November

Exhibition: Gulalhi, Stephanie Gervais '09

Exhibition / Reed Arts Week

The Cooley Gallery is proud to present Gulalhi—the first one-person U.S. exhibition of UK-based artist and Reed alumna Stephanie Gervais '09. The title of...

11/15 12:00pm

Cooley Art Gallery

Psychology Colloquium: Christof Koch, Ph.D.,...

Lecture

Neuroscience of Consciousness: Six years ago, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization, embarked on an ambitious...

11/15 4:30pm

Psychology, 105

Philosophy Colloquium: Mark Bedau,...

Lecture

11/15 4:40pm

Vollum College Center, Vollum 110

Everyday Contains All of History

Lecture

Join us for a Visiting Artist Lecture by Jared Thorne. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by studio art department.

11/15 4:45pm

Studio Art, Seminar Room

Reed on the Road - San Francisco

Alumni / Bay Area Alumni Chapter

Please join us for Reed on the Road, an evening with Acting President Hugh Porter and Dean for Institutional Diversity Mary James. Hear from campus...

11/15 6:30pm

City Club San Francisco

Visiting Writers Series: Esther G. Belin

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series / Reed Arts Week

Esther G. Belin is an award-winning Diné poet and multimedia artist. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, the Institute of American...

11/15 6:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Reed Orchestra Fall Concert

Performing Arts

We invite you to join us for the fall Reed Orchestra concert featuring Reed student musicians. The concert will be conducted by David Schiff, and admission...

11/15 7:30pm

Kaul Auditorium

RAW Sensation: Miranda by 11: Dance Co.

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

11: Dance Co. is a multi-disciplinary dance company that fuses urban and classical movement. They present experimental, sometimes dark, often satirical,...

11/15 8:30pm

Performing Arts Building, Performance Lab

Friday @ 4 Recital

Performing Arts

We invite you to join us for our regular Friday @ 4 recital series. This 45-minute concert features Reed student musicians. Admission is free. *Please note...

11/16 4:00pm

RAW Sensation: Eric Dyer in Conversation

Lecture / Reed Arts Week

Eric Dyer is an artist and filmmaker who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures, installations, and performances. As...

11/16 4:00pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Biology Seminar: Christina Vizcarra,...

Lecture

Christina Vizcarra, Ph.D Department of Chemistry, Barnard College “Cytoskeletal Regulation by Formins: Mechanistic Insights and Drug Targeting” Friday,...

11/16 4:10pm

Biology, Biology 19

RAW Sensation: Reverberations by Han Muellerleile

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

How do you costume yourself? What is it woven of? Weave is an interactive performance of a strange, soft, strong sculptural costume that investigates what...

11/16 5:15pm

Performing Arts Building, Performance Lab

RAW Sensation: Marty McConnell Poetry Reading

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing and queering the delineations between literary and oral poetry, Marty McConnell’s work blurs the lines...

11/16 6:00pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Performance & Post-Show talk by Turnback Boyz

Performing Arts

The dance department is excited to bring the Turnback Boyz to Reed for a performance and post-show talk with the audience. Admission is free. Turnback Boyz...

11/16 6:30pm

Greenwood, Theatre

RAW Sensation: Make a Salad

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

Artist Jade Novarino will reenact Alison Knowles’ fluxus score Make A Salad. Presented by Reed Arts Week: Sensation. Free and open to the public.

11/16 7:00pm

Student Union

RAW Sensation: Bad Avocados

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

An original play by Reed College senior Yaseen Hashmi. Centered on five friends who went to high school together reconnecting following the loss of one of...

11/16 8:00pm

Theatre Annex

RAW Sensation: Marty McConnell Poetry Workshop

Workshop/Training / Reed Arts Week

Join us for a workshop wih poet Marty McConnell. Open only to the first 20 people to arrive - so plan ahead! Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and...

11/17 1:00pm

Psychology, 102/103

RAW Sensation: Sensations of Ambivalence,...

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

Students from Sara Jaffe's Creative Writing course on Ambivalence, Failure, & Doubt will read from work they have created this semester. Expect lots of...

11/17 3:30pm

Student Union, Paradox Cafe

RAW Sensation: Working 1 Dance Performance

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

Produced by Reed College Dance Troupe, Working 1 is short dance piece in three parts. Drawing from sensorial Gaga technique improvisation prompts, the...

11/17 5:00pm

Performing Arts Building, Performance Lab

RAW Sensation: The Gospel According to YouTube

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

The Gospel According to YouTube is a performance incorporating text and music. The text is entirely taken from YouTube comments on old gospel hymns, placed...

11/17 7:00pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

RAW Sensation: DJ Showcase

Social / Reed Arts Week

Father Fannie, Maarquii, and DJ Manny Petty will each play a set this evening. Father Fannie: 10–11pm Marquii: 11pm–12am DJ Manny Petty: 12–2am Presented...

11/17 10:00pm

Student Union

RAW Sensation: Five

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

A strange, transcendent performance piece incorporating audio/visual work and tap dancing. Performed by Abigail Amit. Presented by Reed Arts Week:...

11/18 2:00pm

Performing Arts Building, Black Box Rehearsal Room

Portland Baroque Orchestra: An Empire of Silver...

Performing Arts

PBO welcomes Dr. Daniel Zuluaga back to PBO to lead this trailblazing program of music that was gathered from the archives of Latin American cathedrals. Five...

11/18 3:00pm

Kaul Auditorium

RAW Sensation: Same As It Ever Was

Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

Reed dance class Dance 335: Parades Processions and Protests presents a sensational tour of protest sites on Reed's campus. Participants will meet the...

11/18 3:00pm

Performing Arts Building, Atrium

RAW Sensation: Not/Presenting

Exhibition, Performing Arts / Reed Arts Week

A performance by DJ Meisner incorporating music and projected slide photography, in the style of Nan Goldin. The presentation consists of 80 mounted slides...

11/18 6:00pm

Studio Art, Feldenheimer Gallery

RAW Sensation: Workshop by 11: Dance Co.

Workshop/Training / Reed Arts Week

11: Dance Co. is a multi-disciplinary dance company that fuses urban and classical movement. They present experimental, sometimes dark, often satirical,...

11/18 7:30pm

Performing Arts Building, Dance Studio

Anthropology Symposium: Carolyn Stephens

Lecture

Join us for a lecture by Carolyn Stephens as part of the fall Anthropology Symposium. Free and open to the public. "Sound as Control in Japan" Sound, as...

11/19 4:30pm

Eliot Hall, 103

Reed Music Recital

Performing Arts

Reed College private music instructors will present a concert. These are the musicians that teach and train Reed's young musicians. Represented will be...

11/19 7:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Meditation

Community

An open invitation to members of the Reed community and campus guests to join in silent sitting meditation. Bells are rung from 12:10pm to 12:40pm, but...

11/20 12:00pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Gulalhi: Stephanie Gervais '09 Artist Talk

Exhibition, Lecture

Join us for an artist talk by Stephanie Gervais '09. The Cooley Gallery is proud to present Gulalhi—the first one-person U.S. exhibition of this UK-based...

11/20 6:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Films by Lida Abdul

Lecture

Join us for a screening of works by Afghan performance artist Lida Abdul, with remarks by artist Stephanie Gervais '09. Lida Abdul was born in Kabul in...

11/28 6:00pm

Psychology, 105

Archaeological Steps into the Valley of the...

Lecture / Dean of the Faculty

The Archeological Institute of America presents a lecture by Rasha Solima of Lewis & Clark College and Misr University for Science & Technology. Popular...

11/29 7:00pm

Performing Arts Building, 320

Theatre Thesis: “Late: A Cowboy Song”

Performing Arts

Late: A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl Mary's life is hurtling by, each year marked by the birthday she shares with her boyfriend, Crick. When Mary connects with...

11/29 7:30pm

Performing Arts Building, Blackbox Theatre

Reed Chorus and Collegium Musicum: "Vox...

Performing Arts

The Reed College choirs perform music on the theme of female prophecy. The concert will feature Lassus' setting of the ancient Jewish sibylline texts...

12/2 3:00pm

Kaul Auditorium

Winter Dance Concert

Performing Arts

The Reed College Dance Department presents the 2018 Winter Dance Concert, featuring choreography by students and faculty in Greenwood Theatre. The box...

12/8 7:00pm

Greenwood, Theatre (Main Entrance)

"December's Tale" by John Vergin '78

Performing Arts

In his annual performance, John Vergin '78 presents a theatrical telling of 24 hours in the life of a young musician, beginning at midnight on Christmas...

12/12 7:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Portland Percussion Ensemble

Performing Arts

The Portland Percussion Group was founded in the winter of 2011 as a means of bringing professional chamber percussion music to Portland and the surrounding...

2/6/2019 7:30pm

Performing Arts Building, Atrium

Senior Dance Thesis Performances

Performing Arts

Reed dance students will present their senior dance theses in Greenwood Theatre. The event is open to the public. Tickets are required and may be purchased...

2/8/2019 7:30pm

Greenwood, Theatre

Voces8: Friends of Chamber Music Concert

Performing Arts

The British vocal ensemble Voces8 has inspired people throughout Europe, North America and Asia through their music and their joy of singing. The group...

2/15/2019 7:30pm

Kaul Auditorium

Portland Baroque Orchestra: Bach & The...

Performing Arts

Pondering the impact of Bach’s influence on all of music, Beethoven once said, “His name shouldn’t be Brook, but Ocean.” Bach’s concerti from time spent in...

2/17/2019 3:00pm

Kaul Auditorium

Connecting the Dots: New Perspectives on...

Lecture / Dean of the Faculty

The Archeological Institute of America presents a lectue by Troels Myrup Kristensen of Aarhus University. This lecture presents results from a recently...

2/19/2019 7:00pm

Performing Arts Building, 320

Anicca/Impermanence: Minh Tran & Company

Performing Arts

Returning to stage after eight years of absence as a performer, Minh Tran (and Company) is creating a new work entitled, “Anicca/Impermanence,” which will...

2/21/2019 7:00pm

Performing Arts Building, Massee Performance Lab - (1st Floor)

Visiting Writers Series: Safiya SInclair

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series

Safiya Sinclair is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters...

2/28/2019 6:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Western Early Keyboard Association Recital

Performing Arts

MY SECRET VALENTINE: Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre and François Couperin – A lecture-recital with Arthur Haas This lecture recital will explore the...

3/2/2019 2:00pm

Performing Arts Building, PAB 320 - Music Rehearsal Room

Visiting Writers Series: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize) and Rocket Fantastic,...

3/7/2019 6:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Vistiing Writers Series: Jess Arndt

Lecture / Visiting Writers Series

Jess Arndt received an MFA at Bard College and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. Arndt’s writing...

3/14/2019 6:30pm

Eliot Hall, Chapel

Portland Baroque Orchestra: The Road to Dresden

Performing Arts

Acclaimed British and Brazilian violin virtuoso Rodolfo Richter studied with Monica Huggett at the Royal Academy of Music. Experience his PBO debut as he...

3/17/2019 3:00pm

Kaul Auditorium

Emma B. Andrews and the Golden Age of Egyptian...

Lecture / Dean of the Faculty

The Archeological Institute of America presents a lectue by Sarah Ketchley of the University of Washington. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the...

3/21/2019 7:00pm

Performing Arts Building, 320