Feb. 1—The Faculty Artist Series continues with percussionist Daniel Piccolo. Piccolo has appeared as a soloist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble, and as a guest artist at colleges and universities around the world. He is also an active composer, writing and arranging music for and featuring percussion instruments. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 2—The Creative Writing Program’s Reading Series features visiting poet Becca Klaver. Author of chapbooks and poetry collections, Klaver has had poems appear in APR, Fence and jubilat. The craft talk and reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Feb. 3—The Brown Bag Music Series will present a musical theatre extravaganza by pianists from the College of Musical Arts. The program will begin at 11:45 a.m. in the Simpson Building, 1291 Conneaut Ave., Bowling Green. Free
Feb. 5—The annual Undergraduate Art and Design Exhibition opening reception will be held at 2 p.m. in the Dorothy Uber Bryan and Willard Wankelman galleries located in the Fine Arts Center. Free
Feb. 5—Bowling Green Philharmonia will perform the music of Richard Wagner at 3 p.m. in Kobacker Hall. Featured soloists are tenor Christopher Scholl and Andrew Pelletier, horn. Tickets can be purchased from the BGSU Arts Box Office at 419-372-8171 or visit www.bgsu.edu. Advance tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for students and children. All tickets the day of the performance are $10.
Through Feb. 20—The annual Undergraduate Art and Design Exhibition will be on display in the Dorothy Uber Bryan and Willard Wankelman in the Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. Free
Feb. 7—The Guest Artist Series continues with accordionist Panagiotis Andreoglou. The program will feature his playing of solo works for accordion and electronics. Andreoglou came to BGSU from Greece as a Fulbright scholar. His performances have been broadcast live by the National Dutch Radio and the Greek National Radio and Television. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 7—Tuesdays at the Gish continue with the 2011 film “Pariah,” directed by Dee Rees. The film followsa bashful, aspiring high-school poet in Brooklyn as she tentatively explores her identity, sexuality and shifting relationships with family and friends. Her journey, which leads to coming out and moving toward life as an artist, is conveyed through performance, costuming, sound design and award-winning cinematography. The film garnered substantial recognition at the 2012 NAACP Image Awards and Independent Spirit Awards, and director Dee Rees is seen as one of America’s black LGBT pioneers. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater located in Hanna Hall. Free
Feb. 8—The Faculty Artist Series features pianist Thomas Rosenkranz. His most recent solo release, “Toward the Curve,” on Oberlin Records features works for piano and electronics together with his solo improvisations. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, often including improvisation in his performances. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 9—The Elsewhere season begins with “The Winter Barrel,” written and directed by film faculty member Dr. Eileen Cherry-Chandler. The staged reading will begin at 8 p.m. in the Marjorie Conrad M.D. Choral Room, located in the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
Feb. 11—The David D. Dubois Piano Festival and Competition features guest artist Chu-Fang Huang. Winner of a 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Huang debuted as a finalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn Piano Competition and as First Prize Winner of the Cleveland Piano Competition that same year. In 2006, she won a place on the Young Concert Artists roster. Her performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall located in the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 12 – The David D. Dubois Piano Festival and Competition will start at 9 a.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. The annual event supports student pianists by providing scholarships for high school students to attend BGSU, encouraging undergraduate students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and supporting current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world. Free
Feb. 14 – Music at the Manor House features BGSU violin students. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Manor House in Wildwood Metropark, 5100 W. Central Ave., in Toledo. Free
Feb. 14 – Tuesdays at the Gish continues with the 1968 film “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One,” directed by William Greaves. This film on the making of a film involves three camera crews capturing the process and personalities (director, actors, crew, bystanders) involved. Led by visionary auteur William Greaves, the collective project also depends on his multiracial crew, who stage an on-set rebellion that becomes the film’s drama and platform for sociopolitical critique and revolutionary philosophy. Filmed in Central Park, the film is a vivid document of this historical period and moment in American independent cinema. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater in Hanna Hall. Free
