Arts

“Twelve Songs for Twelve Poets,” an in-person workshop/performance with Dr. Anthony Geist and Spanish singer, musician and ethnomusicologist Paco Díez.

Artist, writer, and poet Daniela Molnar and Graphics Editor for the Washington Geologic Survey, Daniel Coe will discuss their complementary engagement with the language of cartography as a means of mapping change and inspiring emotive and embodied responses to climate change.

Meet artist Malini Gupta whose book, The Fortune Teller, is included in the Collins Library exhibit Changing the Conversation. As the artist states, "through this work I seek to investigate the deeply entrenched gender biases that plague the Indian society. It is comprised of 2 parts: part one is the game of Fortune Teller; part two is my personal childhood story. The Fortune Teller -- an unassuming childhood game that predicts your future based on choices you make.

The Collins Library is hosting an exhibit in the West Reading room related to America's war in Vietnam: Dissent and Resistance with the Military (see website https://wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/exhibits).

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Dr. Siu offers a full reading of her latest children's book, Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over! and reflects on the dangerous foundational fairytales still taught at schools, their origins, and the need to contest them with the power of our stories. What does a happily-ever-after actually look like in the context of truth-banning?

Enjoy Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano with Jessica Hall, collaborative pianist; and guests Peter Adams, piano; Brian Smith, drums; and Rob Hutchinson, bass; performing works by Barbara Strozzi, Henri Duparc, H. Leslie Adams, Florence B. Price, and more!  

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff and Community Music participants.

Nope is a 2022 American neo-Western science fiction horror film written, directed and co-produced by Jordan Peele under his Monkeypaw Productions banner. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse-wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object.

The first of two events as part of the Fall series, "The Fabric of Memory: Music, Poetry and Photography," public scholar and University of Washington professor, Dr. Anthony Geist will join us for a special virtual event. Dr. Geist will offer an hour-long workshop on his Passing the Torch: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and its Legacy of Hope (1997),  a bilingual photo-essay on the 2,800 young Americans that between 1936 and 1938 joined the cause of Spanish democracy under the banner of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Son of a Spanish political exile interred in Gurs concentration camp in France, Raymond Villalba continues the fight for social justice and the defense of democracy and freedoms. He will join Puget Sound for a special virtual event hosted by Professor Nagore Sedano Naveira’s Spanish 404 seminar, “The Returning Resistance: Memory, Gender, and Nationalisms in Spain,” and all campus community members are invited to join the conversation at 2:00 p.m.

Join us for a gala performance of current members and alumni featuring Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, and works by Brahms, Hutchinson, and Price; joined by Puget Sound's chamber orchestra, conducted by Steven Zopfi. This is a free concert presented by the School of Music and the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations.