Upcoming events
Esteemed film critic and 91社区 alum J. Hoberman joins us to celebrate the memory of experimental filmmaker and BU Cinema founder Ken Jacobs, who passed away last year, and his experience of the fledgling years of Cinema at 91社区. Following a screening of short films which Hoberman first saw as screened by Jacobs in Lecture Hall 6 (Arnulf Rainer, by Peter Kubelka, and Calling All Girls, by Jean Negulesco), Hoberman will talk about his time programming the Harpur Film Society (now Harpur Cinema), his experiences with Larry Gottheim, and the lasting and life-changing influence of Jacobs.听
(doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
J. Hoberman was a Junior in Harpur College when experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs arrived to teach a week-long seminar at the invitation of Harpur Film Society. The following academic year (1969-1970), Jacobs was hired permanently, the Film Department was established, and Hoberman started working as the projectionist for Jacobs鈥檚 epic marathon lecture-screenings. The experience would be a life-changing one for Hoberman.听
Jacobs passed away last year at the age of 92, after decades teaching in the 91社区 Cinema Department, leaving behind an unforgettable body of work and countless students who were impacted by his mentorship. Hoberman joins us to recount his experiences in celebration of the memory of Jacobs and the fledgling years of Cinema at 91社区.听
Following a screening of short films which Hoberman first saw as screened by Jacobs in Lecture Hall 6 (Arnulf Rainer, by Peter Kubelka, and Calling All Girls, by Jean Negulesco), Hoberman will talk about his time programming the Harpur Film Society (now Harpur Cinema), his experiences with Larry Gottheim, and the lasting and life-changing influence of Jacobs.
Sinking Feeling: The Films of Zachary Epcar
"Zachary Epcar (b. San Francisco) is a filmmaker whose work has screened at the international film festivals of Toronto, New York, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Vancouver, Edinburgh, and Melbourne; Pacific Film Archive, Media City, IndieLisboa, SF Cinematheque's Crossroads, European Media Art Festival, EXiS, 25 FPS; and in solo screenings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of the Moving Image, and Black Hole Cinematheque. Zachary lives in Oakland, California where he is the distribution & collections manager at Canyon Cinema and a member of the film programming collective Light Field.
Sinking Feeling (2024, 16mm/video, 21 min)
The Canyon (2021, 16mm/video, 15 min)
Life After Love (2018, 16mm/video, 8 min)
Return to Forms (2016, 16mm/video, 10 min)"
Julia Alekseyeva: "Matsumoto Toshio's Antifascist Film-Philosophy"
Abstract: This talk analyzes the film and philosophy of Matsumoto Toshio, avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the queer, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and a series of "neo-documentary" films from the early-mid 1960s. Specifically, it looks at his work through the overarching lens of antifascism. I argue that his writings describe avant-garde documentary as a privileged art form, uniquely capable of battling against everyday fascist ideology-- both fascism in the streets, and in our mindset and everyday behavior.
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Bio: Julia Alekseyeva is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches interactions between global media and radical leftist politics, with a particular focus on Japan, France, and the former Soviet Union. Her first academic book, Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s (UC Press), was published in February 2025, and she is completing a second, titled Cinema-Truth and its Discontents: Prehistories and Afterlives. She is also author-illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir Soviet Daughter (Microcosm, 2017).
Common Ground Reading
Friday, October 23, 6-7:30pm, Alumni Lounge, Old O鈥機onnor Hall
Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers.
Cirque Kalabant茅 -听World of Words
Friday, October 23, 2026
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets:听
The Anderson Center for the Performing Arts brings in Cirque Kalabant茅, performing with the Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble.
Experience a vibrant world where ancestral African traditions meet breathtaking cori'temporary circus. Through powerful storytelling, live music, dance, and extraordinary acrobatics, Cirque Kalabante explores how gesture, rhythm, and movement can transcend language, erase boundaries, and unite cultures.
Imagine a stage where ancestral African wisdom captivates the audience. Separated by a symbolic line, one group shares its knowledge through powerful storytelling, hypnotic songs, and ritual initiation, while the other listens and learns鈥攕ometimes with fear, sometimes with resistance.
The exchange begins with spoken language as an obstacle, but the universal forces of gesture, rhythm, and sound quickly overcome it. The set and its ropes become a language of their own: double Dutch skipping, bungee straps, and rope-based contortion become pathways of communication, pulsing with dialogue. Three guiding figures鈥擳rust, Respect, and Wisdom鈥攍ead the journey.听
Through acrobatic contact and moments of mutual support, the dividing line fades. Bodies merge, blending tradition with contemporary movement. The finale culminates in a powerful choreography of unity and collective awakening, transforming the journey itself into a revelation.听
Canta Y No Llores
A celebration of Chicano culture
Compiled from plays by Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga and Jorge Fabregas
Arranged by: Justin Salas
Advised by: Lisa Rothe听
Canta Y No Llores
A celebration of Chicano culture
Compiled from plays by Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga and Jorge Fabregas
Arranged by: Justin Salas
Advised by: Lisa Rothe听
Artist Bio
Described as 鈥渋nsanely clever鈥� (ClassicFM, United Kingdom), 鈥渇ull of crystalline clarity鈥� (S眉dkurier, Germany) and possessing a 鈥渢heatrical鈥icocheting intensity鈥� (The New York Times), Thomas Giles performs the music of our time with tireless curiosity, imagination, and unwavering conviction. To date Giles has premiered more than 250 new works鈥攎any of which are dedicated to him. He has enjoyed working closely with many leading composers e.g., Michael Gordon, Meredith Monk, David Lang, and Charles Wuorinen. Recent premieres include works by Steven Mackey, Chris Dench, Augusta Read Thomas, and choreographer Kyle Abraham. His growing body of solo repertoire hones a fascination with simultaneity and the multilimbic potentials of a single wind performer.
A prizewinner of the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg International Saxophone Competition, Giles has been presented as a soloist at Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, Constellation Chicago, and in concerto performances with the National Music Festival Orchestra, Present Music, Tilted Head Ensemble, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and many university bands and orchestras across the United States. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, SFJAZZ, and internationally at Bachfest Leipzig, Heidelberg Kulturzentrum, M眉nster Musikhochschule, Szczecin International Saxophone Festival, Utrecht鈥檚 Bartholomeus Gasthuis, and the Cit茅 de la Musique de Strasbourg.
Giles is a founding member of Telos Consort鈥攁 flexible new music quintet of two saxophones, violin, cello, and piano. The ensemble鈥檚 modular concept frequently calls on his adroit skills playing all saxophones, flutes, and clarinets. He has appeared in over a dozen productions across theater, opera, and dance, including Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, La Belle et la B锚te, and on tour with the A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham dance company. A regular guest within leading ensembles, he has appeared with Alarm Will Sound, London Royal Opera co., New York City Opera Orchestra, Opera Parall猫le, Contemporaneous, ensembles Signal, MISE-EN, 脡chapp茅, Metropolis, as well as the PRISM and Rasch猫r saxophone quartets. From 2012-2022, he was a member of the critically acclaimed MANA Quartet.
Giles has appeared on more than a dozen studio recordings. His first lead release with pianist Liana Pailodze Harron, Mysteries of the Macabre (2022), featured 鈥渂reathtaking鈥� (New York Music Daily) first recordings of works by Ligeti, Messiaen, Asiya Korepanova, and Jay Schwartz. His second album, Mundiglossia (2023), spotlights Cole Blouin鈥檚 gargantuan 鈥渙bstacle course鈥� work for solo soprano saxophone鈥攑raised for its 鈥渦nflinching exactitude鈥� (Best Contemporary Classical, Bandcamp). As a sideman, he can be heard on the New Amsterdam, Bright Shiny Things, New Focus, Mark, Armazi, and Lakeshore labels, including the Experiential Orchestra鈥檚 GRAMMY-nominated album American Counterpoints (2025).
A dedicated educator, Giles serves on the applied faculties of the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA and Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He has presented lectures, clinics, and performances at the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, Harvard, Princeton, Manhattan School of Music, NYU Steinhardt, and others. He has held residencies at the Arts Academy of Szczecin (Poland), and the Landesgymnasium f眉r Musik in Dresden (Germany).
Thomas Giles is an endorsing artist for Yanagisawa Saxophones, D鈥橝ddario Woodwinds products, and holds a Doctor of Music degree (2016) from Florida State University.
Nicole Santalucia is the author of the new poetry collection听Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians听(Bordighera Press, 2026). Her other collections include听The Book of Dirt听(NYQ Books), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press), and听Because I Did Not Die听(Bordighera Press). Santalucia鈥檚 work has appeared or is forthcoming in the听Indiana Review, the听Colorado Review, the Los Angeles Review, the听North American Review, the听Rumpus, the听Normal School, Out Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English and director of first-year writing at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang, 2025, 89 minutes)
October 30 & November 1
Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang, 2025, 89 minutes)
October 30 & November 1
Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.
Works by Peggy Ahwesh
"Over the course of her career, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most heterogeneous bodies of work in the field of experimental film and video. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance and scripted dialogue, synch-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and crude Pixelvision video. Using this range of approaches, she has extended the project initiated by 1960s and '70s American avant-garde film, and has augmented that tradition with an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the subject.
Ahwesh started out working in Super-8, attracted to the medium's evocation of home movies. For her, this was a subversively amateur form, and also a discourse that yielded traditionally women-gendered themes like home and family, relationships, and confessions, which she appropriated as scenarios. She and other filmmakers of the time, including Sally Potter, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton, had little use for the primarily formal strategies of the structural materialist film tradition (which was in any case dominated by men), and viewed conventions of direction, character, and performance as tools. For these filmmakers, feminism presented a viable avant-garde praxis: unlike the radical formal dislocations of materialist film, the political narrative inherent in feminist art was exceedingly resistant to co-optation by dominant media or advertising.
Ahwesh's work, for all its reliance on theoretical concerns, isn't dry or forbidding. She values humor, playfulness, and, ultimately, the pleasure of the audience. The cluttered sets and fragmented stories in much of her work evince a baroque and almost mystical sensibility, with a lineage including the ornate films of Jack Smith and Kenneth Anger. Of course, this is a mysticism that locates its systems of meaning in mass culture, and in recent years Ahwesh has expanded her work to consider the techniques and critiques of nascent digital culture, including videogames and the Internet.
Ultimately, Ahwesh has developed a practice that insists on political and social topicality, handled with theoretical and formal rigor, while remembering the audience. It is her lighter touch that has helped make her work, densely critical as it is, so accessible to so many people. She draws them into the world and traditions of avant-garde film and video, where, as she has remarked, "there's nothing to prove and no money to make," only the pleasures of the text.
Peggy Ahwesh was born in 1954. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Her work has been widely shown, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Balie Theater, Amsterdam; the Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Microscope Gallery, New York and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, among other venues. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Ahwesh lives in Brooklyn, New York."
听:听Ice Cold: Studies on Glass
On View 10/1-11/5/2026 | M-F 9-5 p.m.听
Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission
Pan is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington in Tacoma.
"Ice Cold" begins with a concept album and makes it physical: sound, poetry, sculpture, costume, graphic design, 3D animation, digital video, and performance collide inside the gallery. Pan uses pop sensibilities 鈥� hooks, drops, costume changes, and adolescent yet serious romance in catchy rhythms 鈥� to tell stories about identity: how it expresses, splits, challenges, and belongs.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 5鈥�7PM
Chat with our curator, Joseph Leach, snack on some cookies and tour student-curated exhibitions led by BUAM curatorial interns!
Polish interdisciplinary听conceptual artist听Agnieszka Kurant听at 6:30 PM on Thu 5 Nov in FA 258
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
MOM (Mam谩) (Xun Sero, 2022, 80 mins)
November 6 & 8
As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and
Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and
blaming my mother for it. 鈥楳om鈥� is a dialogue between mother and son exploring
their contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other, and reflecting on
naturalized violence and its reproduction.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Xun Sero is a Maya-Tsotsil filmmaker, born in Chiapas, Mexico. He began his work
in documentary filmmaking by chronicling events related to the struggle of
indigenous peoples in Chiapas. He tries to develop the true cultural heritage of the
characters and to avoid clich茅s about indigenous peoples. He currently works as a
cinematographer. "Mom", his directorial debut, was selected at Hot Docs, IDFA and
FIC Guadalajara, as well as more than 60 festivals, winning 20 awards. In 2022
Variety magazine considered "Mom" as 鈥渙ne of the 10 Mexican films that contribute
to diversity and giving voice to that diversity鈥�.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
MOM (Mam谩) (Xun Sero, 2022, 80 mins)
November 6 & 8
As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and
Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and
blaming my mother for it. 鈥楳om鈥� is a dialogue between mother and son exploring
their contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other, and reflecting on
naturalized violence and its reproduction.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Xun Sero is a Maya-Tsotsil filmmaker, born in Chiapas, Mexico. He began his work
in documentary filmmaking by chronicling events related to the struggle of
indigenous peoples in Chiapas. He tries to develop the true cultural heritage of the
characters and to avoid clich茅s about indigenous peoples. He currently works as a
cinematographer. "Mom", his directorial debut, was selected at Hot Docs, IDFA and
FIC Guadalajara, as well as more than 60 festivals, winning 20 awards. In 2022
Variety magazine considered "Mom" as 鈥渙ne of the 10 Mexican films that contribute
to diversity and giving voice to that diversity鈥�.
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10鈥�12PM
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Library News Blog
#BingCollects is back for the fourth time this year! Initiated in fall 2022, this pop-up exhibition is a collaboration between the 91社区 Art Museum and the Libraries Special Collections. It aims to raise student awareness of both collections鈥� rich holdings available for them to explore. Pop-ups are held in different locations on campus throughout the year, and feature objects from our collections on a common theme and sub-theme. 听
Come and see our pop-ups around campus throughout the year, and enjoy cool art and books up close, ask questions and chat with librarians, curators, and museum interns. Learn about the history of protest and activism available in our collections, or just enjoy the artwork and other historical material. Everyone is invited! Be on the lookout for where #BingCollects pops up next!
The following pop-ups are scheduled:
Out of the Closet
October 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 11, 2026, 12鈥�2PM
Location: University Union
World AIDS Day
December 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
On View 11/12-12/10/2026 | M-F 9-5 p.m.听
Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission
Opening reception & lecture: Thursday,听November 19
Lecture: 5:30-6:30pm, FA 308
Reception: 6:30-7:30pm, Rosefsky Gallery, FA 259
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Gandahar (Ren茅 Laloux, 1987, 83 mins)
November 13 & 15
An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer Ren茅 Laloux鈥檚 final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet鈥檚 outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society鈥檚 strife and鈥攖ogether with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)鈥攖ravels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar鈥檚 very existence. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, Gandahar is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13听听8pm Friday听
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18听 8pm Wed.
Nov.听20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets:听
Soloists for Beethoven
Sarah Fleiss, soprano
Samuel Higgins, countertenor
Landry Allen, tenor
Patrick Wilhelm, baritone
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13听听8pm Friday听
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18听 8pm Wed.
Nov.听20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets:听
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Gandahar (Ren茅 Laloux, 1987, 83 mins)
November 13 & 15
An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer Ren茅 Laloux鈥檚 final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet鈥檚 outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society鈥檚 strife and鈥攖ogether with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)鈥攖ravels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar鈥檚 very existence. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, Gandahar is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.
Talk: Refresh and Reboot - An Evening with Kristin Lucas
Tuesday 11/17 @ 7pm LH 006
"Kristin Lucas is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, installation, live, networked, and hybrid media art forms. In works that gain their currency within the context of public and private systems, Lucas responds to the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and to the fast-changing mediascape that reconfigures perception and identity. Lucas critically engages with the tools she investigates, re-imagining and re-contextualizing their use in a way that looks to technology to provide new platforms for social and community engagement. In works that gain their currency within the context of public and private systems, Lucas responds to the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and to the fast-changing mediascape that reconfigures perception and identity.
Lucas has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Engadget, and Hyperallergic, and she is the recent recipient of an Engadget Alternate Realities Grant and a SciArt Institute The Bridge Collaborative Residency. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Artists Space, FACT Liverpool, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Harvestworks, Haus der Kunst, HeK Basel, ICA Philadelphia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Pioneer Works, OK Center for Contemporary Art, MoMA, New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and ZKM; and at festivals including BAM Teknopolis, Cinekid, EarthxFilm, Impakt, ISEA, Okeechobee Music & Arts, Print Screen, TIFF, Transmediale, World Wide Video, and WSJ Future of Everything.
And/Or Gallery and Postmasters represent her work, and her videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. Her immersive augmented reality experience Dance with flARmingos was selected for the Radiance research platform. She earned degrees in art from Cooper Union and Stanford University and is faculty of Studio Art at University of Texas at Austin. She is currently based in Austin, TX."
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13听听8pm Friday听
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18听 8pm Wed.
Nov.听20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets:听
Jason Farago,听a critic at large for The New York Times, writing about culture and its place in the wider world.
Common Ground Reading
Friday, November 20, 6-7:30pm, Alumni Lounge, Old O鈥機onnor Hall
Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (Kahlil Joseph, 2025, 110 mins)
November 20 & 22
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph's renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph's family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder ScheduleNov. 13听听8pm Friday听
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18听 8pm Wed.
Nov.听20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets:听
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13听听8pm Friday听
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18听 8pm Wed.
Nov.听20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets:听
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (Kahlil Joseph, 2025, 110 mins)
November 20 & 22
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph's renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph's family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10鈥�12PM
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Library News Blog
#BingCollects is back for the fourth time this year! Initiated in fall 2022, this pop-up exhibition is a collaboration between the 91社区 Art Museum and the Libraries Special Collections. It aims to raise student awareness of both collections鈥� rich holdings available for them to explore. Pop-ups are held in different locations on campus throughout the year, and feature objects from our collections on a common theme and sub-theme. 听
Come and see our pop-ups around campus throughout the year, and enjoy cool art and books up close, ask questions and chat with librarians, curators, and museum interns. Learn about the history of protest and activism available in our collections, or just enjoy the artwork and other historical material. Everyone is invited! Be on the lookout for where #BingCollects pops up next!
The following pop-ups are scheduled:
Out of the Closet
October 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 11, 2026, 12鈥�2PM
Location: University Union
World AIDS Day
December 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Artists:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia Den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Dustin Donahue, percussion
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Free Admission
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets:听
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets:听
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets:听
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets:听
On View 11/12-12/10/2026 | M-F 9-5 p.m.听
Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission
Opening reception & lecture: Thursday,听November 19
Lecture: 5:30-6:30pm, FA 308
Reception: 6:30-7:30pm, Rosefsky Gallery, FA 259
Thursday, December 10, 2026, 5鈥�7PM
Take a deep breath and de-stress with BUAM for "And now, your moment of Zen" event. Enjoy quiet contemplation in the galleries, test your calligraphic skills, create your own mini Zen garden, or sketch a peaceful landscape inspired by our scholar's rocks.听听
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.听
BUAM Main Gallery听 | Free Admission听听
Mountains and Water: Traditions in East Asian Art
Mountains and water are at the heart of East Asian arts and culture. They form an essential framework for engaging with the natural world and understanding people鈥檚 place within it. This exhibition explores the wide-ranging significance, symbolism, and sacrality of mountains and water in China, Korea, and Japan. It considers landscapes and scholar鈥檚 stones as both scholastic objects of aesthetic consideration and supernatural sites of cosmic power.
Generous support and donations for this exhibition were provided by John C. Copoulos 鈥�73.
All听events are free and open to the public.
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.听
Lower Galleries听听| Free Admission听听
Capturing Music: Material Culture and Changing Notations in Medieval Music
Frames Within Frames: Intimacy through Visual Exchange听
Hands ON! Experiencing Art through Touch
All听events are free and open to the public.
A Doo Wop ChristmasSaturday, December 12, 2026
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets:听
The Doo Wop Project will get everyone into the holiday spirit with old-school classics such as The Drifters' "White Christmas," The Temptations' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons' version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," along with contemporary favorites such as "This Christmas" and "Last Christmas." It's sure to be a jolly good time!听
The dynamic Broadway stars of The Doo Wop Project are on a mission to put doo-wop music on everyone鈥檚 playlist. Backed by their smokin鈥� hot band, they capture the classic sound of the groups that鈥攂ack in the day鈥攈armonized on stoops, in subway stations, and on street corners. They have also created a unique, exciting, and fun way to 鈥渄oo-wopify鈥� today鈥檚 biggest hits, reimagining them as though they had been written in another era. Once you experience The Doo Wop Project live on stage, you鈥檒l understand why audiences across the country call them 鈥淎merica鈥檚 premier doo-wop group.鈥�
The Silhouettes -听Love HappensThursday, February 18, 2027
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 5:30 p.m.
Show: 6 p.m.
Tickets:听
The Silhouettes鈥� acclaimed show,听Love Happens, is an entertaining, family-friendly shadow-dance story celebrating the many forms of love in our world: friendship, family bonds, affection for children and pets, romantic love, a love of music and life, and even a love of chocolate. The production also explores love鈥檚 more painful side, taking audiences on an emotional journey filled with laughter, tears, and goosebumps鈥攁nd ultimately bringing love to the heart.
Founded in 2009, The Silhouettes are America鈥檚 premier shadow-dance company. The group was named first runner-up on Season 6 of听America鈥檚 Got Talent听in 2011 and received a Golden Buzzer on听America鈥檚 Got Talent: The Champions听in 2020. Created and directed by Lynne Waggoner-Patton, the company trains its performers, films its productions, and stages its live shows at its own theater in Westminster, Colorado.
The Silhouettes have appeared in television commercials and on the听Muscular Dystrophy Show of Strength听and Nickelodeon鈥檚听See Dad Run. They have also performed around the world, including in Ireland, Poland, Mexico, and Canada. The company appeared as a resident act in听America鈥檚 Got Talent Presents SUPERSTARS Live听in Las Vegas. Over the years, The Silhouettes have raised millions of dollars for children鈥檚 charities. Their mission is to help children achieve their dreams and goals, regardless of their circumstances, and to empower them to make a meaningful impact on the world.听
by Pulitzer听Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent听retreat. As these strangers听confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled听with awkward humor, this strange听and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving.听- NT Times
Small Mouth听Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and听8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets:听
by Pulitzer听Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent听retreat. As these strangers听confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled听with awkward humor, this strange听and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving.听- NT Times
Small Mouth听Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and听8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets:听
For the fourth year, the Department of Art & Design's Student Advisory Committee will host a 24-Hour Drawathon & Non-perishable Food Drive.听听
This competitive event will take place from Saturday, February 27 to Sunday, February 28, 11 a.m - 11a.m.听
by Pulitzer听Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent听retreat. As these strangers听confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled听with awkward humor, this strange听and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving.听- NT Times
Small Mouth听Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and听8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets:听
by Pulitzer听Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent听retreat. As these strangers听confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled听with awkward humor, this strange听and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving.听- NT Times
Small Mouth听Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and听8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets:听
by Pulitzer听Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent听retreat. As these strangers听confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled听with awkward humor, this strange听and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving.听- NT Times
Small Mouth听Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and听8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets:听
March 26, 7鈥�9pm, Chamber Hall
听for those performing.
Our third SOARJam brings together visual art, dance, spoken word, performance, cinema, and more, turning the Chamber Hall into a live laboratory of sound, movement, and image.听
Open to all.
Join students across disciplines in a live, collaborative art action. Come to watch, or participate - we鈥檒l help you find ways to join in and create live.
Opportunities include collaborative drawing, dance, music, spoken word, video projection, audio-reactive installation, and experimentation with digital and analog media鈥攊ncluding 35mm slides and performing with live loops of yourself!
Come watch, participate, or move between both. No prior experience required.
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents听World on a String - Swinging Songs of Broadway
Thursday, April 15, 2027
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
For the fifth production in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents series, guest vocalists Kate Kortum and David Marino will perform new arrangements of songs from some of Broadway's most beloved productions, including Hamilton, Wicked, South Pacific, West Side Story, and more, in a special concert event titled World on a String: Swinging Songs of Broadway.
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Tickets:听
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm听
April 18, Sunday 7pm听
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets:听
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm听
April 18, Sunday 7pm听
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets:听
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm听
April 18, Sunday 7pm听
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets:听
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm听
April 18, Sunday 7pm听
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets:听
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm听
April 18, Sunday 7pm听
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets:听
Week of April 26 + both weekends
In 2027, the Festival of the Arts will take place during the week of April 26, with events on the weekends before and after as well.
Experience a week of creativity, performance, and collaboration as 91社区鈥檚 Festival of the Arts brings campus to life with concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and showcases across every discipline in the arts. From hands-on activities and faculty presentations to student research and performances, the Festival highlights the imagination and innovation that define the School of the Arts.
Detailed program tbd.