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An afternoon featuring 25 student bands or individual artists is set for Sunday, April 16, in two venues at RIT. Called “RIT Unlabeled Music Festival,” the genres represented include electronic dance music, funk, pop, rock, rap, metal, grunge, punk, fusion, and jazz.

Sandeep Das, a Grammy-winning musician and internationally known master of the Indian tabla, will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 14 at RIT. Das is the founder of Harmony and Universality through Music (HUM), a nonprofit organization in India that promotes global understanding through music performance and provides learning opportunities and scholarships for visually impaired children with artistic potential.

Eight Beat Measure, RIT’s oldest a cappella group, is celebrating 35 years since being formed and is seeking former group members to join them for an anniversary celebratory concert, “Chill Beats,” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 14, at the Theatre at Innovation Square.

WROC-TV talks to Jill Bradbury, department chair of NTID's Department for Performing Arts, about the Big Read community project.

WXXI Connections talks to Michael Ruhling, professor of performing arts, about Beethoven.

In Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, villagers’ deafness becomes an act of revolt against a totalitarian government, and their use of sign language unites them as a community. These themes, along with others throughout the book, resonate with the contemporary experience of deafness in the United States.

RIT’s University Gallery is the perfect venue for an upcoming play where much of the plot takes place in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ordinary Days runs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, through Sunday, April 2, in the gallery, in Booth Hall.

WVLT-TV features an event with Sunshine 2.0.

Fox Rochester interviews Jill Bradbury, department chair of NTID's Department for Performing Arts, about National Deaf History Month and the Big Read community project.

Nearly 70 different RIT student teams and clubs are poised to move into the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) this summer in preparation for the building’s official opening in the fall semester.

WXXI features Thomas Warfield, director of dance and senior lecturer in NTID’s Department for Performing Arts.

An imaginary close-up of the inside of a computer, mixed with neon lights, microphones, an artist’s palette, molecules, and computer code, has been selected as this year’s Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival poster. The winning poster was created by Annelise Wall, a second-year new media design major.