What other campus event features dinner, readings of creative work--some involving costumes--amateur faculty duets, dueling painters, and such a wealth of talent, creativity, and goodwill?  Cabaret, sponsored by Wordfest and the VU literary magazine, The Lighter, has become an annual event in the spring. 

Above: Graduate student Dena Hein reads from her ouvre.   Above right and below: wings complement a prose reading by student Evan Scott Bryson and Professor Allison Schuette-Hoffman.