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Off Campus: Frontier Theater & Cafe : upcoming films in Brunswick 11/17-11/30

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Jane
Written and Directed by Brett Morgen
Music by Philip Glass
Genre: Documentary, 1hr 30mins
Frontier Theater, 14 Maine St, Mill 3, Fort Andross, Brunswick

Oscar®-and Emmy®-nominated director Brett Morgen, described as “the leading revolutionary of American documentary film” by The Wall Street Journal, uses a trove of 16mm footage rediscovered in 2014 from the National Geographic archives to shed fresh light on world-changing conservationist Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and U.N. Messenger of Peace. An animal lover since childhood, the 26-year-old British woman arrives in Tanzania’s Gombe wilderness in 1960 to live among the chimpanzees and study their behavior. The rare woman in a male-dominated field, Goodall has no scientific training. What she does possess are binoculars, monumental patience and a keen eye for details, which she meticulously records in her notebook.

Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Directed by Steven Lewis Simpson
Cast: Dave Bald Eagle, Christopher Sweeney, Richard Ray Whitman
Genre: Drama, 1hr 50mins
Frontier Theater, 14 Maine St, Mill 3, Fort Andross, Brunswick

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Kent Nerburn, this funny and deeply moving film follows an author who gets sucked into the heart of contemporary Native American life in the sparse lands of the Dakotas by a 95-year-old Lakota elder. Kent Nerburn (Christopher Sweeney), a good-hearted, white American family man and writer, receives a mysterious call from a distant Indian reservation regarding an oral history book he made with Red Lake Ojibwe reservation students in northern Minnesota. Despite misgivings, Kent travels across America’s northern plains to arrive at the bleak, poverty-stricken reservation deep in the high plains of the Dakotas. The old man, Dan (Dave Bald Eagle), who lives alone in a clapboard shack back in the hills with his only real companions—his dog, a close friend named Grover (Richard Ray Whitman) and his granddaughter, Wenonah (Roseanne Supernault)—interrogates Kent as to his motives for working with Indian people. Once satisfied he is not a turquoise clad “wannabe” spouting Indian philosophy, Dan recounts the story of American history from the Native point of view. As the stories pour from Dan, Kent’s understanding of the world is turned upside down. An inanimate landscape comes alive, and a history he thought he knew is called into question.

On Campus Events: ES Pre-Major Meetings- Thurs 10/26 7:30 PM & Wed. 11/1 Lunch

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Come to an ES Pre-majors Meeting!

Please join ES faculty, and majors for one of two Pre-Majors Meetings. Learn about the coordinate major, the minor, meet faculty and students, and find out more about ES study abroad, ES summer fellowships, research, ES Independent study, and honors- over lunch or cookies and gelato.

Thursday October 26 from 7:30-8:30 PM
ES Common Room, Adams Hall

Wednesday, November 1 from 11:30-1:00
Pinette Dining Room, Thorne Hall

 

ON CAMPUS EVENT: PUBLIC ART ATTACK! AN ART ACTIONS TO FIGHT THE BATTLES THAT NEED FIGHTING! Sun. 10/29

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Public Art Attack! Art Actions to Fight the Battles that need Frighting
with Jenny Price
Sunday, October 29, 2:00 PM
Digital Media Lab, Room 115

Join Jenny Price from the LA Urban Rangers art collective for the workshop “Public Art Attack: Art Actions to Fight the Battles that Need Fighting,” a crash course on how to design public art actions to engage any social, environmental, or political problem that might be currently keeping you up at night. They’re fun! They’re experiential! They’re efficacious!

Price is a noted public scholar, writer, and artist who focuses on US environmental topics, including urban nature, environmentalism, and popular culture. Author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she’s also written for GOOD, Sunset, Believer, Audubon, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. A co-founder of the Los Angeles Urban Rangers art collective, she has collaborated on various projects, including Public Access 101: Malibu Public Beaches and Downtown L.A. Trail System. With the Rangers, she was a resident artist for the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art and exhibited in International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Performing Public Space at La Casa de Tunel in Tijuana, and the traveling We Are Here Maps Archive.Price earned in AB in biology from Princeton University in 1985 and her Ph.D in history from Yale University in 1998. She has taught at UCLA, USC, Antioch University-Los Angeles, Washington University at St. Louis, and Princeton University. A 2005 Guggenheim fellow and two-time NEH fellow, she has also held fellowships at Princeton, Stanford, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment ant Society at LMU-Munich.

She is currently co-creating Play the L.A. River as a co-founder of the public arts and humanities collective, Project 51, and is finishing her next book, Stop Saving the Planet! Other Tips for 21st-Century Environmentalists.

ON CAMPUS EVENT: Diversity and Environmental Engagement: A conversation with Whitney Tome, Thur. Nov 2 @ 4:30

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Diversity and Environmental Engagement:
An informal conversation with Whitney Tome, Executive Director, Green 2.0 
Thursday, Nov 2 4:30-5:30
ES Common Room,
Adams Hall

Whitney Tome, as the executive director of Green 2.0, leads a campaign to increase the racial diversity of the mainstream environmental movement. Whitney was the director of diversity and inclusion at the National Parks Conservation Association, and a program manager and mediator at the Meridian Institute. At Environmental Defense Fund, Whitney served as a strategist in dozens of state and federal political campaigns and launched the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum. Whitney earned a B.A. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law.

 

 

On Campus Event: Bowdoin Public Service Initiative (Applications available & Info sessions scheduled)

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BOWDOIN PUBLIC SERVICE INITIATIVE

Applications now available on program web pages

 “I was personally inspired with the idea that you could do something in your life that was not going to be measured purely by financial return, but by the ability to contribute to others.” – Thomas R. Pickering, Bowdoin Class of 1953, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and career diplomat 

  • BPS in Washington – (sophomores) education seminar and immersion trip to Washington D.C. to explore topics in government and public policy. Deadline for application – November 8th at noon.
  • BPS Fellowship – (juniors) five funded internships to work in government and public policy in Washington, D.C. during summer 2018. Deadline for application – November 15th at noon.

Upcoming Info Sessions:

  • Monday, October 16 – 7:30pm, Baxter House Common Room (BPS in Washington and BPS Fellowship)
  • Wednesday, October 18 – 7:30pm, McKeen Center Common Room (BPS Fellowship)
  • Wednesday, November 1 – 12:30pm, McKeen Center Common Room (BPS in Washington)

Questions? After attending an info session, come to Sarah Chingos’ drop-in hours

Mondays 12:00-2:00pm and Thursdays 9:00-11:00am. Banister 201 – McKeen Center, in the belfry

Skype and FaceTime appointments are also available.

On Campus: Climate Change Action Theater at Bowdoin Needs You!

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Want to participate in the Reading and Performance for Climate Change Theatre Action?

Do you like to talk about climate change? Are you passionate about the environment? Interested in exploring new avenues of climate communication? Want to participate in theatre that makes a difference?

Please consider participating in Climate Change Theatre Action! The Bowdoin Theatre and Dance Department and Masque & Gown are partnering with the Environmental Studies Department and Bowdoin Climate Action to be a part of a national theatre festival (CCAT) that presents short plays and one acts concerning climate change and climate science. The CCAT festival is an annual theatre festival that takes place globally; Bowdoin is one of many institutions involved. The performance takes place on November 5th, and we are in need of actors and directors and dramaturgs. Although directors will need to have had some experience directing productions prior to the CCAT, actors of all levels of experience (including none) are welcome! If you are interested in participating, please contact Madison Kuras ’18 ([email protected]) for more details. 

Presented by Bowdoin College department of theater and dance, Masque and Gown, and Bowdoin Climate Action

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