The 19th century is coming to a close. An ambitious nurse, a young man of privilege, a wandering preacher, and an Appalachian farm girl living states away from each other seem to have nothing in common but their youth and a bone-rattling cough—yet, miraculously, they share the same fever dreams.
Read moreRetrospect Exhibit
As the year comes to a close, ten senior art majors get a chance to reflect on their four years of sculpting, painting, and sketching here at Covenant with the debut of the annual “Retrospect: A Look Back at Past Works” exhibit on November 30th.
Read moreBob Dylan "Speechless" By Nobel Prize
“If I accept the prize? Of course,” Dylan replied to Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, when he called the institution in late October.
Read moreCovenant College Theatre Department Presents: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
This November, Covenant College’s Theatre Department promises to enliven Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy in a production that roots itself in the timeless text, but invites the audience to interact with the story in new and evocative ways.
Read moreMark Makkar Talks Upcoming Bald Soprano Role
The Bald Soprano [is] kind of like a game of mad-libs—that’s one way to see it.
Read moreCovenant College Theatre Presents: The Bald Soprano
The acclaimed avant garde comedy, The Bald Soprano, will make a brief appearance on the Covenant College stage this 2016-2017 season, ripping tired tropes into a confetti of non sequiturs and nonsensical hilarity.
Read moreSense & Sensibility---The Historic Romance Rekindled Onstage
The play revitalizes the familiar tussle between logic and emotion, mismatched lovers, and manipulative family members in the timeless spirit of the novel, with new faces and a few new quips as well.
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Covenant College Theatre Presents: The Morning After
Through a collection of varied scenes and musical scores, The Morning After pushes sexuality—often one of the most taboo and yet most critical of topics—out into the spotlight.
Read moreCovenant Theatre Presents: Moreau
The play, a sci-fi thriller based on H.G. Well’s novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, addresses the fears that arose with Darwinism and scientific innovation at the turn of the 20th century.
Read moreThe Dismembered Tennesseeans
Last Tuesday, Jan. 19, nationally renowned bluegrass band Fletcher Bright & The Dismembered Tennesseans performed in the Dora MacLellan Brown Memorial Chapel for an expectant crowd as part of Covenant’s John Hamm Performing Arts Series.
Read moreThe "Wroundtable"
Experienced raconteurs, fledgling story-tellers, and “potential writers” are invited to bring their work to the student-led literary group, the Wroundtable.
Read moreSIP Series: Nina Brock & Gordon Carpenter
After producing Covenant’s first New Play Festival as one of the last Theatre graduates, Nina Brock says that the stage has taught her invaluable lessons in leadership, vision, and illumination.
Read moreSIP Series: Meagan Drew & Ethan Hard
For the past three months, the campus community remained peacefully unaware of the lethal danger spawning in the Jackson Art Building. Perhaps the demolition of the near-by Art Barn should’ve been a sign that the area housed a biohazard. Perhaps visual art and pre-nursing student, Meagan Drew would’ve thought twice before cultivating some of the most rampant and unanticipated viruses of the past century—AIDS, Measles, and the newly discovered Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome.
Read moreSIP Series: Caleb Stoltzfus and Olivia Stein
Caleb Stoltzfus was travelling by train to his tutor’s studio in Philadelphia when images of the Escalon—the saints’ resurrection—slid out of his head and into his sketchbook.
Read moreSIP Series: Adrienne Siegenthaler and Jamison Shimmel
Growing up in Cullman, Alabama, English major Adrienne Siegenthaler understands how true to life the snake-handling, charismatic characters of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction can be. She also sympathizes with O’Connor’s bemused yet appreciative attitude toward churches where the “gospel is the crazy, shocking, and unbelievable.” This theme became the crux of her 10 minute SIP presentation Thursday, March 19th.
Read moreWhen a Joyful Noise Has Four Corners
It is almost guaranteed that Sacred Harp singers will be the ones who wake the dead at the Second Coming.
Read moreSIP Series: Peter Hennigan and Lynae Rockwell
Any decent SIP for the history department must contain at least a fair amount of “blood, sweat and tears,” in accordance with Dr. Jay Green’s favorite recipe. As senior History major Peter Hennigan investigates inter-racial conflict during the Harlem Renaissance, he has discovered that this is true in more ways than one.
Read moreSenior SIP Series: Zach Plating and Aften Whitmore
Senior English major Zach Plating is an aficionado of the graphic novel, and particularly appreciates the medium’s ability to relay difficult themes through both visual and literary art. For his SIP, the English major is analyzing how personal growth and identity are portrayed in “autographies,” or autobiographical graphic novels.
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Senior SIP's
For a kid or college student on a museum field trip, what could be more tantalizing than reaching out and caressing the decoupage behind the sign: DO NOT TOUCH? It was instilled in us from kindergarten that with one stroke, we could send the David crashing to a sudden death. However, for senior visual art major Bekah Meyer, both the artist and the onlooker should be able to utilize their sense of touch when interacting with art.
Read moreThe Phosphorescent Blue's Review
The Punch Brothers’ long-awaited album The Phosphorescent Blues was released January 28th under the direction of T-Bone Burnett, producer of Coen Brother’ Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack. So far, it has superseded the expectations of both fans and critics. In response to the release, Joe Breen of the Irish Times gushed that, “Listening to the Punch Brothers is an exercise in wonder… Where did that come from? What’s that reference? Is that Debussy? Is that The Beach Boys? Is that bluegrass, blues, jazz, classical, rock? Who cares because that tune’s just beautiful.”
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