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ARTSANDCULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS FALL 2018 Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center SUBSCRIBE to a weekly events digest Museum Hours and learn more about events featured Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday: 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. in this brochure: Closed on Mondays and national holidays. BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR Bowdoin College Museum of Art Museum Hours All events are subject to change. Go to bowdoin.edu for Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. information on cancellations or time changes. Thursday until 8:30 p.m. Go to bowdoin.edu/live for live streaming events. Sunday: Noon–5:00 p.m. through October 28 Sunday 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. starting November 4 Follow @BowdoinArts on Twitter and Instagram. Closed on Mondays and national holidays. To access the Bowdoin College campus map go to: bowdoin.edu/about/campus/maps

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Patrons must present their basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses. Bowdoin student, faculty, or staff ID. A limited number of tickets may be available at the door immediately before the event. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. Due to limited seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime. 2 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 EXHIBITIONS Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center NEW EXHIBITIONS THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2019 Threads of Change: Clothing and Identity in OCTOBER 2, 2018, THROUGH the North JANUARY 20, 2019 Across the Arctic, generations of seamstresses Caught in the Middle: The Tragic Life of have fashioned animal furs and skins into Minik Wallace beautiful, warm, and waterproof clothing. This On the 100th anniversary of his death, we look exhibit explores how they express their creativity at the life of Minik, a young Inughuit boy who and identity through clothing and how their in 1897 traveled to New York with his father and attire reflects the changing nature of northern other relatives to spend a year working with an life. Funded by the Russell and Janet Doubleday anthropologist. What began as an adventure Endowment. ended in tragedy when Minik’s father, and most of the others, died of respiratory diseases. Minik was LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONS adopted and raised by an American family and did Robert E. Peary and His Northern World not return to Greenland until 1909. He lived there until 1916 when he returned to the US, only to die As a pioneering Arctic explorer, Peary relied in the 1918 influenza epidemic. on many extraordinary people. He worked ceaselessly to improve his methods of travel and ONGOING EXHIBITIONS his equipment, always keeping in mind efficiency on the trail and the comfort and safety of his men. THROUGH OCTOBER 1 This exhibit provides new perspectives on Peary’s Blossoming Tundra: long career. Funded by the Russell and Janet The Photography of Doubleday Endowment. Rutherford Platt In 1947 and 1954, botanist and photographer Hawthorne-Longfellow Rutherford Platt sailed north on the schooner Library Bowdoin to study Arctic FALL 2018 plants. He took a series Parker Cleaveland: A Life in Science of remarkable close-up Bowdoin’s first professor of mathematics and photographs to highlight Rutherford Platt, Arctic natural philosophy, Parker Cleaveland (1780–1858), the wonders of the Rose, Dryas integrifolia, was a polymath who studied mineralogy, geology, Arctic’s incredible tiny Seed Head, August 14, 1947, astronomy, biology, conchology, and meteorology. flowers and illustrate Thule, Greenland. 35mm Kodachrome transparency. His An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology their specialized Gift of Alexander D. Platt ’66, (1816) was the first American textbook on the adaptations. Rutherford Platt Jr., and Susan Platt. subject, and he was instrumental in building the College’s early teaching collections. This exhibition THROUGH DECEMBER 22 draws upon these rich holdings to explore Enduring Connections: Contemporary Cleaveland’s pedagogical and scientific legacy. Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat Art Over the last 150 years, Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat ONGOING artists have drawn on ancient traditions to create Highlights from the Joshua Lawrence works reflecting their rich history of innovation Chamberlain Papers and resilience in the face of many challenges. This Treasures on display related to Civil War hero exhibit features the ways Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bowdoin Class of artists create carvings, 1852, include his Congressional Medal of Honor baskets, masks, and dolls and the Tiffany & Co. bracelet he designed for his to explore both their wife on their tenth anniversary. ancient traditions and the contemporary world. It Highlights from the George J. Mitchell Papers includes many recently Explore the life and legacy of Senator George J. Mitchell, Bowdoin Class of 1954, in this rotating acquired works. Funded Peter Smith, Puffin Mask, 1990. by the Russell and Janet Wood and pigment. Purchased exhibit of materials from his personal and political Doubleday Endowment. in memory of Meredith B. Jones. papers. BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 3 DECEMBER 6, 2018, THROUGH Bowdoin College Museum JUNE 2, 2019 of Art Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment NEW EXHIBITIONS With works drawn from the Museum’s permanent SEPTEMBER 27, 2018, THROUGH collection, this exhibition explores the SEPTEMBER 29, 2019 intersections of art and the environment. Featuring objects from antiquity to today, Material Resources: Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass Intersections of Art and the Environment examines Let’s Get Lost, a site-specific drawing by linn meyers, artists’ dependence on Earth’s material resources, will be complemented by the interactive sound while presenting art as an integral “material” installation Listening Glass, created by Rebecca resource in the study of the environment. Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles in partnership with meyers. The joint projects ONGOING EXHIBITIONS include visual and acoustic components that can be activated through audience participation. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space OCTOBER 4, 2018, THROUGH Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) was the FEBRUARY 10, 2019 youngest artist among the founders of the New Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New York School. This exhibition focuses on paintings England Botanical Studies from the 1960s and early 1970s, a fruitful period in Pousette-Dart’s career in which his work was Highlighting two exceptional artist-botanists, widely exhibited, championed by critics, and left a watercolorist Kate Furbish (1834–1931) and mark on a younger generation of artists. photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848–1938), this exhibition addresses important questions THROUGH OCTOBER 28 about the relationship between the arts and sciences and the interest in botany at the dawn of Winslow Homer and the Camera: the American industrial age. Photography and the Art of Painting This exhibition explores the question of Homer’s OCTOBER 11, 2018, THROUGH relationship with the medium of photography and APRIL 7, 2019 its impact on his artistic practice. Homer understood Among Women: Portraits from the that photography, as a new technology of sight, had much to reveal. This exhibition adds an important Permanent Collection new dimension to our appreciation of this Featuring outstanding portraits in all media from pioneering American painter. the Museum’s permanent collection and several important loans, the exhibition explores the THROUGH JANUARY 6, 2019 artistic portrayal of women in the US over the last A Handheld History: Medals from the three centuries and examines the myriad ways Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College artists have represented women in American art. A Handheld History allows viewers to experience the intimacy and poignancy of portrait medals spanning nearly five centuries and consider the lessons they have to impart to contemporary audiences.

THROUGH OCTOBER 13, 2019 In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides This exhibition examines the geometry and design of ancient art and the efforts by artists to Tell Me What You’re Thinking, 2016, chromogenic print by represent depth and movement by influencing Mickalene Thomas. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. the vantage point of the viewer. By simply flipping NOVEMBER 15, 2018, THROUGH a coin, rotating a vase, or walking around a JANUARY 20, 2019 sculpture, new perspectives emerge. 1968–Spring of Discontent: To Instruct and Delight: European and The Photography of Michael Ruetz American Art, 1500–1800 In a visual diary of iconic photographs, Ruetz The Museum’s collection of historic European and captured the events and circumstances of 1968 American art was shaped by James Bowdoin III, the and the ideas and sociopolitical changes associated founder of the College, who bequeathed family with the ’68 Movement in Germany and beyond. collections of European art in 1811. This exhibition The exhibition is made possible with the generous brings together works from Bowdoin’s permanent support of the Goethe-Institut Boston. collection with important recent acquisitions. 4 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 CALENDAR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 SEPTEMBER Audubon Page-Turning with Special Guest Colin Windhorst SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Outdoor Film Screening: Call Me by Your Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) Hawthorne-Longfellow Library 8:00 p.m. Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the Main Quad, near Museum of monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and Art steps (see website for rain majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. location) This month’s guest is Colin Windhorst of the Celebrate the start of the Dennys River Historical Society. academic year with an outdoor screening of the FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Oscar-winning film Call Me by “Winslow Homer and Fishing” Your Name (Luca Guadagnino), 4:00 p.m. with gelato from Brunswick’s Bowdoin College Museum of Art and own Gelato Fiasco. Bowdoin Quad MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Macauley Lord ’77, author, chaplain, and renowned fly-casting instructor at the L.L. Bean Outdoor “The Universal Tale and the Haunting Discovery School, discusses nineteenth-century Specters of Call Me By Your Name” fishing techniques and Homer’s passion for fishing. 4:30 p.m. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Sergio Rigoletto, associate professor of Italian Film Screening and Commentary: and cinema studies at the University of Oregon, “Rediscovering Historic Films by Alfred Otto writes on European (especially Italian) cinema, Gross, Pioneering Bowdoin Ornithologist” queer cinema, stars studies, film comedy, and 7:00 p.m. television. He is the author of Masculinity and Italian Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and This is the first public screening in nearly ninety the coeditor of Popular Italian Cinema (Palgrave: years of recently preserved short films taken by Basingstoke, 2013). A. O. Gross. They feature the last known footage of the now extinct heath hen and rare scenes of THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 North Atlantic bird colonies. “Symbolic Form and Materiality: Richard Pousette-Dart’s Connections to Cambridge FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 University” Walk with Harriet 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center A guided walking history tour of sites related Jennifer Powell, senior curator at Kettle’s Yard to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. in Cambridge, England, and lecturer at the Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and University of Cambridge, presents new research the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s into the artistic practice and philosophical Cabin. Rain or shine. inclinations of the painter Richard Pousette-Dart. Cosponsored by the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Walk with Harriet 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House A guided walking history tour of sites related to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Rain or shine. BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 5 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Alexander Pushkin in the Music of Russian Tea with Harriet Romanticism, Concert by Sarah Pelletier 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. $ Free/RSVP bowdo.in/tea (soprano) and Francine Kay (piano) Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House 4:30 p.m. Harriet’s Writing Room staff explore the “Beecher Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium Preachers,” Stowe’s father, brothers, and husband. This concert will These men, all preachers, not only influenced her present a variety religious thought and writings, but also helped of Russian musical her navigate through personal tragedies and works in the spiritual crises. Light refreshments will be served. Romantic style that are tied to the THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 great “Father of A Reading with Author Heather Abel Russian literature,” 4:45 p.m. Alexander Pushkin Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall (1799–1837). In Heather Abel’s addition to song debut novel, The settings of Pushkin’s Optimistic Decade, poems by composers including Mikhail Glinka, was published by Sergei Rachmaninov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Algonquin Books Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Nikolai Medtner, and in May 2018. Her others, the program will include solo instrumental writing has appeared and chamber works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Mily in The New York Balakirev, and Glinka. Pelletier and Kay are Times, Slate, the Los acclaimed musicians who have performed as Angeles Times, and the soloists and in ensembles in many elite venues Paris Review online, throughout the world; they are both on the music among other places. faculty at Princeton University. Sponsored with She worked as a the generous support of a loyal Bowdoin family. reporter and editor for the San Francisco FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Bay Guardian and “Color TV, Psychedelic Culture, and Visual High Country News. She earned an MFA in fiction Art of the 1960s: Richard Pousette-Dart in writing from the New School University and has Context” taught writing at the New School, University of 5:00 p.m. Massachusetts–Amherst, and Smith College. Bowdoin College Museum of Art Sarah Montross, curator, deCordova Sculpture THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Park and Museum, discusses parallels between “The Great LOL of China! An American color television’s entrancing qualities, 1960s Comedian in China” psychedelic culture, and simultaneous artistic 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. experiments with vivid colors and patterns where Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center artists embraced televisual perception, explored Jesse Appell is a performer of Chinese standup, intersections with psychedelia and spirituality, Xiangsheng, and bilingual improv comedy who and probed freedom and control in a media- has appeared widely in both China and the US. saturated society. A Fulbright Scholar alumnus who researches Chinese humor and performance, he is the TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 founder of the US–China Comedy Center and of Curator’s Tour of Winslow Homer and Laugh Beijing, projects aiming to use comedy to the Camera bridge cultural gaps. Noon Bowdoin College Museum of Art FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Dana E. Byrd, assistant professor of art history and Walk with Harriet cocurator of Winslow Homer and the Camera, leads a 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. tour of the exhibition. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House A guided walking history tour of sites related to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Rain or shine.

6 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College “Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy and the Bible Museum of Art in Popular Culture” 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center Museum of Art student education assistants “Gospel thrillers” describes a genre of novel that lead a weekend program for all ages, including a began appearing during the Cold War era, in discussion of works on view and a related hands-on which a new gospel from the time of Jesus has activity. Come enjoy interactive learning and fun! come to light that would radically alter everything we think we know about Christ, and could even MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 topple Christianity. The novel’s hero travels to exotic locales to discover the hidden truth, George Lopez Piano Performance shadowed by conspiratorial forces and (often) 7:30 p.m. Vatican assassins. In this talk, Andrew Jacobs of Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Scripps College dissects this unstudied genre Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez will and explores its larger significance for popular perform the last series of concerts celebrating the attitudes to the Bible as a source for conspiratorial three Bs of classical music with a year’s long look thinking and US culture-making. at Brahms. This will be an evening of solo piano by one of the greatest Romantic composers of the WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 nineteenth century. “Let’s Get Lost: Finding One’s Path as an Artist” WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 7:30 p.m. “The Russian Environment and Social Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Critique: Ivan Turgenev’s Nature Writing” linn meyers, the halley k harrisburg ’90 and 4:30 p.m. Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence, is an Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall internationally recognized artist celebrated for Ivan Turgenev, revered for his skill at depicting her large-scale wall drawings. Sponsored by the ideological strife and unhappy love, was also one of halley k harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld Russia’s finest nature writers. In his cycle of short Artist-in-Residency Program. Made possible by a stories, Notes of a Hunter (1847–1852), he deploys his gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14. expert knowledge of the natural world to denounce serfdom as a crime against humanity as well as THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 nature. Thomas Hodge, professor of Russian at English Department Visiting Writers Series: Wellesley College, explores Turgenev’s writings in A Reading with Peter Coviello the first talk in the “Russian Environment: Nature 4:45 p.m. and Culture” fall lecture series. Hodge is a specialist Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall on nineteenth-century Russian literature and the author of a forthcoming book on Turgenev and the Peter Coviello will read from his recent book, Long organic world. He has also cofounded a humanities Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs (June, 2018), a and science course about Lake Baikal that features memoir of his marriage and divorce. Coviello is fieldwork in Siberia. Sponsored with the generous professor of English at the University of Illinois– support of a loyal Bowdoin family. Chicago. He has written about Walt Whitman, the history of sexuality, queer children, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, Mormon polygamy, and Steely Dan.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Faculty Book Launch and Discussion: Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Nixon Lounge, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library Vasily Perov, Hunters at Rest, 1871 Meredith McCarroll, director of writing and rhetoric, will speak about her new book, Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film (University of Georgia Press), which focuses on the “othering” of whiteness through Appalachian stereotypes in cinema.

BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 7 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Open House and Tour: Let’s Get Lost and Noon Hour: “Creative Collaboration in Listening Glass Line, Sound, and Gesture” 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Noon Bowdoin College Museum of Art Bowdoin College Museum of Art Enjoy an open house and tours celebrating the Artists linn meyers, Rebecca Bray, Josh Knowles, site-specific installations Let’s Get Lost and Listening and James Bigbee Garver discuss the creation of Glass. The complementary visual and acoustic Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass. Made possible by a components actively invite audience engagement. gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14. Made possible by a gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Backpack Full of Cash: Documentary Screening and Discussion with Filmmakers 7:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Narrated by Matt Damon, Backpack Full of Cash is a feature-length documentary that explores the growing privatization of public schools and the resulting impact on America’s most vulnerable SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 children. Filmed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, The Gibson Players Nashville, and other cities, the film takes viewers 3:00 p.m. through the tumultuous 2013–2014 school year, Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall exposing the world of corporate-driven public This concert, featuring Mark Battle, clarinet; education “reform.” Filmmakers Sarah Patton and Mary Hunter, violin; Karen Jung, cello; and James Sarah Mondale are the founders of the nonprofit Parakilas, piano, features two early twentieth- documentary production company Stone Lantern century masterpieces: the Soldier’s Tale suite by Films. Their previous work includes School: Igor Stravinsky, arranged by the composer for The Story of American Public Education, an award- piano, clarinet, and violin, and the Quartet for the winning PBS documentary, and Asylum: A History of End of Time by Olivier Messiaen, written for piano, Mental Institutions in America. clarinet, violin, and cello. Both works were written in the shadows of world wars, but the composers’ responses to these global catastrophes are strikingly different.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Walk with Harriet 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House A guided walking history tour of sites related to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Rain or shine.

8 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 OCTOBER Walk with Harriet 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House Devin Gray’s Dirigo Rataplan A guided walking history tour of sites related 7:30 p.m. to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and Brooklyn-based jazz drummer/composer Devin the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Gray reconvenes his Dirigo Rataplan band of Cabin. Rain or shine. master musicians—Dave Ballou, trumpet; Ellery Eskelin, saxophone; and Michael Formanek, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 bass—to present works from their second album Audubon Page-Turning together. 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Hawthorne-Longfellow Library Gallery Conversation: “Crafting a Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the Handheld History: Bowdoin’s Molinari monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and Medals in Context” majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. 4:30 p.m. Come engage with this incredible book and take Bowdoin College Museum of Art home a keepsake bird-of-the-month button! Amber Orosco ’19, Stephen Pastoriza ’19, and Benjamin Wu ’18 speak about their research on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 Renaissance medals and the resulting exhibition, Joyce Moulton and Guests A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the 2:00 p.m. Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Enjoy a Saturday afternoon of piano music, chamber music, and visual art in celebration of Claude Debussy and impressionism. Joyce Moulton, pianist, will be joined by guests Mary Hunter, violin; Karen Jung, cello; Krysia Tripp, flute; and Thomas Parchman, clarinet.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 Artist’s Tour of Winslow Homer and the Camera Noon Amber Orosco ’19, Ben Wu ’18, and Stephen Pastoriza ’19 studying Bowdoin’s Molinari Medals. Bowdoin College Museum of Art James Mullen, associate professor of art, discusses WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 Homer’s painting practice. “Mingqaaq: The Life and Times of a Yup’ik Eskimo Coiled Basket” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 7:00 p.m. “Gendering AI and Robots: Robo-Sexism Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center in Japan” Complementing the Arctic Museum’s exhibition 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. of Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat art, Molly Lee, Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center curator and professor emerita at University Does advanced technology reproduce of Alaska Museum of the North, describes her conservative models of sex/gender roles and pioneering collaborative fieldwork with Yup’ik family structures or promote basket makers. social progress? In this lecture, cultural anthropologist Jennifer THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 Robertson explores this and “‘We Endured’: The Civil War and the other issues through a focus Visual Culture of Eyewitness” on the sex/gender dynamics 4:30 p.m. informing the design and Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center embodiment of artificial Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of intelligence (AI) and robots, Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, especially humanoids, in speaks about artists’ engagement with the Japan. Part of the “Reproducing American Civil War. Gender” series. BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 9 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 Walk with Harriet “1968–2018: The Legacy of a Revolution,” 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. An Evening with Bernhard Schlink Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House 7:00 p.m. A guided walking history tour of sites related Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Join us for a conversation with author Bernhard Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and Schlink, who will read from and discuss his the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s acclaimed novels The Reader (1995) and The Woman Cabin. Rain or shine. on the Stairs (2005).

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 Shirley Mathews Memorial Concert 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Members of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society and soprano Sarah Yanovitch perform works by Haydn, Beethoven, and TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Mozart in celebration of the life and Film Screening: The Reader and Discussion music of pianist and with Bernhard Schlink harpsichordist Shirley 6:30 p.m. Mathews, who taught Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall at Bowdoin for many years. Join us for a film screening of The Reader (2008, Stephen Daldry), followed by a discussion with MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 author Bernhard Schlink. Labors of Love (Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis) 4:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union “Taking a Photograph: Camera Technology This talk draws on over 100 in-depth interviews of the Nineteenth Century” with sex workers and LGBTIQ activists across 4:30 p.m. India and Kenya to consider the ways they move Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center across realms of labor— such as domestic work, Todd Gustavson, curator of the technology sex work, construction work, street vending, and collection at the George Eastman Museum, factory work—and love—romantic and sexual explores the evolution of camera technology in relationships, family, and parenthood. These the nineteenth century and the three cameras narratives complicate circulating categorizations, that Winslow Homer utilized as part of his artistic used by transnational NGOs, donors, and activists, practice. that isolate sexual practice from everyday life in the context of poverty and inequality. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 NPR’s From the Top 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall The preeminent showcase for young musicians will record a radio broadcast in front of a live campus audience. Sponsored by the Donald M. Zuckert Visiting Professorship Fund.

10 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 Tea with Harriet World Music Ensembles 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. $ Free/RSVP bowdo.in/tea 7:30 p.m. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Explore the culinary world of Harriet Beecher The Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric Stowe through recipes in Miss Beecher’s Domestic LaPerna and Amos Libby, and the West African Receipt Book, written by her sister Catharine, and Music Ensemble, with guest director Jordan American Woman’s Home, co-written by Catharine Benissan, present a joint concert. and Harriet. Harriet’s Writing Room staff will talk about food preparation in the nineteenth century, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 and light refreshments, based on Stowe’s own Bowdoin Chorus recipes, will be served. 3:00 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 To celebrate Family Weekend, Anthony AND 19 Antolini ’63 will conduct the Bowdoin Chorus Music at the Museum in a preview of their winter concert and favorite 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., Thursday songs of Bowdoin. Noon, Friday $ Free/Tickets/Limited Seating 207-725-3276 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 Bowdoin College Museum of Art Bowdoin College Concert Band: “Friends I” Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez John P. Morneau, Director performs a program of music associated with 2:00 p.m. exhibitions on view. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 This program will be the first of a trilogy of “Friends” concerts for 2018–2019. Horn soloist Brodie Family Lecture Loren Fields will be featured on “Wingspan,” by “Hip Hop/Hip Hope: The (R)Evolution of American composer Gary Kuo. The program Culturally Relevant Pedagogy” also includes: “Grand Canyon Fanfare,” by James 7:00 p.m. Newton Howard, “La Reine de la Mer Waltzes,” by Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center John Philip Sousa, “Three Folk Song Settings,” by Since the initial introduction of culturally relevant Andrew Boysen Jr., and “Serenity,” by Norwegian pedagogy, our schools and classrooms have grown composer Ola Gjeilo. even more complex. The combination of rapid technologies and the enthusiasm of youth culture MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 make it necessary for teachers (at all levels) to “Russian Artists in the Arctic: rethink their practice. Even culturally relevant Contemporary Literary and Visual pedagogy must evolve. In this talk, Gloria Ladson- Perspectives” Billings, president of the National Academy of 4:30 p.m. Education and professor emerita, University of Visual Arts Center, Beam Wisconsin, speaks to the way the evolution of Classroom culturally relevant pedagogy may insure that more students may experience success both in Jane T. Costlow, Clark A. and out of the classroom. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies at FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 Bates College, presents the second talk in the “Russian Walk with Harriet Environment: Nature and 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Culture” fall lecture series. Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House How are contemporary A guided walking history tour of sites related Russian artists and writers representing the country’s to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. far north? This lecture examines the work of Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and photographers, artists, and nonfiction writers the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s addressing Arctic landscapes and climate change Cabin. Rain or shine. within the distinctive context of Russia’s cultural and political history. Costlow is a scholar of Russian literature who has published widely on Russian representations of the natural world, focusing on topics from the northern forest to drought and famine. She is currently working on an anthology of translated texts about Russian nature.

BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 11 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 Curator’s Tour of Winslow Homer and Faculty Book Launch and Discussion: the Camera Coherent Structures in Granular Crystals: Noon From Experiment and Modeling to Bowdoin College Museum of Art Computation and Mathematical Analysis Frank Goodyear, Museum of Art codirector and 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. cocurator of Winslow Homer and the Camera, leads Nixon Lounge, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow a final tour of the exhibition before it closes on Library October 28. Christopher Chong, assistant professor MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 of mathematics, “Where Did Trump Come From? discusses his Reproductive Politics, Whiteness, and new book, which Neoliberalism” focuses on the 7:00 p.m. junction between Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center mathematical analysis, numerical Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of computation, reproductive politics and empire. She is currently and physical professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies experiments on at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. wave structures. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 “My Time With the 6th Soviet Antarctic Drawing Workshop with Artist Expedition, 1960–1962” Andrea Sulzer 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center $ Free/Tickets/Limited Seating 207-725-3276 C. Stewart Gillmor, professor of history and science Bowdoin College Museum of Art emeritus at Wesleyan University, marks the donation Artist Andrea Sulzer leads of his Soviet polar clothing to the Arctic Museum a hands-on workshop of with an engaging talk about the fourteen months drawing techniques, presented he spent as the only American at the Soviet Mirny in conjunction with Winslow Station in Antarctica, studying ionospheric physics. Homer and the Camera. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 Opening Celebration The 2018 Kemp Symposium Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: “Border Crossings”: A Short Symposium New England Botanical Studies Celebrating the Career of Professor 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Allen Wells Pavilion, Bowdoin College Museum of Art 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Frank Goodyear, Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union Museum of Art codirector, and Kat Allen Wells, Roger Howell Stefko, director, Jr. Professor of History, is a George J. Mitchell noted scholar of modern Latin Department of America. A New York native, Special Collections he earned his BA in history and & Archives, lead an Latin American studies at the introductory tour State University of New York of the exhibition at Binghamton and his PhD at Kate Furbish and Stony Brook University. Wells, Edwin Hale Lincoln: who came to Bowdoin in 1988, New England has taught courses spanning the entire scope of Botanical Studies. Latin American history, from the pre-colonial era Refreshments will to the twenty-first century, and his scholarship Showy Lady’s Slipper, watercolor on has been equally expansive. This symposium be served. paper, Kate Furbish. Kate Furbish Collection, George J. Mitchell features three panels by Latin American Department of Special Collections & historians, as well as Bowdoin alumni who work in Archives, Bowdoin College Library. academia or fields connected to Latin American, Latinx, and Chicano/a issues.

12 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 Walk with Harriet “You Can Handle This: Paul Manship’s 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Hail to Dionysus and Medallic Art in the Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House Modern Era” A guided walking history tour of sites related Noon to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s time in Brunswick. Bowdoin College Museum of Art Learn about Stowe, her family and friends, and Museum of Art codirector Anne Collins Goodyear the writing of her most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s gives a gallery talk on the exhibition, A Handheld Cabin. Rain or shine. History, featuring an opportunity to handle Paul Manship’s Hail to Dionysus in three variants. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art Museum of Art student education assistants lead a weekend program for all ages, including a discussion of works on view and a related hands-on activity. Come enjoy interactive learning and fun!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 Aries Trio 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez welcomes Lev Polyakin, violin, and Martha

Aarons, flute. Louis XIV, ca. 1702, bronze, gilding, silver by Jean Mauger. Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 English Department Visiting Writers Series: A Reading with Chang-rae Lee 7:00 p.m. Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall Chang-rae Lee, Korean-American novelist and professor of creative writing at Stanford University, reads from his work. He is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft Lev Polyakin Martha Aarons (2004); The Surrendered, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014), which MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle In-Studio Artist’s Portfolio Presentation Award and won the Heartland Fiction Prize. and Demonstration with Elizabeth Jabar 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Room 105, Edwards Center for Art and Dance The Fall 2018 Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project Visiting Artist is Elizabeth Jabar, a feminist printmaker who explores a range of personal/ political issues in her work, including cultural identity, representation, equity, and maternal ethics. She cocreates and practices in the studio, the classroom, and the community. She is working with students in printmaking courses and will present some of her prints and demonstrate a photo-collagraph technique. Sponsored by the Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan Trust.

BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 13 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 NOVEMBER “Denouement: Sir Gawain, Chaucer’s Squire, and the Ends of Cotton Nero A.x” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 5:15 p.m. Audubon Page-Turning with Special Guest Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall Michael Boardman Arthur Bahr will speak on the study of medieval 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. manuscripts. Bahr is associate professor of MIT’s Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, literature department and author of Fragments and Hawthorne-Longfellow Library Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the (University of Chicago Press, 2013). His essays monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and have appeared in ELH, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. Studies in Philology, and The Chaucer Review, as well This month’s guest speaker is artist and naturalist as a range of edited volumes. He is currently Michael Boardman. writing a book about the so-called Pearl or Gawain manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Read with Harriet WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Botanist’s Tour of Kate Furbish and Edwin Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies Join the Harriet Beecher Stowe book group for a Noon discussion of Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston. Bowdoin College Museum of Art The book group meets twice a year to explore and Melissa Cullina, research botanist with Coastal discuss books on issues of civil and human rights Maine Botanical Gardens, discusses the exhibition and social justice. Light refreshments will be served. Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Maine Brass Guild “Back on Tracks: The Recovery 7:30 p.m. and Restoration of Labrador’s First Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Snowmobile, a Model-T Ford” See bowdoin.edu/arts/calendar for more 7:00 p.m. information. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center In 1927 and 1928, a Model-T Ford equipped with SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 skis and snow-tracks was used in Labrador by Bernstein Songfest Donald B. MacMillan, who left it there. In 2014, 4:00 p.m. Jamie Brake, archaeologist for the Nunatsiavut Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Government of Labrador, recovered the vehicle The artists of Amethyst Chamber Ensemble and had it restored. He will discuss the project and collaborate with pianist and Beckwith Artist show historic and contemporary film footage of in Residence George Lopez to celebrate the the snowmobile in operation. Bernstein 100th. Chamber works and vocal selections from Leonard Bernstein’s most beloved works and hidden gems, woven together with video clips and testimonials to one of the greatest American musicians – composer, conductor, teacher, mentor, and advocate for art and music in America. Two pianos, percussion, cello, and six vocal soloists weave together selections from the “Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story (for two pianos and percussion), with vocal selections from West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, Mass, and glorious songs and ensembles from Songfest, for vocal sextet. Also including music by those who Labrador’s First Snowmobile and Martin Vorse, expedition influenced him, and were influenced by him— member. Donald B. MacMillan, 1927-28. Barber, Copland, and Bernstein, and selections from Stephen Sondheim.

14 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College “Holding History in the Palm of One’s Museum of Art Hand: Contemporary Perspectives on 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Medals and Coins from Antiquity to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Recent Past” Museum of Art student education assistants 4:30 p.m. lead a weekend program for all ages, including a Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center discussion of works on view and a related hands-on Stephen K. Scher, collector and art historian; Peter activity. Come enjoy interactive learning and fun! van Alfen, chief curator, American Numismatic Society; and Susan E. Wegner, associate professor SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 of art history, share their insights into the study, Igor Begelman, Clarinet; Walter Gray, collecting, and exhibition of historic medals and Cello; and George Lopez, Piano coins. 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez will Frontiers: Of Difference and Indifference continue his Brahms series with a look at the Congolese Photographer Sammy Baloji duos for clarinet and cello as well as a rousing 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. performance of Brahms’s late Clarinet trio, opus 114. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Photographer Sammy Baloji, currently the Robert FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY, Gardner Fellow in Photography at Harvard’s NOVEMBER 9, 10, AND 11 Peabody Museum, was raised in Lubumbashi, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov: A New DRC. Through his photography and multimedia Version by Libby Appel installations, he traces social history in 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday architecture and landscape and probes the body 2:00 p.m., Sunday as a site of memory and witness to operations of $ Free/Tickets available 10/19/2018 power. Baloji’s work has been featured in the Tate Wish Theater, Memorial Hall Modern, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters highlights a small the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Russian town’s dreams, sorrows, and missed among other institutions. opportunities. Simultaneously comic and searing, Three Sisters reminds us that to be alive WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 is to affect one another irrevocably, and every choice—including not deciding at all—has lasting Curator’s Tour of In the Round consequences. Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Noon Morse Fund. Bowdoin College Museum of Art James Higginbotham, associate professor of classics MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 on the Henry Johnson Professorship Fund and Poetry Reading with Adrian Blevins and associate curator for the ancient collection, speaks Cate Marvin about geometry and the current installation of ancient art. 7:00 p.m. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall Award-winning poets Adrian Blevins and Cate Marvin will read from their work.

Roman Portrait Head of a Boy, ca. 30 BCE– 20 CE, marble by an unidentified artist. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Adrian Blevins Cate Marvin

BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 15 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Tea with Harriet AND 17 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. $ Free/RSVP bowdo.in/tea Bowdoin Chorus Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House 7:30 p.m., Friday Harriet’s Writing Room staff discuss Calvin Stowe, 3:00 p.m., Saturday Harriet Beecher Stowe’s husband of fifty years Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall and a member of Bowdoin’s Class of 1824. Light Bowdoin Chorus, conducted by Anthony Antolini ’63, refreshments will be served. will collaborate with violinist Sage Kosky, double bassist Alyson Ciechomski, and pianist Sean THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Fleming in “Christmas Jazz.” Toe-tapping rhythms “Protecting the Pearl of Soviet Asia: from holiday music in the jubilant works of Post-War Development, Conservation, and Praetorius, Schütz, Joubert, Distler, Biebl, and Lake Baikal” Scott Joplin. Vocal jazz arrangements of Christmas 4:30 p.m. favorites. Featured works on the program are Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center Heinz Werner Zimmermann¹s “Weihnacht Motetten” and a jazz choir piece by Bill Cunliffe. The third and last in the “Russian Environment: Nature and Culture” fall lecture series, this talk by Nicholas Breyfogle, associate professor SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 of history, The Ohio State University, tells the Bowdoin College Concert Band: “Friends II story of Lake Baikal environmentalism, one of (Bowdoin Friends)” the most visible and successful environmental John P. Morneau, Director protection movements in Soviet history. While 2:00 p.m. we are most familiar with the Soviet Union’s Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall legacy of environmental degradation, Breyfogle The second performance of the “Friends” trilogy places the Soviet experience into the larger will be a very special performance spotlighting context of the global post-war development the musical talents of Bowdoin alumni, staff, of environmentalism, and the Lake Baikal and administrators. Highlighting the program movement is a reminder that socialism and will be President Clayton Rose as guest narrator environmentalism were not necessarily mutually on A Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland. Two exclusive. Breyfogle is a specialist in Imperial premiere performances will also be featured on Russian history, especially the history of Russian the program: Over Here, Over There! by T. Douglas imperialism and of the non-Russian nationalities Stenberg ’56 and the instrumental setting of of the tsarist empire. He is also a specialist in Love One Another from the cantata As it began to environmental history, and his writings have dawn… by Delmar Small, music administrator. examined the history of earthquakes in Russia and Trevor Peterson ’02 will also make an appearance the human history of water. as violin soloist on John William’s Theme from “Schindler’s List.” Rounding out the program will be Ola Gjeilo’s Meridian.

16 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Middle Eastern Ensemble Common Hour: Student Chamber Ensembles 7:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall The Bowdoin Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric LaPerna and Amos Libby, presents classical FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER and contemporary music from the Arabic and 30 THROUGH DECEMBER 2 Ottoman Turkish traditions. The ensemble December Dance Concert performs on traditional Middle Eastern musical With Choreography by Aretha Aoki, instruments like the oud (Middle Eastern lute) and Adanna Jones, and Gwyneth Jones qanun (72-stringed Middle Eastern zither), as well 7:30 p.m., Friday, Saturday as incorporating vocals and Western instruments 2:00 p.m., Sunday along with Middle Eastern percussion. $ Free/Tickets available 11/9/2018 Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, The December Dance Concert features NOVEMBER 29 THROUGH DECEMBER 2 choreography by Bowdoin dance faculty Aretha The Holiday Sale in the Museum Shop Aoki, Adanna Jones, and Gwyneth Jones, with 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. performances by Bowdoin students. Sponsored Bowdoin College Museum of Art by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund and the June Vail The annual holiday sale at the Museum Shop. Fund for Dance. Enjoy a 20 percent discount on all purchases. Special seasonal merchandise!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 West African Music Ensemble 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall The West African Music Ensemble, directed by visiting coach Jordan Benissan, presents a program featuring music of both the Ewe and Akan people.

BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 17 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 DECEMBER Faculty Book Launch and Discussion: Nature behind Barbed Wire: An SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 Environmental History of the Japanese AND 2 American Incarceration Bowdoin Chamber Choir 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Nixon Lounge, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Bowdoin Chapel Library Under the direction of Robert K. Greenlee, the Connie Chiang, Chamber Choir performs a program of “Sky professor of history and Music,” celebrating all things above, including the environmental sciences, spheres, the weather, and flight. discusses her new book, which explores how TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 the landscape shaped Curator’s Tour of 1968—Spring of the experiences of both Discontent Japanese Americans 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and federal officials Bowdoin College Museum of Art who worked for the War Students in German Literature and Culture since Relocation Authority. 1945 and Assistant Professor Jens Klenner discuss the iconic photography of Michael Ruetz and the THURSDAY, circumstances of the turbulent events of 1968 in DECEMBER 6 Germany and beyond. Bowdoin Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall See bowdoin.edu/arts/calendar for more information.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 Audubon Page-Turning with Special Guest Seth Benz 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Farmers Demonstration in Hahn, photograph by Michael Ruetz Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of Audubon’s beautiful and TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 majestic double-elephant folio Birds of America. Chamberfests This month’s guest is Seth Benz, director of the 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Bird Ecology Program at the Schoodic Institute at Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Acadia National Park. Student ensembles present two different FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 programs of classical chamber music. Fall 2018 Visual Arts Open House 5:00 p.m. Edwards Center for Art and Dance Students from all fall 2018 visual arts courses cordially invite you to view a culminating exhibit of their work from the semester. Refreshments will be provided.

18 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 AND 8 AND 14 Jazz Nights Music at the Museum 7:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 pm, Thursday Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Noon, Friday Students coached by Frank Mauceri and Titus $ Free/Tickets/Limited Seating 207-725-3276 Abbott perform two different programs featuring Bowdoin College Museum of Art various jazz ensembles. Beckwith Artist in Residence George Lopez performs a program of music associated with TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 exhibitions on view. Members’ Evening at the Museum 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank Goodyear, codirectors of the Museum of Art, welcome members and guests to a special presentation of recent acquisitions. Refreshments will be served. Members enjoy a double discount on all Museum Shop purchases during the event.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12 St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble 7:30 p.m. Bowdoin Chapel The St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble is an THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 independent group founded in 2003. The group’s Tea with Harriet repertoire encompasses various epochs and 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. styles—from ancient Russian chants and Western Free/RSVP bowdo.in/tea European choral works to modern music. They $ Harriet’s Writing Room, Stowe House also perform Russian folk songs, and secular and ecclesiastic compositions, as well as modern Harriet’s Writing Room staff celebrate the holidays composers and arrangements of popular melodies. with an architectural gingerbread house and a conversation about how Harriet Beecher Stowe marked the holidays. Light refreshments will be served.

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