TRENCH CUISINE: A Rock Band's Recipe For Semi-Success, a Multi-Media Songbook by Craig Matis
November 30, 2007 through January 25, 2008
Where: Willard Wankelman Gallery
Closing Event Friday, January 25th
Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan
SPLASH: The Student Water Projects
November 15 through November 17, 2007
Where: Willard Wankelman Gallery
University and community students will exhibit science, writing, art projects and more.
Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan
WATER WORKS
October 19 through November 17, 2007
Where: Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery
In this eye-opening exhibition, Artist-activists create awareness and generate action on important water issues. Featured are Southwest Alaska: A World of National Parks and Wildlife Refuges, photography by Robert Glenn Ketchum, and installations by Stacy Levy, Eve Andree Laramee, Jackie Brookner and Basia Irland.
Supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the College of Arts & Sciences, the BG Community Foundation, Arts Village and others.
October 20th:
5:30 p.m. ARTIST TALK: Internationally honored Artist, Environmental Activist, Writer and Lecturer Robert Glenn Ketchum, Olscamp 115
7:30 p.m. Opening reception
A Writing Assignment and Resource Guide, developed by General Studies Writing staff is available to help course instructors design effective and pedagogically sound writing assignments both in the humanities and the sciences.
Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan
28th ANNUAL NEW MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL
October 18 through October 20, 2007
Where: Various Locations: See Link Below
Link to 28th Annual New Music and Arts Festival:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music/MACCM/festival/nmaf28/
Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan
Water Week: October 8 -13 and more!
October 8, 2007
Where: various
Kick-off: Monday, October 8
12-1:30 Arts & Sciences Luncheon Forum with Betsy Damon, The Living Water Garden & Other Projects: It Takes a Village " 207 BTSU (Mylander)
Environmental art pioneer Betsy Damon creates large-scale art parks featuring sculptural flow forms and public art events to help clean urban waterways and raise water awareness around the globe. Her project, "The Living Water Garden", (1998), is a large-scale (1/4 mile), award-winning public park in the center of downtown Chengdu, China. "Polluted river water moves through a natural, and artistic treatment system of ponds, filters and flowforms, making the process of cleaning water visible." Her nonprofit organization, Keepers of the Waters, provides information and technical support for others working with similar design principles and processes.
Lunch ($9.32 - RSVP to Mary Hitt, 419.372.2340 or mjhitt@bgsu.edu) begins at noon and the free lecture begins at 12:30 p.m.
2:30-4 Public Symposium: "The Future of Lake Erie", 206 BTSU (Theater)
Panelists include Betsy Damon; Allan Sundermeier, Ohio State University Extension Educator, Wood County; Dr. Patrick Lawrence, Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at UT and Chair of Partners for Clean Streams Inc./Maumee RAP; Dr. Christopher Winslow, Instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences at BGSU; Dr. Gary Winston, the Director of the National Center for Water Quality Research at Heidelberg College and Philip E. Berkeley, Senior Planner with the Planning Branch of the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, Buffalo, New York.
7:00 p.m. Student Meeting with Betsy Damon Arts Village Meeting Space
Thursday, October 11
7 - 8:30 p.m. "Water Matters" Overman 095
Poet Karen Craigo will introduce the evening with new poetry, followed by "A Watershed Mentality" a WFWA PBS39 documentary about the Maumee River Basin, the largest tributary and watershed in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River system. Home to several unique species and one of the largest natural fish nurseries on the Great Lakes, it is also laden with enough sediment to endanger those habitats and creates one of the largest dredging operations in the United States. This documentary discusses the impact of sediment on the average person and the benefits of action The evening wraps up with discussion on water issues facilitated by Dr. Chris Winslow.
Thursday, Oct 18 and Dec 6
5-8 p.m "Project WET: Water Education for Teachers" Owens Community College
Pre-service and In-service teachers explore lessons they can use to teach their students about environmental issues related to water. This free workshop is part of the NWO Center Inquiry Series (register at http://cosmos.bgsu.edu).
Friday, October 19
8:30 p.m. Concert: Les Flutes de Pan/Syrinx Kobacker Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center ($8)
Performance for flute, dancers, digital video animation and octophonic tape. Larry Austin, composer, Celesta Haraszti, artistic director/coordinator, Nina Assimakopoulos, flute & the BGSU University Performing Dancers.
Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, Syrinx ran to the river's edge and was transformed into hollow water reeds that made a haunting sound when the god's breath blew across them. Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of pan pipes. This is Pan's lament over losing his love.
The above and following WATER WORKS events have been SPONSORED BY: The BGSU College of Arts & Sciences, Fine Arts Center Galleries, School of Art, Arts Village, COSMOS (Center of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education), Center for the Study of Culture & Society, Chapman Community, Department of Geography, The Bowling Green Community Foundation and Medici Circle.
Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan