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Fall 2018 Arts Calendar A guide to performances, exhibits, film screenings, and programs produced by the Conservatory of Music, the Departments of Art, Film, Theater, and Television and Radio, and the Preparatory Center. The World of the Arts in Your Own Backyard Brooklyn College continues to affirm its position as a cultural jewel of the city, this season offering a bounty of diverse Tuesday, October 16, 1 p.m. Lily Pond; free selections both traditional and September Chamber Music at the Lily Pond highly original. Savor the charm Leah Shaw and Friends of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 Tuesday, September 25, 12:30 p.m. Take a break from hectic campus life and enjoy great music in a bucolic setting. (In and the magnificent ghost story of West End Building, Room 214; free the event of inclement weather, this performance will be moved to the lobby of Falla’s El amor brujo: Ballet Suite; The BC Film Department Presents: Brooklyn Screens the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts.) Springer, “Spin” be immersed in the contemporary Wednesday, October 17, 5 p.m. and intimate adaptation of Anton Tuesday, September 25, 1 p.m. Recital Hall, Room 250; free Chekov’s Uncle Vanya; be part of Lily Pond; free Music for Strings I a grand, centuries-old tradition of Chamber Music at the Lily Pond Jesse Mills, Coordinator holiday celebration with Handel’s Brooklyn Ciollege Gospel Choir Conservatory of Music students present solo and chamber works for strings. Take a break from hectic campus life and enjoy great music in a bucolic setting. perennially inspiring Messiah; or (In the event of inclement weather, this performance will be moved to the lobby Thursday, October 18, 1 p.m. venture into stranger atmospheres of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts.) Recital Hall, Room 250; free at the Bi-Annual International Music for Winds I Electroacoustic Music Festival, Marianne Gythfeldt, Coordinator which presents a cornucopia of Conservatory of Music students present solo and chamber works for winds. October cutting-edge works by masters and Tuesday, October 2, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, October 18, 7 p.m. emerging composers. Come join us West End Building, Room 214; free Don Buchwald Theater; $5 for these, and many, many more The BC Film Department Presents: Brooklyn Screens Brooklyn College Symphonic Choir offerings ranging from the visual UPRC Artists, “University of Puerto Rico Student Film Program” with Conservatory Singers and more… to media and performing arts, as Malcolm J. Merriweather, Conductor we strive together to enrich and Tuesday, October 2, 1 p.m. Music by Charpentier, Pearsall, Geer, Starer, and others Lily Pond; free inspire our minds, our city, and our Chamber Music at the Lily Pond Friday, October 19; Saturday, October 20; and world. Bone to Pick! Noah Bless and Marcin Wisniewski Monday, October 22–Wednesday, October 24 Take a break from hectic campus life and enjoy great music by the jazz combo Friday, Saturday, and Monday–Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Bone to Pick! as they perform jazz standards in a bucolic setting. (In the event of Saturday, 2 p.m. inclement weather, this performance will be moved to the lobby of the Leonard & Roosevelt Extension Theater 307; $18, seniors $15, students $12 Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts.) The Wolves Tickets and by Sarah Delappe Information Friday, October 5; Saturday, October 6; Directed by Jolie Tong Tuesday, October 9; and Wednesday, October 10 Offering a portrait of female togetherness,The Wolves is fierce and fast: words All information on events is subject Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. and conversations are hurled at the speed of a skillfully kicked ball, allegiances to change without notice. Please Saturday, 2 p.m. are challenged, and order is ripped apart and put back together. “The Wolves is a consult our online calendars Don Buchwald Theater; $18, seniors $15, students $12 portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who (events.brooklyn.cuny.edu, A Thesis Production just want to score some goals.” [PORTO] brooklyncollegepresents.org, and by Kate Benson Saturday, October 20, 1 p.m. bcmusic.org) for the most up-to-date Directed by Emily Edwards Studio 312; free information. Advance tickets to any As a young adult, Porto finds herself disillusioned with life, turning to her local Preparatory Center Faculty Recital events for which admission is charged bar for comfort and platonic companionship. In Kate Benson’s hilarious and Performance by one of the Center’s highly regarded faculty may be purchased from the Brooklyn unmistakable voice, [PORTO] addresses modern ennui with feminist discourse and College Box Office located in the literal icons. But can Porto take risks when she knows how the sausage is made? Tuesday, October 23, 1 p.m. Library, Room 242; free Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Tuesday, October 9, 1 p.m. MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: James Hyde Performing Arts, 718.951.4500. The Library, Room 241; free Presented by the Graduate Art Student Union—Open to the public box office is open two hours prior to MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Mark Dion ticketed events. Senior and student Presented by the Graduate Art Student Union—Open to the public Tuesday, October 23–Thursday, October, 25 at 7 p.m. rates apply to select performances. No Studio 312; free Tuesday, October 9, 1 p.m. 40th Biannual International Electroacoustic Music Festival tickets are required for FREE events. Lily Pond; free George Brunner, Director For information and tickets, visit Chamber Music at the Lily Pond A cornucopia of cutting-edge works by masters and emerging composers brooklyncollegepresents.org. The PAStA Group Take a break from hectic campus life and enjoy great music in a bucolic setting. (In Monday, October 29, 7 p.m. Conservatory of Music Concert Office the event of inclement weather, this performance will be moved to the lobby of 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, Screening Room; free 718.951.5792 the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts.) 60 Furman St (basement level) bcmusic.org Brooklyn, NY 11201 Friday, October 12, 7:30 p.m. Brooklynese: A Screening Series in or Pertaining to the Borough Don Buchwald Theater; $5 Irene Sosa (Brooklyn College) and Kelly Anderson (Hunter College) Department of Art Conservatory Orchestra I Two films on gentrification and displacement (in Venezuela and Brooklyn)— 718.951.5181 George Rothman, Conductor “Vertical Slum” (2017, 50 mins) and “My Brooklyn” (2012, 85 mins) depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/art Glinka, Kamarinskaya; Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances; Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 Tuesday, October 30, 12:30 p.m. Department of Film Tuesday, October 16, 12:30 p.m. West End Building, Room 214; free 718.951.5664 West End Building, Room 214; free The BC Film Department Presents: Brooklyn Screens depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/film The BC Film Department Presents: Brooklyn Screens Grimonprez, “Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y” Graham, “Rock, My Religion” Department of Television and Radio 718.951.5555 bctvr.org Department of Theater 718.951.5666 November Saturday, November 17, 7 p.m. depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/theater Thursday, November 1, 1 p.m. Studio 312; free Recital Hall, Room 250; free Gospel Choir Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema Afternoon Chamber Music I Avery James and Shantel Woodley, Co-Directors 718.951.4536 The Conservatory hosts this Brooklyn College club as they present songs of joy Marianne Gythfeldt, Coordinator feirstein.brooklyn.cuny.edu Conservatory of Music students present chamber works. and praise. Preparatory Center for the Friday, November 2, 5–10 p.m., and Saturday, November 3, 11:30 a.m–9 p.m. Monday, November 19, 1 p.m. Performing Arts Studio 312; Two-day conference: $75, students $50 Library, Room 242; free Electrobrass Conference MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Patte Loper 718.951.4111 John Baylies, Coordinator Presented by the Graduate Art Student Union. Open to the public bcprepcenter.org Forward thinking musicians convene to explore the integration of brass Tuesday, November 20, 12:30 p.m. instruments with live electronics. The conference will conclude with a concert West End Building, Room 214; free Saturday night at 10:30 p.m. at Pine Box Rock Shop–$5 suggested donation– featuring Sojourner & His Electrobrass Friends. Sojourner is a Las Vegas-based The BC Film Department Presents: Brooklyn Screens DJ/saxophonist whose seamless grooves will be complemented by various Paling, “Realm of the Alligator” Getting There electrobrass musicians and their soulful improvisations. Tuesday, November 20, 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn College is located at 2900 Saturday, November 3, 1 p.m. Don Buchwald Theater; $5 Bedford Avenue. The Don Buchwald Conservatory Orchestra II Woody Tanger Auditorium; free Theater, Recital Hall, and Vocal Room, George Rothman, Conductor Preparatory Center Faculty Recital are all part of the Leonard & Claire Performance by one of the Center’s highly regarded faculty Copland, Prelude to Symphony No. 1; Busoni, Concertino featuring Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet; Falla, El amor brujo: Ballet Suite Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Wednesday, November 7, 7 p.m. which is located at the intersection Recital Hall, Room 250; free Monday, November 26, 7 p.m. of Hillel Place and Campus Road, near Don Buchwald Theater; free Faculty Recital: Carlos Cuestas, guitar the junction of Flatbush and Nostrand conTEMPO with Jenny Cline, flute Avenues. Studio 312 and Theater 307 are Ursula Oppens, Director Formed in 2012, this duo has developed an eclectic and engaging repertoire of located on the third floor of Roosevelt music from three continents and seven centuries. Their first album,Facets , was Felix Jarrar, Assistant Director Hall Extension, which is on Bedford released in 2016.