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PETER SELLARS MONTGOMERY FELLOW/CLASS DIVIDE RESIDENCY LECTURE

New Crowned Hope: The Arts in the Age of Obama

Tuesday, February 10 • 4:30 pm
Spaulding Auditorium • Free

Internationally acclaimed director and MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient Peter Sellars is one of today's most sought-after theater, opera and television directors, having overseen more than 100 productions across America and abroad. He is renowned not only for his inexhaustible imagination and ambitious scope, but for the deep moral and social reflection he brings to the stage. At Dartmouth, Sellars takes multiple opportunities to interact with students and community members on one of his career's central tenets:
the power of art to address important social issues like class inequality and its impacts. In a far-reaching residency that includes this public lecture, a film series (see film insert) and an introduction to the Glee Club performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Sellars electrifyingly discusses the responsibility art holds amidst a global class divide—and how it makes a difference.

For more info, go to dartmouth.edu/~montfell.


Part of Class Divide, a three-year Hopkins Center initiative examining social and economic class issues.

Cosponsored by the Hopkins Center and the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment at Dartmouth.