Events at Reed
Welcome to the Reed College events site! All events listed below are open to the public and are free, unless noted otherwise.
September
2
Lecture: James Collins
“Life in Transition: Origins, Energy, and Adaptation at the Junction of the Life and Physical Sciences”
James Collins is Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He was founding director of the undergraduate Biology Enrichment Program and codirector of Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology and Minority Access to Research Careers programs at the university. He also works with the National Science Foundation and is the foundation’s liaison to the National Health Institute. Collins is the author of over 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, coeditor of three special journal issues, and coauthor, with Dr. Martha Crump, of Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline (Oxford University Press, 2009). The lecture is cosponsored by Reed’s division of mathematics and natural sciences and the environmental studies program.
7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
3
Text-based Installation: Barbara Tetenbaum
A Close Read: My Ántonia
A month-long project, which Barbara Tetenbaum began in early August, has her listening to a recording and reading the written text of Willa Cather's My Ántonia. She maps out her understanding of the novel, indulging her curiosity, questions, and reactions, as the story unfolds. Barbara Tetenbaum is professor and department head of book arts at Oregon College of Art and Craft. She has been producing limited edition artist books under the imprint, Triangular Press, since 1979, and is primarily interested in the dynamic nature of reading and expresses this through her artist books, installations, and other activities. The installation runs through September 18.
5–8 p.m., Edith Feldenheimer Gallery, Studio Art building.
4
Exhibition opening: ABSTRACT
Abstract and non-objective artistic methodologies are most often associated with Modernism and the European and Russian avant-garde; but visual and material abstraction has flourished for millennia, globally, as an essential human activity, as symbolism, ornament, and plan. ABSTRACT brings together the work of three contemporary women artists— Léonie Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne Woods Turner—inspired by the breadth of abstraction's spiritual, esoteric, and ritualistic dimensions.
Noon–5 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, through December 5, in the Cooley Art Gallery, Hauser Library.
4–6
Shakespeare in the Parks: The Comedy of Errors
This marvelous tale of a family's separation and reunion—performed by the Portland Actors Ensemble—takes place in the “enchanted” city of Ephesus, where a visiting merchant from the wrong city may be ruined financially, accused of adultery by a jealous wife he didn’t know he had, and committed to an asylum, all in a single afternoon. Of course, it’s all just a case of mistaken identity, but should Antipholus (and his trusty servant Dromio, played by Gildevin Jagudajev ’09) unravel the knot in which they find themselves entangled, a potential death sentence awaits if they are discovered to be from their home port of Syracuse. For more information, visit the ensemble website.
3 p.m., south lawn in front of Eliot Hall.
8
Art gallery reception: ABSTRACT
The public is invited to the reception for the artists whose work is featured in the current exhibition ABSTRACT.
6–9 p.m., Cooley Art Gallery, Hauser Library.
8–10, 16–19
Reed Theatre: Uncanny Valley
Reed Theatre welcomes back Portland's Hand2Mouth Theatre for their second residency at the college. This fall, Hand2Mouth will create and present the second phase of their production Uncanny Valley, first produced at Reed in May 2010. During the company's residency, Reed students will work alongside the company as artistic and technical assistants, Hand2Mouth will lead workshops with Reed students, and the company will collaborate with Reed faculty including Carla Mann (choreographer), Kristeen Crosser (production manager), and Kate Bredeson (dramaturg). Hand2Mouth's team of seven performers-explorers embarks on a daring journey in front of a live audience, leaving the security of ground control in order to recapture our most nostalgic, bittersweet, and lively memories. Join us on a sci-fi adventure into psychic space. Inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky, J.G. Ballard, and Marcel Proust, Hand2Mouth began researching this phenomenon in early 2010. We now attempt a second journey into the memory field, towards the ultimate purpose of premiering a fully tested performance of Uncanny Valley in spring 2011. These work-in-progress showings are vital to our discoveries. We are refining our inspiration and our training so that we might take you somewhere you never even dreamed of going. Tickets: $8 (advance online) or $10 at the door.
7:30 p.m. (September 8–10, 16, 17, 19), 2 p.m. (September 18 & 19), Mainstage Theatre.
10–26
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon: Oedipus the King
This production of Sophocles’ play, directed by Elizabeth Huffman, is a fusion of ancient Greek theatre forms with Japanese Kabuki, Noh, and Butoh elements. Diskin Clay ’60 is scholar and, in part, translator of the play. In the event of rain, a restaged version of the play will be performed in Vollum lecture hall. Talkbacks will take place after Sunday performances. Tickets: $10–20; 503/205-0715 or online. Free to Reed students, faculty, and staff members with current Reed ID.
7 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays; 4 p.m., Sundays; noon, September 16 & 17, and 22–24; Cerf amphitheatre.
11
Concert: Portland Chamber Orchestra
Chopinade (Homage to Chopin)
In collaboration with the Portland Festival Ballet, the orchestra presents a concert to celebrate the music of Frederic Chopin in the beloved composer’s 200th anniversary year. The first half of the concert features solo piano works with choreography, followed by the world premiere of a commissioned orchestral ballet suite, Homage to Chopin. More details about the day’s events and to order tickets ($5–25), visit the online site, or call 503/771-3250.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
13
Lecture: William Nickell
“Tolstoy in 1910: The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author”
William Nickell holds the Licker Research Chair at Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 (Cornell University Press, 2010). Sponsored by the Russian department.
4:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
14
“It’s All Greek To Me” September Festival
Poetic License
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon presents a very special night of poetry and music inspired by Greek themes, with beat poet Robert Briggs and his jazz trio performing "My Own Atom Bomb." The evening also will feature Portland’s spoken word chorus, VOX, directed by Eric Hull, performing works from contemporary Greek poets.
7 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
15
“It’s All Greek To Me” September Festival
Greek Music
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon presents world-renowned musicians Gayle and Phillip Nueman in a beautiful evening of ancient Greek music. The Nuemans perform the extant repertoire preserved in Greek letter musical notation—found on papyrus and stone—on replicas of ancient instruments, which they have built.
7 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
16
“It’s All Greek To Me” September Festival
Greek Grab Bag Symposium
JACK Theatre Company from Los Angeles comes to Portland as guests of Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon to perform a hilarious reading of Plato's masterpiece of philosophy, Socrates Dialogue with Euthyphro. Actors Carlos Carrasco as Euthyphro and Kent Minault as Socrates will prove Plato to be very funny in this spirited reading. The reading will be followed by a rousing symposium of special guests, organized and moderated by Walter Englert, Reed classics professor, and will feature guest speakers Kathleen Worley, Reed professor of theatre; Nicholas Smith, Lewis & Clark professor of philosophy; and Dr. John Schilke.
7 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
17
Concert: Friday at Four
Marimba!
Reed percussion instructor Charles Pike performs on the marimba, recently purchased for the music department.
4 p.m., Prexy living room.
18
“It’s All Greek To Me” September Festival
Children’s Theatre: Greek Mythology
For the first time Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon has a show for children ages K–8—an hour-long, terrifically fun, interactive show on Greek mythology, performed by Jonah Weston and ileana herrin. This coproduction with Traveling Lantern, features stories of Gods and heroism. From their protected perch on Mount Olympus, the Gods of ancient Greece wrap their magic and subterfuge around the humans they choose to meddle with. Whether choice can alter fate is the eternal riddle of these fascinating and timeless myths.
11 a.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
19
Concert: Susan Chan
In this All Classical "Live & Local Concerts" series, pianist Susan Chan performs a program of Western and Asian music by J.S. Bach, Cesar Franck, Somei Satoh, Tan Dun, Frederic Chopin, and Franz Liszt. Chan has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician in recitals and music festivals in the U.S. and abroad. She is assistant professor of music and piano area coordinator at Portland State University. Tickets: $20–25; 503/943-5828.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
22 & 23
“It’s All Greek To Me” September Festival
Iphigenia in Aulis
Wrapping up the festival is a staged reading of a powerful and poetic new adaptation based on the play by Euripides, coproduced with BaseRoots Theatre Company. This new adaptation of is by Steven Wolfson, and directed by Elizabeth Huffman.
7 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
24
Concert: Friday at Four
South American Music for Guitar and Percussion
Allen Mathews, classical and Brazilian guitarist, in collaboration with John Pennington, percussionist, performs South American Music for Guitar and Percussion—works by Garoto, Reis, Perbanbuco, and Villa-Lobos.
4 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
30
Lecture: Sandra M. Gilbert"Modern Death, Millennial Mourning"
Sandra M. Gilbert, Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at UC Davis, is the author of Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve (W. W. Norton, 2006) and is editor of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. She has written over 20 books, including a number of volumes of poetry. Gilbert is the coauthor (with Susan Gubar) of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-century Literary Imagination, and No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century. She has taught at Cornell, Princeton, Indiana, Stanford, and Williams.
4:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
Ongoing through September 30
Exhibition: Special Collections, Hauser Library
Eccentric Books: At the Fore-Edge
Colors, movement, shapes, objects, popups—the brilliant world of eccentric books is on display in the library’s flat and wall cases. Cleverly constructed, and totally entertaining, book structures mingle with objects that are debatable as to whether they are books. Taken largely from the gathering of artists’ books within special collections, examples span the last two decades and include works by American book artists, Reed students, and others.
8 a.m.–9 p.m., Monday–Friday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m., Saturday & Sunday; in the library flat and wall cases, west of the library circulation desk.
October
4
Division of the Arts: Divisional Speaker
Lee Blessing ’71
Playwright and Reed alumnus Lee Blessing comes to the Reed Theatre in October to read Chesapeake. Lee's play, described by Newsday as "a brilliantly off-kilter fantasy,” features a performance artist, the NEA, and a Jesse Helms-type senator and his dog. In this one-man show, a controversial artist, Kerr, is at war with a conservative southern senator, who has a trusty pet Chesapeake Bay retriever, Lucky. In an attempt to push the boundaries of art and put Senator Therm Pooley in his place, Kerr attempts a daring dognapping with hilariously tragic results. Current Reed students, faculty, and staff members may reserve complimentary tickets for the performance at the theatre ticket website. Alumni and members of the general public may purchase tickets for $35 through Profile Theatre's website or by calling 503/242-0080. Lee will follow his reading with a Q&A session. Profile Theatre presents a fully staged production of the play November 3–21, in their space at Theatre/Theatre. Lee is Profile Theatre Project's featured playwright for its 2010–11 season.
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre.
7
Visting Writers: Angie Chau
Angie Chau is the author of Quiet As They Come, a short story collection, and winner of the 2009 Maurice Prize in fiction. Born in Vietnam, she has lived on three continents and two islands, and presently resides in Northern California. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
16
Concert: Portland Gay Men's Chorus
Flashback! 31st Season: Burlesque!
This adults-only evening of entertainment from the chorus’ Roaring Twenties cabaret is billed as a brassy good time! Tickets: 503/226-2588 or online.
8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
17
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
Mozart Doubled, Distracted Haydn
W.A. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, K. 364 and F.J. Haydn: Symphony No. 60 “Il Distratto.”
Tickets: $16–42; 503/205-0715 or online.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
25
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Red Priest
Extraordinary period instrument specialists with a rock-chamber concert approach to early music. “Carnival of the Seasons” — Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as you have never heard them before. Tickets, after September 1: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
28
Visting Writers: Carol Moldaw
Carol Moldaw's most recent book is So Late, So Soon: New and Selected (Etruscan Press, 2010). She is the author of four other books of poetry, The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize, Through the Window, Chalk Marks on Stone, and Taken from the River, as well as a novel, The Widening. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
Ongoing through December 5
Exhibition: ABSTRACT
Abstract and non-objective artistic methodologies are most often associated with Modernism and the European and Russian avant-garde; but visual and material abstraction has flourished for millennia, globally, as an essential human activity, as symbolism, ornament, and plan. ABSTRACT brings together the work of three contemporary women artists— Léonie Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne Woods Turner—inspired by the breadth of abstraction's spiritual, esoteric, and ritualistic dimensions.
Noon–5 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, in the Cooley Art Gallery, Hauser Library.
November
5 & 6, 11–13
Reed Theatre: James Joyce's The Dead
Adapted from Joyce's literary masterpiece set in 1904, the last and best known of the short stories collected in The Dubliners, this intimate musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey portrays a homespun yuletide party given by the aunts of Gabriel Conroy. Each year, three generations gather for a holiday feast filled with laughter, song, and dancing. This year, a guest's song awakens a memory for Gabriel's wife and revives a long-buried passion. Directed by Darrin J. Pufall. Tickets: $1–5; 503/777-7284 or online.
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre.
7
Concert: Pacific Crest Wind Symphony
The opening concert of the symphony's 22nd season. Tickets: $10–15; 503/285-7621 or online.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
10
Symposium on Abstraction
Join exhibition curator Stephanie Snyder, poet Bill Berkson, exhibition artists Léonie Guyer and Lynne Woods Turner, and Portland artist Michelle Ross for a communal conversation exploring the history, practices, and nature of abstraction.
6–9 p.m., location TBD.
11
Visting Writers: David Bezmozgis
David Bezmozgis is the author of Natasha and Other Stories, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, one of the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember for 2004. It also won the Toronto Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for First Book. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
Ongoing through December 5
Exhibition: ABSTRACT
Abstract
and non-objective artistic methodologies are most often associated with
Modernism and the European and Russian avant-garde; but visual and
material abstraction has flourished for millennia, globally, as an
essential human activity, as symbolism, ornament, and plan. ABSTRACT
brings together the work of three contemporary women artists— Léonie
Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne Woods Turner—inspired by the breadth of
abstraction's spiritual, esoteric, and ritualistic dimensions.
Noon–5 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, in the Cooley Art Gallery, Hauser Library.
December
2
Visting Writers: John Murillo
John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie. A graduate of New York University's MFA program in creative writing, he has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the New York Times, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
Ongoing through December 5
Exhibition: ABSTRACT
Abstract
and non-objective artistic methodologies are most often associated with
Modernism and the European and Russian avant-garde; but visual and
material abstraction has flourished for millennia, globally, as an
essential human activity, as symbolism, ornament, and plan. ABSTRACT
brings together the work of three contemporary women artists— Léonie
Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne Woods Turner—inspired by the breadth of
abstraction's spiritual, esoteric, and ritualistic dimensions.
Noon–5 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, in the Cooley Art Gallery, Hauser Library.
January
26
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Chanticleer
Tickets, after September 1: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
February
5
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Encore Series: Apollo Trio
In cooperation with Reed College’s 2011 ROMP! (Reediana Omnibus Musica Philosopha) symposium, this concert of music on Jewish themes features the world première of David Schiff’s klezmer-inspired “Borscht Belt Follies,” and highlights the eastern-European and American connections with Jewish music over six decades. More information about ROMP! after October 1. Tickets, after September 7: $12–45; 503/294-6400 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
18
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber ensemble
Tickets, after September 1: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
20
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot: Duo Harpsichord Concertos by Bach
J.S. Bach: Concertos for two harpsichords BWV 1060 & 1062 (Bach’s transcriptions of his double violin concerto and concerto for violin and oboe), W.A. Mozart: Adagio & Fugue for Strings K. 546, and works by Pietro Locatelli and Samuel Scheidt. Tickets: $16–42; 503/205-0715 or online.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
28
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Manuel Barrueco & Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Grammy nominated Manuel Barrueco is internationally recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time. The concert program includes “Sounds of the Americas” and works by Guastavino, Daugherty, Álvarez, Barrios, Ágila, and Piazzolla. Tickets, after September 1: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
March
10
Visting Writers: Eugene Gloria
Eugene Gloria is the author of two books of poems, “Hoodlum Birds,” and “Drivers at the Short-Time Motel,” which was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and the 2001 Asian American Literary Award. He has also received a Fulbright Research Grant, a grant from the San Francisco Art Commission, a Poetry Society of America Award, a Pushcart Prize. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
13
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
The St. John Passion
J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245. Tickets: $16–42; 503/205-0715 or online.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
19 & 20
Concert: Portland Gay Men's Chorus
Flashback! 31st Season: Motown Sound
As citizens marched in support of civil rights or against the Vietnam War, the elegant, soulful, and timeless music from Detroit provided the soundtrack to this turbulent chapter in American history. Tickets: 503/226-2588 or online.
March 19 at 8 p.m., March 20 at 2 p.m.; Kaul Auditorium.
21
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Time for Three
The “groundbreaking, category-shattering” Time for Three transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, bluegrass, gypsy, and jazz idioms. Tickets, after September 1: $14–40; 503/224-9842 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
31
Visting Writers: Elyse Fenton ’03
Elyse Fenton’s first book, Clamor, released in 2010, received Cleveland State University Press' First Book award. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon and has published poetry and nonfiction in the New York Times, Best New Poets, and the Massachusetts Review. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
April
7
Visiting Writers: Ron Currie, Jr.
Ron Currie, Jr. is the author of God is Dead and Everything Matters! His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and received the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
8 & 9, 14–16
Reed Theatre: The Glass Menagerie
In celebration of Tennessee Williams' 100th birthday, Reed Theatre offers a new look at the play that heralded his arrival as an incadescent American playwright. Premiered in 1944, The Glass Menagerie is the original American memory play, an expressionist classic. Directed by Kate Bredeson. Tickets: $1–5; 503/777-7284 or online.
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre.
13
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Encore Series: Tetziaff String Quartet
German violinist Christian Tetzlaff, one of the most important artists of his generation, formed his quartet in 1994 that is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the world’s most fascinating ensembles. The Quartet makes its Northwest debut here in Portland for this memorable concert of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Sibelius. Tickets, after September 7: $12–45; 503/294-6400 or online.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
14
Visiting Writers: Joe Wenderoth
Joe Wenderoth is the author of three books of poems, a novel and a collection of essays, the most recent of which are No Real Light, Letters to Wendy’s, and The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written From John Ascroft’s Secret Self. For more information, please visit this website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
May
1
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
Vivaldi’s Varied Strings: Mandolins and More
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for violin, Opus 9, No. 12 from La Cetra (the Lyre), Concerto in G for two mandolins, Concerto in C for mandolin and strings, Concerto for viola d’amore and strings, and Chamber Concerto for guitar and two violins. Tickets: $16–42; 503/205-0715 or online.
4 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.