"Culture is what remains in a human being after he has forgotten everything" (a Japanese pedagogue, cited by Edouard Herriot)

Cultural Chair: Thanh Huynh

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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
  
  

• '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)
  
  

• 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)

• 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)
  
  

• 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)
  
  

• 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)
  
  

• 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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