Arts & Humanities in the News
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Religious Panel Discussions
Religion is coming to ACC in the form of diverse and engaging panel discussions hosted by ACC’s Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities department. The department will… Read More…
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Art and the Constitution
The 2nd annual Constitution Day Celebration and Art Exhibit will be held at HBC on September 17th. The celebration and exhibit… Read More…
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Austin Live Theater Reviews ACCESPL’s The Men from Mars and Careful as Mice
The Men from Mars & Careful as Mice, ACC Experimental Student Performance Lab, July 15 - 25
Ryan Manning provided a lot of the energy for the Austin Community College Experimental Student Performance Lab. This summer 2009 enterprise put on four pieces, all student-written… Read More…
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Austin Live Theater Reviews ACCESPL’s Love Me and An Empty Stage
Love Me and An Empty Stage, ACC Experimental Student Performance Lab, July 15 – 25
Austin Community College’s summer 2009 Experimental Student Performance Lab got off to a good start for me with Philip Kreyche’s expressionistic two-act work Love Me, preceded by Ryan Manning’s whimsical curtain–raiser The Empty Stage. Manning’s short piece… Read More…
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Asian Spring Festival Celebrated at Riverside
Located on the Riverside Campus, the annual Asian Spring Festival offers free food, performances and demonstrations.
Greg Sutter, an ACC journalism graduate and current Art Metals and Welding student… Read More…
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33rd annual exhibit displays talent at Austin’s Dougherty Arts Center
Students win cash awards, still have work up for sale
Student artists were given the opportunity to display and sell their work in the 33rd annual ACC Student Art Exhibit, held each spring. The reception… Read More…
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Carnival ah!
A celebration of the arts sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Division at Austin Community College
When you say “college fair” to an American student, images of a boring collective of college recruiters with fancy brochures in some outdated meeting place provokes images of bored horror — stale coffee… Read More…
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Exploring Senses and Sensation
Stephen Kuusisto and Maxine Beach Reading Kicks Off First Night of Carnival ah!
On April 2, 2009 Austin Community College’s Arts and Humanities Division and Creative Writing Department will host an evening of readings from two writers, Stephen Kuusisto and Maxine Beach, who are… Read More…
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Two award–winning poets appearing at Rio Grande campus in March
John Poch and Usha Akella will be reading from their recent works in the Rio Grande Gallery Theater on March 5th at 7 p.m.
John Poch and Usha Akella are not content to merely write beautifully evocative poems and win awards. They are also active as teachers, collaborators, and contributors to the poetry community. Both poets will… Read More…
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Announcing Carnival ah!
The division of Arts & Humanities sponsors a 3–day carnival of public events and academic/artistic offerings in the arts and humanities
ACC’s Arts and Humanities Division is sponsoring a 3–day carnival of public events and academic/artistic offerings in the arts and humanities, held April 2–4 on the grounds of the Rio Grande Campus… Read More…
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Second Annual Constitution Day
ACC Sponsors 2nd Annual Constitution Day Artistic and Creative Contests
ACC’s Center for Public Policy and Political Studies, Arts and Humanities Division, and Social and Behavioral Science Division will again sponsor contests for student creative and academic work… Read More…
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Austin Live Theatre Reviews ACC’s Bacchae
Bacchae, Austin Community College Rio Grande Campus, November 14–23
Powerful, mythic, pagan and frightening – ACC’s Bacchae, directed by Arthur Adair and presented by a cast that is dedicated, haunting, and decisive, is no easy evening of theatre. This profound experience grabs you by the throat and… Read More…
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Acclaimed Fiction/Nonfiction Writer Shares Latest Work at Recent Event
Neal Pollack Reads, Visits Students at ACC
Neal Pollack, acclaimed Rolling Stone Magazine “Hot Writer” of 2000, had the audience of the Rio Grande Campus Mainstage Theater on October 16th in stitches after reading from his new book, Alternadad, a memoir on parenthood. He regaled a group of seventy–five… Read More…
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Denmark Students Explore Texas Literature with ACC Faculty
Students Experience Texas Culture During Month–Long Stay in Austin
They’re in search of the mythical Texas where cowboys ride their steeds across wide open spaces. Instead, 17 students from Odense Tekniske Gymnasium in a Danish town… Read More…
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ACC Drama Department Season Opens With a Hit
ACC Production of Proof deemed “beautifully engineered [with] a high level of acting... deserving to be seen beyound the purely internal circuit of Austin Community College.”
The ACC Drama Department opened its fall 2008 season with a hit, literally. Department Chair Shelby Brammer decided… Read More…
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Acclaimed Fiction/Nonfiction Writer Neal Pollack Shares Latest Work at ACC
Pollack Reads to Audience of 75 at RGC Mainstage Theater
Neal Pollack, acclaimed Rolling Stone Magazine “Hot Writer” of 2000, read from his memoir… Read More…
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International Fright Fest: Horror Films From Around the World
ACC Department of Foreign Languages Presents a Week of International Horror Films
The ACC Department of Foreign Languages in collaboration with the East Asian Culture Society, the ACC French Club, and the ACC Chaju Chinese Club present… Read More…
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Satirist Neal Pollack Reads at ACC on October 16th
7 p.m. in the Mainstage Theater at Rio Grande Campus, 1212 Rio Grande Ave.
Award–winning satirist Neal Pollack is bringing his “Alternadad” universe to Austin Community College … Read More…
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Balcones Poetry Prize Winner Visits ACC
Aimee Nezhukumatahil, ACC’s 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize–winning poet for her work At the Drive–In Volcano
Aimee Nezhukumatahil, ACC's 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize-winning poet for her work At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo Press), read at ACC … Read More…
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ACC Drama Department Commences Its Fall 2008 Season with Proof
David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Proof will be directed by Drama Dept. Chair, Shelby Brammer and will feature Equity Guest Artist and ACC Fulltime Math Faculty, Paul Wright
The ACC Drama Department opens its fall 2008 season with a hit, literally. Department Chair Shelby Brammer has decided to open the season with a Broadway hit — Proof. Proof, which opens … Read More…
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Students Win Prizes for Art, Poetry, and Essays
ACC’s First Annual Constitution Day Announces Winners for Its Artistic Competition
On September 17, 2008, The Arts and Humanities Division and ACC’s Center for Public Policy and Political Studies was proud to announce the winners of the first annual Constitution Day Artistic Competition. In the spring and summer semesters, the college asked students… Read More…
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Joe O’Connell’s novel Evacuation Plan named a finalist
Writers’ League of Texas names ACC Creative Writing Faculty Joe O’Connell’s novel Evacuation Plan a finalist for their 2008 Violet Crown Book Award for fiction.
ACC Creative Writing and English Instructor Joe O’Connell was named a finalist in the Writers’ League of Texas’ 2008 Violet Crown Book Award for Fiction for his work, Evacuation Plan. Evacuation Plan is a story loosely inspired… Read More…
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ESL Draws 500 People
500 people came to the Highland Business Center August 13 to register for ESL classes
They came from a variety of countries and speak over 40 languages, yet they have one thing in common — to learn English. About 500 people… Read More…
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‘Trick the Devil’ Brings Blues Legend to Life
Long Center Hosts ACC–ProArts Production
The ACC Drama Department and ProArts Collective have produced a compelling drama about the last days of blues artist Robert Johnson. The play is… Read More…
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ACC Dance Department: The Joys of Discovery
“I’m always surprised by what people create when they are givent the opportunity to produce in a positive and supportive environment.”
That’s local choreographer Darla Johnson… Read More…
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Review:
‘Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil’
Blues legend Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads one night and sold his soul to the devil. Afterward, he could make music like no other man in the Delta. How else… Read More…
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Pro Arts/ACC
A Legendary Deal Where Roads Cross
Everyone comes to the crossroads sooner or later. When Robert Johnson did, it led to a deal with the devil and the greatest blues music ever played, or so the legend says. In the case of ProArts Collective and the Austin Community College Drama Department… Read More…
