An audience chatters, munching on buttery popcorn and sipping delicious soda when the lights begin to dim. As images flicker across the silver screen and sound ignites the aisles, an electricity fills the air. Mystery meets majesty, as if anything can happen. Movies are the memories of our lifetime, and there is almost no better […]
In 2021, when the world threatened to take community away, the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts re-opened its doors following an 18-month hiatus. Audiences comprised of University of Mississippi students, local families, supporters and beyond packed the 1,250-seat auditorium for celebrated events such as the multimedia experience “Voices of Mississippi” and a […]
2022 marked the return of one of Oxford’s most widely known and celebrated arts and culture events: the Double Decker Arts Festival. The historic festival celebrated its 25th anniversary in late April, showcasing some of the southeast’s greatest artistic, musical and culinary work. After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, vendors and patrons alike were […]
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy,” Anton Ego, the ominous food critic says in his review of the titular dish in “Ratatouille”. “We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and themselves to our judgment.” In the pursuit of artistic perfection (if there is […]
Within a state with as fractured a racial history as Mississippi, the 1955 murder of Emmett Till remains one of its most tragic stories, capitalized by the judiciary injustice that followed. It was only a matter of time before this story received the major motion picture treatment. At the very least, this Hollywood production — […]
Ally Hopper was crowned Miss University 2023 at the 74th annual pageant held on Sunday, Oct. 23 at the Gertrude C. Ford Center. Hopper, a senior political science major, greatly impressed the judges in all three stages of the competition. These included an onstage interview and social impact pitch, a talent competition and a red […]
Theatre Oxford began its fall season with the production of “Another Side of Tennessee Williams,” a tribute to one of Mississippi’s greatest writers, at the historic Powerhouse Community Arts Center. The show, which ran from Thursday, Oct. 6, to Saturday, Oct. 8, premiered to a great response, as audiences were provided a glimpse into a […]
The Gertrude C. Ford Studio Theatre welcomed Alice-Anne Light, Kristy Kristinek and Cecil Price Walden for “hours” — a new and unique music and art experience — on Sunday, Oct. 2. The performance, which was presented by the University of Mississippi Department of Music, Department of Art and Art History and the Sarah Isom Center […]
“Most people here seem to overlook the thing that caused the presence of the soldiers and the marshals. This thing was the breakdown of law and order,” James Meredith, the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi said in his 1963 “I Can’t Fight Alone” speech. “The Fall of 1962” — a […]
As the University of Mississippi observes Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated Sept. 15-Oct 15, the Department of Modern Languages looks to spread awareness through the silver screen. Thursday, Sept. 15, marks the beginning of the Hispanic Heritage Fall 2022 Film Series. In collaboration with the Center for Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Engagement and the Croft Institute for […]
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