Night of Ideas 2023

Performances

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Jack Soref Music Trio

Performance

Come see the Jack Soref Music trio at 8pm in our Main Auditorium !

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The Jack Soref Trio is an ensemble that is deeply rooted in the tradition of Django Reinhardt, and the Sinti Musicians keeping his legacy alive today. Reaching both forward and back in time, the band not only pays homage to Django’s music, but enriches their sets with, unexpected additions to the standard repertoire, and many of Jack’s original compositions. Expect to hear, sizzling Django style guitar, rollicking jazz, swing, bebop, klezmer, impressionistic melodies, and wild improvisations. All mixed together, with a bit of story telling, and a lot of fun.

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The Flute Society of Berklee

Performance

Come see the Flute Society of Berklee and Amelie Brodeur at 9:30pm in our Main Auditorium !

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The Flute Society at Berklee unites and serves as a home to the flute community at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory. We strive to encourage, educate, and inspire flutists and flute enthusiasts on our campus to show them that the possibilities for flute are endless. Our group values its alumni membership and fosters inter-club relationships across campus through collaborative activities and events.

Their guest flutist : Flutist, Amelie Brodeur is founder of YouTube’s The Flute Channel, Host of The Flute Talk Podcast and Director of The Montreal Flute Festival. She has been featured on Journal de Montreal, Salut Bonjour, PodcastCon, CBC radio, Radio-Classique, WPRB Princeton, ClassicFM and many more. She has been a soloist performing Concerto Traversee by Giles Tremblay and Jacques Hetu Flute Concerto for Orchestra with Orchestre 21 & maestro Paolo Bellomia. Critic Claude Gingras from La Presse described her as an ‘extraordinary technician of her instrument’, describing her playing as expressing the ‘most beautiful energy’.

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The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers / THUD

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Come see THUD for two amazing performances at 7pm and 10:10pm in our Main Auditorium !
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THUD (The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers) is a student-run organization at Harvard College that plays everything with percussive potential: drum set battles, arrangements of pop and classical music, original pieces on found instruments like plastic cups and chalkboards, drumming on buckets, and more. Their inspirations include STOMP and the Blue Man Group. The ensemble’s work culminates in their semesterly shows, and you can check all of their music out on YouTube! For booking inquiries, please reach out to harvardthud@gmail.com.
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The Harvard Veritones

Performance

Come see the Veritones for their closing performance at 10:15pm in our Main Auditorium !

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Founded in 1985, the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones are Harvard’s award-winning, contemporary, all-gender a cappella group. Everything we sing is arranged by our own members, from today’s Top Hits to the true classics. We perform year-round, participate in a cappella competitions, sing at venues in and outside Greater Boston, and travel worldwide for tours! But aside from making awesome music, we are a family, which sits at the heart of our group.

Here is our Youtube channel and our latest performance !

 

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Migration Tales

Performance

Come see Migration Tales for a performance in our Small Auditorium at 9:10 pm !

Migration Tales will also have some posters at our venue to tell you more about some personal testimonies on the subject of migration. 

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Migration Tales is a multimedia platform that was founded by Lara Werneck and Yiran Yu in January of 2021. As children of immigrants, both college students recognized the power of storytelling and the importance of empowering the voices of immigrant communities. Migration Tales amplifies the voices of immigrant communities by conducting one on one interviews with immigrants and children of immigrants and publishing their stories on their platforms. They also publish research articles, country profiles and policy briefs. So far, they have published 36 stories and 19 research pieces!

Paula Ribeiro 

Paula Ribeiro, a Brazilian native, moved to the United States in 2001 when she was six years old. Settling into America’s Hometown of Plymouth, MA, Paula graduated in 2017 from Bridgewater State University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish. Paula spent the first five years of her professional career in the victim services field and now is a legal assistant at ANS Trial Attorneys, one of Boston’s largest personal injury law firms. Paula, a proud DACA recipient, enjoys spending time with her family and advocating for others.

Azima Aidarov 

Azima Aidarov is a Kyrgyz-American and a sophomore at Boston University from Chicago, IL. She is majoring in international relations and minoring in Russian. At BU, she is a writer for the International Relations Review, the President of the Central Asian Student Association and a member of Pre-Law organizations. She writes articles pertaining to the post-Soviet space and is passionate about writing, human rights and democracy. Azima is fluent in Russian and plans to pursue a career in international law.

Anthony Lin 

Anthony Lin is from New York City and is currently a student at Boston University. He is specifically in the Questrom School of Business concentrating in Finance. Anthony was born in the United States and is the child of two immigrants who are originally from Fuzhou, China. His father first immigrated to the U.S. on a boat that sailed around the Pacific Ocean and landed in Florida in 1999! Anthony’s identity today is largely influenced by the Chinese culture he experiences at home along with influences of American youth culture.

Thao P. Nguyen 

Thao P. Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant, is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Boston University. She is also the UX Design Program Manager at BU Spark! and a research affiliate at the Center for Anti-racist Research and Precarity Lab. Her research interests center on gender & sexuality, sociology of labor, economic sociology, and digital sociology. She primarily writes about love, sex & desire in academic and pop-culture formats. She also believes that sociological research should contribute to social change.

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