"Culture is what remains in a human being after he has forgotten everything" (a Japanese pedagogue, cited by Edouard Herriot)
Cultural Chair: Meng-Chi Ed Chen, Jad Kabbara
Members:
Welcome to the SP Cultural Committee page!
Mission: The SP Cultural Committee aims at raising the cultural awareness of residents, and at encouraging cultural exchange between students from different countries, backgrounds and religions. Here are a few of the activities and events we organized since 2002:
Spring 2007 activities
- Outing to the Boston Ballet: A Midsummer's Night Dream (Feb. 16) with ~ 40 residents
- Cultural Coffee Hour for the Chinese/Korean New Year (Feb. 21)
- Korean Coffee Hour (April 4) together with the Korean Graduate Student Association: home-cooked Korean food, performances, traditional clothing
- Latin /South American Coffee Hour (April 18): Performance of La Cupula
- Portugese Coffee Hour (April 25) with the Portugese Students Association
Fall 2006 activities
- Colors of Yunnan: Outing to Chinese Cultural Performance (Sept. 9)
- Chinese Cultural Coffee Hour with Mooncakes (Oct. 4)
- Diwali Celebration: Indian Cultural Coffee Hour with Dance Performance by Shane Cambridge (Oct. 25)
- Dinner and Ballet Swan Lake performed by the Kirov Ballet (Nov. 10) for around ~40 residents
- Lebanese Cultural Coffee Hour with Lebanese Club at MIT (Nov. 29)
Summer 2006 activities
- Cultural Festival: June 17, 2006
Bhangra Medley by Shane Cambridge Greek folk dances: by Hellenic Students’ Association The Mountain Stream (Zheng instrument) by CSSA Dancing to Swing music: by T-Token Swing Lindy Hop and other American dances Rueda by Boston Rueda de Casino Serbia, Montenegro, and other post-Yugoslav states by MOST Song of the Dragon Boat (Chinese folk song) Every Time is the First Time (Chinese pop song) by CSSA
- Taste of Cambridge Outing
Spring 2005 activities- Chinese New Year (Feb. 8); in collaboration with CSSA
- 'The Little Prince'@ The Schubert Theater (Feb. 17)
- S-P Tsunami Fundraising/Indian Cultural Hour: A Music and Dance Show (Feb.23); in collaboration with Sangam
- CATS @ The Wang Theater (Feb. 24)
- Turkish Cultural Hour: A Folk Music Show (Mar. 30);in collaboration with Turkish Student Association at MIT
Fall 2004 activities- 'A Child of Life' in collaboration with Lebanese Club at MIT(Sep. 18)
- Ramadan @MIT with MIT Muslim Students' Association (Oct. 18)
- African Cultural Hour with The African Students' Association (Oct. 20)
- The Lord of the Rings Exhibition, Museum of Science (Oct. 24)
- Day of the Dead with Lucha, Club Mex, La Unidad, Latina Inc., Mariachi Internacional del Tecnologico (Nov. 2)
- 'Taming of the Shrew' Ballet with GSC (Nov. 4)
- 'Sangam Diwlai Nite' with Indian Student Association at MIT (Nov. 5)
- Chinese Cultural Exchange Evening with MIT Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) (Nov. 13)
- Fair Trade Coffee Hour with Students for Labor Justice (Nov. 17)
Spring 2004 activities- Trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (February 14)
- Tosca -- Schubert theater (April 2)
- Brazilian Cultural Hour -- joint with the Brazilian Students Association (April 7)
- Polish Cultural Hour (April 14)
- Swan Lake -- Wang theater (May 21)
Fall 2003 activities- Italian Cultural Hour-- joint with the European Club and MITaly (Oct 22)
- Ramadan dinner--joint with the Muslim Students Association (Oct 29)
- Museum of Fine Arts-- Exhibition: "Rembrandt's Journey" (Oct 31)
- French Cultural Hour-- joint with the European Club and the Francophone Club (Nov 5)
- Arab / Persian Cultural Hour -- joint with the Arab Students Association and the Persian Students Organization (Nov 19)
- The Nutcracker-- Wang Theater (Dec 5)
Summer 2003 activities- The Flags project - joint with Housemasters (SP main lobby)
- Chinese Cultural hour (Aug 27)
- Orientation trip to the Museum of Fine Arts (Sept 1)
- Spanish Cultural hour (Sept 10)
- Cultural Treasure Hunt around Cambridge, Boston and surroundings (Sept 14)
Spring 2003 activities- Lebanese Cultural hour
- Greek Cultural hour
- Turkish Cultural hour
- Hong Kong Cultural hour
- Indian Cultural hour
- Museum of Fine Arts (Exhibition: "The French Landscape from Corot to Monet")
- Romeo and Juliet ballet (Wang theater)
Fall 2002 activities- Caribbean coffee hour
- Ramadan dinner
- Museum of Fine Arts (Exhibition: "Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections")
- The Nutcracker (Wang Theater)
Interested in organizing or participating in cultural activities?
Join the Cultural Committee now!
For more information, please email sp-cultural-chair (at mit.edu)
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