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Photo: A group of people wearing bright, flamboyant Mardi Gras Indian outfits stand and pose in front of a large stoop. Large pink and purple feathers are showcased on outfits and headdresses.

Music Festival

BU Global Music Festival Comes to Tsai Performance Center on Saturday

September 13, 2023

Photo: Colorful Bollywood dancers hit their dance move has the perform on stage. Their costumes consist of sparkly purple tank tops, with sparkly orange bottoms and a navy-blue lining on the pants. Most dancers have their hair down.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Bollywood Dance Performance

June 7, 2023

Photo: Wooden crosses mark the graves of Izium residents killed by Russian occupiers during exhumation procedures at a mass burial site in Izium that was liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Russian troops, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine. Numerous mounds of dirt are marked by crosses in a wooded area. A tape is pulled across the scene, with Ukrainian writing on it.

Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

Photo of Mexican group Son Rompe Pera posting with their musical instruments. The group is comprised of fiven youngish men of color, all of them with arm tattoos. Two hold instruments that look like xylophones , one holds a small guitar, another a set of handle held drums.

Arts on Campus

Get Ready to Dance at BU’s Annual Global Music Festival

September 13, 2022

Photo of Sophie Lee (Questrom’22), wearing a light blue sweater and smiling, as she holds a teal bowl of Tteokbokki in front of her. Overlaid on the photo at the top left is a top-down view of the bowl of Tteokbokki, which has noodles, a reddish sauce and a soft-boiled egg.

Student Life

[Video] How to Make Tteokbokki

October 29, 2021

Mango Blue latin music ensemble led by Alex Alvear performs on stage

Music

South End Alive with the Sound of Music Tonight

July 14, 2016

North End historian and author Dom Capossela talks about the North End neighborhood to students in Boston University Metropolitan College summer course about history and culture of the North End

Classes

MET Class Asks: Is the North End Still Italian?

July 12, 2016

Folk dancing in Copley Square, Boston, MA

Nightlife

Folk Dancing Comes to Copley Square Tonight

July 21, 2015

ArtBeat Festival Somerville

Nightlife

Davis Square Hosts ArtBeat Festival This Weekend

July 17, 2015

Step About Boston Irish step dancing group at Boston University

Arts on Campus

Step About Boston

March 16, 2015

Classes

Studying Brahmins, Baked Beans, and Baseball

December 1, 2014

Boston University BU, research, imigration, politics, diversity, caucasian white minority

Ethnic

Does Diversity Breed Intolerance?

September 25, 2014

Boston University BU, theatre, Huntington Theatre, Smart People, Lydia Diamond

Huntington Theatre

Smart People: What We Talk about When We Talk about Race

June 4, 2014

Boston University BU, admissions, first generation college higher education students, First Gen Connect Program, University Service Center USC

Education

Help for First in Their Family to Go to College

April 30, 2014

Boston University BU, Jazz musician Dee Dee Bridgewater, free concert, Tsai Performance Center, African American music

Arts on Campus

Jazz Great Dee Dee Bridgewater at Tsai Tonight

March 20, 2014

Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, Boston Center for American Performance, BCAP

Culture

“You Can Never Bury the Truth”

February 14, 2014

Le’s Vietnamese Cuisine

Things-to-do

Lunch Anyone? Le’s Vietnamese Cuisine

January 23, 2014

places to eat near Boston University BU, Bonchon, korean cuisine restaurant food

Food & Dining

Lunch, Anyone? Bonchon

December 5, 2013

BU India Club, BUIC, Boston University, cultural student groups, ethnic student groups

Dance

Passage to India

December 2, 2013

Boston University BU alumni, Pulitzer Winner Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Literature

Pulitzer-winning BU Alum Up for Man Booker Prize, National Book Award

October 7, 2013

Pulitzer-winning BU Alum Up for Man Booker Prize, National Book Award