Approximately 50 guests attended a festive Friends of the Arts at CIIS salon featuring poet Coleman Barks. Mr. Barks read selections from his own poetry at the private home of YaYa Cantu. Learn more about this event.
This spring, CIIS awarded the Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri Award for Distinguished Service to technology entrepreneur and philanthropist, Kanwal Rekhi. Learn more about this event.
Artist Peggy Schadler led a two-part maskmaking workshop on January 30 and February 6 at CIIS. Schadler is the creator and artistic director of 1000 Faces, a mask theatre group based in Rappahannock County, Virginia.
On April 3, CIIS hosted its first annual Scholarship Reception in Namaste Hall. Forty-five donors, scholars, and alumni attended to celebrate the accomplishments of CIIS students and the generosity of the philanthropic community. Learn more about this event.
The groundbreaking Conference explored issues of embodied difference, marginalization, and the sociocultural understandings of somatic formation. Photos by Sarah Deragon.