Past Events

SOAR Past Events

AY 2025-26

  • Spring 2026

    SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

  • Fall 2025

    SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    • SoAR Faculty and Staff Meet and Greet | 8/26/2025
    • SoAR & HCS: SONIC IMMERSION - Interactive sound art @ HCS | 8/302025 
    • SoAR @ LUMA | 9/ 5 & 9/6/2025 @Binghamton Downtown
    • SoAR & Art&Design & Center for Civic Engagement: Japanese Indigo Workshop with visiting artist Iviva Olenick | 9/12/2025
    • SoAR @ 2025 Haudenosaunee Festival: Sharri Hopper and the Onondaga Nation Dancers | 9/12/2025
    • SoAR & BCAC: 2025 Broome Art Trail | 9/20 & 9/21/2025
    • SoAR Fall Fest Screen-printing | 9/27/2025
    • SoAR & BUAM: Housing Materials and Methods Workshop with Luisa Casella, Paper Conservator | 9/29/2025
    • SoAR: Grant writing in the Arts ​Workshop with Anna Warfield | 9/30/2025
    • SoAR @ First Friday Art Walk: Creative Writing presenting "Art and Poetry in a Pickup Truck with Professor Joseph Weil" | 11/7/2025

      This event, and many upcoming events, are made possible by the Ƶ Road Map Ƶ Engagement Grant awarded to the School of the Arts

    • SoAR @ Harpur Week: Electronic Sound and Music Processes | 11/12/2025
    • SoAR @ Harpur Week: Lighting Event: GLP Demo and Lighting Sessions with Brad Schiler | 11/14/2025
    • School of the Arts Inaugural Visiting Artist Tony Cokes | 11/17/2025
    • SoAR & Music: Laptop Orchestra and Source Project "Do it Wrong on Purpose" @ HCS | 12/3/2025
      This event, and many upcoming events, are made possible by the Ƶ Road Map Ƶ Engagement Grant awarded to the School of the Arts
    • SoAR & BUAM: COLLAGECONNECT&CHILL: A #StressFreeBing Art Mixer | 12/4/2025

    ART & DESIGN

    • Exhibitions:
      • Takming Chuang: “Bardo”   8/28 - 9/30/2025
      • Marianna Rothen: “Like a Dream” | 10/9 - 11/6/2025
      • Aurora Andrews: “Mother and Child” | 11/13 - 12/11/2025
    • Events:
      • Faculty Happy Hour Talks:
        • Frank Chang & Yeon Jin Kim | 9/10/2025
        • Alex McQuilkin & Emmy Thelander | 10/21/2025
        • Chris Cvitkovich & Alessandro Segalini | 11/18/2025
      • Info Session 8/21/2025
      • Takming Chuang’s “Bardo” Lecture & Gallery Opening | 8/28/2025
      • SOAR & Art & Design & Center for Civic Engagement: Japanese Indigo Workshop with visiting artist Iviva Olenick | 9/12/2025
      • Marianna Rothen’s “Like a Dream” Lecture & Gallery Opening | 10/9/2025
      • Aurora Andrews’s “Mother and Child” Lecture & Gallery Opening | 11/13/2025
      • Art & Design & Cinema: Expanded Painting & Nonfiction Poetics (Student Showcase)  12/5/2025
      • Metamorfsnart Exhibition @ HCS  (Student Showcase)| 12/5/2025
        This event, and many upcoming events, are made possible by the Ƶ Road Map Ƶ Engagement Grant awarded to the School of the Arts
      • The Picture Show Exhibition Opening @ The Bundy Museum, Binghamton Photo Gallery (Student Showcase by Photography students) | 12/5/2025

    ART HISTORY

    • VizCult Series:
      • Kelly Presutti (Cornell University): “Moving Mountains in Nineteenth-Century France” | 9/17/2025
      • Morgan Ng (Yale University): “Implied Architecture in Renaissance Italy” | 10/15/2025
      • William Stewart (Harvard University): “Dissolve/Resolve: Mathematical Dust, Fractal Images, and an Aesthetics of Inadequacy” | 11/5/2025
      • Andrea Gyenge (Cinema, Ƶ): “Eating the Close-up: On Jean Epstein's Buccal Imaginary” | 12/3/2025
    • TAE Material + Visual Worlds:
      • "First Things" conversation with Magdalena Bermudez (Cinema), Amber (Amy) Churchill (Environmental Studies), and Eliza Grames (Biology) | 9/11/2025
      • PadraicX. Scanlan (University of Toronto): “Rot: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland before the Famine” | 10/9/2025
      • Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St. Andrews): “Imperial Forestry and the French Landscape Tradition” | 10/30/2025

    CINEMA

    • Harpur Cinema:
      • Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett) | 9/12 & 9/14/2025
      • NO! (Pablo Loraine) | 9/19 &9/21/2025
      • All We Imagine As Light (Payal Kapadia) | 10/17 & 10/19/2025
      • Preemptive Listening (Aura Satz) | 11/7 & 11/9/2025
      • The Said and The Unsaid (AEMI Touring Film Program: Stephanie Barber, Jonathan O’Grady, Maryam Tafakory, and Frank Sweeney) | 11/14 & 11/16/2025
      • Richland (Irene Lusztig) | 11/21& 11/23/2025
    • Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series:
      • Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Selected Works | 10/21/2025
      • Ross Meckfessel, Selected Works | 10/23/2025
      • Courtney Stephens, Selected Works 11/11/2025
    • BU Film Salon (Faculty presenting their research):
      • Professor Daniel Murphy 10/ 22/2025
      • Professor Armand Tufenkian, 11/ 5/2025
      • Professor Andrea Gyenge 11/19/2025
      • Professor Kirsten Gill Prof. Kirsten Gill: "Edward Owens and the 'Demon' of Cinema" 12/3/2025
    • Student-run outdoor film festival "Hauntings", films and videos curated by students | 10/22/2025
    • 16th annual Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) “Dwellings” | 11/7/2025
    • Cinema & Art & Design: Expanded Painting & Nonfiction Poetics (Student Showcase)| 12/5/2025
    • Student Film Show  (Student Showcase)| 12/5/2025

    MUSIC

    • Faculty Recital: Greg Evans Trio | 8/24/2025

    • Faculty Recital: Canciones del alma: A Celebration of Latin American Art Song | 9/13/2025

    • Song Of Silk: Beijing Opera, Instruments, and Songs | 9/27/2025

    • Piano Ensemble (Fall Reschedule) | 9/29/2025

    • New York Voices: The Grand Finale | 10/5/2025

    • Voice Area Recital: Graduate Student Showcase | 10/9/2025

    • Family Weekend | 10/11/2025

    • Graduate Recital: Salome Lomidze, violin | 10/17/2025

    • In the Stacks: Hispanic Heritage | 10/30/2025

    • Music NOW! | 10/30/2025

    • COURTER by Nicky Kuláy, Graduate Album Release | 10/31/2025

    • Collegium Musicum | 11/1/2025
    • Concerto Competition | 11/2/2025
    • Masterclass: William Knuth, violin| 11/4/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Nathaniel Knipscher, guitar | 11/5/2025
    • Voice Area Recital: On Our Way to N.A.T.S. | 11/6/2025
    • Flute Studio Recital | 11/9/2025
    • Piano Studio Recital | 11/10/2025
    • Chamber Music Recital | 11/14/2025
    • Low Brass Ensemble and Recital | 11/15/2025
    • Wind Symphony | 11/15/2025
    • Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing | 11/16/2025
    • Flute Ensemble | 11/18/2025
    • Word of Mouth (Creative Writing, Music, Theatre) | 11/19/2025
    • Harpur Jazz feat. Gabe Condon, guitar | 11/20/2025
    • Masterclass: Thomas Baresel, tenor | 11/21/2025 & 11/22/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Felipe Alvarez Ruiz. Tenor | 11/21/2025
    • Student Recital: Trio Confluence - Violin, Cello, & Piano: Salome Lomidze, Liam Sullivan and Minjeong Kim | 11/22/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Sebastiano Lombardo | 11/22/2025
    • Choir Concert | 11/23/2025
    • Symphony Orchestra | 11/23/2025
    • Guitar Ensemble Concert | 11/24/2025
    • Piano Ensemble Concert | 12/1/2025
    • Percussion Ensemble & Steel Drum Band | 12/2/2025
    • SOAR & Music: Laptop Orchestra and Source Project "Do it Wrong on Purpose" @ HCS | 12/3/2025
    • Voice Area Recital | 12/4/2025
    • Nukporfe: African Drumming & Dance Ensemble | 12/4/2025
    • Intro Comp Concert @ Art Museum | 12/5/2025
    • Singing Chinese Recital | 12/5/2025

    THEATRE

    • Main Stage:

      • The Balcony – 10/17 - 10/20/2025 

      • Seussical (Musical | 11/14 - 11/22/2025

    • Theatre Welcome Week | 8/18 - 8/24/2025

    • SUNY Sings! @ Goodwill Theatre Inc's Schorr Family Firehouse Stage | 9/12/2025
      This event, and many upcoming events, are made possible by the Ƶ Road Map Ƶ Engagement Grant awarded to the School of the Arts
    • Cuban Dance Week with Guest Artist Alexis Zanety | 10/27 - 10/31/2025

    • Climate Change Theatre Action at Ƶ “The Time is Now” | 11/2/2025

    • Word of Mouth (Creative Writing, Music, Theatre) | 11/19/2025

    • Light Lab Lectures and Workshops: 

      • Online Q&A and training by the Broadway programmer Scott Tusing and Broadway Associate Lighting designer Jess Craeger | 8/28/2025

      • USITT Regional Event for Luma | 9/6/2025

      • Lecture and Q&A with Andrew Hunt, followed by demo, training, and discussion with Zephan of QTL Lighting Products | 10/16/2025

      • Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) EOS Console Training:  Essential, Enhanced, and Intermediate | 10/21 - 10/23/2025

      • BU Alum and Local 1 Lighting Programmer Andy Blais lecture: “EOS Programming in the real world:  Tips and Tricks” | 11/6/2025

      • SOAR @ Harpur Week: Lighting Event: GLP Demo and Lighting Sessions with Brad Schiler | 11/14/2025

      • Masterclass and Demo with Jason Perry:  The Techniques and Science of Moving Lights in Theory and Practice  | 11/25/2025

    ANDERSON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

    • Summer Concerts:
      • Ozark Mountain Daredevils + special guest Pure Prairie League 6/21/2025
      • The Lovin' Spoonful 7/26/2025
      • Marshall Tucker Band: All Our Friends Tour 8/10/2025
    • Center Series:
      • New York Voices - The Grand Finale | 10/5/2025
      • Michael Feinstein: Coming Home - The Holiday Celebration | 12/6/2025

    BU ART MUSEUM

    • Exhibitions:
      • In the American Grain: Exploring America through Art, 1919–1946
        Curated by Tom McDonough, professor of art history | 9/4-12/6/2025
      • Superposition: Examining Boundaries in East Asian Religious Art
        Curated by Kate Langsdorf ’25 | 9/4 - 12/6/2025
      • The Visual Language of Grief
        Curated by Molly Rudden ’25 | 9/4 - 12/6/2025
      • Destabilizing "the Brain": Imagining Ƶ
        Curated by Bassie Chin ’26 | 9/4 - 12/6/2025
    • Events:
      • Fall 2025 Exhibitions Opening | 9/4/2025
      • Zoe Dufour Artist Talk and Reception | 9/5/2025
      • Suzanne Halbritter (Onondaga, Eel clan): "Witness at Standing Rock" | 9/11/2025
      • Unity in the Ƶ: BUAM Family Day x WSKG | 9/20/2025
      • Homecoming Weekend | 9/26/2025 & 9/27/2025
      • Stacy Newman Winterfield workshop: Moments on the Journey to Paper Quilts | 9/27/2025
      • BU Family Weekend | 10/10/2025 & 10/11/2025
      • Tour for Low Vision: Tactile Experience | 11/6/2025
      • Native American Heritage Month pop-up exhibition 11/ 11/2025
      • SOAR & BUAM: COLLAGECONNECT&CHILL: A #StressFreeBing Art Mixer | 12/4/2025

    CREATIVE WRITING

    • Welcome Mixer for Creative Writing Program | 9/4/2025
    • Common Ground Reading | 9/12/2025 | 10/15/2025 | 11/12/2025
    • Book Launch for AJ White "Blue Loop" | 9/18/2025
    • Distinguished Writers Series with Shara McCallum | 10/8/2025
    • Alumni Reading with Jennifer Case, Dante Di Stefano, and Aggeliki Pelekidis | 11/5/2025
    • SOAR @ First Friday Art Walk: Creative Writing presenting "Art and Poetry in a Pickup Truck with Professor Joseph Weil" | 11/7/2025

      This event, and many upcoming events, are made possible by the Ƶ Road Map Ƶ Engagement Grant awarded to the School of the Arts

    • Word of Mouth (Creative Writing, Music, Theatre) | 11/19/2025

AY 2024-25

  • Spring 2025

    SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    • SOAR Student Mixers:

      • Natural Pigment Worksop @ A&D, Art History & BU Greenhouse | 2/4/2025

      • SOAR Grad Visions (Graduate Mixer) | 2/21/2025

      • SOAR Undergraduate Mixer @ Theatre | 3/4/2025

    • SOAR Climate Change Quilt Making | 2/19/2025

    • SOARJAM | 3/19/2025 

    • Tips for the Real World III (SOAR & Fleishman Career Center)| 4/1/2025

    • Tips for the Real World IV  (SOAR & Fleishman Career Center) | 4/15/2025

    • Festival of the Arts - Student Showcase | 5/7 & 5/9/2025

    ART & DESIGN

    • Exhibitions:
      • Hanna Washburn: A Thing and Its Shadow | 1/23 - 2/20/2025
      • A&D Faculty & Staff Exhibition | 2/27 - 3/27/2025
      • A&D BFA Exhibition: Convergence | 4/10 - 4/24/2025
      • A&D Senior BA Exhibition | 5/5 - 5/9/2025
    • Events:
      • Opening reception: Hanna Washburn: A Thing and Its Shadow | 1/23/2025
      • Ninth Annual 24-Hour Drawing Marathon | 2/21 - 2/22/2025
      • Opening reception: A&D Faculty & Staff Exhibition | 2/27/2025
      • Opening reception: A&D BFA Exhibition: Convergence | 4/10/2025
      • Open Studio Night & Award Ceremony (SOAR Festival of the Arts - Student Showcase) | 5/9/2025 

    ART HISTORY

    • Crossing the Boundaries XXX Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: "Transcorporeality" | 3/28 & 3/29/2025
    • VizCult Series: 

      • Emily Monty (University of Kansas): "Printmaking and Ƶ: Forming Hispanic Identities in Early Modern Rome" | 2/26/2025

      • Kevin Hatch (Ƶ): “A Complicated Business: Corita Kent’s Intertextual Art Practice and the Catholic Left" | 3/5/2025

      • Kathryn O'Rourke (Wellesley College): "Architectural Archaism and The Economist Building" | 3/26/2025

      • Ferber Lecture - Maeve Doyle (Eastern Connecticut State University): "Genderqueerness in the Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy: Transing the Art History Canon" | 4/23/2025

    • TAE Material + Visual Worlds:

      • Karen Holmberg (New York University): "Fireflies, Lightning, Squid, and Stone-Eating Mollusks: Imaging and Imagining Radical Environmental Change in the Past, Present, and Future" | 3/20/2025

      • Adrian Anagnost (Tulane University): "Naming Waters, Claiming Lands: Territorial Fictions and Ecological Entanglements in the Gulf South" | 4/10/2025

      • "First Things" conversation with Hippocrates Cheng (Assistant Professor, Music), Andrea Gyenge (Assistant Professor, Cinema), and Jennifer Stoever (Associate Professor, English, General Literature and Rhetoric) | 4/24/2025

      • Jerry Zee (Princeton University): "Fault Zones: Sino-American Encounters with Geophysics" | 5/5/2025

    CINEMA

    • Harpur Cinema:

      • A Bruddah's Mind (Deo Cardoso, Brazil, 2020, 86 min.) | 2/7 & 2/9/2025

      • Last Thing / Outsiders (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2023, 50 min.) | 2/21 & 2/23/2025

      • The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, France, 2023, 147 min.) |2/28 & 3/2/2025

      • Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Rubber Coated Steel (2016, 15 mins) | Walled Unwalled 2018, 20 mins) | The Whole Truth (2012, 32 mins) | 3/21 & 3/23/2025

      • The Ascent (Karusa Shepitko, Soviet Union, 1977, 109min.) | 3/28 & 3/30/2025

      • Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan, 2023, 106 min.) | 4/4 & 4/6/2025

      • Sarraounia (Med Hondo, Burkina Faso, 1986, 122 min.) | 4/25 & 4/27/2025

    • Visiting Film/Video Artists Speakers' Series:

      • Josh Lewis | 2/27/2025

      • Maggie Hennefeld | 3/17/2025

      • Jesse McLean | 4/3/25

      • Courtney Stephens | 4/8/25

    • Film Study Tenure Track presentations:

      • Kirsten Gill: “The Anarchy of the Film Crew Assembled in a Riotous Manner: William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” | 1/24/2025

      • Katherine Kirkland: "Documentary Without Guarantees" | 1/27/2025

      • Eli Boonin-Vail: “Between Prison and Screen: Two Approaches to a Carceral Study of Film and Media” | 1/31/2025

      • Zeke Saber:  "Environs of the Morphological Image" | 2/3/2025

    • Production Tenure Track presentations:
      • Daniel Murphy: "Phantom Regions" | 2/7/2025
      • Armand Tufenkian: “Living Experiments Cinema” | 2/9/2025
      • Ellery Bryan: "This is Your Signal" | 2/14/2025
      • Emily Drummer: "In the Keeping" | 2/16/2025
      • Jason Bernagozzi: "Signal as Material" | 2/21/2025
    • SOAR Festival of the Arts | 5/7 & 5/9/2025

    MUSIC

    • Intro to Composition Concert | 1/23/2025
    • Society for New Music | 2/2/2025
    • Operalogue - A Preview of "Die Fledermaus" | 2/7/2025
    • Die Fledermaus Opera Performance | 2/21 & 2/23/2025
    • Tradition Meets Technology: Wind Symphony Concert | 2/22/2025
    • Piano Studio Recital | 2/25/2025
    • Symphony Orchestra Concert, feat. Concerto Competition Winners | 3/2/2025
    • In the Stacks: Womens History Month | 3/6/2025
    • Sound Through Movement | 3/17/2025
    • Voice Area Recital: N.A.T.S Preview | 3/20/2025
    • Momenta String Quartet | 3/20/2025
    • Student Recital: Leah Arbitman, flute and Nathan Slisher, cello | 3/22/2025  
    • Violin Studio Recital | 3/22/2025 
    • Faculty Recital: Michael Salmirs, piano | 3/23/2025
    • Masterclass: Chandler Johnson, tenor | 3/28/2025
    • Flute Studio Recital | 4/5/2025
    • Faculty Recital: Paul Sweeny, guitar | 4/5/2025
    • Low Brass Ensemble | 4/6/2025
    • Opera Scenes | 4/6/2025
    • Music NOW! | 4/9/2024
    • Harpur Jazz Ensemble ft. Alison Shearer, quartet | 4/10/2025
    • Harpur Jazz Ensemble ft. Alison Shearer: Big Band | 4/10/2025
    • Student Recital: Ava Portmore, soprano and Liam Flatley, tenor | 4/10/2025
    • Flute Ensemble Concert| 4/15/2025
    • Word of Mouth (CREATIVE WRITING, MUSIC, BU Art Museum) | 4/17/2025
    • Collegium Musicum: Bach Solo Cantata | 4/17/2025 
    • Senior Recital: Jessica Dugatkin, mezzo-soprano | 4/18/2025 
    • Graduate Recital: Nathan Knipscher, guitar | 4/18/2025 
    • Harpur Studio Jazz Band @ Atomic Tom's | 4/18/2025 
    • Voice Area Recital | 4/24/2025 
    • Sydeboob Duo | 4/24/2025 
    • Senior Honors Recital: Kyle McAfee, bass | 4/25/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Daisy Lawrence, soprano | 4/25/2025
    • Senior Recital: Abigail Sprague, mezzo-soprano | 4/26/2025
    • Junior Recital: Robert Dakwar, baritone | 4/26/2025
    • University Symphony Orchestra Spring '25 Concert "Fate and Renewal" | 4/26/2025
    • University Choirs Spring '25 Concert "Stitching Us Together" | 4/27/2025
    • Student Recital: An Evening of Chamber Music | 4/27/2025
    • University Percussion Ensemble & Steel Drum Band Spring '25 Concert | 4/29/2025
    • Percussion Studio Recital | 4/30/2025
    • Harpur Studio Jazz Band | 5/1/2025
    • Singing Chinese Recital | 5/2/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Salome Lomidze | 5/2/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Juan Tello | 5/3/2025
    • Collegium Musicum | 5/3/2025
    • Graduate Recital:  Victoria Popritkin | 5/3/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Itzel Robles | 5/4/2025
    • Graduate Recital: Andrea Gilebarto, soprano| 5/4/2025
    • University Wind Symphony Spring '25 Concert | 5/4/2025
    • Guitar Ensemble Concert | 5/5/2025
    • Nukporfe: African Drumming and Dance Ensemble | 5/6/2025
    • Graduation Celebration | 5/6/2025
    • Laptop Orchestra | 5/7/2025
    • SOAR Festival of the Arts | 5/7 & 5/9/2025

    THEATRE

    • Main Stage:

      • As You Like It | 2/27- 3/2/2025

      • Encounters | 4/25- 5/ 4/2025

    • Studio Shows:

      • The Cradle Will Rock | 2/20 - 2/23/2025

      • SANNI (Disease) - A ritual for Today: Graduate Thesis Studio Show | 3/20 - 3/23/2025

      • KAROO MOOSE: Graduate Thesis Studio Show | 4/3  - 4/6/2025

      • Sure Thing and Words, Words, Words from ALL IN THE TIMING | 5/1 - 5/4/2025

    • Musical Theatre​ Voice ​Recital | 5/7 & 5/9/2025
    • SOAR Festival of the Arts | 5/7 & 5/9/2025
    • Musical Theatre Scene Study Recital | 5/8/2025
    • Dance Recital | 5/8/2025

    ANDERSON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

    • Center Series: 
      • Rhythm India: Bollywood & Beyond | 3/30/2025
      • iLuminate | 4/24/2025

    BU ART MUSEUM

    • Exhibitions:
      • Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy | 2/27 - 6/14/2025

      • Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent Collection | 2/27 - 6/14/2025

      • Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in America | 2/27 - 6/14/2025

      • History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints | 2/27 - 6/14/2025

      • Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York | 2/27 - 6/14/2025
    • Events:

      • A Night at the Discoteque | 1/22/2025

      • Spring 2025 Exhibitions Opening | 2/27/2025

      • Spring 2025 Family Day | 3/22/2025

      • Women's History Month Tour | 3/27/2025

      • Word of Mouth (CREATIVE WRITING, MUSIC, BU Art Museum) | 4/17/2025

    CREATIVE WRITING

    • Common Ground Reading | 1/24/2025 | 2/28/2025 | 4/25/2025

    • Harpur Palate

      • Issue 23.2 Launch | 1/31/2025

      • Issue 24.1 Launch | 5/9/2025

    • Alumni Reading with Poets Nathan Lipps and Leah Umansky 2/12/2025

    • A Reading and Conversation with Author:

      • Wendy Wimmer | 2/18/2025

      • Chris Abani | 4/9/2025

    • Distinguished Writers Series with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | 3/6/2025

    • Poets’ Cafe | 3/19/2025

    • Word of Mouth (CREATIVE WRITING, MUSIC, BU Art Museum) | 4/17/2025

    • SOAR Festival of the Arts | 5/7 & 5/9/2025
  •   Fall 2024

    SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    • SOAR at LUMA | 9/6 - 9/7/2024
    • SOAR Meet & Greet | 9/12/2024
    • Tips for the Real World II (SOAR & Fleishman Career Center) |11/11/2024
    • Screening of Lakshmi Bulathsinghala's film "Comes the Wind", Global Premier (SOAR & Theatre) | 12/3/2024
    • Craft & Chill #StressFreeBing (SOAR & BUAM) | 12/5/2024
    • SOAR Staff Appreciation Event | 12/20/2024

    ART & DESIGN

    • A+D Open House | 8/22/2024
    • Exhibitions: 
      • Sean Caulfield: A Tragedy of the Commons | 8/29 - 9/26/2024
      • Dan Hernandez: Warp Zone 10/17 - 11/14/2024
      • Tate Foley: Bathed In the Imaginary Future, Omnipotent | 11/21 - 12/12/2024
    • Events:
      • Opening reception: Sean Caulfield: A Tragedy of the Commons | 8/29/2024
      • Opening reception: Dan Hernandez: Warp Zone 10/17/2024
      • Opening reception: Tate Foley: Bathed In the Imaginary Future, Omnipotent | 11/21/2024

    ART HISTORY

    • VizCult Series:
      • Anatole Upart (BU): “Panis angelicus: Notes on the Spanish Baroque tabernacle in the Collection of the Ƶ Art Museum” | 8/28/2024
      • Kate Addleman-Frankel (Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University): "Introducing: Photography from Mexico at the Johnson Museum" | 9/25/2024
      • Christopher Heuer: “Antiquity Without Humans” | 10/23/2024
      • Alex Kitnick (Bard College): “Imitate Baldessari: Artists, Teachers, and the Making of Conceptual Art” | 11/6/2024
    • TAE Material + Visual Worlds:
      • T. J. Demos (Professor and Patricia Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair; Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz): Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform | 10/10/2024
      • Chloe Ahmann (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Cornell University): Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse | 11/7/2024

    CINEMA

    • Harpur Cinema:
      • 23 Mile (Mitch McCabe, 2024, 78 mins) In Person | 9/27 & 9/29/2024
      • Skip Norman: Here and There (Program 1: The DFFB Years 1966-1969) Curated by Jesse Cumming, 105 mins | 10/18 & 10/20/2024
      • Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988, 105 mins) | 10/25 & 10/27/2024
      • Union (Brett Story and Stephehn Maing, 2024, 102 mins) | 11/1 & 11/3/2024
      • A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibbiser, 2003, 78 mins) In Person! | 11/8 & 11/10/2024
      • In Our Day (Hong Songsoo, 2023, 84 mins) | 11/15 & 11/17/2024
      • Landfall (Cecilia Aldarondo, 2020, 94 mins) | 11/22 & 11/24/2024
    • Visiting Film/Video Artists Speakers' Series:
      • Alee Peoples | 9/19/2024
      • Saif Alsaegh | 10/24/2024
      • Madison Brookshire | 10/29/2024
      • Dr. Seth Barry Watter | 11/4/2024
    • Multi-technological experiential performance "Eternal Conduit" | 11/22/2024
    • The Fall Student Film and Video Screening | 12/6/2024

    MUSIC

    • Faculty Recital: i3˚ Jazz Trio | 9/15/2024
    • Family Weekend | 9/21/2024
    • Voice Area Recital | 10/10/2024
    • Residency Masterclass: Matthew Giallongo | 10/16/2025
    • Residency Recital: Matthew Giallongo | 10/18/2024
    • Student Recital: Abigail Sprague, soprano | 10/19/2024
    • Memories from the Mediterranean | 10/20/2024
    • Graduate Recital, Felipe Alvarez, tenor | 10/25/2024
    • Flute Studio Recital | 10/26/2024
    • Faculty Recital: Harmonies Across Continents | 10/27/2024
    • Voice Area Recital | 10/31/2024
    • Low Brass Ensemble (with trumpets) | 11/3/2024
    • Voice Area Recital | 11/7/2024
    • Choir Concert | 11/8/2024
    • Harpur Studio Jazz Band at Atomic Tom's | 11/8/2024
    • Concerto Competition | 11/9/2024
    • Faculty Recital: The Lyric Sounds of Flute and Piano | 11/10/2024
    • Laptop Orchestra | 11/13/2024
    • Children's Opera | 11/14/2024 & 11/17/2024
    • Collegium Musicum sampler | 11/14/2024
    • Children's Opera | 11/15/2024
    • Wind Symphony Concert | 11/16/2024
    • Flute Ensemble | 11/19/2024
    • Music NOW! | 11/20/2024
    • Harpur Jazz Ensemble |11/21/2024
    • Percussion Studio Recital | 11/22/2024
    • HARMS Quartet | 11/23/2024 & 11/24/2024
    • Orchestra Concert | 11/23/2024
    • Collegium Musicum | 11/24/2024
    • Saxophone Studio Recital | 11/24/2024
    • Piano Ensemble | 12/2/2024
    • Percussion Ensemble & Steel Drum Band | 12/3/2024
    • Singing Chinese Recital | 12/4/2024
    • Harpur Studio Jazz Band | 12/5/2024

    THEATRE

    • Theatre Welcome Week | 8/19 - 8/25/2024
    • Main Stage:
      • Sweat | 10/24 - 10/27/2024
      • Anything Goes | 11/15 - 11/24/2024
    • Studio Shows:
      • The Most Massive Woman Wins | 9/27 - 9/29/2024
      • Powell (Africana Studies and Theatre) | 10/18/2024
      • Bull in a China Shop | 10/31 - 11/3/2024

    ANDERSON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

    • Summer Concerts:
      • The Drifters, The Platters & Cornell Gunter's Coasters  7/26/2024
      • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis  8/14/2024
    • Center Series:
      • The Hit Men | 9/14/2024
      • Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert | 10/10/2024
      • The Soul Rebels | 11/1/2024
      • American Ballet Theatre Studio Company | 11/ 9/ 2024
      • Galumpha | 11/24/2024
      • The Kingdom Choir Christmas Concert |12/14/2024

    BU ART MUSEUM

    • Exhibitions:
      • Homelands: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art Across New York | 9/5/24 - 12/7/24
    • Events: 
      • Opening reception: Homelands: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Art Across New York | 9/5/24
      • Artists and Curator in Conversation: Brandon Lazore, Hayden Haynes, Margaret Jacobs and Natasha Smoke Santiago with guest curator, Luanne Redeye | 10/17/24
      • Ƶ-made basket facilitated by Black Ash Basketmakers, Binghamton Haudenosaunee Festival | 10/19/24
      • Talk with filmmaker, Caleb G. Abrams (Onöndowa'ga:', Wolf Clan) (BUAM & Cinema) | 11/6/24
      • Craft & Chill #StressFreeBing (BUAM & SOAR) | 12/5/24

    CREATIVE WRITING

    • Common Ground Reading | 9/20/24  | 11/8/24
    • A Poetry reading | Q&A | Book Signing with Visiting Writer Eugenia Leigh | 10/9/24
    • Distinguished Writers Series:
      • A Reading | Q&A | Book Signing with Curtis Chin (Memoirist): Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant | 11/12/24

AY 2023-24

  • Spring 2024

    SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    • Undergrad Mixer @ Cinema 3/15/24 
    • Tips for the Real World I (SOAR & Fleishman Career Center) | 4/18/24
    • Calligraphy Workshop with Nana Odeh (SOAR & CMENAS) | 4/26/24 - 4/27/24
    • Inaugural Student Showcase: A Three-day Festival of the Arts | 5/1 - 5/3/2024

    ART & DESIGN

    • Exhibitions:
      • Andrew Johnson: "Assessment" 1/25/24-2/22/24 
      • Sasha Stile’s Exhibition: Artificial Intelligence: Are You Ready for the Future? Poetry and Art in the Posthuman Age | 3/11/24-3/21/24 (ART AND DESIGN | BU ART MUSEUM | CREATIVE WRITING | MATERIAL + VISUAL WORLDS)
      • Zahara Gómez: "Treasures" 3/25/24-3/29/24
      • Senior BFA Exhibition "Everything I’ve Never Said" 4/1/24 - 4/18/24
      • Senior BA Exhibition 5/3/24 - 5/10/24
    • Events:
      • Opening reception: Andrew Johnson: "Assessment" | 1/25/24
      • Drawathon (24h drawing marathon) | 2/16/24 - 2/17/24
      • ART AND DESIGN | BU ART MUSEUM | CREATIVE WRITING | MATERIAL + VISUAL WORLDS presenting
        • Opening reception: Sasha Stile’s Exhibition: Artificial Intelligence: Are You Ready for the Future? Poetry and Art in the Posthuman Age | 3/14/24
        • AI and Creativity: Debates and Applications panel discussion hosted by Leslie Heywood with Sasha Stiles, Gregory Hallenbeck, and Christopher Swift | 3/14/24
      • Opening reception: Zahara Gómez: "Treasures" | 3/28/24

    ART HISTORY

    • Crossing the Boundaries XXIX Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: "Ghostly Matters" | 4/12/24 - 4/13/24
    • VizCult series:
      • Tina Rivers Ryan: “Electric Op” (Buffalo AKG Art Museum) | 1/31/24 
      • Christopher Nygren: “Toward an Ecology of Early Modern Art” (University of Pittsburgh, History of Art & Architecture Department) | 2/7/24
      • Deniz Türker: “The Last Ottoman Palace: Istanbul’s Hills,Romantic Gardens and Flat Packs” (Rutgers University, Art History Department) | 3/27/24
      • Denva Gallant (Ferber Lecture) | 4/10/24
      • Jessica Maratsos | 5/1/24
    • TAE Material + Visual Worlds:
      • Screening of "The Art of Un-War" (2022, dir. Maria Niro) followed by a Q&A with the director | 1/26/24
      • An artist's talk with Krzysztof Wodiczko | 2/2/24
      • The High Desert: Black, Punk, Nowhere: A reading and book signing by James Spooner | 2/24/24
      • ART AND DESIGN | BU ART MUSEUM | CREATIVE WRITING | MATERIAL + VISUAL WORLDS presenting:
        Poetry Reading from “Technelegy” and Book Signing by Sasha Stiles | 3/13/24

    CINEMA

    • Harpur Cinema:
      • Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita) | 2/9/24 & 2/11/24
      • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) | 2/16/24 & 2/18/24
      • Metropolis (Fritz Lang) | 2/23/24 & 2/25/24
      • Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky) | 3/15/24 & 3/17/24
      • Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati) | 3/22/24 & 3/24/24
      • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves) | 4/5/24 & 4/7/24
      • Boat People (Ann Hui) | 4/12/24 & 4/14/24
    • Visiting Film & Video Artists & Speakers Series:
      • Rajee Samarasinghe: "Strangers: Films by Rajee  Samarasinghe" | 3/12/24
      • Christopher Harris | 3/14/24
      • Sheri Wills | 3/26/24
      • Luther Price 35mm Slides, presented by Tara Nelson | 4/4/24
    • "Cut and Scratch" - a brutal avant-garde exhibition by Tomonari Nishikawa and Benjamin Stone
      4/5/24
    • A Tribute to Vincent Grenier, Professor Emeritus (1948–2023)
      4/8/24

    MUSIC

    • Kate Dreyfuss, violin | 1/27/24 
    • The Ƶ Chamber Singers | 1/28/24 
    • Composition | 2/8/24  
      Operalogue (Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica by G. Puccini) | 2/10/24
      University Wind Symphony (Winter 2024) | 2/17/24
      Music at Bartle Library | 2/22/24 
    • Momenta at the Art Museum - String Quartet | 2/23/24
    • Opera: Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, by G. Puccini |2/23/24 & 2/25/24
    • Faculty Recital: The Light We Can Hear: Jeanne Sperber (flute), Zachary Sweet (cello), Michael Salmirs (piano), and Monteith McCollum (sound and video artist) | 3/17/24
    • University Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winners
      3/23/24
    • Opera Scene | 4/5/24
    • Flute Studio Recital | 4/6/24  
    • Music NOW! | 4/6/24
    • Graduate Recital: Laura Forero, soprano | 4/7/24
    • Choir Concert | 4/7/24
    • Violin Studio Recital | 4/11/24  
    • Residency Rectial: Andrew Hires, bass-baritone | 4/12/24  
    • Student Recital: The Time the Axeman Came to Town | 4/13/24
    • Wind Symphony Concert | 4/13/24
    • Low Brass Recital | 4/13/24
    • Masterclass: Andrew Hires, bass-baritone | 4/13/24
    • Masters Recital: Kiara Walker | 4/14/24
    • Faculty Recital: Music from Latin America | 4/14/24
    • Flute Ensemble Concert Casadesus | 4/16/24
    • Harpur Jazz Ensemble | 4/18/24
    • Harpur Jazz Ensemble: Quartet | 4/18/24
    • Harpur Studio Jazz Band | 4/19/24
    • Senior Recital: Valerie Lasser, soprano | 4/19/24
    • Junior Recital: Abigail Sprague, soprano | 4/19/24
    • Senior Recital: Esther Nikolic | 4/20/24
    • Masters Recital: Calysta Jacobs | 4/20/24
    • Percussion Studio Recital | 4/20/24
    • Faculty Recital: Jinah Lee | 4/21/24
    • Masters Recital: Matthew Merolla | 4/21/24
    • Word of Mouth (CREATIVE WRITING, MUSIC, BU Art Museum) | 4/25/24
    • Junior Recital: Jessica Dugatkin, mezzo and Kyle McAfee, bass | 4/26/24  
    • Senior Recital: Riya Bolander | 4/26/24   
    • Senior Recital: Arianna Anderson, Devyn Jenks, Sarah Petrucelli, flute  
      4/27/24          
    • Collegium Musicum | 4/27/24 
    • Carmina Burana | 4/28/24
    • Piano Ensemble | 4/29/24
    • Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum Band | 4/30/24
    • Nukporfe​ | 5/3/24

    THEATRE

    • Main Stage:
      • Three Sisters | 2/22/24 - 2/25/24
      • The Light in the Piazza | 4/11/24 - 4/18/24
    • Studio Shows:
      • In The Works - Choreography: Andha-The Blind by Jithendra Vidyapathy | Pandemonium by Erica Gundersen | 3/21/24-3/24/24
      • Alums Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Trey Santiago-Hudson Share Insights on the Craft of Acting | 4/10/24 - 4/11/24 
      • Graduate Thesis: Acting project: I Used to Have a Dream (Written, performed, and staged by Alnara Tleugazinova) | 4/19/24-4/21/24 
      • NATURAL CAUSES - a play in progress | 5/4/24
    • Business of Entertainment Talk with Evan Lerner ’96, Executive Vice President of Development and Production, MY Entertainment LLC.
      3/22/24
    • Dance Recital | 5/5/24

    ANDERSON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

    • Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra | 2/10/24
    • Red Hot Chilli Pipers | 3/15/24
    • The Magic of Rob Lake | 5/1/24

    BU ART MUSEUM

    • Exhibitions:
      • Painted Exchanges: Artists and Paintmakers, 1968-76 | 2/1/24–5/11/24
      • David Hammons: Street Specific | 2/1/24–5/11/24
      • The Intimate Photographic Style of Larry Fink | 2/1/24–5/11/24
      • Käthe Kollwitz: Timeless Desolation | 2/1/24–5/11/24
      • Total Eclipse of the Art: A pop-up exhibition celebrating celestial bodies | 4/2/24–4/11/24
    • Events:
      • Opening reception: Painted Exchanges: Artists and Paintmakers, 1968-76 | 2/1/24
      • Leonard Bocour: A Legacy of Generosity | 2/17/24
      • ART AND DESIGN | BU ART MUSEUM | CREATIVE WRITING | MATERIAL + VISUAL WORLDS presenting:
        Poetry Reading from “Technelegy” and Book Signing by Sasha Stiles | 3/13/24
      • Ulysses Jackson, Senior Formulator, Golden Artist Colors | 3/16/24
      • Photomotion |4/9/24
      • The Modern Artist | 4/11/24
      • Body Language | 4/17/24
      • BUAM Workshops: TikTok Workshop | 4/18/24
      • Black Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon | 4/18/24
      • Family Day | 4/20/24
      • Word of Mouth (CREATIVE WRITING, MUSIC, BU Art Museum) | 4/25/24
      • Beyond the Field In Plain Sight: the David Hammons BUAM Artist-in-Residence Program | 4/27/24 - 4/28/24

    CREATIVE WRITING

      • Common Ground Reading Series | 2/23/24 | 4/17/24
      • ART AND DESIGN | BU ART MUSEUM | CREATIVE WRITING | MATERIAL + VISUAL WORLDS presenting:
        Poetry Reading from “Technelegy” and Book Signing by Sasha Stiles | 3/13/24
      • The Distinguished Writers Series:A Reading & Conversation with Angie Cruz | 3/20/24
      • A Reading with Poet Lindsay Bernal | 4/5/24
      • Word of Mouth (CREATIVE WRITING, MUSIC, BU Art Museum) | 4/25/24
  • Fall 2023

    SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

      • Meet the new SoAR Founding Director | 11/2023
      • Gradute Mixer "Greet the Grads" | 12/1/23 
      • Cookies and Cocoa | 12/5/23 

    ART & DESIGN

    • Exhibitions:
        • Jeremy Bolen: "Sulfur Skies" | 8/31 - 9/21/23
        • Daesha Devon Harris: "Our Souls Are Kindred with the Tide" | 10/5 - 11/11/23
        • "Infinite Realities" (Pop-up Art Show)
          Exhibition by students in the classes Digital Media in Motion, Media and Visual Narrative, and Intermediate Photography | 12/8 - 12/9/23
        • Site-Specific Installation class exhibition (Bundy Museum) | 12/1/23 - 1/1/24
    • Events: 
      • Opening reception: Jeremy Bolen: "Sulfur Skies" | 8/31/23
      • Opening reception: Daesha Devon Harris: "Our Souls Are Kindred with the Tide" | 10/5/23

    ART HISTORY

    • VizCult Series:
      • Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo): The Bauhaus's Missing Archive: Designers and the Holocaust | 9/13/23
      • Ana Howie (Cornell University): Women, Painters, and Water: Gender and Materiality in Genoese Garden Portraits | 10/4/23
      • Amanda Gilvin (Davis Museum at Wellesley College): Crafts of Citizenry: Art and the State of Niger | 10/25/23
      • John Kuhn (BU): “Shod Their Heads in Their Canoos”: Haudenosaunee Technology and Andrew Marvell’s Appleton House (1650)  | 11/15/23

    CINEMA

    • Harpur Cinema:
      • Vivre Sa Vie (France) | 9/29/23 & 10/1/23
      • The Inheritance (USA) | 10/13/23 & 10/15/23
      • Chungking Express (Hong Kong) | 10/27/23 & 10/29/23
      • Godland (Iceland) | 11/3/23 & 11/5/23
      • Teorema (Italy) | 11/10/23 & 11/12/23
      • Superfest Disability Film Festival | 11/17/23 & 11/19/23
      • Feet in the Water, Head on Fire (Canada) | 12/1/23 & 12/3/23
    • Visiting Film/Video Artists Speakers Series:
      • Joshua Gen Solondz | 11/9/23
    • BU Film Salon - Screening
      12/1/23
    • The 14th annual Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF) Binghamton
      12/2-12/3/23

    MUSIC

    • Masters Recital: Min Kim | 8/26/2023
    • Voice Area Student Recital Series: Graduate Student Showcase | 9/14/2023
    • Modern Medieval | 10/25/2023      
    • Concerto Competition Performance | 11/11/2023      
    • Collegium Musicum | 11/12/2023   
    • Music NOW! | 11/15/2023      
    • Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord | 11/19/2023      
    • Low Brass Recital | 11/19/2023      
    • Flute Studio Recital | 11/30/2023      
    • Hansel & Gretel | 11/30/23, 12/1/23, 12/3/23
    • Masters Recital: Kaymber Felton | 12/1/2023        
    • Masters Recital: Elizabeth Strickland | 12/2/2023        
    • Piano Ensemble Concert | 12/4/2023        
    • Flute Ensemble Concert | 12/5/2023        
    • Guest Artist: Michael Poll, guitar
      12/6/2023        
    • Voice Area Recital | 12/7/23            
    • Harpur Studio Jazz | 12/8/2023

    THEATRE

    • Main Stage:
      • Envoy | 10/12 - 10/29/23
      • Bera Handa | 11/16 - 11/19/23

    ANDERSON CENTER

    • Step Afrika! | 9/30/23
    • Disney Pixar's Coco Live-to-film Concert | 10/12/23
    • Ranky Tanky + Very special guest Ms.Lisa Fischer | 11/2/23
    • Dakhabrakha | 11/20/23
    • Vienna Boys Choir: Christmas in Vienna | 12/7/23

    BU ART MUSEUM

    • Exhibitions:
      • Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist
        9/7/23 – 12/9/23 | Main gallery
      • Memory & Soul: Black Art from the Permanent Collection​​​​
        9/7/23 – 12/9/23 | Mezzanine gallery
    • Events:
      • Opening reception: Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist | 9/7/23
      • Join Jeremy Boyle and Derek Scott at WHRW 90.5FM for 'Witches Flu' (this program was offered in conjunction with the exhibition Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist) | 9/22 – 11/17/23
      • BU Family Weekend: Live screen printing and free t-shirts and bags celebrating “Black Art @ BUAM” | 10/6 - 10/7/23
      • Homecoming Weekend: Live screen printing and free t-shirts and bags celebrating “Black Art @ BUAM” | 10/14/23
      • Fall Ƶ Family Day | 10/21/23
      • Ed Wilson: Claiming Black Public Space | 11/9/23
      • A lecture with artist Kevin Beasley | 11/16/23
      • Night at the Museum (Stress-free Bing) | 12/7/2023

    CREATIVE WRITING

      • The Distinguished Writers Series: Victoria Chang | 10/17/23