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…
Morgan Brown is the third senior in the Anchor’s Arts senior spotlight. From Romeo, Michigan, she majors in creative writing and has minors in political science and religion. She shared her experience at Hope College, how she found her path and where she dreams of being in the future. What was the journey to finding…
If you’ve read a young adult (YA) dystopian or fantasy novel in the last ten or so years, you have more than likely also gone to a movie theater to see that novel adapted to the silver screen. There are countless examples: “The Maze Runner,” “The Hunger Games,” “Divergent,” “Harry Potter” (and that’s just the…
In our second arts senior spotlight, the Anchor is investigating theatre at Hope College. Madison Meeron, a theatre major from Oxford, Michigan, shared her experiences from the last four years at Hope and different opportunities she has explored as well as her plans for the future. How did you decide to be a theatre major?…
In the coming weeks The Anchor will be highlighting different seniors in the various creative fields of study offered at Hope College to showcase the amazing work and passion within these majors. The first senior to be featured is Abby Waller, a studio art major from Holland, Michigan. I spoke with her as she worked…
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,…
The image of the Sahara Desert with camels, tents and men in robes playing Fender guitars is a perplexing yet incredibly cool thing to see. When most people think of rock music, rarely do they associate it with African culture. The modern guitar, especially electric, is mostly assumed to Western culture. But for Tuareg people,…
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…
I don’t think the world around us pays enough attention to music. Music, if executed the “right way” (I use this term lightly) can carry you in a poetic dissertation. It invites you to compose a familiar yet unfamiliar movie in your head or allows you to paintbrush mental memories to external masterpieces. In essence,…