The Faculty Chamber Players will perform an eclectic mix of 20th and 21st century compositions on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 7:30pm in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The program includes cello and piano duos of Bohuslav Martinů, violin duos and a trio by Dmitri Shostakovich, a newly-composed piece for violin and viola by Portland composer and Lewis & Clark professor Michael Johanson, and Maurice Ravel’s beloved Mother Goose Suite arranged for string trio, bass and piano by Roland Kato. LIVE STREAMED EVENT

Carol Biel leads participants in this workshop through an inner meditative landscape using the practice of vocal toning. Participants will learn how to access and restore chakras reducing anxiety, calming the mind, and igniting creativity. Please join us for this free workshop on Sunday, November 19, 2017 from 3:30pm - 5pm in Seitz Lounge.

The Lewis & Clark College Percussion Ensemble presents its Fall Children’s Concert on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 3pm in Evans Auditorium. The music is for ALL AGES! The concert will last 30 minutes followed by a PERCUSSION PETTING ZOO where all audience members can come on stage and try out the instruments. The event is FREE and open to the public!

On behalf of Lewis and Clark College Music Department and Andisheh Center, we are pleased to invite you to Iranian traditional music and art workshops followed by an evening performance on November 18, 2017 in the Diane Gregg Pavilion and Agnes Flanagan Chapel.

Lewis & Clark’s Vocal Performance Workshop will present an evening of songs “Hope - In the Midst of It All” on Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7:30pm in Evans Auditorium. This performance will feature solos, duets, and trios that demonstrate how poetry set to music has been able to inform and inspire us toward a better understanding of our society. Repertoire will include texts about pollution, immigrants, refugees, women, news about all the negative aspects of life, war and in spite or in the midst of all of this, the hopefulness we must cling to.

Join us for a Non-Degree Junior Composition Recital in Seitz Lounge on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 7:30pm. All original compositions by Oswald Huynh.

Lewis & Clark’s Palatine Trio (Inés Voglar, violin, Nancy Ives, cello, Susan DeWitt Smith, piano), perform music by Portland composer Tomas Svoboda.
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DUO Stephanie and Saar, pianists Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia, return to Lewis & Clark to perform the complete The Art of Fugue by Bach on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 7:30pm in Agnes Flanagan Chapel.

Join us at the 14th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies in delving into these questions—examining the way we remember the past, reflecting on the stories we tell, and imagining a more equitable future.

Staged Reading:
     “Cottonwood in the Flood” by Rich Rubin, directed by Damaris Webb
Saturday, November 4, 2017, at 2:00pm
Fir Acres Theatre Black Box
FREE ADMISSION

 

Please join Watzek Special Collections on Thursday, November 2 at 6:00 pm in the Diane Gregg Pavilion for a lecture and reception to celebrate our new access to an impressive collection of natural history books. PSU Professor Richard Beyler will speak of the importance of these rare volumes.
 

JOHN FREEMAN GILL is the author of the novel The Gargoyle Hunters (Knopf), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick described by The New York Times as “marvelously evocative … eye-opening” and by The Washington Post as “unabashedly charming.” A native New Yorker and longtime New York Times contributor, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and elsewhere. His Times articles have been anthologized in two New York Times books. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he won two prizes and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in New York City with his wife, three children, and a smattering of gargoyles.

Join the History Department on the fourth floor of Miller for Meet Your Major!  Hear from faculty members and current majors about what it means to study history at Lewis & Clark.  Pizza will be provided, so don’t be late!

Justice Clint Bolick will present the 2017 James L. Huffman Lecture In Honor of the Western Resources Legal Center. The lecture is titled “The Renaissance of Federalism”. A reception for all attendees will be held directly following the lecture. Clint Bolick was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in January 2016 to serve on the Arizona Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Court, Justice Bolick litigated constitutional cases in state and federal courts from coast to coast, including the U.S. Supreme Court.  Among other positions, he served as Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute and as Co-founder and Vice President for Litigation at the Institute for Justice.

The Lewis & Clark Orchestra presents its first concert of the fall 2017 semester on Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 7:30pm in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. Featuring works by Jean Sibelius, Antonín Dvořák, Aaron Copland, and the world premiere of LC student, Oswald Huynh’s piece: Romance for Violin and Orchestra. Oswald’s piece features fellow LC student, violinist Jamuna Buchanan.
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You won’t want to miss this event! PDX Jazz brings five-time Grammy® Award-nominated jazz pianist, composer and arranger, Brad Mehldau to Lewis & Clark College on Friday, October 27, 2017 at 8pm in Agnes Flanagan Chapel!

Come hear from faculty and students about what it means to study English at Lewis & Clark.  Mingle with English professors and ask questions of current majors.  Pizza will be provided!

Please join us for our 20th Annual Environmental Affairs Symposium keynote event at Ecotrust in the Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center (721 NW 9th Avenue Suite 200 Portland, OR 97209)