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Once in a while, we like to catch the Harvard administration doing something right. Last weekend's ARTSFirst festival was an example of just such a success--a model of Harvard at its best...
...doesn't seem a lot to ask, one paid employee to help out 500 students and 50 productions a year. Last weekend was the "ARTSFirst" festival a time to celebrate the University's commitment to the arts community. Now let's celebrate it by offering student theater, a sizable portion of that community, some much-needed support. Keeping Alan Symonds should be the first step...
...tell you a little but about [ArtsFirst's] history and its genesis. When Net [Rudenstine] was inaugurated, he went to a lot of trouble, and Angelica [Rudenstine] too, to create several wonderful occasions for the arts. They had some special are exhibits an evening of literature and music, this wonderful poetry and music event in a church...and I was just swept away by this..I proposed shortly thereafter to the Overseers that we create a Committee for the Arts. That was kind of my platform when I ran for the Overseers-that there be somebody from the Harvard alumni...
This was all about a year ago, Since then the weekend has taken many different forms. We met with so much enthusiasm everywhere we went that one of our main challenges was limiting the scope... it was always part of my dream for ArtsFirst that it become an annual tradition, a springtime tradition at Harvard, and become an institution, modeled on something like Head of the Charles--People anticipate it, it becomes a very familiar house-hold word, and Artsfirst becomes the signature for a really important Harvard event...
...Africa, where I'm going to be working on a movie for Brace Beresford called. "The good Man in Africa," with scan Cannery. It's a very satirical look at post-colonial British diplomats in a West African tinpot dictatorship. And I'm coming back for 48 hours for ArtsFirst. So if I can come back all the way from South Africa, just tell those freshmen they can come over from Wigglesworth. (Laughs...