Adelphi Fall Arts Festival Focuses on Rebuilding Human Connections in the Wake of the Pandemic
Garden City, NY (09/21/2021) — The political tensions of the past year as well as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will take center-stage at Adelphi University's Fall Arts Festival. The annual event, this year on Wednesday, October 6, will offer the Adelphi community at large an opportunity to collaborate and reflect on a particular theme: "Resilience, Reflection, and Rebuilding Connection: Healing through the Arts."
"The Fall Arts Festival is a significant event in how it brings the campus together as a community through the arts while highlighting the talents of our alumni and students," said KellyAnn Monaghan, chair of Art and Art History at Adelphi and a coordinator of the festival. "This year the event is even more vital because of our needs to reconnect after the struggles of these past two years.
The festival honors Adelphi's resilience in powering through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and reflects on the issues of racial, gender and identity injustice in the country. It will showcase musical theatre, dance, poetry, film screenings and visual art presented by Adelphi faculty, students and alumni. The events are designed to use arts as a tool for exploring ways of rebuilding human connections as many return to in-person work and classes for the first time after months of isolation. Maggie Lally, associate dean of faculty programs and a co-organizer of the festival, said this year's festival will once again include in-person events while still following COVID protocols.
"We have more alumni involved this year and we're hoping to be able to do almost every event in person," Lally said. "A number of events are happening outdoors to comply with COVID restrictions, but also to allow artists to engage with our beautiful campus."
Hannah Allen and Christopher Saucedo, studio art faculty at Adelphi, will lead students in collaborative art installations and experiences on campus. Adelphi alumni participants including Gabrielle Deonath, Akua Mireku-Bass and Samantha Dominik and others are set to perform at this year's event.
Other events scheduled for the festival include a roundtable discussion on using art for social transformation, screenings of films and other multimedia works produced by Adelphi alumni on COVID, an open-mic reading of fiction, poetry and essays -- as well as a dance performance, grow/BACK, choreographed by alumna Hannah Franz exploring the concept of healing and nurturing one's inner child.
"The Fall Arts Festival demonstrates how the arts at Adelphi are central to bringing renewed life and energy to campus as we face the new normal," said Monaghan.
Learn more about the 2021 Fall Arts Festival here.
Members of the media are welcome to attend and cover.
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The political tensions of the past year as well as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will take center-stage at Adelphi University's Fall Arts Festival. The annual event, this year on Wednesday, October 6, will offer the Adelphi community at large an opportunity to collaborate and reflect on a particular theme: "Resilience, Reflection, and Rebuilding Connection: Healing through the Arts."