The storied city of Djenné, a center of Islamic learning, study, and scholarship since the twelfth century, is the hometown of Bamako-based photographer Hamdia Traoré (b. 1992, Mali). The thirty portr...

On August 5, 2015, the rupture of the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, released more than three million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas River, turning its waters a shocki...

By Caridad Svich Based on the novel by Julia Alvarez Directed by Mariana Parejo Molinares  Known as “The Butterflies,” the spirited and courageous Mirabal sisters inspired a fight for freedom in the D...

Joachim Schamberger, director; Christopher Allen, conductor; Yelisey (Eli) Zelman, graduate assistant conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra  A courtesan and mistress of the wealthy Ramb...

Anne Waller, director Music for guitar soloists, small ensembles, and full ensemble. Ferdinando Carulli, Quartett, Op. 21  J. S. Bach, Prelude, BWV 998  J. S. Bach, Fugue, BWV 998  William Walton, Fiv...

Stephen Alltop, conductor; Millar Choir and soloists; Baroque Music Ensemble The Millar Choir and Baroque Music Ensemble join forces for a jubilant concert of Baroque masterworks for soloists, choir, ...

Reed Capshaw, director Music written and arranged for trombones. Vaclav Nelhybel, Tower Music  J. S. Bach (arr. Alwyn Green), Prelude and Fugue, BWV 558  Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Jay Friedman), Selectio...

This webinar will provide an introduction to wall drawings conceived by Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007), with attention to how they are made and why the artist pursued this form of artmaking.  Sol Le...

Special 16mm Kodachrome original print with UK-based film scholar Elena Gorfinkel in person! WANDA (Barbara Loden, 1970, 102 min, 16mm) Film scholar Dr. Elena Gorfinkel, Reader in Film Studies at Ki...

Short films on 16mm by two icons of American independent filmmaking with an introduction by UK-based film scholar Elena Gorfinkel. (Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver, 1973-1975, approx. 80 min, 1...

Robert Taylor, conductor; Imran Amarshi and Michael Witt, graduate assistant conductors; Casey Lyons, narrator The Symphonic Wind Ensemble presents an evening of musical storytelling, where familiar l...

Ben Bolter, Alan Pierson, and Shihan Jin, conductors; James Soto, narrator Music by Bienen students Matthew Huang Mailman and Jianing Yang receives world premieres. Also featured is splitting to colla...

The 2026 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition We can make any two stories touch will be on view at the Block Museum from May 8-June 14, 2026.  The five international artists in the show, Lamia Abukha...

Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort, conductors The Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort ensembles share new compositions and arrangements by jazz studies students.

Shawn Vondran, conductor; Oliver Stark, graduate assistant conductor The Symphonic Band’s second spring-quarter concert takes as its focal point George Gershwin’s Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite from Por...

Donald Schleicher, conductor; Lena Ying-Ting Wong, graduate assistant conductor; Hiu Sing Fan, violin (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner) The program opens with Wagner’s romantic and sweeping P...

Luis Aguilar, graduate conductor; Lena Ying-Ting Wong and Shihan Jin, graduate assistant conductors  W. A. Mozart, Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527  Gabriel Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80  ...

Ari Carillo, conductor Sacred and secular songs of hope, light, and comfort, by composers ranging from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and J. S. Bach to Craig Hella Johnson and Caroline Shaw. Dolly Parton...

Darius Hampton and Joe Clark, conductors The Darius Hampton and Joe Clark ensembles share original compositions and arrangements by jazz studies students.

Derrick Gardner, conductor The Jazz Orchestra finishes the spring quarter with a concert highlighting fresh compositions and arrangements by jazz studies students and faculty.

Andrew Megill and A. J. Keller, conductors; Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, University Chorale, University Singers, and Northwestern Camerata The combined Bienen choral ensembles present one...