Celebrate the season at a holiday concert with a program performed by the Antioch Chamber Ensemble that ranges from Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten to Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre (among other festive music of the season). Rensselaer invites you to be a part of establishing a new tradition on campus co-presented by EMPAC and Student Life.

In a bold and violent juxtaposition of movement, text, animation and video of manga (Japanese comics) drawing, choreographer Jeremy Wade takes a playful and cynical look at Japanese kawaii (cute) culture, exploring its ubiquitous influence on the world today.

In this exhibition, performance, film and lecture series, contemporary artists use a variety of strategies including parabolic flight, helium, rigging, digital special effects and other tricks of the eye to explore the experience of weightlessness on earth.

After two years and many many months spent in-residence at EMPAC, The OpenEnded Group premieres their new work UPENDING. This is an evening length work that combines breathtaking 3D computer animation with a new gutsy EMPAC-produced recording of Morton Feldman's first string quartet by NYC-based FLUX Quartet. We've never seen anything quite like this - come experience for yourself.

Brad Lubman's SIGNAL and the intrepid JACK Quartet perform a concert of Helmut Lachenmann's music under the guidance of the composer. Don't miss this rare US performance of one of the most influential living European composers - an exploded musical language of risky, nearly-electronic instrumental sounds recombined into elaborate, intricate works that EMPAC's Concert Hall was built to articulate.