Jan. 18 – The Faculty Artist Series features Conor Nelson on flute. Nelson has appeared as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Flint Symphony, among others. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Jan. 19 – The 59th annual Honor Band and Directors Clinic will feature the BGSU Wind Symphony in performance at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Jan. 19 – Poet Bruce Weigl will read from his work as part of the Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writer Series. Weigl is author of “The Circle of Hanah” and more than a dozen books of poetry, including “The Abundance of Nothing”(2012) and “Song of Napalm”(1988), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Jan. 20 – The Brown Bag Music Series will feature a musical theatre extravaganza by students and faculty 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
Jan. 21 – The 59th annual Honor Band and Directors Clinic will feature all Ohio Honor Bands. The concert will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Jan. 25 – The Faculty Artist Series presents pianist Robert Satterlee. He has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series and the Schubert club in St. Paul, Minn., among others. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Jan. 26 – The Creative Writing Program’s Reading Series features graduate students Sam Adams and Dan Gualtieri. They will present their work at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Jan. 26 – BGSU’s Jazz Lab Band I will perform with guest artist and saxophonist Loren Stillman. Stillman has received praise in such publications as The New York Times, Downbeat magazine, Jazziz and Jazz Times and on National Public Radio,marking him as an innovative voice of modern jazz. His original recordings have received critical acclaim from The New York Times and four star recognition in BBC Jazz Review, Jazz Man magazine and Downbeat. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Tickets can be purchased from the BGSU Arts Box Office at 419-372-8171 or visit www.bgsu.edu/arts. Advance tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for students and children. All tickets the day of the performance are $10.
Jan. 27 – Students in the BGSU dance program will present a concert at 8 p.m. in the Donnell Theatre of the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Tickets are $5 at the door.
Jan. 27 – The College of Musical Arts Guest Artist Series features “Schubert, Songfulness and the Body,” a lecture/recital by pianist Arved Ashby, a professor of music at The Ohio State University. Ashby focuses on 20th- and 21st-century art music within broader contexts of cultural history, critical theory, post-Marxist aesthetics, and media and communications. He is the editor of “Listening to Modernism: Intention, Meaning, and the Compositional Avant-garde” (Rochester, 2004) and author of “Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction.” In 1996, Ashby received the prestigious Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society. The lecture recital will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Jan. 27 – The Toledo Museum of Art and BGSU’s College of Musical Arts presents EAR | EYE Listening and Looking: Contemporary Music and Art. The performance and discussion series explores the relationship between contemporary music and art through music performances in response to specific works of art. The event will feature BGSU doctoral candidates and begin at 7 p.m. at the Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo. Free
Jan. 28 – Students in the BGSU dance program will present a concert at 8 p.m. in the Donnell Theatre of the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Tickets are $5 at the door.
Jan. 29 – The Faculty Artist Series features Michael Gartz on organ and Andrew Pelletier on horn. Gartz has performed as organist for the Canterbury Singers USA, which has performed in various English cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s, Ely, Norwich, Chester, Liverpool and York Minster. Pelletier is a Grammy Award-winning chamber musician who has been on solo tours to 28 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico, England and Australia. The concert will begin at 3 p.m. in the organ studio at Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Jan. 30 – Students from the BGSU piano studio will present a recital at 7 p.m. at the Wood County District Public Library, 251 N. Main St., Bowling Green. Free
Jan. 31 – Tuesdays at the Gish begins with the 2010 film “Night Catches Us,” directed by Tanya Hamilton. Set in 1976, this award-winning film developed at Sundance centers on Marcus (Anthony Mackie), a Black Panther member who returns to the neighborhood he left after tumultuous events a decade before. His father has died and the family home has been sold; he stays with Patricia (Kerry Washington), a Panther member who has become an activist attorney. Expertly directed, the significance of characters’ past and present experiences is conveyed by nuanced visual and performance choices. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater located in Hanna Hall. Free
Feb. 1 – The Faculty Artist Series continues with percussionist Daniel Piccolo. Piccolo has appeared as a soloist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and 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
