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A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence Starting 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 Exhibition Starting 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 bohème Starting 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 Colloquium May 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 Recital May 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 Camerata May 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, piano May 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
Philharmonia May 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 Ensemble May 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 Choir May 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 Strings June 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 Band June 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 Things June 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 Orchestra June 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 Orchestra June 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 Reading June 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 Martin June 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 Swindell July 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