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CELEBRATING ARTISTS WHO TRANSFORM POWERFUL PERSONAL OR HISTORICAL STORIES INTO INSPIRED PERFORMANCE, BUILDING ON THE SEMINAL WORK OF THEIR FOREBEARS RINDE ECKERT MY FOOLS: A LIFE IN SONG TO CREATE THE MASTERPIECES OF TODAY. FRI–SAT, OCT 6–7, 8PM / HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALL Pulitzer Prize finalist and GRAMMY® Award-winner Rinde Eckert brings a mash-up evening of music and characters from his 30 years of theater, experimental opera, and multidisciplinary creations. On a 9,000-mile cross-country road trip, Eckert has evolved My Fools through performances in living rooms and theaters, museums and universities. Opening up his artistic archive of past works, he re-animates smart, clownish, driven, and doomed characters—a masterly blend of the broadly comedic, tragic and austere.

A GOSPEL CELEBRATION DIRECTED BY DR. J. DONALD DUMPSON SAT, DEC 2, 8PM / MCPHERSON AUDITORIUM, GOODHART HALL Come get your praise on! From the soul-infused sounds of the Hammond B3 organ and the smooth Philly stylings of regional gospel greats, this line-up will raise the roof. Expect Goodhart Hall to resound with the joy, sorrow, and deep resilience of RALPH LEMON LECTURE/PERFORMANCE African-American sacred music as Dr. J. Donald Dumpson brings FRI, FEB 2, 8PM / GOODHART HALL the Philadelphia Heritage Chorale together with Serena Blanco THE GEOGRAPHY TRILOGY SCREENING and the Gospel Music Preservation Alliance, Waverly Alston and SAT, FEB 3, 1PM / GOODHART HALL the Company of Friends, and special spirit-stirring soloists. A highly influential maker of performance, writing, and visual art and recipient of the , Ralph Lemon works with the complexities of geography, history, memory, and the body. The New Yorker notes how “his way of describing his , with his mind on fire” can be as fascinating as the creations themselves. Lemon’s The Geography Trilogy was a profound, and worldwide, 10-year inquiry into the social gravities of art, race, and identity at the turn of the 21st century. Our video screening features the complete Trilogy: Geography (1997), Tree (2000), and Come home Charley Patton (2004), with commentary and readings by Lemon and close collaborators.

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM FRI–SAT, FEB 23-24, 8PM / HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALL A multi-generational ensemble of women performs movement, song, and text influenced by dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology, and the futures and commodities markets. Bessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili created Poor People’s TV Room with director/ visual designer Peter Born, inspired by two historical events in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance ZORÁ STRING QUARTET movement against British colonial power, and the Boko SAT, MAR 24, 8PM / THOMAS GREAT HALL Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched “Zorá” means “sunrise” in Bulgarian, perfectly suited to the the Bring Back Our Girls movement. Contains nudity. rich sound and wistful beauty of this ensemble. The program features Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, written by the composer after a long, nearly fatal illness. Also included is Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13, one of his most passionate works, paying homage to Beethoven while taking the cyclic organization of the master’s late quartets into radically new directions. JUSTIN TORRES WED, SEPT 20, 7:30PM / GOODHART MUSIC ROOM BRYN MAWR READING SERIES Justin Torres’ debut novel, We the Animals, was championed as an instant classic soon after its publication in 2012. In The New York Times Book Review, critic Joseph Salvatore hailed the book’s “incantatory narrative style… We the Animals is a strobe light of a story, producing lurid and A. VAN JORDAN poetic snapshots that start with the narrator and his two WED, OCT 25, 7:30PM / brothers as needy children.” A National Book Foundation ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM 5 Under 35 honoree, Torres has published stories in The The winner of a Whiting Award and New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and Tin House. He teaches a Guggenheim Fellowship, A. Van English at UCLA. Jordan is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Rise, winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS Award. Of Jordan’s work, poet Terrance WED, NOV 15, 7:30PM / Hayes says, “With an imagination ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM illuminated by empathy, Jordan inhabits the eye of the camera, the eye of the Recently named one of Granta’s actor, and the ‘I’ of a viewer tethered to image and history. His Best Young American Novelists, terrific poems give shape to lives made of light.” Claire Vaye Watkins is one of the most acclaimed fiction writers of This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane her generation. Her debut story Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry. collection, Battleborn, won the Story Prize and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Louise Erdrich calls her LINDA GREGERSON debut novel, Gold Fame Citrus, “exhilarating, upsetting, WED, FEB 14, 7:30PM / delirious, bold… a head rush of a novel and establishes GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Watkins as an important new voice in American literature.” The winner of a Guggenheim, an NEA, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, Poet Linda Gregerson is the author of two books of criticism and six ANGELA FLOURNOY books of poetry, most recently WED, FEB 28, 7:30PM / Prodigal: New and Selected Poems GOODHART MUSIC ROOM 1976-2014. In The New Yorker, poet One of the most acclaimed books of Dan Chiasson writes, “Gregerson 2015, Angela Flournoy’s debut novel, attains what few contemporary poets even seek: a plausible ‘we,’ The Turner House, was a National a basis for speaking across the lines of individual circumstance Book Award and PEN/Bingham and social identity.” Prize finalist. Critic Hannah Gold This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane says, “Flournoy’s spare, headstrong Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry. style enables her to lay bare, without pretensions, a story about the black American diaspora in which slavery, segregation, and gentrification are all joined OCEAN VUONG in a single narrative.” Flournoy is a Cullman Fellow at the WED, APR 11, 7:30PM / New York Public Library. ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM The author of the poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, and two chapbooks, Ocean Vuong has been PHIL KLAY the winner of a Whiting Award and a WED, APR 25, 7:30PM / Ruth Lily Fellowship. The New York GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Times critic Michiko Kakutani writes, Phil Klay’s short story collection, “There is a powerful emotional Redeployment, was the winner undertow to Vuong’s poems that of the 2014 National Book Award. springs from his sincerity and candor, and from his ability to Writing in The New York Times, capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity Dexter Filkins called the book and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things.” “the best thing written so far about This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane what America’s recent wars did Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry. to people’s souls.” A graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Klay served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008. Winner of the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Award, Klay has published work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. FRI, NOV 17, 8 PM FRI-SAT, FEB 2-3, 8 PM WED, APR 25, 7:30 PM SEASON AT A GLANCE BI-CO MUSIC: FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT PAS: RALPH LEMON READING SERIES: PHIL KLAY 2017-2018 SAT, DEC 2, 8 PM WED, FEB 14, 7:30 PM FRI-SAT, APR 27-28, 7:30 PM WED, SEPT 20, 7:30 PM PAS: DR. DONALD DUMPSON – A GOSPEL CELEBRATION READING SERIES: LINDA GREGERSON DANCE: SPRING DANCE CONCERT READING SERIES: JUSTIN TORRES SAT, DEC 9, 7:30 PM FRI-SAT, FEB 23-24, 8 PM SUN, APR 29, 3:00 PM FRI-SAT, OCT 6-7, 8:00 PM DANCE: FACULTY DANCE CONCERT PAS: OKWUI OKPOKWASALI—POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHORALE CONCERT (HC) PAS: RINDE ECKERT – MY FOOLS SUN, DEC 10, 3 PM WED, FEB 28, 7:30 PM THURS, MAY 3, 4:45 PM WED, OCT 25, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHORALE CONCERT READING SERIES: ANGELA FLOURNOY BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS’ READING SERIES: A. VAN JORDAN THURS, DEC 14, 8 PM SAT, MAR 24, 8 PM ROTUNDA CONCERT (HC) SAT, OCT 28, 8:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS ANNUAL HOLIDAY PAS: ZORÁ STRING QUARTET MON, MAY 7, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: HAVERFORD COLLEGE FAMILY AND CONCERT WED, APR 11, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT (HC) FRIENDS WEEKEND CONCERT (HC) MON, DEC 18, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: OCEAN VUONG TUES, MAY 8, 7:30 PM FRI-SUN, THURS–SAT, NOV 10-12, 16-18, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT (HC) FRI-SUN, THURS–SAT, APR 13-15, 19-21, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT THEATER: FALL 2017 PRODUCTION TUES, DEC 19, 7:30 PM THEATER: SPRING 2018 PRODUCTION FRI, MAY 18, 8:30 PM WED, NOV 15, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT FRI, APR 20, 8 PM BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS READING SERIES: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING ORCHESTRA CONCERT (HC) COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

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The 2017-2018 Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series receives state arts funding PHOTOS ON COVER: Okwui Okpokwasili—Mena Burnette/XMB Photography / Phil Klay—Hannah Dunphy / Rinde support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency Eckert—Eva Mueller / Linda Gregerson / Zorá String Quartet—Matt Dine. funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for PHOTOS PAGE 2: Rinde Eckert—Eva Mueller / Gospel Celebration—Timothy Moyer / Ralph Lemon—Gene Pittman the Arts, a federal agency. Okwui Okpokwasili—Paul B. Goode / Zorá String Quartet—Matt Dine. The presentation of Okwui Okpokwasili—Poor People’s TV Room is made possible PHOTOS PAGE 3: Justin Torres—Winni Wintermeyer / A. Van Jordan—Anthony Alvarez Photography / Claire Vaye by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding Watkins—Heike Steinweg / Linda Gregerson / Angela Flournoy—John Midgley / Ocean Vuong—Peter Bienkowski from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Phil Klay—Hannah Dunphy.