Katy Smith (‘23) is a communications major, theatre and writing minor at Hope. Her passions lie in the arts, specifically playwriting, poetry, performing, and any music that makes you feel wanderlust. She is so honored to be the Anchor’s Arts Editor! She strives to give Hope’s wonderful arts programs the platform they deserve.
Dune The star-studded film is an adaptation of a novel by Frank Herbert, thought of as the patriarch of science fiction. The film is a box office knockout, and many theatergoers are raving about its visual experience. NPR says, “The world of Frank Herbert’s novel feels big and immersive here in a way it never…
This week, I sat down with a charismatic, energetic Hope College student who is always filled with opinions about art. Matt Severino (’21) is active within the Communications Department, specifically the film and production sect. He is always willing to help a peer with their camera troubles, help them perfect a shot or recommend a…
Hey, Hope College! It’s your friendly Arts Editor, Katy! Artists: welcome back! This first week of classes at Hope College has felt… normal. Entirely, genuinely, refreshingly normal. It almost feels too good to be true. Dancers are beginning to imagine a maskless, in-person Dance 48. Actors are crossing their fingers for audiences in DeWitt once…
Drip, drip, drip… Striking the match and drip dropping it in the sink on a bad day. Worse day. Creaky, cracky faucet shreeks as the knobs are turned–– Full speed ahead! All the water released, falling to its death far below on the drainless porcelain bowl. Splash! Full speed ahead! I am an overflowing sink….
I’m sure there are a lot of heavy topics that instantly come to mind when you think about the wonderful little holiday on April 22 (Earth Day). In this day and age, it’s hard to want to celebrate all that is good when there’s so much to be cynical about. Sentences like, “There’s nothing I…
The year 2020 was undeniably one of the stranger, if not the strangest, times for cinema across the world. When movie theatres closed last spring, the industry lost a near $10 billion in ticket sales alone. Many of us turned to streaming services for our entertainment, and the film industry shifted with us. As we…
In 1971, Disney opened their newest Walt Disney World resort lodging in Orlando, Florida known as “Disney’s Polynisian Village Resort.” Later, in 2011, Disney opened “Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa” in Kapolei, Hawai’i. In 2014, Pixar released the short film “Lava,” a story about two Hawaiian-coded volcanoes falling in love. Lastly and most recently,…
Every theatre student at Hope College remembers being corralled into Theatre 105: Introduction to Theatre Practice during their freshman year. It’s a one-credit course that is recommended to take the first semester of your first year to acclimate yourself to the department and your fellow classmates. The class briefly goes through the different job descriptions…
On Wednesday, February 17, the up and coming brother band AJR released their newest single “Way Less Sad,” a feature track on their upcoming album “OK Orchestra.” On its first day, the music video received 606,748 views and quickly climbed to well over half a million after the first week. Often, an artist will yield…
When the Hope College student body was sent home in March, it felt like the screws keeping me in place were suddenly bouncing on the floor. In some respects, I felt some semblance of relief. That quickly crumbled into a creative crisis. As a Type A person, I thrive on having schedules. I do not…