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12/18/2020

Calling all Mills-affiliated artists!

To celebrate the end of the year, we invite you to share a creative piece from this year that you are proud of so that we can feature you and your work on our Instagram () throughout the winter break and the beginning of the Spring semester!

To participate, please email your piece to [email protected]. We will be accepting submissions of 30 second to one minute video clips or photos for the project. Please include a brief caption describing the work you are sharing and why you chose it. Please also include your preferred name, pronouns, major and class year!

Please only submit original material which you own fully and have the right to distribute. Upon receipt of your submission Mills Performing Arts will send you a media release form. Any content submitted that includes copyrighted material will not be able to be posted.

Submissions will be accepted and posted on a rolling deadline, but as we would like to feature as many as we can over the coming winter break, the sooner you can get your submission in, the better!

We are proud of all you've achieved and look forward to seeing your work!

12/01/2020

It's !! In these difficult times, we are asking for YOUR support to help us continue to provide top-notch education to the next generation of Bay Area performers, artists, and scholars. Please find the link to the fundraiser here: https://www.givecampus.com/schools/MillsCollege/millsgiving-2020

11/30/2020

Hello friends! Tomorrow, December 1st, marks the fifth annual fundraising event! This year, our aim is to raise $75,000 across 300 donors. In these difficult times, we are asking for YOUR support! Your contribution will have a tremendous impact on the future of the college, and your support will help us continue to provide top-notch education for our students through the hardships the pandemic has placed on our shoulders. Contributors may select one of three designations for their gift: Mills Greatest Need, Undergraduate Scholarships, or the Student Hardship Fund. You can find the link to the fundraiser here: https://www.givecampus.com/schools/MillsCollege/millsgiving-2020

From the college:
Welcome to the fifth annual where donors and advocates like you come together to make a heroic difference in the lives of our students, who are working hard—both through a pandemic and an economic crisis—to secure their education and futures.

You are a crucial part of the Mills community—a microcosm of society, representing diverse thought, challenges, and passions. When you bolster this community with the power of your gift, you’re strengthening our society as a whole by preparing students to tackle and solve its toughest questions when they graduate. Thank you.

This year, you can help us gain the support of 300 donors for a total of $75,000. Your gift, of any amount, will aid us in getting there. More than that, when you participate as an Advocate, you can inspire gifts from others, ensuring the campaign’s success. Create a challenge that dares donors to take a specific action for unlocking your gift, or simply create a matching gift to encourage donor contributions. Spread the news of the campaign on social media or in personal messages—and earn Mills swag when you do!

Thank you for seeing the value in a Mills education and for believing in the power of our community.

08/03/2020

How does your art practice provide self-care?

Art allows me the control to delve deeper into my psyche, process and articulate. My multimedia installations speak to this need to build a universe of my own, a pocket dimension. Acting and comedy are paths that I’ve taken in order to bring light and healing to others. These mediums let me begin to heal myself and my relationship with the universe.

L.A Bonet '20, Multimedia Installation, Acting, Comedy, Music.

07/31/2020

What have you been doing to keep your artistic practice alive under Shelter In Place?

I’ve been finding joy in music by practicing my instruments and trying out new styles of music. I’m learning to play the guitar to explore my bluegrass roots! I have really been loving taking this time to discover new songs and artists and improve upon my knowledge of music theory. How does your art practice provide self-care? Art is self-care to me because it serves as catharsis. I know I can turn to my music no matter what is happening in the world.

Iris Kingery '23, Music and History

07/29/2020

How does your art practice provide self-care?

Playing my instrument is way for me to stay fully mindful. It has remained one of my favorite ways to cope with discomfort. Some tips: Avoid comparing your progress/process to others - for me, it causes more harm than good.

Olivia Simon '23, Music,

07/27/2020

How does your art practice provide self-care?

While technically still falling into “theatre”, doing online performances also helps to hone my on camera skills, and I view it as being on the cutting edge of a new medium of Theatre. I envision a world where theaters include online performances in conjunction with staged performances enabling us to bring theatre to those who love it but are housebound or isolated for one reason or another. Theatre is for everyone.

SuzyJane Edwards '22, Creative Writing and Theater

07/24/2020

What are some self-care tips you can provide to fellow artists and creatives?

Be gentle with yourself instead of expecting flawless productivity during this time. Let your practice guide you though.

What have you been doing to keep your artistic practice alive under Shelter In Place?

I've been taking immense pleasure in listening to sound: in the quiet from the decreased traffic, in the increase in birdsong in my urban neighborhood, and relishing the harp sound as I practice solo in my apartment.

Jennifer Ellis, Mills College Harp teacher, Harpist and Improvisor

07/22/2020

Who are you and what is your artistic medium?

I'm the Farm Manager at Mills Community Farm on campus- and one of the other things I love to do besides grow food, herbs and flowers, is to sing. Today, we made a video with the Summer Farm Crew singing a song I wrote about healing and the Redwoods. Olivia helped a bunch- and sings in the video too! I try and sing almost every day- both my own stuff, and music I've sung with groups- like The Temple of Light, a choir focusing on music from the Republic of Georgia that used to be based here in Oakland. I also love to make Cantastorias- which is an Italian word meaning 'to sing story'' and an artistic form originating in 6th Century India that involved taking paintings from house to house and singing about the news of the day.

Julia Dashe, Mills College Farm Manager

07/21/2020

The 3rd Mills College Music bandcamp compilation consists of a collection of music created remotely in the Spring of 2020 by students in the course MUS 164/264 - Advanced Audio Recording, with Professor Christopher Davidson. Follow the link below for more!

https://millscollegemusic.bandcamp.com/album/forever-in-construction

07/20/2020

What are some self-care tips you can provide to fellow artists and creatives?

Keep it moving and embrace stillness. For me, that means singing and writing everyday even when I don’t feel like it… even if it’s just a low groan or a high-pitched sigh, or a sentence like, “I don’t feel like writing this,” it helps move my artistic energy and often turns into a little riff or poem of some kind. Even when we have unproductive days or weeks, nothing is wasted in a state of presence. Stillness for me comes in meditation, and in embracing my dark moods, just giving into the feeling and letting myself release whatever comes up. By embracing everything we feel, we actually relax around the feelings, and that lack of tension allows us to let them go. The most beautiful part is when the letting go happens through our art. Allow yourself to make art about anything – you don’t have to show it to anyone, but it does need to come out of you.

Kasia Kugaya, '10, Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist, and Banjo player,

07/17/2020

What have you been doing to keep your artistic practice alive under SIP?

Thanks to my wonderful professors, Susan Ito and Truong Tran, I have been able to create some pretty cathartic and enjoyable pieces. I recently finished a poetry manuscript for Truong’s Poetry Workshop II class called The Chronicles of Pain, Patience, and Pleasure which holds about 25 poems, most of which were written during quarantine. It was an extremely rewarding process to write, but also a lot of hard work. In Prof. Ito’s Mixed Race Narratives class I wrote and illustrated a children’s book called What Are You? This book is about a mixed child named, B, who struggles to find confidence in a society where being mixed is abnormal. Although these were assignments for a class, it still allowed me to have an artistic outlet during this stressful time.

Grady Mahusay '22, Creative Writing,

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https://performingarts.mills.edu/

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