Guest violist Spencer Ingersoll will give a masterclass. Free and open to the public.

Our Faculty Artist Series continues with a Broadway concert showcasing our very talented voice faculty. This event is free and open to the public.LIVESTREAM LINKPROGRAMACT IAnother Opnin’, Another Show | Cole Porter from Kiss Me, Kate! (1948) CompanyOn a Clear Day | Lerner & Lane from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965) Keith PharesI’m a Little Bit in Love | Bernstein, Comden & Green from Wonderful Town (1953) Sarah LuebkeWhy Can't I Walk Away | Peretti, Creatore, & Weiss from Maggie Flynn (1968) Todd Graber & Lover, Come Back to Me | Sigmund Romberg from The New Moon (1928) Sujin LeeYou’ll Be Back | Lin-Manuel Miranda from Hamilton (2015) Rich SchnipkeClass | Kander & Ebb from Chicago (1975) Jane Rodgers & Geoff StephensonA Weekend in the Country | Stephen Sondheim A Little Night Music (1974) Company~Intermission~Act IIThe Simple Joys of Maidenhood | Lerner & Loewe from Camelot (1960) Katherine PrachtIt Would Have Been Wonderful | Sondheim from A Little Night Music (1974) Lance Ashmore & Keith PharesWithout a Song | Youmans & Eliscu from Great Day (1929) Christopher SchollI Wish I Were in Love Again | Rodgers & Hart from Babes in Arms (1937) Geoff Stephenson & To Keep My Love Alive | Rodgers & Hart from A Connecticut Yankee (1943) Jane RodgersI Can Live with That | DiPietro & Roberts from I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (1997) Christopher & Ellen SchollLove Who You Love | Flaherty & Ahrens from A Man of No Importance (2003) Lance AshmoreThey Were You | Schmidt & Jones from The Fantasticks (1960) Keith Phares & Katherine PrachtMake Our Garden Grow | Leonard Bernstein from Candide (1957) Company & BGSU Collegiate Chorale

Guest Artists Katherine Jolly, soprano and Tatiana Lokhina, piano will give a recital. Free and open to the public.PROGRAMNo Ordinary Woman (Clifton) 1997 | Gwendolyn Walker (1947) Bones, Be Good! Turning Homage to My Hips Homage to My Hair The Thirty-Eighth Year~Pause~Genius Child (Hughes) (1992) | Ricky Ian Gordon (1956) Winter Moon Genius Child Kid In The Park To Be Somebody Troubled Woman Strange Hurt Prayer My People JoyPROGRAM NOTESNo Ordinary Woman (Lucille Clifton)Bones, Be Good! (the poet) i beg my bones to be good but they keep clicking music and i spin in the center of myself a foolish frightful woman moving my skin against the wind and tap dancing for my life.Turning turning into my own turning on in to my own self at last turning out of the white cage, turning out of the lady cage turning at last on a stem like a black fruit in my own season at lasthomage to my hips these hips are big hips they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. These hips are free hips. they go where they want to go and do what they want to do these hips are mighty hips these hips are magic hips i have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top.homage to my hair when I feel her jump up and dance i hear the music! my God i’m talking about my nappy hair! she is a challenge to your hand black man she can touch your mind with her electric fingers and the grayer she do get, good God. the blacker she do be.the thirty eighth year the thirty-eighth year of my life, plain as bread round as a cake an ordinary woman.an ordinary woman.i had expected to be smaller than this, more beautiful, wiser in African ways, more confident, i had expected more than this.i will be forty soon, my mother once was forty.i have dreamed dreams for you mama more than once. i have wrapped me in your skin and made you live again more than once. i have taken the bones you hardened and built daughters and they blossom and promise fruit like afrikan trees. i am a woman now. an ordinary woman.in the thirty eighth sear of my life, surrounded by life, a perfect picture of blackness blessed, i had not expected this loneliness.Genius Child (Langston Hughes)Winter Moon How thin and sharp is the moon tonight? How thin and sharp and ghostly white Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight?Genius Child This is a song for the genius child. Sing it softly for the song is wild. Sing it softly as ever you can— Lest the song get out of hand.Nobody loves a genius child.Can you love an eagle, Tame or wild?Wild or tame, Can you love a monster Of frightening name?Nobody loves a genius child.Kill him—and let is soul run wild!Kid In The Park Lonely little question mark on a bench in the park:See the people passing by? See the airplanes in the sky? See the birds flying home before dark?Home’s just around the corner there— but not really anywhere.To Be Somebody Little girl Dreaming of a baby grand piano (Not knowing there’s a Steinway bigger, bigger) Dreaming of a baby grand to play That stretches paddle-tailed across the floor, Not standing upright Like a bad boy in the corner, But sending music Up the stairs and down the stairs And out the door To confound even Hazel Scott Who might be passing!Little boy Dreaming of the boxing gloves Joe Louis wore, The gloves that sent Two dozen men to the floor. Knockout! Bam! Bop! Mop!There’s always room, They say, At the top.Troubled Woman She stands In the quiet darkness, This troubled woman Bowed by Weariness and pain Like an Autumn flower In the frozen rain.Like a Wind-blown autumn flower That never lifts its head Again.Strange Hurt In times of stormy weather She felt queer pain That said “You’ll find rain better Then shelter from the rain.”Days filled with fiery sunshine Strange hurt she knew That made Her seek the burning sunlight Rather than the shade.In months of snowy winter When cozy houses hold, She’d break down doors To wander naked In the cold.Prayer I ask you this: Which way to go? I ask you this? Which sin to bear? Which crown to put Upon my hair? I do not know, Lord God, I do not know.My People The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people.The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people.Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.Joy I went to look for Joy, Slim, dancing Joy, Gay, laughing Joy, Bright-eyed Joy— And I found her Driving the butcher’s cart In the arms of the butcher boy! Such company, such company, As keeps this young nymph, Joy!Audience members are reminded to silence alarm watches, pagers and cellular phones before the performance. As a matter of courtesy and copyright law, no recording or unauthorized photographing is allowed. BGSU is a nonsmoking campus.

Guest Artist Katherine Jolly, soprano, will give a Masterclass. Free and open to the public.

Guest Artist Eunmi Ko, piano, will give a recital. Free and open to the public.

Guest Artist Eunmi Ko, piano, will give a Masterclass. Free and open to the public.

Student chamber jazz ensembles will perform. This event is free and open to the public.LIVESTREAM LINK

Voice faculty members Sarah Luebke and Katherine Pracht Phares will present a joint recital as part of the Faculty Artist Series. This event is free and open to the public.LIVESTREAM LINK

The Arts at BGSU will host a book reading and Q&A session with Bonnie Jo Campbell, the best-selling author of six books, most recently a novel, The Waters.Her 2009 collection American Salvage was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her 2011 novel Once Upon a River was made into an award-winning feature film in 2019. Her work is set in her home region of Western Michigan among working people seeking a place for themselves in our times.Books will be available for purchase at the event. Campbell will be available for book signings immediately following the onstage presentation in the Wolfe Center Lobby.This event is free and open to the public.

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Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

BG Reel continues its longstanding presentation of 48 Hour Film Projects with this screening of short films. If you made a film, or just need a break from your daily routine, don’t miss this crowd-pleasing event.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

Running in repetition over the course of two weeks, these two pieces by celebrated Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, ask actors to perform scripts that they do not see until they are in front of an audience. The plays engage audiences to think about authority, identity, and the power of story.White Rabbit Red Rabbit: September 18, 26, and 27 | 8:00 p.m. and September 20 & 21 | 2:00 p.m.BL_NK: September 19, 20, & 25 | 8:00 p.m. and September 27 | 2:00 p.m.------------------------ Weeks of Welcome Aug. 20-Oct. 3 | This event is part of Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Fall Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community that will help you embrace the adventure of creating your own ultimate BGSU experience.

The BG Philharmonia will present their first concert of the semester. Tickets for this performance are $10, and can be purchased here. Free admission for BGSU students with ID card at the door.LIVESTREAM LINK

The members of the high school honors string festival will present a concert. This event is free and open to the public.

Guest Artist Dave Stryker, guitar, will give a Masterclass. Free and open to the public.

Our annual Jazz Spotlight performance features Jazz Lab Bands 1 and 2, the BGSU jazz faculty, and special guest artist Dave Stryker, guitar. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here. Free admission for BGSU students with ID card at the door. This event will also be livestreamed.LIVESTREAM LINK