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This Week in Photos: Tiny, but Mighty
March 4, 2022
Yvonne Gay
Third-year students Jake and Eliza Balmuth perform on violin and guitar in the conservatory library.
Photo credit: Yvonne Gay
After a five minute delay to the start of the program, Public Services Librarian Kathleen Abromeit inches her way to the back of the conservatory library, then pauses. “Should we give it another five minutes,” she asks, looking around the room. She’s excited. After a two-year hiatus Abromeit will announce the library’s first Tiny Ref Desk Concert. The program’s return also serves as inspiration for this week’s photo series.
The Tiny Ref Desk Concerts are modeled after the popular NPR Tiny Desk concert series: 20-minute intimate performances in a noise-free environment.
Abromeit launched Oberlin’s rendition of the concerts in the fall of 2018. By December 2019, 10 guest performers, faculty, and students had taken the tiny concert stage, fulfilling what Abromeit had hoped: challenging the stereotypes of a library and bringing it to life. The last concert—given just before the height of the pandemic—was held in March 2020 by a group of women who performed suffrage songs as part of Oberlin’s Women's Leadership and Suffrage programming.
On March 1, after a small delay to allow for more guests to make their way to the conservatory library, Abromeit welcomed siblings Jake and Eliza Balmuth to the tiny stage. After the concert visitors were invited to a pop-up Women’s History Month exhibit in the Special Collections room. A woodwinds quintessence concert is scheduled for April 28. See more photos from the March concert on Oberlin's Flicker page.
Our tour continues with stops at Olympus, The Puppy Episode, a Festival of Ideas, Allen Mercy Hospital, and Dye Lecture Hall
The Festival of Ideas in the Science Center Commons celebrated research and projects performed by students during Winter Term. Students at this table demonstrate their “In or out” project—an automated tennis line calling system. Members in the project included Suvan Agarwal ’23, Ben Chermside ’25, Griffin O’Neal-Freeman ’24, Sydney Paunan ’25, and Katie Siegfried ’25. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Office of Communications
Award-winning author and Oberlin College Writer-in-Residence Molly Antopol gave a public reading of her book, the UnAmericans, in Dye Lecture Hall. Antopol was joined on stage by Associate Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Sheera Talpaz for a discussion and question and answer session. During her week-long residency, Antopol also workshopped with students in classes taught by Barton and Talpaz. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay
This Week in Photos is a selection of images and is not meant to represent a weekly timeline. Images highlight campus, community, people, and events related to Oberlin College.
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