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A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black ViolenceStarting May 25, 2022 Evanston How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States? Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how arti... | Visual Arts | May 2022 | 1653498000 |
blossom soup, blossom salad: 2022 MFA Thesis ExhibitionStarting May 25, 2022 Evanston The 2022 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — Yani aviles, an emard, Whitney Johnson, Scott Kemp, Travis Morehead, jess mai walker — present their thesis projects at the Block Museum and conclude t... | Visual Arts | May 2022 | 1653498000 |
Puccini’s La bohèmeStarting May 26, 2022 Evanston Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra Four struggling bohemians find their lives forever changed when, one bitterly cold Christmas Eve, a... | Music | May 2022 | 1653611400 |
Toward the Critique of Violence in 1920s and 2020s ColloquiumMay 23, 2022 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston A Colloquium at Northwestern University in response to the publication of the new translation and critical edition of Walter Benjamin’s 1921 essay, “Zur Kritik der Gewalt” (Toward the Critique of Viol... | Humanities | May 2022 | 1653314400 |
Harp Faculty and Studio RecitalMay 23, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Marguerite Lynn Williams, Melody Cribbs, Atti Liu, Natalie Man, Amy Shlyak, Emily Stone, and Ksenia Sushkevich, harp Solo, ensemble, and chamber performances featuring the Bienen School harp studio a... | Music | May 2022 | 1653352200 |
Northwestern CamerataMay 23, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston Jack Reeder, conductor; Haoying Wu, keyboard Northwestern Camerata’s spring concert is centered around Wendell Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things,” contemplating our material and spiritual relatio... | Music | May 2022 | 1653352200 |
Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness (Vartan Avakian)May 25, 2022 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness “This is the story of a judicial investigator, a biochemist, and a salamander. They stand centuries apart... | Visual Arts | May 2022 | 1653517800 |
Karen Kan-Walsh with Julian Kwok, pianoMay 25, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Coordinator of Keyboard Skills and Non-Major Piano at the Bienen School, Karen Kan-Walsh received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan School of ... | Music | May 2022 | 1653525000 |
"Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms" Featuring Kira Thurman (University of Michigan)May 26, 2022 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Kira Thurman is a highly-sought-after and award-winning historian and musicologist. A classically-trained pianist who grew up in Vienna, Austria, Thurman earned her PhD in history from the University ... | Humanities | May 2022 | 1653598800 |
PhilharmoniaMay 26, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Andrew Ritchie, graduate assistant conductor; Marisa Sardo, guitar Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 Bél... | Music | May 2022 | 1653611400 |
Saxophone EnsembleMay 27, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Taimur Sullivan, director The Northwestern University Saxophone Ensemble presents a concert of new works that highlight the richness and excitement of the saxophone. The program features world premie... | Music | May 2022 | 1653697800 |
Trombone ChoirMay 27, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Christopher P. Davis, director James Kazik, 2002 Giuseppe Verdi (arr. Scott Hartman), “Ave Maria” from Otello Giovanni Gabrieli (arr. Timothy Higgins), Sancta Maria Paul Dukas (arr. David Mathie),... | Music | May 2022 | 1653697800 |
An Evening of StringsJune 2, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Jennifer Huang, conductor Enjoy two masterworks for string chamber ensemble, featuring members of the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra. Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite, Op. 40 Pyotr Ilyich Tch... | Music | June 2022 | 1654216200 |
Performance Hour: Staring at the Dogwood Trees [Friday]June 3, 2022 All day, Evanston June 3-5, time TBA Staring at the Dogwood by Trees Harrison Lewis | June 2022 | 1654232400 | |
Symphonic BandJune 3, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Shawn Vondran, conductor 2022 marks the 85th anniversary of Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, widely considered a cornerstone of the wind band repertoire. The Symphonic Band’s June performance of t... | Music | June 2022 | 1654302600 |
University Singers: The Impermanence of All ThingsJune 3, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston A.J. Keller, conductor; Victoria Marshall and Tim Lambert, graduate assistant conductors Northwestern University Singers present a meditation on the experience of finitude within the temporal landsca... | Music | June 2022 | 1654302600 |
Performance Hour: Staring at the Dogwood Trees [Saturday]June 4, 2022 All day, Evanston June 3-5, time TBA Staring at the Dogwood by Trees Harrison Lewis | June 2022 | 1654318800 | |
Northwestern University Symphony OrchestraJune 4, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Victor Yampolsky, conductor In the final concerts of his 38 years at the Bienen School of Music, Victor Yampolsky conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, closing a season reflecting on the composers... | Music | June 2022 | 1654389000 |
Performance Hour: Staring at the Dogwood Trees [Sunday]June 5, 2022 All day, Evanston June 3-5, time TBA Staring at the Dogwood by Trees Harrison Lewis | June 2022 | 1654405200 | |
Northwestern University Symphony OrchestraJune 5, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Victor Yampolsky, conductor In the final concerts of his 38 years at the Bienen School of Music, Victor Yampolsky conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, closing a season reflecting on the composers... | Music | June 2022 | 1654475400 |
One Book One Northwestern Climate Change-Themed MFA ReadingJune 9, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Online Current MFA students and alumni, Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, Morgan Eklund, E.W.I. Johnson, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Aram Mrjoian, and Holly Stovall will read original climate change-themed poetry and pr... | Humanities | June 2022 | 1654815600 |
Exhibition Gallery Talk: A Site of Struggle with Emily MartinJune 17, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Today’s program is offered by Emily Martin, Curatorial Associate for A Site of Struggle. Exhibition Gallery Talks are offered monthly by Block Museum staff, Northwestern faculty and students, or commu... | Visual Arts | June 2022 | 1655487000 |
Exhibition Gallery Talk: A Site of Struggle with Alisa SwindellJuly 9, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston This program is offered by Alisa Swindell, former Curatorial Research Associate for A Site of Struggle and current Associate Curator of Photography at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Exhibi... | Visual Arts | July 2022 | 1657387800 |