The Rocket, Oscar Shorts and more show this week at The Screen.

This semester at SFUAD, the dance majors will be given not only numerous performance opportunities, but also the chance to learn from guest choreographers. In the first month of school alone, both Miguel Perez and Gail Gilbert have set foot in the dance studio to create new works for the dancers.

Spirit of Uganda Artistic Director Peter Kasule welcomed the audience to Uganda during the Feb. 15 at Greer Garson Theater. Indeed, the performance transfixed the audience.

Mexico native Anna Sainz discusses the challenges and rewards for international students at SFUAD.

“It must be a dictatorial role,” actor Wes Studi says of directing, during a Feb. 5 visit to Hank Rogerson’s directing class.

More than 40 SFUAD students gathered Feb. 15 for Cupid is Stupid, a celebration of the joy of being single with food, music and live performances by students and a comedian.

Check out this week’s Awkward Shelby comic, “Colors,” and come to the GSA club, which meets on Fridays!

The first open mic of the semester provided a fresh take—with words and music.

Marion Center is filled until mid-March with hundreds of pieces of work from students at Monte Del Sol.

On Feb. 12, Lannan Foundation hosted a reading at The Lensic Performing Arts Center with short story author and “genius grant” winner George Saunders (Tenth of December, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia) followed by a Q&A, conducted New York Times Deputy Editor Joel Lovell. With animated voice and comedic timing, Saunders’ reading of “Victory Lap” demonstrated his quirky yet humanizing styles, while the conversation that followed brought out the perks and surprises of the author’s past. “I think is was one of the best Lannan evenings that I’ve seen,” says Creative Writing Department Co-Chair Matt Donovan. “The conversations in those types of events aren’t always focused on elements of craft and I really appreciated the ways in which they made it accessible.” Rather than didactic responses, for example, Saunders provided Lovell, who is a previous acquaintance, with entertaining and lax conversation. Donovan describes also an appreciation of the writer’s reading performance. A talented use of vocals, especially when changing from the POV of a little girl practicing ballet to a middle aged raper, kept the audience members on the edge of their seats, while Saunders’ witty pacing took the edge off of an otherwise dark story. Laugh. Gape. Laugh more. Stare in utter shock. Laugh. “He was entertaining, he was funny, he was poignant and he called me a badass,” says R.A. Ademulegun, Creative Writing student, who waited for Saunders’ autograph after the reading. “He gave me great pointers. You know, ‘a table is a table,’” Ademulegun says, quoting Saunders from his Q&A when he expressed an impatience for flowery language. “We’re always trying to impress people with our work,” Ademulegun concludes. “Our readers are just ordinary people.” Following the reading, Lovell, who wrote a cover story on Tenth of December for The New York Times,...

Billie Michael is a 17-year-old Studio Arts student from Pennsylvania. Her art combines sweet cinematic images with a gory twist. Jackalope Magazine asked the artist a few questions in order to discover more about her.

What? We have a horse club? You actually ride real horses, you don’t just talk about them? Those are the questions that Andi Star, Horse Club president, usually hears when she tells students about her club.

Although it is not yet as popular as it is in Europe, Parkour is really starting to make its way in the US. Here at SFUAD, we already have a couple of traceurs (runners) who take advantage of the campus surroundings to practice this non-competitive sport.