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.
November
20
Concert: Friday at Four
The abundant musical talent of our Reed students will be showcased in the final Friday at Four of the semester. Chamber music groups coached by John Hubbard and a baroque ensemble coached by Bonnie Garrett will be featured. The baroque trio, comprised of Jeannie Yoon (violin), Paul Hermanson (cello) and David Wills (harpsichord) will perform a sonata by Handel. A piano quartet with Charlie Hankin (violin), Leah Carter (viola), Ariana Karp (cello) and Neil Anderson (piano) have chosen the first movement of the Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15, by Gabriel Faure; and more Dvorak, with two movements from Quartet in F major, Op. 96, featuring Nate Herrmann and Maddy Villano (violin), Paul Whittredge (viola) and Haley Jacobson (cello) will round out the program.
4 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
20 & 21
Theatre thesis production: The Miss Firecracker Contest
Reed Theatre presents The Miss Firecracker Contest, by Beth Henley, an acting thesis by Jessamyn Fitzpatrick ’10, directed by Rosalie Lowe ’11. Carnelle Scott spent the first 23 years of her life in Brookhaven sleeping around, acquiring nothing but a case of the syph and a bad reputation. While a few simple shots can cure the one, only something as spectacular as The Miss Firecracker Contest can take her from fallen woman to southern belle. With cousins back from marriages and mental institutions, a peculiar seamstress, and the carnival balloon man, Carnelle will take the stage and strive to leave her checkered past behind in a crimson blaze of glory. Tickets: $1–3; call 503/777-7284 or visit the Reed Theatre reservation site.
7:30 p.m., Studio Theatre.
22
Concert: Reed Orchestra
The orchestra performs Beethoven, Symphony no. 1; Mozart, Bassoon Concerto (with soloist Sam Elgin); and other selections.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
23
China Design Now at Reed Lecture: Ma Qingyun
"Build Where Architecture Has No Boundaries"
After practicing architecture with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in New York City, Ma Qingyun founded the Shanghai architectural firm MADA s.p.a.m. in 1996, creating award-winning projects such as the Longyang Residential complex in Shanghai and the Silk Tower in Xian. Ma is dean of the School of Architecture at USC. Sponsored by the Reed College Art Department, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, and the Chinese Humanities Program. For a full schedule of China Design Now events at the PAM and across Portland, as well as Reed student blog entries about the exhibition, see China Design Now Portland website.
5:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
Ongoing through November
Exhibition: Special Collections, Hauser Memorial Library
Ink in Hand: Early Manuscript Documents, 11th–18th Centuries
This exhibition displays early handwritten forms in documents and books that help illuminate the development of writing in Europe. From the pens of scribes, religious men, and commercial paymasters, these documents demonstrate the broad variety of topics now available for study from religious subjects to legal agreements, and even work records. Renowned calligrapher and Reed professor of art Lloyd Reynolds founded the library’s collection of early manuscripts. Since then, the collection has grown through donations by Steven Herold ’63 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 Hauser Library circulation desk.
Ongoing through December 5
Cooley Art Gallery exhibition
The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
For centuries, the nude body was the highest expression of human aspiration. Religious figures, gods and goddesses, heroes, and even personifications of abstract ideals found visible form in the undraped human figure. This exhibition of 60 rarely seen drawings from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, examines the nude its place in the artist's process, and the ideals and desires it expressed in European art. Tracing how artists saw the body, for example the influence of Michelangelo and Raphael in the 16th century and French Academy nudes in the 18th, it also examines the body's context in Christian art, Classical mythology and literary subjects. For more information, visit the Cooley Art Gallery website. (Image: Charles Le Brun, Man Clinging to a Rock. Red chalk on buff laid paper, 44.5 x 28.8 cm. © Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.)
Noon–6 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Hauser Memorial Library.
Ongoing through December 5
Psychedelic Soul: Portrait of a Curator
In conjunction with the Cooley Art Gallery's exhibition, The Language of the Nude, PICA and the Cooley have organized Psychedelic Soul, includes a video installation by Antoine Catala, Portrait of a Curator. For more information, call 503/777-7251 or visit the Cooley Art Gallery website.
Noon–6 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Hauser Memorial Library.
Ongoing through January 28
Exhibition: Shirley Gittelsohn
Paintings and Reflections
Shirley Georges Gittelsohn ’49 is noted for her large landscapes, many of which reveal the influence of her WPA-era mentors; for her impressionistic, brilliantly colorful floral paintings; and for her penetrating, but sympathetically engaging, portraits. More recently she has been inspired to capture new vistas, illuminated by what she describes as “Mexico’s dazzling light.” The exhibition is in Vollum lounge; viewing hours by appointment. For information, please call Stephanie Snyder, John & Anne Hauberg Curator & Director for the Cooley Art Gallery, at 503/777-7251. For more about Shirley's work, please visit this site. Her book, Paintings and Reflections, may be ordered through the Reed bookstore, 503/777-7287.
December
6
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
Bach’s Joyful Noise
Selections include J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 and Telemann’s Concerto No. 3. German harpsichord virtuoso Alexander Weimann is guest director and will perform two harpsichord concertos by Bach: No. 3 in D Major and No. 6 in F Major with two recorders, the composer's own reworking of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4. Tickets: $16–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
6
Concert: Reed Music Department
“America Sings!”
The Reed Chorus and Collegium Musicum, both conducted by Virginia Hancock, will sing arrangements of spirituals and pieces by William Billings, Samuel Barber, and James Bernhard, among others.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
8
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Takács Quartet
Recognized as one of the world’s premiere string quartets, Takács plays Haydn, Bartók, and Schumann. Tickets: $14–40; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
16
Concert: John Vergin
“December’s Tale”
With prose, poetry, and song, John Vergin weaves the story of a young musician’s experiences over the course of 24 hours—beginning on Christmas Eve—in his annual, seasonal performance. Tickets: $10 general, $5 seniors and non-Reed students; free to Reed students, faculty, and staff; available at the door.
7:30 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
18–20
Concert: Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
"Celebrate the Seasons"
Join in the chorus’ annual holiday fare celebrating many of the traditions of the December holiday season. Tickets: $20–25; call 503/226-2588, or visit the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus website.
8 p.m., on December 18 & 19, and 2 p.m. on December 20, Kaul Auditorium.
20
Concert: “In Darkness Let Me Dwell”
This solstice program features songs and verse from the 16th and 17th centuries, embracing winter themes of darkness, cold, loss, sorrow, and death. Vocalists John Vergin and Shaelyn Schneider sing and recite works by Spenser, Dowland, Campion, Morley, Donne, Milton, Purcell, Handel, and others, accompanied by the somber viols and lute of the Wildwood Consort. Members of the consort, Annie Harkey-Power on treble viol and Michael Wilhite on bass viol and lute, are joined by Tim Scott on bass viol and Alicia Dunbar on tenor viol. Thematic research, poetry and song selections, and program notes for the concert were provided by Brian Myers. For more information about the Wildwood Consort, visit this site. Suggested donation: $10, at the door; free to Reed students, faculty, and staff.
7 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel.
Ongoing through December 5
Cooley Art Gallery exhibition
The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
For centuries, the nude body was the highest expression of human aspiration. Religious figures, gods and goddesses, heroes, and even personifications of abstract ideals found visible form in the undraped human figure. This exhibition of 60 rarely seen drawings from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, examines the nude its place in the artist's process, and the ideals and desires it expressed in European art. Tracing how artists saw the body, for example the influence of Michelangelo and Raphael in the 16th century and French Academy nudes in the 18th, it also examines the body's context in Christian art, Classical mythology and literary subjects. For more information, visit the Cooley Art Gallery website. (Image: Charles Le Brun, Man Clinging to a Rock. Red chalk on buff laid paper, 44.5 x 28.8 cm. © Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.)
Noon–6 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Hauser Memorial Library.
Ongoing through December 5
Psychedelic Soul: Portrait of a Curator
In conjunction with the Cooley Art Gallery's exhibition, The Language of the Nude, PICA and the Cooley have organized Psychedelic Soul, includes a video installation by Antoine Catala, Portrait of a Curator. For more information, call 503/777-7251 or visit the Cooley Art Gallery website.
Noon–6 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Hauser Memorial Library.
Ongoing through January 28
Exhibition: Shirley Gittelsohn
Paintings and Reflections
Shirley Georges Gittelsohn ’49 is noted for her large landscapes, many of which reveal the influence of her WPA-era mentors; for her impressionistic, brilliantly colorful floral paintings; and for her penetrating, but sympathetically engaging, portraits. More recently she has been inspired to capture new vistas, illuminated by what she describes as “Mexico’s dazzling light.” The exhibition is in Vollum lounge; viewing hours by appointment. For information, please call Stephanie Snyder, John & Anne Hauberg Curator & Director for the Cooley Art Gallery, at 503/777-7251. For more about Shirley's work, please visit this site. Her book, Paintings and Reflections, may be ordered through the Reed bookstore, 503/777-7287.
January
30
Concert: Portland Chamber Orchestra
“Mozart Swings”
Mozart Swing, by Gottfried; Capriol Jazz Suite, by Warlock; Gottfried Symphony No. 40, by Mozart with guest conductor and pianist Yaron Gottfried. Tickets: $15–30, 503/771-3250, or at the Portland Chamber Orchestra website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
February
1
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Kronos Quartet
Grammy Award-winning musicians, Kronos performs contemporary and world music. Tickets: $14–40; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
9
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Ying Quartet
Music by Beethoven in a refreshing and exhilarating performance. Tickets: $14–40; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
11
Visiting Writers Series: Ross Gay
Ross Gay's book, Against Which, was a finalist for ForeWord magazine's poetry book of the year. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, among other journals. He is an assistant professor of poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington, and also teaches in Drew University's low-residency MFA program in poetry. Ross Gay will also give a colloquium, “Syntax, some questions about; or, Questions about some syntax; or, Some questions about syntax,” at 6:10 p.m., Tuesday, February 9, in GCC–D. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
18
Visiting Writers Series: Jon Raymond
Jon Raymond is the author of The Half-Life, a novel, and Livability, a collection of short stories named as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for Spring 2009. He is an editor at Plazm magazine and his writing has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Tin House, and The Village Voice, among other publications. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
20
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Imani Winds
In conjunction with ROMP!, Imani Winds performs music with tango and Cuban influences, including a selection by Piazzolla and Ligeti. Tickets: $10–48; call 503/294-6400, or visit the Chamber Music Northwest website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
25
Visiting Writers Series: Joanne Greenberg
An internationally known, prize-winning writer, Joanne Greenberg is the author of 14 novels and four collections of short stories. Her second novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964), a classic and poignant representation of recovery from schizophrenia, was translated into numerous languages, made into a movie, and re-issued in 2009 with a new afterward by the author. Her novel, In This Sign (1970), broke new ground in the representation of the deaf. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
25–27
Theatre thesis production: I Have Tasted Air above the Clouds: The Life of a Sibyl
Reed Theatre presents I Have Tasted Air above the Clouds, a thesis project written and directed by Mic Parker ’10. She was the most famous prophetess of the ancient world. A word from the Cumaean Sibyl averted war, exposed traitors, and razed cities to the ground. One of the most powerful women ever and one of the most powerless. This modern adaptation of Virgil’s sixth book of the Aeneid tells the story like you've never heard it before, incorporating music, dance, and the enduring strength of one of history's unsung heroines. Tickets: $1–3; call 503/777-7284 or visit the Reed Theatre reservation site.
7:30 p.m., Studio Theatre.
March
4
Visiting Writers Series: David Shields
Audacious, sharp-eyed, hilarious, and self-deprecating all at once, David Shields is one of the strongest voices in contemporary American nonfiction and fiction. His nonfiction story, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, is forthcoming from Knopf. Shields lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. Co-sponsored by Reed Arts Week. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
9
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio & Miami Quartet Quartet
Foremost piano trio and vibrant quartet join in a performance of selections by Boccherini, Zwilich, and Schuman. Tickets: $14–40; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
14
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
Vivaldi’s flauto dolce
Works by Antonio Vivaldi, including Concerto in D major, “Il Grosso Mogul.” Tickets: $16–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
20 & 21
Concert: Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
ABBA Queen
The program features music from two, 1970s world-renowned pop groups. Tickets: $20–25; call 503/226-2588, or visit the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus website.
8 p.m. on March 20 and 2 p.m. on March 21, Kaul Auditorium.
25
Visiting Writers Series: Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton's fiction collection, The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories, was published by W.W. Norton in 2008. Her most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. She is currently the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. Alice Fulton will also give a colloquium, “Losing Your Voice and Finding the Poem,” at noon, Wednesday, March 24, in GCC–D. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
25
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Wu Han, David Finckel, and Philip Setzer
The musicians perform Schubert’s two extraordinary piano trios. Tickets: $10–48; call 503/294-6400, or visit the Chamber Music Northwest website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
25–27
Theatre thesis production: A Community-Based Theatre/Anthropology Thesis
This production, by Taiga Christie ’10, will be an experiment in community-based theatre (theatre conducted with and for a specific community), with the goal of questioning assumptions and promoting discussion and dialogue. A collaboratively created performance taken from true individual stories, this production hopes to provide insight into the many different truths that make up any community, and to question our ways of reconciling these different experiences. Tickets: $1–3; call 503/777-7284 or visit the Reed Theatre reservation site.
7:30 p.m., Studio Theatre.
April
2 & 3, and 8–10
Theatre production: Antigone
Reed Theatre presents Antigone, by Jean Anouilh, adapted by translated by Lewis Galantière, and directed by Kate Bredeson, assistant professor of theatre. First produced in German-occupied Paris during World War II, Anouilh's version of the Greek myth is a meditation on power, responsibility, and duty. When Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, niece of King Creon, defies her uncle's orders and buries her brother who has been left to rot, she instigates a fatal series of actions, reactions, decrees, and punishments. Despite debates with her nurse, her sister, her future husband, and an extended tête-à-tête with Creon, Antigone remains unwavering in her convictions and true to her beliefs. A model of resistance and focus, the story of Antigone remains provocative and powerful as a meditation on duty and strength. Galantière's adaptation and translation deftly reveal Anouilh's poetic retelling of the classic myth. Tickets: $1–5; call 503/777-7284 or visit the Reed Theatre reservation site.
7:30 p.m., Maintage Theatre.
10
Spring Canyon Day
Join the Reed community in planting native trees and shrubs. Tools, training, food, and fun will be provided; everyone is welcome to participate. Dress for the weather and bring gloves if you have them. For more information, email zac.perry@reed.edu or call 503/572-8636. For more information about the Reed canyon, visit the canyon website.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., location TBA.
18
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra
Alessandrini at the Keyboard
Rindaldo Alessandrini, director of Rome’s Concerto Italiano, at the harpsichord, with music by Vivaldi, Couperin, Telemann, and J.Ch. Bach. Tickets: $16–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
May
4
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Chanticleer
Now in its 32nd season, Chanticleer performs “In Time of . . . Songs of love & loss, war & peace.” Tickets: $14–40; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
22
Concert: Portland Chamber Orchestra
“American Feast”
Chintimini Turns, world premiere, by Jacob Avshalomov; Baal Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life), by Ernest Bloch with Brandon Garbot; and Violin Story of an Hour, world premiere, by Michael Valenti. Tickets: $15–30, 503/771-3250, or at the Portland Chamber Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
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