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ZORÁ STRING QUARTET SAT, MAR 24, 8PM / THOMAS GREAT HALL “Zorá” means “sunrise” in Bulgarian, perfectly suited to the rich sound and wistful beauty of this ensemble. The program features Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, written by the composer after a long, nearly fatal illness. Also included is Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13, one of his most passionate works, paying homage to Beethoven while taking the cyclic organization of the master’s late quartets into radically new directions.

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM FRI–SAT, FEB 23-24, 8PM / HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALLA multi-generational ensemble of women performs movement, song, and text influenced by dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology, and the futures and commodities markets. Bessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili created Poor People’s TV Room with director/ visual designer Peter Born, inspired by two historical events in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance movement against British colonial power, and the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched the Bring Back Our Girls movement. Contains nudity.

A GOSPEL CELEBRATION DIRECTED BY DR. J. DONALD DUMPSON SAT, DEC 2, 8PM / MCPHERSON AUDITORIUM, GOODHART HALLCome get your praise on! From the soul-infused sounds of the Hammond B3 organ and the smooth Philly stylings of regional gospel greats, this line-up will raise the roof. Expect Goodhart Hall to resound with the joy, sorrow, and deep resilience of African-American sacred music as Dr. J. Donald Dumpson brings the Philadelphia Heritage Chorale together with Serena Blanco and the Gospel Music Preservation Alliance, Waverly Alston and the Company of Friends, and special spirit-stirring soloists.

RINDE ECKERT MY FOOLS: A LIFE IN SONG FRI–SAT, OCT 6–7, 8PM / HEPBURN TEACHING THEATER, GOODHART HALLPulitzer Prize finalist and GRAMMY® Award-winner Rinde Eckert brings a mash-up evening of music and characters from his 30 years of theater, experimental opera, and multidisciplinary creations. On a 9,000-mile cross-country road trip, Eckert has evolved My Fools through performances in living rooms and theaters, museums and universities. Opening up his artistic archive of past works, he re-animates smart, clownish, driven, and doomed characters—a masterly blend of the broadly comedic, tragic and austere.

RALPH LEMON LECTURE/PERFORMANCE FRI, FEB 2, 8PM / GOODHART HALLTHE GEOGRAPHY TRILOGY SCREENING SAT, FEB 3, 1PM / GOODHART HALLA highly influential maker of performance, writing, and visual art and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Ralph Lemon works with the complexities of geography, history, memory, and the body. The New Yorker notes how “his way of describing his dances, with his mind on fire” can be as fascinating as the creations themselves. Lemon’s The Geography Trilogy was a profound, and worldwide, 10-year inquiry into the social gravities of art, race, and identity at the turn of the 21st century. Our video screening features the complete Trilogy: Geography (1997), Tree (2000), and Come home Charley Patton (2004), with commentary and readings by Lemon and close collaborators.

CELEBRATING ARTISTS WHO TRANSFORM POWERFUL PERSONAL OR HISTORICAL STORIES INTO INSPIRED PERFORMANCE, BUILDING ON THE SEMINAL WORK OF THEIR FOREBEARS TO CREATE THE MASTERPIECES OF TODAY.

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JUSTIN TORRES WED, SEPT 20, 7:30PM / GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Justin Torres’ debut novel, We the Animals, was championed as an instant classic soon after its publication in 2012. In The New York Times Book Review, critic Joseph Salvatore hailed the book’s “incantatory narrative style… We

the Animals is a strobe light of a story, producing lurid and poetic snapshots that start with the narrator and his two brothers as needy children.” A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Torres has published stories in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and Tin House. He teaches English at UCLA.

A. VAN JORDAN WED, OCT 25, 7:30PM / ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM The winner of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, A. Van Jordan is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Rise, winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. Of Jordan’s work, poet Terrance Hayes says, “With an imagination illuminated by empathy, Jordan inhabits the eye of the camera, the eye of the

actor, and the ‘I’ of a viewer tethered to image and history. His terrific poems give shape to lives made of light.” This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

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ANGELA FLOURNOY WED, FEB 28, 7:30PM / GOODHART MUSIC ROOM One of the most acclaimed books of 2015, Angela Flournoy’s debut novel, The Turner House, was a National Book Award and PEN/Bingham Prize finalist. Critic Hannah Gold says, “Flournoy’s spare, headstrong style enables her to lay bare, without pretensions, a story about the black American diaspora in

which slavery, segregation, and gentrification are all joined in a single narrative.” Flournoy is a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.

PHIL KLAY WED, APR 25, 7:30PM / GOODHART MUSIC ROOM Phil Klay’s short story collection, Redeployment, was the winner of the 2014 National Book Award. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called the book “the best thing written so far about what America’s recent wars did to people’s souls.” A graduate of

Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Klay served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008. Winner of the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Award, Klay has published work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.

CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS WED, NOV 15, 7:30PM / ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM Recently named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, Claire Vaye Watkins is one of the most acclaimed fiction writers of her generation. Her debut story collection, Battleborn, won the Story Prize and the New York

Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Louise Erdrich calls her debut novel, Gold Fame Citrus, “exhilarating, upsetting, delirious, bold… a head rush of a novel and establishes Watkins as an important new voice in American literature.”

OCEAN VUONG WED, APR 11, 7:30PM / ELY ROOM, WYNDHAM The author of the poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, and two chapbooks, Ocean Vuong has been the winner of a Whiting Award and a Ruth Lily Fellowship. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani writes, “There is a powerful emotional undertow to Vuong’s poems that

springs from his sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things.” This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

LINDA GREGERSON WED, FEB 14, 7:30PM / GOODHART MUSIC ROOM The winner of a Guggenheim, an NEA, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, Poet Linda Gregerson is the author of two books of criticism and six books of poetry, most recently Prodigal: New and Selected Poems 1976-2014. In The New Yorker, poet Dan Chiasson writes, “Gregerson

attains what few contemporary poets even seek: a plausible ‘we,’ a basis for speaking across the lines of individual circumstance and social identity.” This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

BI-CO THEATER AT BRYN MAWRMARK LORD, CATHARINE SLUSAR, AND MAIKO MATSUSHIMA Expect the unexpected and reserve your place online at brynmawr.edu/theater/ or by emailing reservations @brynmawr.edu.Fall 2017 Bi-College Theater Production Fri–Sun, Thurs–Sat, Nov 10-12, 16-18, 7:30 pm Goodhart HallSpring 2018 Bi-College Theater Production Fri–Sun, Thurs–Sat Apr 13-15, 19-21, 7:30 pm Goodhart Hall

DANCE AT BRYN MAWRLINDA CARUSO HAVILAND AND MADELINE CANTOR From ballet to experimental, hip-hop to Flamenco, explore the power and poetry of movement.Information: 610-526-5208.FACULTY DANCE CONCERT Sat, Dec 9, 7:30 pm Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart HallSPRING DANCE CONCERT Fri-Sat, April 27-28, 7:30 pm McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart Hall Students in works by faculty, guest artists, and advanced student choreographers.

BI-CO MUSIC AT BRYN MAWR & HAVERFORDHEIDI JACOB AND DANIEL SCANLAN A wide variety of concerts is presented in Thomas Great Hall (TGH) and the Music Room (MR) at Bryn Mawr College, and in Founders Hall (FH), Marshall Auditorium (MA), and the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC) at Haverford College.

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The 2017-2018 Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The presentation of Okwui Okpokwasili—Poor People’s TV Room is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

SEASON AT A GLANCE2017-2018WED, SEPT 20, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: JUSTIN TORRES

FRI-SAT, OCT 6-7, 8:00 PM PAS: RINDE ECKERT – MY FOOLS

WED, OCT 25, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: A. VAN JORDAN

SAT, OCT 28, 8:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: HAVERFORD COLLEGE FAMILY AND FRIENDS WEEKEND CONCERT (HC)

FRI-SUN, THURS–SAT, NOV 10-12, 16-18, 7:30 PM THEATER: FALL 2017 PRODUCTION

WED, NOV 15, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS

FRI, NOV 17, 8 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT

SAT, DEC 2, 8 PM PAS: DR. DONALD DUMPSON – A GOSPEL CELEBRATION

SAT, DEC 9, 7:30 PM DANCE: FACULTY DANCE CONCERT

SUN, DEC 10, 3 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHORALE CONCERT

THURS, DEC 14, 8 PM BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS ANNUAL HOLIDAY CONCERT

MON, DEC 18, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT (HC)

TUES, DEC 19, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: FALL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

FRI-SAT, FEB 2-3, 8 PM PAS: RALPH LEMON

WED, FEB 14, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: LINDA GREGERSON

FRI-SAT, FEB 23-24, 8 PM PAS: OKWUI OKPOKWASALI—POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM

WED, FEB 28, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: ANGELA FLOURNOY

SAT, MAR 24, 8 PM PAS: ZORÁ STRING QUARTET

WED, APR 11, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: OCEAN VUONG

FRI-SUN, THURS–SAT, APR 13-15, 19-21, 7:30 PM THEATER: SPRING 2018 PRODUCTION

FRI, APR 20, 8 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING ORCHESTRA CONCERT (HC)

WED, APR 25, 7:30 PM READING SERIES: PHIL KLAY

FRI-SAT, APR 27-28, 7:30 PM DANCE: SPRING DANCE CONCERT

SUN, APR 29, 3:00 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHORALE CONCERT (HC)

THURS, MAY 3, 4:45 PM BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS’ ROTUNDA CONCERT (HC)

MON, MAY 7, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT (HC)

TUES, MAY 8, 7:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

FRI, MAY 18, 8:30 PM BI-CO MUSIC: CHAMBER SINGERS COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

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HAVERFORD FAMILY AND FRIENDS WEEKEND CONCERT Sat, Oct 28, 8:30 pm MABRYN MAWR / HAVERFORD ORCHESTRA Fall Concert Fri, Nov 17, 8 pm MA Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de Printemps (Of a Spring Morning) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35Spring Orchestra Concert Fri, Apr 20, 8 PM MA Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Marche SlaveBi-College Student Concerto Competition winnerAaron Copland: Billy the Kid (Ballet Suite) BRYN MAWR / HAVERFORD CHORALE Fall Chorale Concert Sun, Dec 10, 3 pm MA Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem

Spring Chorale Concert Sun, Apr 29, 3 PM, MA Carl Orff: Carmina BuranaBRYN MAWR / HAVERFORD CHAMBER SINGERS Chamber Singers’ Holiday Concert Thurs, Dec 14, 8 pm, FHChamber Singers’ Rotunda Concert Thurs, May 3, 4:45 pm KINSCChamber Singers’ Commencement Concert Fri, May 18, 8:30 pm TGHBRYN MAWR / HAVERFORD CHAMBER MUSIC Fall Chamber Music Concerts Mon, Dec 18, 7:30 pm MA, Tues, Dec 19, 7:30 pm MR Spring Chamber Music Concerts Mon, May 7, 7:30 pm MA, Tues, May 8, 7:30 pm

PHOTOS ON COVER: Okwui Okpokwasili—Mena Burnette/XMB Photography / Phil Klay—Hannah Dunphy / Rinde Eckert—Eva Mueller / Linda Gregerson / Zorá String Quartet—Matt Dine.PHOTOS PAGE 2: Rinde Eckert—Eva Mueller / Gospel Celebration—Timothy Moyer / Ralph Lemon—Gene Pittman Okwui Okpokwasili—Paul B. Goode / Zorá String Quartet—Matt Dine.PHOTOS PAGE 3: Justin Torres—Winni Wintermeyer / A. Van Jordan—Anthony Alvarez Photography / Claire Vaye Watkins—Heike Steinweg / Linda Gregerson / Angela Flournoy—John Midgley / Ocean Vuong—Peter Bienkowski Phil Klay—Hannah Dunphy.