Events at Reed
Welcome to the Reed College events site! All events listed below are open to the public and are free, unless noted otherwise.
October
11
Fall Canyon Day
Join
the Reed community in planting native trees and shrubs. Tools,
training, food, and fun are provided; everyone is welcome to
participate. Dress for the weather and bring gloves if you have them.
For more information, email zac.perry@reed.edu or call 503/572-8636.
For more information about the Reed canyon, visit the canyon website.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; meet in the canyon at the north side of the new pedestrian bridge.
12
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra, Silver Anniversary Season
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Monica Huggett, director and violin soloist, leads the orchestra in Vivaldi’s concertos for violin and violoncellos, and in Geminiani’s Concerto Grosso “La Folia.” Tickets: $15–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
14
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Classic Series
Pacifica Quartet
The quartet, which has been recognized for its virtuosity and exuberant performance style, performs three quartets by Beethoven. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
16
Lecture: Walter Benn Michaels
“Let Us Now Praise Famous (White) Men”
Walter Benn Michaels, professor English at the University of Illinois–Chicago, talks about the formal demands of ambitious photography in the 1930s (focusing on the work of Paul Strand, August Sander, Walker Evans) and about the connection between those demands and several competing ideals of social justice. Because the formal questions involve the relation of the photographer to his or her subject and because the social questions involve the differing claims of race and class, Michaels’ talk also deals with certain issues that remain controversial today, in, for example, the photographs of Rineke Dijkstra or the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Sponsored by the art department.
5:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
16
Public Policy Lecture Series: Howard Wolpe ’60
“Democracy and Peacebuilding: Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom”
Howard Wolpe, director of the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is a former seven-term congressman from Michigan’s third district. He served as chairman of the subcommittee on Africa in the House Foreign Affairs Committee for 10 years. After leaving Congress in 1993, he was appointed by President Clinton as special envoy to the Great Lakes Region, and led the American delegation to the peace talks in Burundi. Sponsored by the Munk-Darling Lecture Fund in International Relations. For more information on the Public Policy Lecture Series, visit the series website.
7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
18
Concert: Pride of Portland Chorus
“Honolulu Bound"
The concert features international champion quartet 4 Bettys; regional champion quartets Martini and Vibe; and the Bridgetown Sound men's chorus. Tickets: $15 for matinee; $25 for evening performance; call 503/624-6787, or visit the Pride of Portland website.
2 p.m. & 7 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
24–26
Dance performance: Minh Tran & Company
Retrospective Performance
To mark the commencement of Minh Tran’s appointment as assistant professor in dance at Reed, the dance department presents Minh Tran & Company in a retrospective of the company’s work that has, over the past decade, received critical acclaim. Tran’s work is particularly noted for its fusion of traditional Asian technique and contemporary Western dance, underscored by an unwavering commitment to breaking down cultural and racial barriers. Tickets: $12–18; free to Reed students and members of the faculty and staff; call 503/838-3006, or visit Brown Paper Tickets.
7:30 p.m., sports center, gym II.
25
Concert: Portland Gay Symphonic Band
“Spirits”
“Spirits” is the symphonic band’s season opener. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit the Portland Gay Symphonic Band website. Tickets: $8 & $12 in advance; $10 and $15 at the door.
8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
28
Lecture: Daisy Hernández
“Comadres, Brujas, and Feminists: How We Can Be Leaders”
Leadership is a hot topic these days. With the presidential election this fall, media pundits (and the rest of us) are talking about a new direction for the country, a new type of leadership. It's as if everyone over 40 realized that you don't have to be 40 to lead the way. But what does it mean to be a leader? What does it mean to take charge—in your own life, at your school, in your community? Hernández, managing editor of ColorLines, the national news magazine on race and politics, has written for a wide range of publications, including the National Catholic Reporter, and has written on feminism and Latina life for Ms. magazine. She is also co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). Her lecture addresses leadership in the context of community and how we choose to save ourselves and the rest of the country.
7 p.m., Psychology 105.
29
Ostrow Lecture: David Reed ’68
David Reed ’68, painter and installation artist, discusses his work for the Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors Program in the Visual Arts. One of the founders of the New York Studio School in 1967, Reed has been the recipient of grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and the 2001 Skowhegan medal for painting. His work has been shown at Max Protech and extensively in solo and group shows in the U.S. and in Europe. Reed initiated and served as adviser for High Times, Hard Times, a traveling ICI group exhibit, featuring abstract painting in New York from 1967 to 1975.
7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
30
Poetry reading: Alexandra Petrova
Russian poet Alexandra Petrova was born in Leningrad and educated in Tartu. She moved to Rome from Jerusalem, where she lived during the 1990s. Her books of poetry in Russian include Broken Line (1994), Residence Permit (2000) and Only the Trees (2007), and a philosophical operetta Dolly’s Shepherds (2004). Her work has been translated into Italian, Hebrew, Serbian, and, most recently, Portuguese. Petrova will read her poetry both in Russian and English translation. Sponsored by the Russian department.
5 p.m., Biology 19.
30
Visiting Writers: Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Good Thief, What the Living Do, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, and is the coeditor of a book of essays, In The Company Of My Solitude: American Writing From The Aids Pandemic. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
30
Public Policy Lecture Series: Jacob Hacker
“The Middle Class at Risk: Rising Economic Insecurity and the Future of American Politics”
Jacob Hacker, professor of political science at UC Berkeley, is a renowned expert on the politics and economics of health care and the privatization of risk. His many books on the subject include The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement (2006), The Divided Welfare State (2002), and The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security (1997). Additionally, he is a noted observer of political polarization. Sponsored by the Elizabeth C. Ducey Political Science Lecture Fund. For more information on the Public Policy Lecture Series, visit the series website.
7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
November
2
Concert: Jeffrey Payne
Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
Fear No Music founder Jeffrey Payne presents a complete performance of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Twenty Gazes/Contemplations on the Infant Jesus), one of the grandest conceptions in the piano literature, and the summit of Messiaen's keyboard writing. These contemplations are at once tender and almost brutal, finally triumphant in the powerful apotheosis of the cyclical themes. Composed in 1944 in Paris for Yvonne Loriod during terribly troubled times, the piece initially received a mixed critical reception. Though it is now recognized as one of the most important piano works of the 20th century, complete performances of Vingt Regards are still rare. Tickets at the door: $5–20; at the door; free for children under 13.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
6
Visiting Writers: Stephen Elliott and Alice Fulton
Stephen Elliott is the author of six books including the story collection My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up and the novel Happy Birthday Baby, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award, as well as a Best Book of 2004 in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. Alice Fulton’s first fiction collection, The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories, was published by W.W. Norton in July. Her poetry collection, Felt, was awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and was named by the L.A. Times as one of the Best Books of 2001. She is Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
6
Reed Economics Lecture Series: The Electricity Restructuring Debate
Lester Lave ’60, "Electricity Deregulation: Has it Worked? Can it Work?"
Lester B. Lave ’60 is Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon and university professor, with appointments in the business, engineering, and public policy schools. Lave is the founder and director of the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute, which has conducted research on sustainability, life cycle analysis, alternative automobile fuels, and related topics for 15 years. As the head of the university-wide Green Design Initiative, he works with businesses such as IBM, and with government agencies such as the Department of Energy, to address the fundamental problems in pollution prevention. He is co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, the largest engineering-business center focused on the electricity industry, and has acted as a consultant to many government agencies and companies, including the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he is chair of the Energy Efficiency/Conservation Panel of the National Academy of Sciences new study on American’s Energy Future.
7:30 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
7 & 8, 13–15
Theatre production: A Bright Room Called Day
The Reed Theatre presents A Bright Room Called Day, by Tony Kushner, directed by Kathleen Worley, professor of theatre. The play, by the award-winning author of Angels in America, is set in Berlin in the early 1930s as Hitler is coming to power. Passionate young artists, actors, activists, and film-makers struggle to balance their individual lives and loves with the struggles going on around them, trying to make some impact on the world they inhabit. Tickets: $5 general, $3 seniors and non-Reed students, and $1 for Reed students, faculty and staff; call 503/777-7284 or reserve online.
7:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre.
8
Post-election Panel
With both Republicans and Democrats adopting the mantle of “change,” the 2008 presidential contest is shaping up to be one of the most consequential of the past half-century. Join Paul Gronke, Reed political science professor and director of the Early Voting Information Center; Caroline Tolbert of the University of Iowa; and Robert Eisinger of Lewis & Clark College for a panel discussion on the campaigns, the results, and the election’s lasting implications.
2 p.m., Vollum lecture hall.
8
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Triton Trio
Ani Kavafian on violin, William Purvis on horn, and Mihae Lee on piano, performing music by Brahms and Ligeti. Tickets: $10–43; call 503/294-6400, or visit the Chamber Music Northwest website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
10
Lecture: John Malmstad
“Tradition and Invention: The World of Art (Mir Iskusstva)”
John Malmstad, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, surveys the modernist movement founded by Sergei Diaghilev, Alexandre Benois, and friends that remade and renovated Russian art in the 1890s and first years of the 20th century. Its impact on painting, publishing, exhibiting practice, design, and theatre decor, culminating in the founding of the Ballets Russes, prepared the way for the emergence of the Russian avant-garde. Sponsored by the Russian department.
6:30 p.m., in Psychology 105.
12–15
Dance performance: Kidd Pivot
Lost Action
Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite has assembled a dynamic group of seven dancers who sculpt space in real-time, working inside a form—dance—that is constantly in a state of vanishing. Set to an original score by composer Owen Belton, Lost Action celebrates the intricacy and freedom of the articulated body and unfolds to reveal the pulsating heart at its innermost core. Tickets: $26; call 503/245-1600, or visit the White Bird website.
8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
13
Reed Economics Lecture Series: The Electricity Restructuring Debate
Frank
Wolak, "Why the United States Has Yet to Benefit from Electricity
Industry Re-structuring (And What Can Be Done to Change This)"
Frank Wolak, Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the economics department at Stanford University, specializes in industrial organization and econometric theory. His recent studies include methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries—telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services—and on assessing the effects of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare. He is the chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator for the electricity supply industry in California, a visiting scholar at the University of California Energy Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
7:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
20
Visiting Writers: C.S. Giscombe
C.S. Giscombe’s poetry books are Postcards, Here, and Giscombe Road. His book of linked essays is Into and Out of Dislocation. Giscombe has won a Carl Sandburg Award, and has received grants from the NEA, the Illinois Arts Council, the Fund for Poetry, and the Council for the International Exchange for Scholars. He teaches at UC Berkeley. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
20
Reed Economics Lecture Series: The Electricity Restructuring Debate
Severin Borenstein, “Asking the Wrong Questions: Lessons from a Decade of Electricity Restructuring”
Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, is director of the University of California Energy Institute. He is also co-director of the institute’s Center for the Study of Energy Markets. His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation. He has published extensively on the airline industry, the oil and gasoline industries, and electricity markets. His current research projects include empirical and theoretical work on competition in gasoline markets, market power and pricing issues in restructured electricity markets, strategic pricing and financial distress in the airline industry, and the incentives of firms to cut costs and improve efficiency.
7:30 p.m., Vollum lounge.
20–22
Thesis production: M’s Orphanage
The Reed Theatre presents a dance-theatre thesis by Alexandra Euphrates Dahout ’09, M’s Orphanage, written by Kate Tarker ’08, and based on the gruesome tales of Struwwelpeter. The story is about five orphans, forced to pretend that every day is Christmas, hoping that Santa will bring them parents, but for the past several years, they've received nothing but coal. The orphanage is a house of torment for these children, and the worst is yet to come. Tickets: $3 general, $2 seniors and non-Reed students, and $1 for Reed students, faculty and staff; call 503/777-7284 or reserve online.
7:30 p.m., student union.
23
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra, Silver Anniversary Season
“Pergolesi, Naples, and Julius Caesar”
Nicholas McGegan, director of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque, debuts as orchestra director. Canadian countertenor Matthew White and soprano Yulia Van Doren perform. Music by Pergolesi, Handel, Durante, and Leo. Tickets: $15–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
25
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Classic Series
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Sharon Robinson with music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Shostakovich. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
December
3
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Vocal Arts Series
“Long Time Traveling”
Anonymous 4, with Darol Anger on violin and mandolin, and Scott Nygaard on guitar, perform religious ballads, American folk songs, gospel songs, and folk hymns. Tickets: $14–37; student rush, $5; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
4–6
Theatre production: 4 x Tenn
The Reed Theatre presents four one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, directed by Kristeen Crosser, technical director and designer. As a tribute to Williams’ life and great works, this evening of theatre will look deeply into several of his theatrical motifs and examine the theme of “loss,” in Adam and Eve on a Ferry, The One Exception, The Municipal Abattoir, and Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. Tickets: $5 general, $3 seniors and non-Reed students, and $1 for Reed students, faculty and staff; call 503/777-7284 or reserve online.
7:30 p.m., Studio Theatre.
19–21
Concert: Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
“Heavenly Holidays”
“Heavenly Holidays” features songs from all holiday celebrations, and includes a premiere of “Hodie,” by composer-in-residence Robert Seeley. Tickets on sale September 1; call 503/226-2588, or visit the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus website.
8 p.m., December 19 & 20; 2 p.m., December 21; Kaul Auditorium.
January 2009
13
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Classic Series
Takács Quartet
Recognized as one of the world's premiere string quartets, the Takács Quartet performs selections by Bartók, Beethoven, and Schumann. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
23
Concert: Third Angle
“Maximum Minimalism”
The concert includes the Portland premiere of Morton Feldman’s work “Rothko Chapel,” accompanied by images of paintings by Mark Rothko. Tickets: $25–30; call 503/331-0301, or visit the Third Angle website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
February
14 & 15
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Guarneri String Quartet
Capping a 45-year career, the Guarneri Quartet performs two programs in one of their final performances: “Late Beethoven,” on February 14, and “Late Brahms,” on February 15. Tickets: $10–43; call 503/294-6400, or visit the Chamber Music Northwest website.
7:30 p.m., on February 14; and 3 p.m., on February 15; Kaul Auditorium.
20
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Vocal Arts Series
Chanticleer
With its seamless blend of 12-male voices, ranging from countertenor to bass, Chanticleer is praised for their “tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity” and was named Musical America’s 2008 “Ensemble of the Year.” The concert is a mixed repertoire program. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
March
12
Visiting Writers: Susan Straight
Susan Straight's novels include I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, Blacker than a Thousand Midnights, The Gettin Place, and Highwire Moon, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is recipient of the California Book Prize, a Lannan Foundation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Best American Short Story Award. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
17
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Classic Series
Ebène Quartet
The Ebène Quartet—distinguished by its open-mindedness and versatility in classical repertoire, contemporary music, and jazz—performs three quartets by Beethoven. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
21
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
Sophie Shao and Pei-Yao Wang
The musicians perform music by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms for piano and cello. Tickets: $10–43; call 503/294-6400, or visit the Chamber Music Northwest website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
22
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra, Silver Anniversary Season
“Italy's Seicento: The Birth of Melody”
PBO presents beautiful music from 17th-century Italy (il seicento), with dances, songs, and sonatas by Gabrieli, Buonamente, and Marini. Tickets: $15–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
3 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
26
Visiting Writers: Katherine Dunn
One Ring Circus, a collection of Katherine Dunn's essays on the sport of boxing will appear in early 2009. With photographer Jim Lommasson, Dunn won the 2004 Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize for the book Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice, and the Will to Survive in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
April
9
Visiting Writers: Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman’s first collection of poems, All American Poem, won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. His poems appear in Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, Agni Online, and The New Yorker, among others. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
6:30 p.m., Psychology 105.
11
Concert: Portland Chamber Orchestra
The Four Seasons
The concert features the Portland premier of Piazzolla’s Cuartro Estaciones Portenas and Lutoslawski’s Five Melodies for String Orchestra, as well as selections by Shostakovich, and Vivaldi. Tickets: $25; call 503/771-3250, or visit the Portland Chamber Orchestra website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
14
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music, Classic Series
American String Quartet
The American String Quartet has performed in all 50 states and appeared in virtually every important concert hall throughout the world. The concert program includes three quartets by Beethoven. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
28
Concert: Friends of Chamber Music
Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg & the Assad Brothers
Classical violinist Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg is joined by guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad performing Gypsy-inspired music—classic and traditional songs from Argentina, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Spain, and the Middle East. Tickets: $14–37; call 503/224-9842, or visit the Friends of Chamber Music website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
30
Concert: Chamber Music Northwest
McDuffie-Dutton-Kirshbaum Trio
String trios and duos by Schubert, Ravel, and Beethoven. Tickets: $10–43; call 503/294-6400, or visit the Chamber Music Northwest website.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
May
10
Concert: Portland Baroque Orchestra, Silver Anniversary Season
“Mozart’s Night Music”
A celebration of PBO’s 25th Anniversary with Monica Huggett and Richard Egarr, includes violinist Huggett’s interpretation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Egarr’s fortepiano work, and his professional debut on timpani for the unique Serenata Notturna. Tickets: $15–39; call 503/222-6000, or visit the Portland Baroque Orchestra website.
4 p.m., Kaul Auditorium.
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