October
Continuing Events
Through Oct. 14: Muybridge & Curtis: The Great Photographic Projects of the Gilded Age
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Muybridge & Curtis considers the two vast photographic projects of the Gilded Age: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion (1887) and Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian (1917-1930). Working with heavy tripods, large wooden cameras and glass-plate negatives, Muybridge and Curtis made tens of thousands of negatives for their respective projects. This exhibition of 46 prints, drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, considers the role turn-of-the-century photography played in scientific research and study. Prints from Animal Locomotion are a gift from Samuel Moyerman. Prints from The North American Indian are a gift from Angelo Brutico Jr. P’18.
Through Oct. 28: Kathe Kollwitz: Bauernkrieg/Peasant War
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
From 1903 to 1908, Käthe Kollwitz produced Bauernkrieg (Peasant War), a seven-print series that reveals the brutal treatment of peasants in 16th-century Germany, their rise to revolution and battle and their subsequent humiliation and death. Although based on historic events, the series anticipates tragedies that soon took shape across Europe. This exhibition is curated by Courtney Rogers ’17. Several works by Kollwitz were selected for The Trout Gallery's collection by student representatives of the museum’s advisory committee.
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m.
Everything Is Connected
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Connecting contemporary issues to literature, science, his own bizarre personal experiences and even the odd Bible story, playwright/actor/activist Peterson Toscano plays a whole cast of comic characters who explore the serious worlds of gender, sexuality, privilege, religion and environmental justice.
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Oct. 4-25
Closing Reception: Wednesday, Oct. 25, 5:30-7 p.m.; Artist’s Talk, 6 p.m.
Lindsay Deifik: Recent Works
Lindsay Deifik, Big Mouth, 2017.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar St. entrance)
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 3-5 p.m., Saturday 2-5 p.m.
This exhibition features recent works by Philadelphia-based artist Lindsay Deifik. Her practice is based in printmaking, drawing and installation.
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Friday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m.
An Evening With the Faculty Jazz Ensemble With Guest Tom Strohman, Saxophone
Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High Street
This concert will feature tunes from the Great American Songbook, as well as jazz favorites, in a relaxed and jazzy atmosphere.
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Oct. 6-9, 5:30 p.m.
The Grapes of Wrath
Dickinson College Farm
Tickets $7, or $5 with student ID
Prepare to experience this gripping story in a truly immersive way, as Frank Galati’s 1988 Tony Award-winning adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 classic by John Steinbeck comes to the College Farm. Audience members will follow along with the actors, on foot and in wagons, as they depict the Joad family’s flight from the Dust Bowl to California. While penning his Depression-era novel, Steinbeck wrote, "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for [the Great Depression]." He also famously said, "I've done my damnedest to rip a reader's nerves to rags." Directed by Karen Lordi-Kirkham.
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Thursday, Oct. 12, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson’s performance studies and chamber music programs.
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Thursday, Oct. 26, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson’s performance studies and chamber music programs.
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Oct. 27-Feb. 17
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 27, 5-7 p.m.
William Kentridge: Universal Archive and Journey to the Moon
William Kentridge, Universal Archive (detail).
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
In Universal Archive, internationally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) revisits images that appear frequently in his work—coffee pots, typewriters, cats, trees—through a sequence of prints that progresses gradually from identifiable forms to seemingly abstract marks. The images are printed on dictionary pages, which juxtapose creativity with authoritative text to examine the nature of rational thought and knowledge construction. This exhibition was organized by the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College and is made possible, in part, by contributions from Alva Greenberg, the Gund Gallery Board of Directors and the Ohio Arts Council.
Complementing Universal Archive, Kentridge’s live-action/animated short film Journey to the Moon will be projected continuously in the gallery. William Kentridge’s films are provided courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/London.
See November listings for associated events on Nov. 1 and Nov. 9.
Saturday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Jihoon Chang, Clarinet
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
Jihoon Chang will be joined by faculty pianist Eun Ae Baik-Kim and guest violist Hye-Jin Kim on works by Max Bruch and Rebecca Clarke.
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All events are open to the public and are free, unless otherwise noted. Events listed in the Calendar of Arts are subject to change. Please contact the appropriate department prior to an event to confirm that it will take place as listed.