Dear Emersonian,
I’ve just returned from Los Angeles where I attended the 8th Annual Festival of Film and Video and am pleased to report that the event was a stellar success. The Festival has become an extremely important event for our LA Alumni community and in concert with the celebration, President Jacqueline Liebergott made the special announcement that Emerson has purchased property in Hollywood at Sunset and Gower, with plans for a permanent home for the Los Angeles Center and program. Hollywood Mayor Eric Garcetti enthusiastically spoke of the importance of this partnership with Hollywood, and an industry where Emersonians are highly regarded as some of the best in the business.
I hope to see you at Alumni Weekend 2008 on May 30th, 31st and June 1st where you will be able to witness first-hand the significant work that has made Emerson one of the premier arts and communication schools in the country, and I urge you all to visit the Emerson Alumni website (www.alumni.emerson.edu) to check out other events in your region that will allow you to touch the excitement and energy of Emerson in your own backyards.
As always, please drop me or the Alumni Office a note to let us know how you are doing, or visit our Alumni website to register your most recent accomplishment in the Class Notes section. I look forward to seeing you at Alumni Weekend or an upcoming Alumni event in your community.
With warm regards,
Robert Friend ‘79
President, Emerson College Alumni Association
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Alumni News
Alumni Spotlight
Emersonians in the News
Alumna receives award from First Lady
Tracy Gochberg Wilkes '74 has been honored with a major national award from First Lady Laura Bush. As co-founder and executive director of the DREAMS Center in Wilmington, N.C., Wilkes accepted the prestigious 2007 Coming Up Taller Award from Mrs. Brush in a ceremony held Jan. 28, in the East Room of the White House. Wilkes' organization serves inner-city kids through the arts programs. It was one of 18 arts and humanities programs across the country to receive the award.
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Class Note Highlight
Alumni collaborate in NY Performance Art
Electric Pear Productions (Executive Producer, Melanie Sylvan '99) Synesthesia, the ambitious performance piece that takes an unforgettable look at how artists influence, inspire and steal from each other. It's a peak inside the dirty work of creation through the schoolyard game of telephone...with art.
Synesthesia is the culmination of five months of work by over a dozen breakout artists in 9 different genres – from film and dance to comedy and spoken word, including Zac Lasher '99, Nathan Phillips '99, Joe Schiappa '99, and Leah Siegel '02. Performances take place April 2 & 3 at 8pm and
April 5 & 6 at 7pm. Visit www.electricpear.org for more information.
$15 Tickets offered exclusively to Emerson Alumni. Discount code: EMER.
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School of Communication
No debate: forensic team back
On Saturday March 15th, Emerson College competed at the New England Regional Championship Tournament at Suffolk University. Katie Koller '08, Meredith Constant '10, and Corey Effron '11 won New England Champion titles in Rhetorical Analysis,
Impromptu Speaking,
After Dinner Speaking, and
Poetry. Emerson College came in 2nd place for the Championship Overall Team Sweepstakes in their competion against such schools as Harvard, NYU, Ithaca College, and others.
Eight Emerson students qualified for the National Championship Tournament in Nashville April 17-21st! Heather Erickson, Director of Forensics says, "We love representing Emerson on the national circuit and can't wait to compete in Nashville!"
School of the Arts
Freshman filmmaker has already been to Cannes
Current freshman Stefanos Sitaras "has already conquered Cannes" began a recent feature on the "19-year-old filmmaking phenom" in the Boston Metro. The article describes what brought Sitaras to Emerson. "At 13, he left his homeland [of Greece] to attend the New York Film Academy in Paris. He traveled to France again at age 16 — this time to screen his short film, Hitherto, at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival," where the young filmmaker even met Martin Scorsese. Soon after he would make the journey to Boston to study at Emerson.
Hitherto is the second film in Sitaras' silent black-and-white trilogy, according to the Boston Metro, "[and focuses] on the life of a young beggar." All three of his films explore ideas of mortality, he said. "There's something about the theme of death that attracts me in film, and that's really ironic because I'm not a depressive person. It may be my suppressed fear of death manifests itself only in film because, if I love life so profoundly, then this must be some sort of twist of the unconscious."
His influences include Bergman, Fellini and Hitchcock. "I really tried to evoke that inner consciousness of the viewer that relates only to the visual," he explained.
Read the article in the MetroBoston
Athletics
Emerson Senior named to the ESPN All-American second Team
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Emerson College senior basketball player Ben Chase, of Newburyport, Mass., has been named to the ESPN: The Magazine College Division Academic All-America second team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Chase is one of only 15 Players from NCAA Divisions II and III to be named to one of the three teams.
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