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Front Cover: Mia Cranwill (1880–1972), Senate Casket, 1924. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
spring 2016
Though the Arts and Crafts movement
was an international endeavor, Ireland’s
particular experience was especially
politically inflected. Indeed, this February the McMullen Museum of Art at
Boston College will feature an exhibition dedicated to the Arts and Crafts
movement as it was experienced in
the context of cultural nationalism and
major political transformation. The Arts
and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish
is the first comprehensive exhibition
to look specifically at the Irish dimension of this international movement.
uring the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, an international
Arts and Crafts movement swept across
Europe and America, in part a response
to changes in modes of production during this period. As machines churned
out mass-produced lower quality goods,
a call arose for a return to traditional
craftsmanship and high standards of design and artistry. As the movement took
hold it forged bonds among architects,
artists, and artisans, all of whom committed themselves to both the aesthetic
and functional integrity of their works.
Furthermore, members of the Arts and
Crafts movement shared a belief in their
ability to inspire social and aesthetic
reform. Arts and Crafts practitioners created beautiful and functional objects—
whether of stone, metal, leather, glass,
textiles, or wood—in the belief that
such work could break down hierarchical
distinctions between fine and applied
art, and prove that aesthetic beauty and
functional integrity could be united.
The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making it Irish
February 6 – June 5, 2016
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Harry Clarke (1889–1931), The Baptism of St.
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embody both Celtic Revivalist and preModernist visual motifs to demonstrate
how the Irish Arts and Crafts looked back
in order to move forward. Anchoring
the exhibition are works from Ireland’s
major twentieth-century Arts and Crafts
achievement, the Honan Chapel at University College Cork. Treasures from the
Honan, including metalworks, textiles,
and illuminations, will be displayed
for the first time outside Cork City.
Free Docent Tours: Available on Sundays at
2:00 p.m. starting February 7.
Note: Extended hours and dates closed
are listed at www.bc.edu/artmuseum
February 6–June 5, 2015
M–F, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.; Sa–Su, 12–5 p.m.
McMullen Museum of Art
Exhibition Hours and Tours:
Cluna Studios, Pair of candlesticks, c. 1925. Stained
wood, paint, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin,
DF:1977.16A–B.
William A. Scott (designer)/Edmond Johnson Ltd.
(maker), Missal stand, 1916. Brass and enamel,
Honan Chapel Collection, University College Cork.
The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making
It Irish runs from Saturday, February 6
to Sunday, June 5. The opening reception is on Monday, February 8, from
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. A series of related
lectures, musical performances, and
tours will follow over the next months..
The Irish movement arose concurrently
with the well-known Irish Literary Revival, and together these two initiatives
demonstrate how cultural innovation
emerged as the country struggled to create new identities and reimagine a preconquest ascendancy in an increasingly
volatile present. During the period of
1885–1930 Ireland experienced transformative political and social upheaval as it
moved toward independence and partition in 1921. The context of cultural revivalism expressed through an embrace
of Ireland’s early Christian “golden age”
motifs deeply influenced the country’s
Arts and Crafts movement. The McMullen’s exhibition features objects that
Organized by the McMullen Museum, the exhibition is curated by Vera
Kreilkamp and Diana Larsen in collaboration with Virginia Teehan (University
College Cork). The Museum is indebted
to members of Boston College’s renowned interdisciplinary Irish Studies
faculty as well as numerous scholars
from Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Making It Irish has been underwritten
by Boston College, the Patrons of the
McMullen Museum, and an anonymous
donor in honor of Colman Welby, with
transportation provided by Aer Lingus.
scholars including Nicola Gordon Bowe,
Janice Helland, Marjorie Howes, Paul
Larmour, Tomás Ó Carragáin, Fintan
O’Toole, and Nancy Netzer. Each of
these scholars has contributed an illustrated essay to the exhibition’s catalogue,
edited by co-curator Vera Kreilkamp.
February 6 – June 5, 2016
McMullen Museum of Art
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The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish
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s the summer winds down, a
brewing hurricane leaves New
York City residents stranded in their
apartments for the weekend. Longtime couple Emma and John could
not care less—in fact, they’re giddy
with excitement at the prospect of a
whole weekend together without work
or responsibilities. It turns out to be
exactly what they need…until John
proposes and Emma turns him down.
From this shocking moment on Emma
takes the audience on a riveting
journey across sea and time as she
shares the story of her grandparents’
passionate yet heartrending love affair.
The setting is the coast of County
Clare, Ireland. Her grandfather, Aidan,
is a rugged and adventurous sailor
who has grown up with myths about
the selkie, a seal that can shed its skin
and become human. When he meets
Clare, a free-spirited selkie herself,
his life is forever altered as the two
fall passionately in love. As scenes
Poetry Days Presents Afaa Michael Weaver
shift between Emma and John and
Aidan and Clare, this spellbinding
play confronts its audience with how
stories of our past affect our present
in ways both powerful
and profound.
The Boston College
Theatre Department
is thrilled to welcome
the writer, Patricia
Noonan (’07), back
to the Heights. Once
part of the prestigious
Presidential Scholars
Program, Noonan
herself is excited to
include BC in this play’s
journey. Inspired by Irish
myths and stories of her childhood,
she credits Boston College too as
formative for her career. In her words,
“Boston College is one of the reasons
I am the writer and actor I am today.
The Presidential Scholars Program
allowed me the intellectual scope and
financial freedom to pursue a career in
the arts, the multidisciplinary English
and Theatre Departments allowed me
to develop skills both onstage and in
the writer’s chair, and
my classmates continue
to challenge and inspire
me even years after
graduation.” Joining
Patricia in bringing this
show to the Robsham
stage is an all-star
crew, including awardwinning composer
Amanda Jacobs, director
Igor Goldin, and the
students and staff
at Boston College.
Learning How to Drown will take
the stage from February 17 to
the 21, with 7:30 p.m. shows on
Wednesday–Saturday and a 2:00
p.m. matinee on Sunday afternoon.
Purchase tickets at bc.edu/tickets.
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his past fall, the Arts Council had its
most exciting fall semester to date.
From our annual events to debut celebrations, we were constantly challenged
and inspired by the art community at
BC. In October, thanks to support from
the Office of Student Involvement, we
opened the new Carney Art Gallery.
November’s annual Career Night for the
Arts was a hit, featuring 20 dynamic BC
alumni working in a range of creative
careers. As December hit, the Arts
Council and the Robsham Theater Arts
Center presented the first ever Week of
Dance, which showcased the superbly
talented dancers on campus while
encouraging all students to try out dancing workshops for themselves.
We are excited now for the spring
semester. With over 50 events in this
semester’s calendar, there is no lack of
exhibitions, lectures, and workshops
combining all disciplines. Everyone
should mark their calendars for the 18th
annual Arts Festival, our biggest event
of the year, which unites over a thou-
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With over 150 ecclesiastical and domestic objects on display, the exhibition
examines the Arts and Crafts movement
in Ireland within the contexts of nationalism, feminism, Celtic Revivalism, and
Modernism. This interdisciplinary project
has gathered catalogue contributions
from major Irish and North American
Learning How to Drown
sand students, staff, faculty, and surrounding community members in celebration of the arts. This year it will run
from Thursday April 28, to Saturday,
April 30, from 12:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
The Festival culminates each year with
the recognition of particular BC faculty
and alumni who have made amazing
achievements in and for the arts. The
Faculty Award recipient this year will go
to T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. (’71), one of
the original founders of the BC Music
Department, who has also served as its
chair and as a distinguished professor.
He has produced five Jesuit operas that
have been performed all over the world,
reinvigorating a tradition of Jesuits in
music and promoting Jesuit culture in
Western artistic practice.
The Alumni Award recipient this year is
Nick Scandalios (CSOM ’87). Through
the Nederlander Organization, Nick’s
work has had an international impact,
leading him to be named one of the top
10 most influential people of Broadway
to Baltimore after only two years and
began the first of a 15-year career in
factory work alongside his father.
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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faa Michael Weaver is no stranger
to hardship. He grew up in East
Baltimore in 1951, a time when this
segregated neighborhood was one of
the most dangerous in the country.
Precocious from a young age, he
worked diligently to graduate from the
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at only
sixteen as a National Merit Finalist.
Though he immediately enrolled at the
University of Maryland, he returned
Rather than regretting any time spent
working in warehouses, Weaver
acknowledges how these years were
instrumental for the poetic journey
that has brought him the success he
holds today. Writing against adversity
honed his diligence, and his indelible
ties to the working class give his
poetry emotional depth accessible to
the common man. Weaver also picked
up tai chi during these factory years,
which instigated a lifelong relationship
with Chinese culture and earned
him the nickname of “flower of the
warehouse.” This nickname echoes in
The Plum Flower Dance, the title of a
collection that won Weaver the 2008
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.
Now at Simmons College as a
professor of English, Weaver’s career
has been triumphant. His extensive
list of publications includes Timber
and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems,
My Father’s Geography, and his most
recent, City of Eternal Spring. The
Government of Nature is another
stunning work that earned him the
prestigious Kinglsey Tufts Award,
the largest monetary award for a
single collection of poetry, which
is designed to encourage artists in
the middle of their careers to push
their work beyond its limits. Just as
extensive as his publications are his
fellowships and awards, which include
a Fulbright appointment in Taiwan, a
Pew Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes,
and a Gold Friendship Medal from the
Chinese Writers’ Association in Beijing.
The Lowell Humanities Series
is proud to announce that Afaa
Michael Weaver will be the guest
for this year’s Poetry Days. The
title of his talk is “Headphones and
Speakerphones, Ideas of Voice in
Contemporary Poetry.” It will take
place in Devlin Hall, Room 101, on
Wednesday, April 6, at 7:00 p.m.
Imagined Memories
last year. Besides
this he has chaired
the Broadway
League and is
actively committed
to humanitarian
causes as demonstrated by his work
with Broadway
Release, Photography by
Equity Cares.
Nicholai Go
The plays he has
produced over the past 25 years have
won numerous Tony and Drama Desk
Awards.
During the Arts Awards Celebration
and Reception, students who have
displayed exceptional talent will be recognized as well. The ceremony will be
held Friday, April 29, at 4:00 p.m. in the
Stokes Art Tent.
For more information about the Festival
and a complete schedule of events,
visit the Arts Festival website at bc.edu/
artsfestival.
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his spring, Boston College’s
Institute for Liberal Arts will
host an interdisciplinary symposium
entitled The Kurdish Question:
Ethnicity, Identity, and Integration
April 27–28. Involving departments
ranging from Music to Political
Science, this symposium will
include events from Kurdish film
screenings to lectures and panel
discussions. On the symposium’s
last evening, the internationally
acclaimed Hugo Wolf String Quartet
of Vienna will premiere Imagined
Memories, Associate Professor Ralf
Gawlick’s newest composition.
Imagined Memories, or Bîraninen
Xeyalî, is an autobiographical piece
that, in Gawlick’s words, “probes
into the realms of a relationship that
never was, a bond with my biological
mother whom I never met.” Gawlick
was born to a young Kurdish woman,
Naciye Zeren, who risked much to
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ensure his life. Leaving him in an
orphanage in Germany she returned
home. Drawing from this experience,
Gawlick believes that the preservation
of our identities “depends upon the
active presence and cultivation of
memory, real or imagined,” and this
is exactly what this piece aims to do.
In his words, “Imagined Memories is
my musical archive: intimate musical
reflections based on imagined
memories of a distant, severed past.”
As the piece is played, the listener is
brought through a series of musical
memories, from Gawlick imagining
his own, to him imagining those of
Naciye, and finally to Naciye’s.
Boston College is proud to host
the Hugo Wolf Quartet, which is
coming expressly to perform this
piece. Founded in Vienna in 1993,
the Quartet soon won coveted
awards such as the Special Prize of
the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
and the European Chamber Music
Prize. The Hugo Wolf Quartet
has become a major name in the
international chamber music scene,
and it performs its own concert
series in the renowned Wiener
Konzerthaus Concert Hall in Vienna.
The concert will be held on April 28
in St. Mary’s Chapel at 7:30 p.m. It
will be followed by a performance of
the work in Carnegie Hall on April 29.
It is sure to be a stunning debut, so
be sure to mark it in your calendar.
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Exhibitions
McMullen Museum of Art
Museum Hours: M-F, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.; Sa-Su, 12:00 – 5:00
p.m. Closed March 25 & 27, April 18, and May 30. Docent tours
on Sundays at 2:00 p.m. starting February 7. 617-552-8587.
The Arts and Crafts Movement:
Making it Irish
Saturday, February 6 – Sunday, June 5
This is the first comprehensive exhibition of Irish Arts and
Crafts practice and it celebrates the centenary of one of Ireland’s
major twentieth-century aesthetic achievements, the Honan
Chapel in Cork. Making It Irish demonstrates how extraordinary
cultural innovation emerged as a country struggled to create new
identities and to reimagine a pre-conquest national culture in an
increasingly volatile present.
John J. Burns Library
Library Hours starting January 19: M-Tu and Th-F 9:00 a.m. –
5:00 p.m.; W 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.; Sat 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
617-552-3282.
Recreating Identity: The Arts and Crafts
Movement in Ireland
Monday, February 1 – Sunday, June 12
The Arts and Crafts movement that first emerged in England
in the 1880s took on a distinctive character in Ireland, where
its aesthetic and social ideals coalesced around the drive to
forge a new national identity. Craft and industrial societies were
established under the movement’s aegis to promote handpress
printing and bookbinding, needlework and lace-making,
metalwork and stained glass, and other applied arts. This
exhibition complements McMullen Museum’s spring show, The
Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish.
Note: Please call or check websites for extended hours, parking
information, or dates when each venue is closed.
January
21 Thursday
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The Visual Arts: Making Democracy
Visible
The Arts and the Culture of Democracy Series
6:00 p.m. Devlin Hall, Room 101
Liza Lou, Ramiro Gomez, Lawrence Weschler, and Edward
Hirsch discuss the visual arts and the American democratic
vision. 617-552-6952.
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Los Olvidados (The Forgotten)
Art Installation
Devlin Hall, Room 100 and Room 101
One-day pop-up show by visual artist Ramiro Gomez.
27 Wednesday
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Lev Golinkin: A Backpack, a Bear, and
Eight Crates of Vodka
Lowell Humanities Series
7:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Lev Golinkin is a BC alumnus and author of A Backpack, a
Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka. He has published essays on
the Ukraine crisis in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and
more. 617-552-2203.
28 Thursday – 31 Sunday
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Almost Maine
THURS-SAT 7:30 p.m.; Sun 2:00 p.m. Bonn Studio
Theater, Robsham Theater Arts Center
One cold Friday night the residents of Almost, Maine, fall in and
out of love in the strangest ways. Admission: $15; seniors or w/
BC ID $10. www.bc.edu/tickets.
31 Sunday
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Family Concert 10th Anniversary
4:00 p.m. Lyons Hall, Room 423
Opera scenes from The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel,
Brundibar, and others. Instrumental selections by Bach and
Saint-Saëns. Directed by Barbara S. Gawlick. 617-552-6004.
February
4 Thursday
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Concert of Scottish, Québecois, and Celtic
music: Natalie Haas and Yann Falquet
Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop, and Lecture Series
6:30 p.m. Brighton Campus, Cadigan Alumni Center
Cellist Natalie Haas and guitarist/vocalist Yann Falquet perform
Scottish, Québecois, and Celtic music. 617-552-6396.
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8 Monday
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Opening Reception for The Arts and
Crafts Movement: Making It Irish
7:00 p.m. McMullen Museum of Art, Devlin Hall, Room 110
Join the McMullen Museum for a special evening viewing of its
latest exhibition. 617-552-8587.
Catherine Hilkert: The Word of God
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Entrusted to the Entire Church and the
Voices of Women. Candlemas Lecture.
Lowell Humanities Series
7:00 p.m. TBD
Mary Catherine Hilkert of Notre Dame University is the author
of Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of
Women Today. She has an extensive list of accolades, including
the Washington Theological Union’s Sophia Award for Theological
Excellence in service of ministry. 617-552-2203.
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Chi-Chen Wu, piano
8:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
The award-winning pianist performs Schumann’s Carnaval and
works by Ginastera and Opel. 617-552-6004.
9 Tuesday
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An Introduction: The Arts and Crafts
Movement: Making It Irish
March
12 Tuesday
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2 Wednesday
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Leslie Jamison: The Empathy Exams
Lowell Humanities Series
7:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Leslie Jamison’s New York Times bestseller, The Empathy Exams,
won the 2012 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. A graduate of
Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Jamison is finishing her
Ph.D. at Yale University. 617-552-2203.
15 Tuesday
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Works for Percussion. Boston
Percussion Group
16 Wednesday
Colm Tóibín: The Knowledge and the
Power: Writing and Violence
4:00 p.m. Devlin Hall, Room 101
Paul Larmour (Queen’s University, Belfast), author of The Arts
and Crafts Movement in Ireland, will speak on the themes of the
McMullen exhibition. 617-552-8587.
Lowell Humanities Series
7:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Colm Tóibín (Columbia University) has been shortlisted for the
Man Booker Prize three times, and his The Testament of Mary was
nominated for a Tony Award. 617-552-2203.
12 Friday
17 Thursday – 20 Sunday
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Love, Jazz, and Joy with BC bOp!
8:00 p.m. Corcoran Commons, Heights Room
BC bOp! spreads love, jazz, and joy in this intimate performance
to benefit the St. Columbkille School Band. Call for tickets and
more information. 617-552-3018.
13 Saturday
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Chamber Singers of the University
Chorale, with Ensemble Plus Ultra
8:00 p.m. Newton Campus, Trinity Chapel
The Chamber Singers of the University Chorale, conducted by
John Finney, in collaboration with guest artists, the singers of
Britain’s Ensemble Plus Ultra. Program to include the oratorio
Jephte by Carissimi. 617-552-6004.
14 Sunday
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Renaissance A Cappella Music for
St. Valentine’s Day
3:00 p.m. St. Mary’s Chapel
Featuring voices of award-winning British Ensemble Plus Ultra.
617-552-6004.
15 Monday
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From Spain to Eternity – Vocal Music
from El Greco’s Toledo
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Boston College Symphony Orchestra,
John Finney, conductor
3:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36, and other works.
617-552-6004.
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Winter Jam
Voices of Imani
6:00 p.m. Lyons Hall, Welch Dining Hall
Join Voices of Imani for the annual Winter Jam! The event features
opening acts by BC’s acapella groups and amazing gospel songs.
25 Thursday
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Three Trios. Boston College Chamber
Music Society, Sandra Hebert, director
7:30 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Beethoven Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1 “Ghost”; Brahms
2 Gesänge, Op. 91, for Alto, Cello, and Piano; Weber Trio for Flute,
Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 63. 617-552-6004.
27 Saturday
Culture and Society in Ireland,
1916: Contexts for the Arts and
Crafts Movement
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2:00 p.m. Devlin Hall, Room 101, And McMullen Museum of Art
Fintan O’Toole (Princeton University) is a widely read columnist
and the literary editor for the Irish Times as well as the author of
many books about Irish society. O’Toole’s lecture will be followed
by a gallery walk. 617-552-8587.
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University Chorale of Boston College,
John Finney, conductor
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7:30 p.m. St. Ignatius Church
A danced evening prayer for Holy Week. 617-552-6110.
30 Wednesday
Linda Colley: Publishing the Word:
Constitutions, Print, and War in the Age
of Revolutions
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Lowell Humanities Series
7:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Linda Colley (Princeton University), the first woman Fellow of
Christ’s College, Cambridge University, is a leading historian
specializing in Britain, empire, and nationalism. Her publications
include The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History,
named one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times.
617-552-2203.
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BC bOp! At Robsham
8:00 p.m. Robsham Theater Arts Center
BC bOp!’s annual Robsham show will have you out of your seats
with jazz and contemporary favorites! Admission $15 for adults,
$10 for students. 617-552-3018.
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Boston College Chamber Music Society,
Sandra Hebert, director
8:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Soloists of the Chamber Music Society. 617-552-6004.
17 Sunday
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Spring Concert
Voices of Imani
6:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Join Voices for their last performance of the semester!
19 Tuesday – 21 Thursday
CHAMBERSTOCK!
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“Never Too Young to Be a Hero: A
Holocaust Symposium”
7:00 p.m. TBd
Courageous youths faced torture, camps, or death as they
resisted the Third Reich. Hans and Sophie Scholl of the
White Rose and Cato Bontjes van Beek of the Red Orchestra
defied authorities with leaflets and were accused of treason
and guillotined. Jehovah’s Witnesses, young and old, also
suffered for their faith. 617-552-4295.
21 Thursday
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Music and the Culture of Democracy
The Arts and the Culture of Democracy Series
6:00 p.m. Devlin Hall, Room 101
Kim Kashkashian, Scott Poulson-Bryant, Carlo Rotella, and
Edwawrd Hirsch explore principles expressed in a musical
language that inform music’s role in a democratic culture.
617-552-6952.
University Chorale of Boston College,
John Finney, conductor
8:00 p.m. Newton Campus, Trinity Chapel
Annual Spring Concert – program to include Sunrise Mass by
Ola Gjeilo. Admission $10 at Robsham Box Office. $15 at the
door if available. 617-552-4002.
28 Thursday – 30 Saturday
A D E F L M T
5 Tuesday
Irish Arts and Crafts Connections at BC.
Panel Discussion and Campus Walk
3:00 p.m. Burns Library, O’Brien Fine Print Room
Patricia DeLeeuw (BC) chairs a panel and leads a tour of stained
glass windows at the Burns and Bapst Libraries. Panelists
include Diana Larsen (McMullen Museum), Maureen Meister
(Tufts), Virginia Raguin (Holy Cross), and Milda Richardson
(Northeastern). 617-552-8587.
6 Wednesday
Poetry Days presents Afaa Michael Weaver:
Headphones and Speakerphones, Ideas of
Voice in Contemporary Poetry
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Arts Festival
12:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
O’Neill Plaza
Music, theater, dance, film screenings, art exhibitions, literary
readings, children’s activities, and more! 614-552-ARTS.
28 Thursday
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Hugo Wolf String Quartet, Boston
College Artists-in-Residence
7:30 p.m. St. Mary’s Chapel
The internationally acclaimed, Vienna-based quartet will
give the world premiere of Ralf Yusuf Gawlick’s Imagined
Memories. See article. 617-552-6004.
28 Thursday – 1 Sunday
The Servant of Two Masters
Lowell Humanities Series
7:00 p.m. Devlin Hall, Room 101
Now the Alumnae Professor of English at Simmons College, Afaa
Weaver grew up amongst poverty and desperation. He has received
numerous awards, including the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award.
See article. 617-552-2203.
THURS-SAT 7:30 p.m.; Sun 2:00 p.m. Robsham Theater
Arts Center
When quirky Truffaldino gets the opportunity to be servant
to another master he takes it for the extra dinner. Admission:
$15; seniors or w/BC ID $10. www.bc.edu/tickets.
7 Thursday
29 Friday
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Concert of Irish music: Cillian Vallely and
Kevin Crawford
Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop, and Lecture Series
6:30 p.m. Brighton Campus, Cadigan Alumni Center
Two members of the Irish supergroup Lúnasa perform on uilleann
pipes, low whistles, and Irish flute. 617-552-6396.
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Balla Kouyaté performs on the Mande balafon
7:30 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
An Evening of African Music. 617-552-6004.
9 Saturday
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Liederabend. Lindsay Albert, director
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29 Monday
Boston College Symphony Orchestra,
John Finney, conductor
8:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Annual Spring Concert. 617-552-6004.
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28 Sunday
2:00 p.m. Newton Campus, Trinity Chapel
The University Wind Winter Ensemble, directed by Sebastian
Bonaiuto, breaks winter’s chill with heartwarming music. 617-552-3018.
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23 Saturday
3:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
BC students perform a program of art songs. 617-552-6004.
University Wind Ensemble Concert
8:00 p.m. Yawkey Center, Murray Function Room
David Healey conducts this 90-piece ensemble of BC
students, alumni, and community members. 617-552-3018.
20 Wednesday
What Wondrous Love is This
7:00 p.m. St. Ignatius Church
Winter Concert with selections from Dvorak’s Mass in D Major.
617-552-6004.
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BC Symphonic Band Spring Concert
21 Monday
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2 Saturday
21 Sunday
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7:30 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
BC’s student Early Music Ensemble. 617-552-6004.
THURS-SAT 7:30 p.m.; Sun 2:00 p.m. Bonn Studio Theater,
Robsham Theater Arts Center
When Sarah and James’s lives take a sudden turn, the adventurous
couple confronts the prospect of a conventional life. Admission:
$15; seniors or w/ BC ID $10. www.bc.edu/tickets.
17 Wednesday – 21 Sunday
WED-SAT 7:30 p.m.; Sun 2:00 p.m. Bonn Studio Theater,
Robsham Theater Arts Center
What begins as a modern weekend for Emma and John in a NYC
apartment turns into a journey to the coast of Ireland, where the
lives of a sailor and a Selkie collided 70 years before. Admission:
$15; seniors or w/BC ID $10. www.bc.edu/tickets.
BC Baroque, Anne-Marie Chubet, director
Gasson Hall, Room 100
BC’s Chamber Music Society presents a three-night chamber
music festival by BC students. 617-552-6004.
• 19 Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
• 20 Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. BC Cello Ensemble, Junko
Fujiwara, director. 8:30 p.m. Chamber Music
• 21 Thursday, 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
April
Learning How to Drown
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Time Stands Still
8:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
A concert by the voices of award-winning British Ensemble Plus
Ultra with behind-the-scenes glimpses into the making of their
latest CD. 617-552-6004.
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3:00 p.m. Devlin Hall, Room 101, and McMullen Museum
Kelly Sullivan (NYU) leads a tour of the Harry Clarke materials
in the McMullen exhibit and gives a lecture. 617-552-8587.
16 Saturday
8:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Works by Thomas Oboe Lee, BC alumna Alexa Canales ’14, and
others. 617-552-6004.
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The Illustration and Stained Glass
of Harry Clarke
Musical Theatre Cabaret, Lindsay Albert,
director
4:30 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
BC students perform songs from musical theatre. 617-552-6004.
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University Wind Ensemble: Members’
Choice
8:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
Members of UWE, directed by Sebastian Bonaiuto, choose
their favorite works for the Arts Festival! 617-552-3018.
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Arts Council Arts Awards
4:00 p.m. Stokes Art Tent
Nick Scandalios will receive the 2016 Alumni Arts Award.
The 2016 Faculty Award will go to T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. See
article. 617-552-ARTS.
30 Saturday
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Dancing with bOp!
8:00 p.m. O’Neill Plaza Tent
BC bOp!, BC’s premier instrumental and vocal jazz
ensemble, come together with dance ensembles across
campus on the last night of the Arts Festival. 617-552-3018.
10 Sunday
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Boston College Chamber Music Society,
Sandra Hebert, director
7:00 p.m. Gasson Hall, Room 100
• 7:00 p.m. BC Flute Ensemble, Judy Grant, director, and chamber
music. 617-552-6004.
• 8:30 p.m. BC Piano Ensemble, Linda Papatopoli, director.
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