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Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine Thursday, February 27 Tallman Lecture ”Feminism, Interrupted: Why Can’t the Women’s Movement Pass Down Power?” Susan Faludi 7:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Susan Faludi, Tallman Scholar in Gender and Women’s Studies, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and the author of the bestselling Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. In her most recent book, The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America, she examines the post-9/11 outpouring in the media, popular culture, and political life. Faludi’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, among other publications. FREE. Sponsored by the Tallman Lecture Fund. Susan Faludi Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 27, 28, and March 1 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 8:00 p.m. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall Masque and Gown presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Wilde uses this show, subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” to showcase the Victorian views of marriage and self-image in an entirely humorous way. A group of people, young and old, stumble around innocent love and the little lies we tell when we need our privacy. Sometimes, however, those little lies get entirely out of control! Earnest is both a satire of Victorian culture and a farcical smorgasbord of quips, misunderstandings, and whimsical charm. Tickets: $3 public/$1 Bowdoin ID. Sponsored by the Student Activities Fund. Friday, February 28 “Strange Passion: Frederick Sommer’s Wartime Surrealism” Robin Kelsey 4:30 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Robin Kelsey is Burden Professor of Photography and Chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Kelsey has written extensively on photography, landscape, and American art and will speak about the American surrealist photographer Frederick Sommer. FREE. Sponsored and Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund, Becker Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund, and Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund. Frederick Sommer, Portrait of Max Ernst, 1946, gelatin silver print. Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund. © Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation. Friday, February 28 Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art A festive reception to anticipate spring and celebrate the current exhibitions, including Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography. FREE. Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Friday, February 28 Steve Grover Quintet 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall The Steve Grover New Quintet (featuring Steve Grover, drums/composer; Christine Correa, voice; Andrew Rathbun, sax; Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, bass; and Frank Carlberg, piano) is dedicated to performing the original songs of its leader, Steve Grover. Using texts by poets both well-known and contemporary, the songs follow forms suggested by the verse, resulting in unpredictable, yet accessible music from a contemporary jazz perspective. The personality of each musician imbues the quintet’s music with a uniqueness central to its expression. FREE. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Man Ray, Space Writing (Self-Portrait), 1935, gelatin silver print. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund. For more information: 207-725-3375 Steve Grover All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. Any ticket or admission requirements are listed within the event description. For information on acquiring tickets, see the inside back cover. All events are subject to change. For more information on these and many other events go to: bowdoin.edu/arts
Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine 2014 March Saturday, March 1 Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art 10:00 a.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art Bowdoin College students lead a program of activity and fun for children, working with the exhibitions on view. FREE. Monday, March 3 “Science is Fiction”: A Selection of Films by Jean Painlevé Sarah Childress, Damon Gannon, Andrea Rosen, and students 6:00 p.m. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center This screening and discussion will explore Jean Painlevé’s “scientific-poetic” films. These dreamlike short films reveal the wonder of sea creatures, presenting their social lives as a challenge to human conventions. Sarah Childress, visiting assistant professor of film studies; Damon Gannon, director of Bowdoin Scientific Station at Kent Island; Andrea Rosen, curatorial assistant, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; and students. Organized in conjunction with Sarah Childress’s course “The Reality Effect: Documentary Film” and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s exhibition Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography. FREE. Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund, Becker Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund, and Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund. Wednesday, March 5 Elizabeth Weigle, soprano, and Daniel Lippel, guitar 7:30 p.m. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall Soprano Elizabeth Weigle and guitarist Daniel Lippel will present a program featuring works by Bowdoin faculty composer Vineet Shende, including the world premiere of his recently completed solo guitar work, Suite in Raag Marva, and his sensitive settings of Pablo Neruda sonnets, Sonetos de Amor. Complementing the Shende works will be other works for guitar and soprano which set Spanish texts, including music by Peter Gilbert and Manuel De Falla. FREE. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Elizabeth Weigle Daniel Lippel Tuesday, March 25 Gallery Talk: Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections Noon Bowdoin College Museum of Art Susan Kaplan, professor of anthropology and director of Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, leads a discussion of select works in the exhibition, The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections. Second in a series of three gallery talks during the Spring 2014 semester. FREE. Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Film still from Hunting Musk Ox, by Donald B. MacMillan. Ivory carving of bowhead whale, Eldon Boolowon, Gambell, Alaska, ca. 1988. For more information: 207-725-3375 All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. Any ticket or admission requirements are listed within the event description. For information on acquiring tickets, see the inside back cover. All events are subject to change. Tuesday, March 25 Kates Lecture “The 21st Century’s Technology Story: Biology, Physics and Engineering Converge” Susan Hockfield 7:30 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Susan Hockfield, William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology and President Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the first life scientist to lead MIT, she championed the breakthroughs emerging from the historic convergence of the life sciences with the engineering and physical sciences, in fields from clean energy to cancer. FREE. Sponsored by the Arnold D. Kates Lecture Fund. Thursday, March 27 The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Film Series Film #2: The Eskimo and the Whale 7:00 p.m. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall Explore the strength and courage of Inupiat people struggling to preserve their subsistence whaling culture in the Arctic regions of Alaska. Challenged by hostile weather, intricate international politics, the potential opening of ANWR, and off-shore oil exploration, Inupiat whalers remain as determined as their icebound ocean. FREE. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment. For more information on these and many other events go to: bowdoin.edu/arts Susan Hockfield
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