At the galleries – The School of Art presents “Lake Erie: On the Edge,” photography by prize-winning fine arts photographer Linda Butler, and “The Great Lake Erie,” photography by Frank Gohlke, and Lynn Whitney, BGSU’s head of photography. The exhibitions are on display through Nov. 24 in the Fine Arts Center galleries. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11 am. to 4 p.m., Thursday 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Free
Oct. 2 – The BGSU English Department’s Community Writing Hub, in partnership with the Wood County District Public Library and Grounds for Thought in Bowling Green, is sponsoring a “6-Word Memoir” community writing initiative through Oct. 12. Community members are encouraged to stop at any of the locations and look for the 6-word memoir container to contribute a memoir using one of the provided cards. All of the writings will be included in the community memoir collection. Free
Oct. 2 – The Faculty Artist Series continues with a collaborative performance of chamber music from the music faculty. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 3 – Visiting Writer Michael Martone presents “Brooding Over the Moon Over Wapakoneta” as part of the BGSU Department of English and the Creative Writing Program’s Reading Series. His talk is a nod to two of his more recent books, “Brooding” and “The Moon Over Wapakoneta.” Martone, who was born and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, brings a Midwest voice to many of his books. The presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Guests are encouraged to arrive at 6:45 p.m. for a pre-reading event in the Wolfe Center Lobby that will include an online hypertext novella demonstration by new faculty member Jackson Bliss, creative writing activities by creative writing chair Lawrence Coates and information about Mid-American Review and Prairie Margins. Free
Oct. 3 – The BGSU Concert Band will present its first performance of the school year at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 4 – Talent agent Robert Mirshak will visit BGSU and offer a master class and public lecture during his two-day residency. The master class will begin at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 in Kobacker Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. The public lecture will begin at noon on Oct. 5 in the Dr. Marjorie Conrad Choral Room in the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
Oct. 4 – The BGSU Fine Arts Center Galleries and the BG Convention and Visitors Bureau have collaborated to present some of the award-winning artists from the 12th annual Northwest Ohio Community Art Show (NowOH). The exhibition, located at the Four Corners Center, 130 S. Main St., Bowling Green, includes some of the winning art from the summer show and runs Oct. 4-25. A reception will be held with the artists from 4-6 p.m. on Oct. 4 and will include refreshments and music by Lucy Long. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Free
Oct. 5 – Sculpture X 2019, a two-day symposium in collaboration with BGSU, the University of Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Owens Community College and Contemporary Art Toledo, moves for its second day to the BGSU campus. Presentations, which run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., feature speakers Loraine Ruetz, Erin Duhigg, Michael Rees, and Peter Christian Johnson. Details and registration information is available at https://www.catoledo.org/sculpturex.
Oct. 8 – The College of Musical Arts presents “Don’t Look Down,” a new composition written and performed by Tom Curry on tuba, Anthony Di Sanza on percussion, and Mark Hetzler on trombone. Their goal is to showcase their instruments in a completely novel way, using a combination of electro-acoustic techniques, improvisation, and traditional chamber music applications to create an array of sonic environments and musical languages. The result is a continuous 50-minute work of shifting soundscapes and a variety of styles through which they aim to create an emotional and meaningful audience experience. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 9 – The Faculty Artist Series presents tenor Christopher Scholl, coordinator of voice faculty and an associate professor. He has performed throughout Europe and collaborated with many European conductors and stage directors. His operatic repertoire embraces music from the baroque to the 20th century and Broadway. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 10 – New Creative Writing faculty member Jackson Bliss will present a reading for the program’s weekly Reading Series at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Oct. 10 – BGSU music composition students will present their new works, performed by fellow music students. The program begins at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 12 – The College of Musical Arts welcomes guest artist Adrian Dunn, who will present a lecture titled “Revelations: A Collection of Spirituals and Gospel Songs in Seeking Justice for Black Lives.” Dunn is a Chicago-based, award-winning singer, composer, arranger and producer who has breathed new life into African American spirituals. He created the new arrangements as a way to reclaim a modern narrative for what the gospel songs mean in today’s current racial climate in America. The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 15 – The Department of Theatre and Film hosts “Cineposium,” a 90-minute screening of films created by BGSU students in various film courses. Associate Professor Lucas Ostrowski will moderate the event, which includes the opportunity for the filmmakers, audience and faculty members to engage in a dialogue about students’ projects. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the BGSU Film Theater, 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Oct. 15 – The College of Musical Arts welcomes guest artist Kristian Nyquist on harpsichord. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center.
Oct. 16 – Miwa Matreyek presents a live performance preview of her new piece, “Infinitely Yours,” a visual and visceral poem for an unknown future, through humanity’s collective experience as a climate crisis and the Anthropocene epoch unfolds. Accompanied by the music of Morgan Sorne, the piece weaves together dream interpretations of familiar headlines we read every day, from destructive weather systems, uncontrolled spread of pollution, and loss of natural habitats. As Matreyek steps behind the screen to interact with her animated worlds, the headlines turn into physical, performative narratives of metaphorical, embodied experiences. Her shadow silhouette rises with a city, drowns in a plastic-filled ocean, destroys a forest, cries in traffic and digs into the ground for oil. Her performance, made possible through the Ohio Arts Council, opens the BGSU New Music Festival. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in the Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
Oct. 16 – The BGSU School of Art presents an exhibition of Miwa Matreyek’s video performances. Matreyek is an animator, director, designer and performer based in Los Angeles. Coming from a background in animation by way of collage, Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the cross-section of cinematic and theatrical fantastical and tangible, illusionistic and physical. The exhibition, made possible through the Ohio Arts Council, is on display through Nov. 6 in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery at the Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are 11 am. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. Free
Oct. 17 – The Mid American Center for Contemporary Music hosts the 40th annual New Music Festival featuring guest composer Eva Ziporyn and guest ensemble New Music Detroit. This annual event celebrates the contemporary arts through concerts, panel discussions, art exhibitions, seminars, master classes and presentations. The music events kick off on Thursday with a composer talk by Ziporyn at 1 p.m. in Bryan Recital at Moore Musical Arts Center. The Thursday concert at 7:30 p.m. in Kobacker Hall includes large ensemble and wind ensemble works by various composers and the world premiere of Ziporyn’s “Impulse Control” for drum set and wind ensemble. The Friday (Oct. 18) 8 p.m. concert features New Music Detroit, a collective of musicians dedicated to performing groundbreaking musical works from the late- 20th century to the present. The final concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Kobacker Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center, features orchestral and choral works by Mikel Kuehn, Louis Karchin, John Corigliano, Paul Frucht and Ziporyn. Tickets for that concert are $8 and available online at bgsu.edu/arts. The complete schedule for the New Music Festival is available at bgsu.edu/festival.
Oct. 17 – The Department of Theatre and Film presents the first screening for the 2019 Fall International Film Series. “The Official Story,” a 1985 Argentinian film by director Luis Puenzo treads the line between a thriller and tragedy. The film, which takes place in in 1983 during the final months of the Argentinian military dictatorship, tells the story of a high school teacher who tries to find the real mother of her adopted mother. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign, “The Official Story” offers a challenging look into a woman’s struggle. The screening begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Film Theater, 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Oct. 17 – The Department of Theatre and Film opens its fall season with “The Drunken City” by Adam Bock. “The Drunken City” takes place when Marnie and her two best friends, Melissa and Linda, plan a night out in the big city for Marnie’s bachelorette party. When they encounter strangers Eddie and Frank, everything begins to fall apart. The play explores friendship, marriage and honesty, and weaves a story about the challenges of facing who we really are. The performances are at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17-19 and 24-26, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 19, 20 and 26 in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Advance tickets are $5 for students, $10 for seniors and $15 for other adults. Student tickets are $10 on the day of performance; all others are $20 on the day of performance. Tickets can be purchased through the BGSU Arts Box Office in the Wolfe Center for the Arts, open from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, online at bgsu.edu/arts, or by calling 419-372-8171. Advance discounted rates are available for groups of 10 or more.
Oct. 21 – The College of Musical Arts welcomes guest artist Stephen De Pledge on piano. The New Zealand pianist, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, has a wide-ranging career as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Oct. 21 – American landscape photographer Frank Gohlke, whose Lake Erie photographs are part of an exhibition in the BGSU Fine Arts Center’s Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, will present an artist lecture. Gohlke has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. His work is included in numerous permanent collections. He was one of 10 photographers selected to be part of the “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman Museum. Lynn Whitney, head of the BGSU photography program, whose photography of Lake Erie is part of the Lake Erie photography exhibition with Gohlke, will introduce his talk. The presentation will begin at 5 p.m. in the Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. A reception for the artists will follow in the gallery lobby. Free
Oct. 22 – Korean-born artist Sangmi Yoo will present an artist lecture as part of a printmaking residency at the BGSU School of Art. Yoo is an associate professor of art at Texas Tech University. She was one of the 10 innovative print artists to participate in “Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking,” the first national print exhibition by the Printmaking Legacy Project®. Her talk will begin at 5 p.m. in 1215 Fine Arts Center. Free
Oct. 22 – The BGSU Department of Theatre and Film presents “Screen-Play,” staged readings of two BGSU student screenplays. Thoughtful discussions involving the author, the audience and the performers follow each reading. The conversations will explore the authors’ inspirations and visions. They will also facilitate revisions that will strengthen story structure, characterizations, tone, dialogue, and the translation into actual production. The screening begins at 7:30 p.m. in the BGSU Film Theater, 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Oct. 22 – A selection of the College of Musical Arts’ jazz department chamber ensembles will perform. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
