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Come together with music festivals

Young EDC goers dance until dawn on Monday, June 24, 2013 at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, NV. EDC is one of the biggest dance music festivals in the world. The three-day long festival drew 320,000 revellers. More than 150 artists played on a variety of stages. Photo ... — Photo credit: Rachel Porter

With winter around the corner, social media is already buzzing with countless announcements of spring and summer music festivals to come in 2014. Music festivals have become so popular in the last century that what once was a counterculture movement, music festivals are now evolved into more mainstream, inclusive events. A study by Nature Reviews Neuroscience shows that listening to...

The Clothesline Project: domestic violence awareness

"Silence hides the violence," "You’re weak when you use force," "No more behind the curtains bullshit." These are only a few of the powerful messages written on T-shirts that were put on display at Santa Monica College on Oct. 29. In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, SMC’s Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance Club presented the Clothesline Project to their fellow...

Dance history revives at SMC

Dance historian and dancer, Gary Bates, lectures SMC students about his Dance History Project along with stories from his experiences and struggles growing up in LA's dance scene in the studio in Santa Monica College on Sept. 17. Photo by Rubens Almeida Jr.

Amid the sea of black leotards and ballet buns sits 73-year old professional dancer and dance historian, Gary Bates. The dance department at Santa Monica College invited Bates to speak about the history of Los Angeles Modern and Contemporary Dance on Sept. 17 and to initiate SMC's Master of Dance lecture series. Bates began his lecture by reading out the...

By Reyna Mares + 4 others for The Corsair - 3 min read

The Annual Broad Fest attracts with art and entertainment

Kids gather around the table at the Broad Stage Second Annual Broad Fest located on 11th and Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica on Sept. 1 and play a game called "Stuarts game of little things." In the game, one player is blindfolded and the other is not. The player who ...

Despite last week's high temperatures, Saturday's slightly overcast, breezy weather was the perfect setting for the Second Annual Broad Fest at Santa Monica College's Performing Arts Center. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Broad Stage invited festival attendees to take part in various family-friendly activities, watch free performances, and try different food vendors. According to Eric Bloom, Broad Stage...