Thursday, February 13, 2025 8pm
About this Event
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=ofaPARTY WITH THE OFA!
Celebrate Five Decades of Student Artmaking at the Office for the Arts 50th Birthday Party!
Experience a dazzling evening of live music, dance, storytelling, poetry and visual arts by students and alums who have helped shape Harvard’s vibrant arts landscape.
Featured student groups include Harvard Undergraduate Bhangra, Harvard University Band, Omo Naija X Wahala Boys, First-Year Musical, Kuumba Singers of Harvard College and the Harvard Choruses, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard, Harvard RAZA Folklórico, The Handsome Boys Pickin’ Band, Celtic, poetry, storytelling, music and dance, opera and more!
Storytellers include:
A.R.T.'s Diane Paulus ’88 and Karina Cowperthwaite ’23 (together)
Actor Courtney B. Vance ’82 and Bronwyn Vance ’28 (together)
Visual artist Tiffany Onyeiwu ’25
Theater artist Maranatha Paul ’26
Former OFA director Jack Megan
President Alan Garber
President emerita Drew Gilpin Faust
The party continues afterward in Annenberg Dining Hall with drinks, desserts, festivities and more arts including an OFA Ceramics Program Pop-Up Arts Installation and "make art" stations with Printmaking by OFA Arts in the Houses, Community Mural with Black Arts Collective, Poetry-on-Demand with students from TDM-90BR Spring Production Studio and music by DJ Gabriel Brock '26.
Seats for show are limited; reserve your free tickets at Harvard Box Office.
Feature image: Original artwork by Olivia Data '26