Faculty Costume Designer Cheri Vasek curates exhibition on Bollywood & Beyond: Costume in Indian Film

Assistant Professor Cheri Vasek has been fascinated with India and has spent two summers in India studying Indian costume design and technique. She brings her interest and study of Bollywood films to an exhibition at the East-West Center's Art Gallery, serving as co-curator, along with Michael Schuster.

This exhibition focuses on film costume—its superb design and masterly execution. For one hundred years, Indian filmmakers have been creating images that influence how Indians view themselves and their history. The exhibit looks at various epochs (both real and imaginary) important in Indian consciousness, including Buddhist and Hindu epics, the Mughal era, the British Raj (19th century colonial period), post independence, contemporary India, and the science fiction future. Through costumes, photographs, film clips, posters and designer sketches, a picture of Indian aesthetic values will emerge.

The exhibition runs from Sept 29, 2013 to Jan 12, 2014. For more information click here.

Health Cast: a unique collaboration between Theatre and Nursing students

HealthCAST is a new collaboration between the Department of Theatre & Dance and the School of Nursing that casts and trains actors to portray patients suffering from a variety of physical and emotional symptoms.  Actors work alongside a dedicated director and subject matter experts to make sure they are portraying the patient—and their symptoms—accurately and convincingly during improvised encounters with students at the School of Nursing’s Translational Health Science Simulation Center.

For more information on HealthCAST, or to become involved with this exciting collaborative program, please email Alex Munro at hcast@hawaii.edu.

To see a video about Health Cast:

http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2014/02/24/real-drama-benefits-nursing-students/