as Thundercat and Flying Lotus to make instrumentals that resemble old-school boom bap and jazz rap with a modern twist.
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