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Student Excursions
Established in 1994, the Performing Arts Excursion Series is a program funded by the Council for the Arts at MIT to provide opportunities for students to attend some of the Boston area's finest music, theater and dance events at no or reduced cost. Each year, a limited number of free tickets are provided to productions ranging from the traditional and mainstream to the experimental and avant-garde.
- Tickets may be picked up at the Office of the Arts E15-205 from 2pm-5:30pm M-F with valid MIT Student ID.
- No phone reservations!
- One ticket/MIT student
Past excursions
Current Offerings
Anime Film & Discussion--Wednesday,
Nov. 4, 7pm, Museum of Fine Arts Remis Auditorium (465 Huntington Ave., Boston). Brief discussion by anime experts MIT Prof. Ian Condry and Tufts Prof. Susan Napier, followed by a screening of the rarely available film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
(2006), an award-winning anime masterpiece about a Tokyo high school student with the power to travel through time. At first she
uses her power recklessly, but soon she realizes how profoundly her actions adversely affect others.
Ian Condry, MIT professor and author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization; Susan Napier,
Tufts University Professor and author of Anime: From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle.
BMOP
(Boston Modern Orchestra Project)--Friday, Nov 13, 8pm.
Big Bang concert. Jordan Hall (New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston). (2/Student ID)
Edgard Varèse's Ionization; Lou Harrison's La Koro Sutro (with
Providence Singers, Andrew Clark, artistic director); George Antheil's Ballet
Mécanique.
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