May 4, 2015

“We-unions” Campus Event Open to All

With a theme “Green is the new Orange and Black,” the Princeton Atelier is presenting an event today on the lawn north of Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center from 4 p.m. to sunset. Open to the entire community, the celebration will include free food and a “PU-Rade” at 7:30 p.m.

The event is described as “all-invited, family-friendly, alma-mater-blind, all-species and highly interactive,” made up of five projects on different subjects related to land, space, social justice, community, ecology, the environment, and Princeton. Projects are designed, organized, and performed by students in the spring 2015 Atelier course, “Performing Environmental Stories,” led by professors Jenny Price and Kelly Baum.

Visitors begin at the welcome station, where they are given a wristband for showing up. Among the highlights: “(Un)just Des(s)erts, a variation on a typical cooking competition and designed to dramatize the disparities in access to healthy, affordable food; the Fitz & Randolph Investment Company, a two-person theatrical event on the subject of corporate “green-washing” and sustainable investment practices; and the Red Solo Cup Exploratorium, which takes the form of a children’s museum staffed by enthusiastic guides. The “A Sense of Where You Are” audio tour chronicles the past and present history of five campus sites, narrated by such notables as author/professor John McPhee and University Architect Ron McCoy.

The gathering is co-sponsored by PEI; Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, & the Humanities; the Office of Sustainability; and the Princeton University Art Museum. For more information, visit arts.princeton.edu.