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...purple guides for the Arts First festival from May 3 to May 6 have been spotted across campus in places like the Fogg Art Museum, the Loeb Drama Theater and the Harvard Box Office throughout the month of April. The woman behind these informative, event-filled guides is Ingrid Schorr, assistant project manager for Arts First who also produces the festival’s Performance Fair, recruits student performers and behind-the-scenes volunteers and directs campus publicity. Having graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999 with a masters in Arts in Education, this weekend will be Schorr?...
...many people outside the Harvard campus," says Schorr, “it’s an opportunity to see Harvard as more than an academic or elitist behemoth. They see that goofy parade coming down Mass Avenue and follow it to the picnic. Then they spend the rest of the afternoon taking in all kinds of music, dance, drama and film in some remarkably diverse settings.” Arts First thus has the ability to not only involve campus students and faculty but also to include the Cambridge and Boston community...
College students also benefit greatly from this wide participation because artists, performers and producers alike have the opportunity to take their work public to a setting that brings them an immense and varied audience. Schorr says, “You get a bigger, more diverse audience. It’s much more than just your friends.” Perhaps the breadth and size of the Arts First audience is a direct consequence of the long planning period that takes place months before the actual festival. Schorr and her team of volunteers and Arts First 2001 Planning Group members have...
Preparing the publicity for the festival also mounts to a large amount of work, but for Schorr, it is work that becomes worthwhile when she sees the dedication that students involved in the festival display. “There’s a lot of reproduction work and it comes at a time when students are at their busiest and most overextended. But as Hannah Arendt wrote, the best way to anchor yourself in a chaotic world is to make and keep a promise. Even if it’s showing up on time for a rehearsal, these students keep...
...Schorr says, “Arts First is part of the reason that student participation in the arts has increased so remarkably over the past 10 or so years” but believes greatly that Harvard provides many other outlets for its community to become involved in the arts. In addition to the recognized art organizations, students can also become involved in a variety of work with children in the arts. Programs such as Hand, CityStep and Harmony all involve Harvard students in programs that not only continue their participation in the arts but also brings art into the greater...