All events free unless noted.
TODAY
New Orleans architect and theorist Graham W. Owen will give a BGSU ARTalk titled "Move Your City:
Ethics, Place and Risk in the Reconstruction of New Orleans" at 6:30 p.m. in the Bowen-Thompson
Student Union Theater.
The Auction Project led by saxophonist David Bixler will perform at the Cla-Zel in downtown Bowling
Green. Doors open at 7 p.m. The band, which mixes jazz, Latin and traditional Celtic sounds, features
Arturo O’Farrill, piano, Heather Martin Bixler, violin, Carlo DeRosa, bass, Vince Cherico, drums, and
Roland Guerrero, percussion.
THURSDAY
Creative Writing Program graduate students poet Emily Peiffer and fiction writer Amy Denham will read
from their work at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel.
The 2008 Kazakhstani film "Tulpan (Tulip)" will be screened at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film
Theater of Hanna Hall. Documentary director Sergei Dvortsevoi’s first feature film concerns a man
recently returned to the steppe from the Russian Navy and trying to make a life for himself.
FRIDAY & SUNDAY
The BGSU Department of Theatre and Film collaborates with the College of Musical Arts’ Voice Department
to present the annual Newcomers Show, featuring a cast made up entirely of freshmen and transfer
students. Students will perform Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the
Moore Musical Arts Center.
SUNDAY
The Young People’s Concert series celebrates Halloween with "Singing Spooky" at 11 a.m. in
Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Musical theatre students will be wearing costumes
and performing songs from their favorite productions. The audience is invited to come in costume for a
special Halloween treat. Admission is $1 for children and $2 for adults and is payable at the center’s
box office the morning of the event. The box office will open at 10:30 a.m. Young People’s Concerts are
recommended for children ages 5 and up, but younger music fans are welcome to attend. For more
information, call the Moore Musical Arts Center box office at (419) 372-8171 or 800-589-2224.
NOV. 1
The 1997 documentary "Affluenza," directed by John de Graaf, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. in
the Gish Film Theater. Portraying unchecked acquisition of consumer goods as a symptom of the boredom
and emptiness caused by capitalism’s impact on everyday life, the film also shows people who have chosen
to not live this materialistic lifestyle.
NOV. 2
Michael Speaks, dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky, will give a BGSU
ARTalk titled "Design at the Speed of Thought" at 6:30 p.m. in 206 Bowen-Thompson Student
Union.
AT THE GALLERIES
"Millennium Sculpture: Concept, Craft, Tradition and Trends in American Sculpture" continues
through Nov. 19 in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery in the School of Art.
The University of Wisconsin at Stout Faculty Exhibition continues through Nov. 13 in the Willard
Wankleman Gallery. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and 1-4 p.m.
Sundays.
