Sept. 14 – The Faculty Artist Series features Caroline Chin, assistant professor of violin. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Sept. 15 – BGSU’s creative writing MFA students present their work. Their reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Sept 16 – The first ARTalk of the season features Joshua Kosker, a visiting professor of art in jewelry and metals from Indiana University. Kosker’s work is rooted in contemporary craft and body adornment. His talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in 204 Fine Arts Center. A reception will follow in the Willard Wankelman Gallery. Free
Sept 16 – EAR l EYE: Listening and Looking: Contemporary Music and Art features BGSU doctoral candidates from the College of Musical Arts responding to works of art. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St., Toledo. Free
Sept. 18 – The Sunday Matinee Series continues at 3 p.m. with two 1919 films, “The Breath of a Nation,” directed by Gregory La Cava, followed by “The Greatest Question,” directed by D.W. Griffith, with Lillian Gish and Robert Harron. In 1919 Griffith was in top form, this being a year of the masterworks “Broken Blossoms” and “True Heart Susie.” However, no less inspired is the gorgeously photographed “The Greatest Question” (by Billy Bitzer, cameraman on all the Griffith features that incredibly busy year). Somehow it has been mysteriously overlooked, yet is no less fascinating and no less a worthy role for the extraordinary, resilient, ageless Lillian Gish. Free
Sept. 18 – Celebrate the history and the future of the Bryan Recital Hall, which has undergone major renovations in the last year, including completely new seating, acoustics and lighting. A rededication concert will be held at 3 p.m. in the hall, located at the Moore Musical Arts Center. For details, see: http://bgindependentmedia.org/bryan-rededication-concert-to-raise-funds-for-scholarships/
Sept. 19 – ARTalk features Jess T. Dugan, whose work explores gender, sexuality, identity and community. Named a 2015 White House Champion of Change, Dugan will discuss a decade of visual activism. The talk starts at 5 p.m. in the Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre in the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
Sept. 20 – Tuesdays at Gish continues at 7:30 p.m. with “Get Shorty” (1995), directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Enjoy the fun when loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) travels to Hollywood to collect a debt. Meeting a B-movie producer (Gene Hackman) and his alluring girlfriend (Rene Russo) prompts Chili to join the movie business. Plot twists involve Danny De Vito as an egotistical star, Delroy Lindo as a drug dealer turned movie producer, James Gandolfini as a stunt man turned body guard, and Dennis Farina as a hit man who gets no respect. Free
Sept. 21 – The Faculty Artist Series features pianist Cole Burger in recital at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Sept. 22 – Creative writing students in BGSU’s Master of Fine Arts program read from their work, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Sept. 22 – The International Film Series at 7:30 p.m. features the 2010 Guatemalan film “AbUSed: The Postville Raid,” directed by Luis Argueta. The film conveys personal stories from a small Iowa town that witnessed the May 2008 mass arrest of 400 immigrants at a meatpacking plant. The screening begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater in Hanna Hall. Free
Sept. 22 – The Guest Artist Series puts a spotlight on jazz with Carl Allen on percussion. In addition to his work as a drummer, sideman, bandleader, entrepreneur and educator, Allen has more than 200 recordings to his name. His performance begins at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Sept. 22 – Elsewhere productions begins the season with “Spineless: A Staged Reading,” written by Elise Lockwood and directed by Rebekah Sinewe. The reading will begin at 8 p.m. in the Margit Bloch Heskett Classroom located in the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
Sept. 24 – The Bowling Green Philharmonia will perform as a part of the Honors String Festival, presenting compositions by Mozart, Weber, Brahms, Elgar and Wagner. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Advance tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for students. All tickets the day of the concert are $10. Tickets can be purchased from the BGSU Arts Box Office at 419-372-8171 or visit www.bgsu.edu/arts.
Sept. 25 – The Sunday Matinee Series continues with “The Mothering Heart” (1919), directed by D.W. Griffith. Lillian Gish’s finest achievement at Biograph was this stunning two-reeler, a tale of marriage gone awry – a Greek tragedy in miniature, with sublime moments that raise it to a level not equaled elsewhere in pre-WWI American movies. It will be followed by “The Night of the Hunter” (1955), directed by Charles Laughton. The film is a truly a lyrical, haunting experience like none other. Lillian Gish, with her golden voice, gives it the kind of radiance she alone managed to create. The screening begins at 3 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater located in Hanna Hall. Free
Sept. 25 – A special concert celebrates the life of Dr. Roger Schupp, BGSU professor of percussion and jazz studies from 1992-2015. The memorial concert will begin at 3 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Sept. 26 – ARTalks continues with Dr. Paul Duncum, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He will discuss “The Transformation of Art Education into Visual Cultural Education through Rhizomatic Thinking.” The talk will begin at 5 p.m. in the Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre located in the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free.
Sept. 26 – The Guest Artist Series features prizewinning artist Aaron Tindall, assistant professor of tuba and euphonium at the Frost School of Music. Tindall will perform on the tuba in the Marjorie E. Conrad, M.D., Choral Room in the Wolfe Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. Free
Sept. 27 – Tuesdays at the Gish continues with “Screen-Play,” featuring staged readings of two student screenplays. Each reading will be followed by a discussion involving the author, the audience and the people who participated in the reading. Participants will explore the authors’ evolving visions, and aim to facilitate revisions that will strengthen the story structure, characterizations, tone, dialogue and visual expression. The readings will begin at 7:30 p.m. Free
Sept. 28 – The Faculty Artist Series features Assistant Professor Nermis Mieses performing on the oboe. In 2014, she became the first American to place as a finalist in the prestigious Barbirolli International Oboe Competition. She also took first place at the 2011 First International Oboe Competition in Santa Catarina, Brazil, and won the Best Interpretation of Brazilian Music Prize. Her recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
