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Alan Cumming at the Staller Center, 8 pm

The cabaret show — filled with cheeky storytelling, big musical numbers and ballads — is threaded together with a common theme of music, time, aging, nostalgia and celebration.

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Time Magazine: Animated Series Produced by MFA in Film Students One of September’s Best

Teenage Euthanasia, an animated series on Adult Swim produced by two thesis students from the MFA in Film program, was recently named by Time magazine as one of the five best new television shows for September 2021...

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Tom Manuel Keeps the Music Playing at SBU and The Jazz Loft

Tom Manuel got his first jazz infusion at a family event when he was growing up. “I clearly remember lying on the grass and hearing a deejay play Glenn Miller’s ‘In the Mood,’” recalled the Lake Ronkonkoma, NY...

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The Arts Are Back Live at Staller Center

The arts are back and they are better than ever at Staller Center for the 2021-22 season. After nearly two years of virtual programming, Staller Center is reopening its doors and welcoming live performers from all...

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Alumnus Kevin Kwan Loucks Named CEO of Chamber Music America

He earned his DMA from Stony Brook in 2013, served as a TA for the Emerson String Quartet and was named one of SBU’s distinguished 40 Under 40 Alumni in 2018.

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Overcoming Multiple Challenges with Artful Resilience

International students add enrichment, excitement and diversity to Stony Brook University, but their struggles and hardships often go unnoticed as they seek to blend into the American way of life. Such is the case for...

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Stony Brook Film Festival Presents 2021 Awards at its Live Ceremony

The Stony Brook Film Festival hosted its live awards ceremony on Saturday, July 31, at the Staller Center for the Arts, presenting awards to seven films. Anchorage, an American film directed by Scott Monahan and written...

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Norm Prusslin Champions the Spirit of College Radio

Since he was a child in the late 1950s, Norm Prusslin has been tuned in to the joys and possibilities of radio. It was a passion that stayed with him when he entered Stony Brook University as an English major in 1969...

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The Best of Both Worlds: Stony Brook Film Festival Is Back, Live and Online

The 26th annual Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal makes its glorious and long-awaited return to the Staller Center for the Arts with live, in-person screenings from July 22-31, and will also hold an...

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Pollock-Krasner House’s “Tracing Paint” Wins a Telly Award

The virtual reality studio tour enables visitors to experience the studio as it was when Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner worked there, see their paintings and hear the artists talk.

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Stony Brook Film Festival Releases Schedule

The Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal has released its schedule of films for its live in-person festival and a virtual festival. The live festival will be July 22-31, and the virtual festival will be...

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Stony Brook Film Festival Returns In Person, with an Online Encore

Passes are now on sale, with several different options for patrons. Early Bird discounts are available, so purchase your pass before June 8 for a reduced rate.

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“Seeing Past the Future” Online Exhibition Opens June 10

“Seeing Past the Future,” an online exhibition of works by 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, will open on June 10. The project was conceived by Shimon Attie, the inaugural Charles C...

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Student’s Mural Celebrates Women Engineers

A striking mural in the Light Engineering building, "Luna the Future" by Sejal Mehra uses a stylized boxer to suggest the power of women scholars and the challenges they face in the field.

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Alan Alda Film Festival, May 20-23

Proceeds from the festival will support the Alda Center for Communicating Science, which offers programs for researchers to help them learn to effectively share their work and engage with others.

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Nikola Calle, Hydra, 2021, URECA Art Exhibition

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Senior Show and URECA Art Exhibition at Zuccaire Gallery

Exhibitions are on display through May 19 in-gallery and online, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs, video and digital media by SBU’s talented studio art students.

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Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art

Professor Stephanie Dinkins, from Stony Brook University’s Department of Art, has been named the inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences. A transmedia artist who creates...

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Stony Brook MFA Students Sweep Television Writing Fellowships

MFA in Television Writing first-year student Mallory Baysek won in the Drama category and second-year student Galen Foote won for Comedy.

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Category - Arts & Entertainment

Time Magazine: Animated Series Produced by MFA in Film Students One of September’s Best

Tom Manuel Keeps the Music Playing at SBU and The Jazz Loft

The Arts Are Back Live at Staller Center

Overcoming Multiple Challenges with Artful Resilience

Stony Brook Film Festival Presents 2021 Awards at its Live Ceremony

Norm Prusslin Champions the Spirit of College Radio

The Best of Both Worlds: Stony Brook Film Festival Is Back, Live and Online

Pollock-Krasner House’s “Tracing Paint” Wins a Telly Award

Stony Brook Film Festival Releases Schedule

Stony Brook Film Festival Returns In Person, with an Online Encore

“Seeing Past the Future” Online Exhibition Opens June 10

Alan Alda Film Festival, May 20-23

Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Yayoi Kusama Endowed Professor of Art

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