All events free unless noted.
TODAY
Guest Artist Slow/Fast, an eclectic jazz group, will perform at 9 p.m. at the Cla-Zel in downtown Bowling
Green as part of BGSU’s Music at the Forefront concert series. Slow/Fast combines jazz and contemporary
classical composition with improvisation. Composer and performer Ken Thomson and his ensemble have
performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Winter Jazzfest and at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Donations from $2-$5 are welcome.
WEDNESDAY
Sean Cooper, bass-baritone, and Jennifer Goode Cooper, soprano, will perform a Faculty Artist Series
recital at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY
The BGSU School of Art Student Flash Show 1 opens at 10 a.m. and will continue through 5 p.m. Saturday in
the Willard Wankelman Gallery of the Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
"A Christmas Carol" hits the BGSU stage for a holiday tradition. The play follows the story of
miserable Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by ghosts from his past, present and future, eventually
finding his second chance in life. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday
and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Donnell Theatre of the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Tickets are $10. Purchase
online at http://www.bgsu.edu/arts or call (419) 372-8171 to reserve.
THURSDAY
World Percussion Night starts at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall in Moore Musical Arts Center. The night will
feature music from ensembles including Taiko, Afro-Caribbean Ensemble, Gamelan Ensemble and many more.
Free
FRIDAY
Faculty/Staff Exhibition opens at 10 a.m. in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery of the Fine Arts Cente rAn
opening reception starts at 6 p.m. The exhibit will continue through Dec. 16. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
ArtseXtravaganza, the university’s annual showcase of the arts, takes place from 6-10 p.m. in the Fine
Arts Center and Wolfe Center for the Arts. The theme this year is Carnivale. The event features art
demonstrations and sales by students as well as music, art, theater and dance performances, activities
for the whole family and shopping for art. Food and beverages will be available.
New York Polyphony, an all-male a cappella quartet, performs its holiday special "I Sing the
Birth" at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall as part of the Festival Series. The concert takes the audience
through time with music spanning medieval to modern Christmas songs. A free pre-concert Festival Forum
talk will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Tickets are $12 to
$38 Visit http://bgsu.edu/arts or call (419) 372-8171.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The University Choral Society performs Handel’s "Messiah" with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at
the Peristyle of the Toledo Musuem of Art Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The group is under the
direction of Mark Munson. Call the Toledo Symphony Orchestra box office at (419) 246-8000 for tickets.
SUNDAY
The Bowling Green Philharmonia, under the direction of Emily Freeman Brown, features violist Matthew
Daline in the "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra" by William Walton. Also on the concert will
be Ralph Vaughan Williams’s "A London Symphony." The Philharmonia performs at 3 p.m. in
Kobacker Hallr. Tickets are $10 Call 419-372-8171 for ticket information.
DEC. 5-DEC. 8
The College of Musical Arts Competitions in music will take place starting with preliminary rounds during
the day and concluding Dec. 8 in Bryan Recital Hall with the final round at 10 a.m. preceded by the
composition final at 8 a.m.
