By Malcolm Galpern Levin
galpernl@grinnell.edu
“Unfinished Reflections,” a virtual theater performance directed and curated by Obuchi Adikema `21 for her Mentored Advanced Project (MAP), will premiere virtually on its official
website on May 13. The production is a pre-recorded performance that will focus on the stories of four college students reflecting on their lives, experiences and dreams for the future. The college students are be played by actors Avery Barnett `21, Tino Tazvitya `23, Linnet Adams `21 and Kaela Girod `21.
“Unfinished Reflections” will be presented for viewing as a single continuous video split into three movements: “I Lost My Voice,” “You are My Company,” and “We Can Do Anything We Want.” Each movement consists of poetry, movement, dialogue and interviews serving as individual monologues for each of the four characters in the play.
langleyn@grinnell.edu
Erin Ritter `22, the manager of KDIC, made sure that Grinnell College’s student-run radio station survived 2020.
Like many student organizations at Grinnell, KDIC relies on a transition of student leadership over the summer. Student evacuation of campus in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic posed a serious threat to this pillar of Grinnell’s student community. Because of this delay, Ritter inherited the role of station manager in the spring of 2021, at this time an unpaid position, and faced the task of rebuilding the radio station for a virtual student community.
KDIC has historically broadcast on 88.5 FM from the radio station’s studio located on the second floor of the JRC. Without access to the studio and the necessary audio equipment, the station had been unable to broadcast since early 2020.