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ART THAT WAKES US UP—TO BEAUTY, TO FULL-OUT DARING, AND TO A NEW SERIES SPOTLIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD WE’RE IN. EAR-WHISPERED: WORKS BY TANIA EL KHOURY SEP 6–23, 2018 VARIOUS LOCATIONS ON CAMPUS AND IN OLD CITY PHILADELPHIA GARDENS SPEAK WED–SUN, SEP 12–16 & 19–23 HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALL ear-whispered, an extensive survey of artist Tania El Khoury’s work, features her internationally acclaimed Gardens Speak. This immersive sound installation invites audience members to dig in the dirt in order to listen to oral histories collected from the early period of the Syrian uprising. Working between Lebanon and the United Kingdom, El Khoury meticulously crafts innovative performances and installations that engage the audience in multi-sensory interaction. The five works of ear-whispered also include the one-on-one performance As Far As My Fingertips Take Me; two immersive video installations, Stories of Refuge and Camp Pause, both produced as a collaboration through Beirut-based Dictaphone Group; and the world premiere of Tell Me What I Can Do, commissioned by Bryn Mawr College. Full information is at taniaelkhoury.brynmawr.edu. ABBY Z AND THE NEW UTILITY: ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage ABANDONED PLAYGROUND and presented in association with the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Additional FRI–SAT, DEC 7–8, 2018, 8PM support has been provided by Bryn Mawr College’s Middle Eastern Studies Program, HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALL Special Collections, and Friends of the Library. Nine dancers rip through a work of great energy, intensity, surprise, and danger, performing complex sequences of hyper-physical dance. Choreographer Abby Zbikowski draws together influences of hip-hop, tap, and West African dance with a punk aesthetic to create her own movement lexicon. As the dancers push the boundaries of their endurance, they forge an intense ensemble connection through vocalizations and the channeling of communal energy. WINTRY MIX / PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL NICHOLE CANUSO AND FRIENDS FRI, JAN 25, 2019, 8PM CYNTHIA HOPKINS AND FRIENDS SAT, JAN 26, 2019, 8PM HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALL This curated sampler of what’s new in Philly performance offers two different nights of 12-minutes-max sets curated by featured performers Nichole Canuso and Cynthia Hopkins. Hopkins’ evening takes on themes of social justice, with communal singing and dancing, while Canuso’s showcases her singular dance/theater.

SARA DAVIS BUECHNER, PIANIST SAT, MAR 2, 2019, 8PM MCPHERSON AUDITORIUM, GOODHART HALL RANKY TANKY Noted for her “intelligence, integrity, and all-encompassing SAT, MAR 23, 2019, 8PM technical prowess” (The New York Times), Buechner is one MCPHERSON AUDITORIUM, of the most vital concert pianists of our time and has been GOODHART HALL a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco This South Carolina quintet soared Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra. This program features last year to the #1 position on the two Mozart favorites, Sonata in D major KV 284 and Sonata Billboard, I-Tunes, and Amazon jazz charts with their eponymous in A minor KV 310, along with works by Gershwin (Rhapsody album. “Ranky Tanky” translates loosely as “Work It” or “Get Funky!” in Blue), Dana Seuss, and Kouiji Tau that reflect Beuchner’s With that spirit they perform timeless music of Gullah culture from the love of jazz. Georgia/Carolina Sea Island region, from playful game songs to ecstatic shouts, from heartbreaking spirituals to delicate lullabies. ERIN BELIEU WED, SEPT 19, 7:30PM ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM BRYN MAWR READING SERIES Poet Erin Belieu’s work focuses on gender, love, and history, filtering wide-ranging subjects through a variety of theoretical frameworks. Her books of poetry are: Infanta, selected by Hayden Carruth for the National Poetry Series; One Above, One Below; Black Box, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; TARFIA FAIZULLAH and Slant Six. Belieu coedited, with Susan Aizenberg, the WED, OCT 3, 7:30 PM anthology The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Women. She also cofounded VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, Tarfia Faizullah is the author of which explores “critical and cultural perceptions of writing by Registers of Illuminated Villages as women” in contemporary culture. well as a previous poetry collection, This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Seam, winner of a VIDA Award, Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry. a GLCA New Writers’ Award, a Milton Kessler First Book Award, a Drake University Emerging Writer Award, and other honors. Her CHRIS ABANI poems are published widely in periodicals and anthologies both WED, OCT 10, 7:30PM in the United States and abroad, including Poetry Magazine, GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Guernica, Tin House, and The Nation; are translated into Persian, Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, Chinese, Bengali, Tamil, and Spanish; and have been featured at essayist, screenwriter, and the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. playwright. Born in Nigeria to an In 2016 she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of Igbo father and English mother, 50 Women Inspiring Change. he grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria. He This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane is the recipient of the PEN USA Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry. Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Award. His six works of fiction include GREGORY PARDLO The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song For Night, The Virgin of WED, FEB 13, 7:30PM Flames, Becoming Abigail, GraceLand, and Masters of the Board. GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Gregory Pardlo’ s collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His KAREN RUSSELL other honors include fellowships WED, FEB 27, 7:30PM from the Guggenheim Foundation, MCPHERSON AUDITORIUM the National Endowment for the Arts, Karen Russell is the author of and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem two story collections and the was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in novel Swamplandia!, a finalist 2007. He is poetry editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. Air Traffic, for the Pulitzer Prize. She has a memoir in essays, was released by Knopf in April 2018. been named one of The New This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Yorker ’s 20 Under 40, a Granta Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry. Best Young American Novelist, and one of the National Book Foundation’ s 5 Under 35. Her stories have appeared three times in the Best American Short Stories anthologies. The recipient of a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Genius Grant, Russell was KATE HOPE DAY Bryn Mawr ’s Distinguished Visiting Writer in the fall of 2011. WED, APR 3, 7:30PM ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM Kate Hope Day is the author of one of 2019’s most anticipated novels, YIYUN LI her debut If, Then. An alumna from WED, APR 24, 7:30PM the Bryn Mawr class of 2000, Day ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM later served as professor of English at Yiyun Li is the author of four works Oregon State University before turning of fiction—Kinder Than Solitude, to writing full-time. To mark the A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, publication of the novel, the Reading The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Series will present a reading and roundtable with Day’s editor Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, at Penguin Random House, Andrea Walker—also an alumna, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. A native of Beijing and a Byrn Mawr class of 1998—and her agent Brettne Bloom of The graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of Book Group. Walker and Bloom have edited many iconic books, many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur including winners of the National Book Award, the National Book Foundation fellowship, and was named one of The New Yorker’s 20 Critics Circle Award, and dozens of New York Times bestsellers. Under 40 fiction writers to watch. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among others. Li teaches at Princeton University. FRI–SUN, THU–SAT, NOV 9–11, 15– 17, 7:30 PM FRI–SAT, JAN 25– 26, 8 PM FRI, APR 12, 8 PM SEASON AT A GLANCE THEATER: FALL 2018 PRODUCTION PAS: WINTRY MIX/PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING ORCHESTRA CONCERT (HC) 2018-2019 FRI, NOV 16, 8 PM WED, FEB 13, 7:30 PM WED, APR 24, 7:30 PM SEPT 6– 23 BI-CO MUSIC: FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT READING SERIES: GREGORY PARDLO READING SERIES: YIYUN LI PAS: EAR-WHISPERED: WORKS BY TANIA EL KHOURY FRI–SAT, DEC 7– 8, 8 PM SAT, FEB 16, 7:30 PM FRI–SAT, APR 26– 27, 7:30 PM WED, SEP 19, 7:30 PM PAS: ABBY Z AND THE NEW UTILITY— DANCE: FACULTY DANCE CONCERT DANCE: SPRING DANCE CONCERT READING SERIES: ERIN BELIEU ABANDONED PLAYGROUND WED, FEB 27, 7:30 PM SUN, APR 28, 3 PM WED, OCT 3, 7:30 PM SUN, DEC 9, 3 PM READING SERIES: KAREN RUSSELL BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHORALE CONCERT (HC) READING SERIES: TARFIA FAIZULLAH BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHORALE CONCERT SAT, MAR 2, 8 PM THU, MAY 2, 4:45 PM WED, OCT 10, 7:30 PM THU, DEC 13, 8 PM PAS: SARA DAVIS BUECHNER, PIANIST BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS’ READING SERIES: CHRIS ABANI BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS’ ANNUAL SAT, MAR 23, 8 PM ROTUNDA CONCERT (HC) WINTER CONCERT (HC) FRI, OCT 26, 8:30 PM PAS: RANKY TANKY MON, MAY 6, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: HAVERFORD COLLEGE FAMILY MON, DEC 17, 7:30 PM WED, APR 3, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT (HC) AND FRIENDS WEEKEND CONCERT (HC) BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT (HC) READING SERIES: KATE HOPE DAY, ANDREA WALKER TUES, MAY 7, 7:30 PM SAT, NOV 3, 8:30 PM TUES, DEC 18, 7:30 PM AND BRETTNE BLOOM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT BI-CO MUSIC: BRYN MAWR COLLEGE FAMILY WEEKEND BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT FRI–SUN, THURS––– SAT, APR 5 7, 11 13, 7:30 PM FRI, MAY 17, 8:30 PM CONCERT THEATER: SPRING 2019 PRODUCTION BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS’ COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

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Bellini: Sinfonia from Norma Thurs, Dec 13, 8 pm, MA CHOOSE: Haydn: Symphony #100 in G Major, Morten Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs (excerpts) ABBY Z AND THE NEW UTILITY The Military 12/7 12/8 Heidi Jacob: Winter Light for Violin and Additional works by Tallis, Zimmerman, Kopylov, Harris, and Kirchner WINTRY MIX/PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL Chamber Orchestra, featuring Philadelphia 1/25 1/26 Orchestra Violinist Barbara Govatos Chamber Singers’ Stravinsky: Berceuse and Finale from Annual Rotunda Concert Subscribers will be sent details on ticketing for ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury. Firebird Suite (1919 version) Thurs, May 2, 4:45 pm KINSC and Chamber Singers’ Spring Orchestra Concert TOTAL ENCLOSED $ THANK YOU. Fri, Apr 12, 8 pm MA Commencement Concert Bi-College Student Concerto Fri, May 17, 8:30 pm GH Competition winner(s) J. S. Bach: Lobet den herrn, alle Heiden The 2018-2019 Bryn Mawr ear-whispered is Tchaikovsky: Suite from the Ballet Brahms: Four Quartets, Op. 92 College Performing Arts Series presented by the Bryn receives state arts funding Mawr College Performing Swan Lake, Op. 20a Randall Thompson: Alleluia Additional works by Belmont, Pfautsch, support through a grant from Arts Series in association with FringeArts for the BRYN MAWR / HAVERFORD and Conte the Pennsylvania Council CHORALE on the Arts, a state agency 2018 Philadelphia Fringe BRYN MAWR / HAVERFORD funded by the Commonwealth Festival. Major support for Fall Chorale Concert of Pennsylvania and the ear-whispered: works by Sun, Dec 9, 3 pm MA CHAMBER MUSIC Tania El Khoury has been Fall Chamber Music Concerts National Endowment for the Britten (orchestrated by Imogen Holst): Arts, a federal agency. provided to Bryn Mawr College by The Pew Center Rejoice in the Lamb Mon, Dec 17, 7:30 pm MA, for Arts & Heritage. Tues, Dec 18, 7:30 pm MR Brahms: Schicksalslied, Op. 54 PHOTOS ON COVER: Sara Davis Buechner—Yukiko Onley / Gardens Speak-Tania El Khoury—Jesse Hunniford / Tarfia Haydn: Te Deum Spring Chamber Music Concerts Faizullah—Self-Portrait / Gregory Pardio—Rachel Eliza Griffiths / Abby Z—Effy Falck. PHOTOS PAGE 2: Tania El Khoury— Gardens Speak-Tania El Khoury and Jesse Hunniford / Abby Z—Effy Falck / Nicole Canuso—Peggy Woolsey / Cynthia Mon, May 6, 7:30 pm MA, Hopkins—Dustin Drankoski / Ranky Tanky—Jay Gilbert. PHOTOS PAGE 3: Erin Belieu—Gesi Schilling / Tarfia Faizullah— Tues, May 7, 7:30 pm MR Self-Portrait / Chris Abani—Self-Portrait / Gregory Pardio—Rachel Eliza Griffiths / Karen Russell—Michael Lionstar / Yuyin Li—Agence Opale / Alamy Stock Photo.