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CSUSB professor describes how collaborative artists reimagine the times during pandemic
Precinct Reporter
April 30, 2020
Kathryn Ervin, a professor in the CSUSB Department of Theatre Arts, discussed ways the arts community is adjusting to sharing its work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ervin said she is hearing from her poetic colleagues and playwrights that they’re using the isolated downtime to produce more works, get through their writing, research and constructing.
But for collaborative artists, the shutdown has been much harder. Musicians can rehearse online, but they can’t rehearse everything. The symphony, for instance, is hard to virtually perform because of a time-lapse. A uniform vibe will be a challenge.
“In the theater, we’re kind of flummoxed here,” Ervin said. Right now, CSUSB theatre arts students and faculty are in the production of “Once Upon a Mattress.” Actors are still learning the music, rehearsals are ongoing, and they’ve read through rehearsals using Zoom, she said.
Read the complete article at “Artists reimagine the times during pandemic.”
White supremacist and extremist groups exploit pandemic to spread hate and violence, CSUSB professor says
Between the Lines
April 29, 2020
The online weekly radio news magazine interviewed Kevin Grisham, assistant director of research Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, for a segment on how hate groups have been using the coronavirus pandemic to further their agendas.
“What we’re seeing is that white supremacists’ sort of rhetoric has in some states actually grown as the lockdowns increased right after Charlottesville,” Grisham said. “A lot of these organizations kind of were in tatters because of what had happened at Charlottesville. And yet what we’re seeing today is kind of a re-solidification of some of these violent white supremacy groups in the COVID-19 environment. I think a large part of that has to do with the echo chambers that are being created and people are being sucked into those echo chambers in this environment.”
Listen to the interview at “White supremacist and extremist groups exploit pandemic to spread hate & violence.”
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