The Council for the Arts at MIT was founded to support the presence and practice of the arts at MIT. Thanks to the Council, thousands of MIT students have gone to local museums and performing arts events, and have received millions of dollars in grant funding to help realize every imaginable type of arts project. What part does the arts play in your MIT life?  Chances are, CAMIT made it possible.

We ask you to create a commemorative poster to help us celebrate 40 years of support for the arts at MIT!

Deadline: 5pm on May 30, 2012

Poster Specifications:

• 11 x 17 horizontal or vertical
• Full color
• Please submit as a pdf, with a resolution of at least 300ppi
• Must contain the text:

Celebrating 40 years of service and support for the Arts at MIT 1972-2012
The Council for the Arts at MIT turns 40!

Only currently registered MIT undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Each student may submit up to three separate designs.  The winning design will be chosen on June 4, 2012, and will be reproduced and distributed at the Activities Midway in September 2012.

Please send your pdf submissions to Susan Cohen, cohen@media.mit.edu

Produced by Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a science theater collaboration between Underground Railway Theater & MIT.

MIT community involved are composer Tod Machover from the MIT Media Lab and cast member Anna Kohler, Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts

April 12 – May 13, 2012 in Central Square

At the age of 27, Henry Molaison became frozen in time. After experimental brain surgery, H.M. (as he was known to the scientific community) was unable to form new memories. His personal tragedy became neuroscience’s golden opportunity, contributing more to our understanding of the brain than had been learned in the previous 100 years. A scientific detective story, Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M. explores the mysteries of his moving story, expanding on them and helping us understand ourselves. This World Premiere is being created in conversation between scientists who studied H.M. and artists: playwright Wesley Savick (Einstein’s Dreams, Tru Grace), composer Tod Machover, Anna Kohler, Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts, and designer Justin Townsend.

Pre-performance presentations by MIT faculty are also free with the price of admission to the play (MIT discount code: MITID) :

Friday, May 11, 6:30-7:40 before the 8 pm performance
A Central Square Theater Science Café
Special Guest: Suzanne Corkin, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and Head of the Behavioral Neuroscience Lab. Her research focuses on the biological bases of human memory networks, cognitive and neural characteristics of healthy aging, and natural history and pathophysiology of degenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. She studied H.M. from 1962 until his death in 2008 and is coming out with a new book this fall:  Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.

Friday, April 27, following 8:00 p.m. performance
“Adapting HM’s Story for the Stage”
Join Wes Savick and Tod Machover, the Director/Playwright and the Composer of Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., for a post-show conversation about their journey bringing H.M.’s story to the stage.

Saturday, May 12, 7:00-7:40, before the 8 pm performance
Saturday Symposium: “The Stranger in the Mirror: Memory and Identity”
Scientists have differing perspectives on whether H.M.’s sense of self disappeared with his ability to form new memories. Are we still ourselves without our memories?
Special Guest: Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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