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Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival Concludes Season With “This House is for Laughing” By Sam Walsh
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Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival Concludes Season With “This House is for Laughing” By Sam Walsh

The Playwrights Festival, which serves as the capstone for graduating students in Hunter College’s MFA in Playwriting Program, concluded on May 10, in the Frederick Loewe Theater, with a standing ovation for playwright Sam Walsh. The festival, in its seventh year, gives students the experience of a 29-hour professional workshop […]

7 O’Clock Muse Goes Live!
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7 O’Clock Muse Goes Live!

Over 100 people filled the seats in Hunter’s Lang Hall the night of April 19th for the annual Muse Showcase, a night of comedy sketches, performances and laughs. The Muse Showcase lets scholars from the Muse Program, an honors program for students in the art, media and creative writing majors, […]

2024 Spring Dance Concert by Hunter Dance Department
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2024 Spring Dance Concert by Hunter Dance Department

The Hunter Dance Department presented its sold-out 2024 Spring Dance concert between April 18 and April 20, featuring contemporary, jazz, ballet and other forms of dance choreography. Choreographers Alberto Del Saz, Darvejon Jones and Zakiya Harris helped put together performances by students at the Peggy Theater, showcasing months of practice […]

The Shikari Team at a SACC event this semester (Courtesy of Salina Qadri)
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Hunter College Shikari Represents South Asian Diversity in Dance

In her early years at Hunter, Taniya Bhambra, a senior majoring in Human Biology, found a familiar community within Hunter’s South Asian Culture Club, or SACC. The club frequently held events and forged close friendships amongst members with similar cultural backgrounds. But one vital component of South Asian culture was […]

Students talking during a Spill Ur Guts session hosted by QSU.
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Spill Ur Guts: Where Hunter Students Can Speak

On a recent weekday in Thomas Hunter Hall 105, fingers interlaced, twisted, and untangled themselves. Toes thumped against the green carpet and knees bounced up and down. Cookie crumbs tumbled to the ground and steam protruded from a water kettle.  The words that came out of the students’ were like […]