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Posts published by “Shannon Ryan”

Not the typical carol, Fisher returns to Mills

Mills College Weekly If one thinks of Dickens as the epitome of outdated sentimentality, or could not imagine another serious attempt at “God bless us,…

New life for library

Mills College Weekly The building that is now home to The Oakland African American Museum and Library celebrated its centennial last week with an evening…

Celebration of death, life

Mills College Weekly Through laughter and tears, a crowd gathered around in a circle holding hands to collectively celebrate life by remembering the dead in…

Reflecting Mills, Oakland on stage

Mills College Weekly Approaching her 10 year college reunion at Mills, Elizabeth Carter is proud-with good reason. Unabashedly positive and exuberant, she puts her passion…

Edgy jazz moves some at Mills

An experimental musician known for inventing free jazz delivered what perhaps was the longest run-on sentence to a restless Mills audience. Two Fridays ago, in…

Body and Spirit dance

A dancer’s spirit is more agile than her body, or so a Berkeley dance company featuring disabled and non-disabled dancers contends. Four members of AXIS,…

Upcoming “Encuentros”

7 p.m. Tonight, Student Union Chicana painter, performance artist and educator Celia Herrera Rodriguez displays, discusses and performs her work. 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19,…