Events Calendar 3/3

Friday, March 3rd

Community Building with Circles (12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. @ GCC-A)

An opportunity for engagement between Reed community members and the Reed Restorative Justice Coalition to create greater transparency about what we do and how we do it and collectively learn how we use restorative practices to build community. We’re planning on giving meal tickets to attendees!

Exhibition: Dark Moves (12:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Cooley Art Gallery) 3/3

The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, is proud to present Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkins. This intimate exhibition consists of newly-commissioned work by Mexico City artist Fabiola Menchelli and Northwest artist Heather Watkins. Nestled in the Reed College library, the gallery is free and open to the public. Families are welcome!

Lunch & Learn: What is Fulbright? (12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Prexy)

For juniors and seniors who have not applied for the Fulbright before, this virtual session will offer an overview of what the Fulbright award consists of, how to navigate the website, the timeline for the award and Reed’s internal application process. The Fulbright application process typically begins in the summer and ends in the fall, so this event will be a spring kickstart for summer 2023.

OPT Workshop + Lunch with ISS (12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. @ GCC Conference Room D)

An introduction to Optional Practical Training (OPT) work authorization available to international students on F-1 visas. This session is designed for students interested in learning about their options to use OPT before or after graduation. We will discuss the purpose of OPT, the three categories available to students, eligibility and participation requirements, application process and timing, and will include time for audience questions.

Psych Colloquium: Asifa Majid, PhD – The Human Sense of Smell (12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. @ Psych 105)

The Human Sense of Smell: From Hunter-Gatherers to Wine Experts

The importance of our sense of smell has been highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Olfaction plays a critical role in a wide range of human behaviours and yet has been relatively under-appreciated. Over the years, olfactory scientists have emphasised the importance of smell in unconscious processes, particularly approach-avoidance behaviours, and have claimed accordingly that olfaction is not amenable to conscious reflection or linguistic encoding. Recent work by cognitive scientists challenges such claims to show that humans have far more potential in this domain than previously recognized. For example, under experimental conditions western participants typically find it difficult to name odors, but hunter-gatherers, on the other hand, can name them with relative ease. This variation raises interesting questions about the exact relationship between language, olfaction, and emotion. In this talk, I will present both cross-cultural and expert studies (e.g., wine experts) to untangle how language, perception, and emotion interact in this lesser-explored sensory modality.

Herodotones Auditions (1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. @ PAB 104)

Join the Herodotones! Do you like to sing? Sing with Reed’s a capella group! We’re holding auditions for Herodotones; Reed’s a cappella group!

All skill levels are welcome. Email kwulf@reed.edu with any questions or if neither time works for you.

Honor Council Public (2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. @ Student Union)

Honor Council Public is your monthly opportunity to attend an Honor Council meeting, ask any questions you may have about Honor at Reed and the Accountability Process, and get to know your Honor Councilors!

Music Colloquium: Claire Chase (2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. PAB 240)

Join us for an informal guest visit and colloquium event by contemporary flutist Claire Chase, founder of International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and a professor of practice at Harvard Music. Live flute performance, media slides, video, and a hosted Q+A will take place in this intimate setting. Event finishes by 3:45p, to let out in time for F@4 in chapel.

No shoes, in the round, on the ground, hosted by Bora Yoon, open to the public.

Claire Chase, described by The New York Times recently as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Passionately dedicated to the creation of new ecosystems for the music of our time, Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works by a new generation of artists, and in 2013 launched the 24-year commissioning project Density 2036. Now in its tenth year, Density 2036 reimagines the solo flute literature over a quarter-century through commissions, performances, recordings, education and an accessible archive at density2036.org. Chase co-founded the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2001, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chase is currently Professor of the Practice of Music at Harvard University’s Department of Music, a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School, and a Collaborative Partner with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony. She is the Debs Creative Chair at Carnegie Hall for the 2022-23 season.

Friday@4 Music Series (4 p.m. @ Eliot Hall, Chapel)

Program features Senior Kaufman Awardee Xinlong, who will be performing solo repertoire, along with a piano trio including senior Sarah Wu, violin (2022 Rothschild Stipend, 2022 Kahan Summer Fellowship awardee) and senior, Riley Schlemmer, cello.

Biology Seminar: Dr. Shawn Larson (4:10 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. @ Psych 105)

Dr. Shawn Larson is the Curator of Conservation Research at the Seattle Aquarium. She has been working at the Seattle Aquarium since 1995 where she currently conducts conservation research projects, supervises the water quality lab and assists in animal health activities such as wildlife rehabilitation. Shawn has been studying marine mammal physiology, genetics, population biology, and ecology for 23 years and is widely published. Her book Sea Otter Conservation (Elsevier, 2015) has been called the “sea otter bible,” and Dr. Larson suports work looking at sea otters as an endangered keystone species.

Blue Heart (7 p.m. @ Greenwood, Performance Stage)

A theatrical exploration of Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and other desperate grasps at connection. Directed by thesis candidate Will Stevens.

Derek (if that is his real name) is an undead creature, wandering the waking world after being exiled from the laboratory he was raised in. He haunts the living by convincing them he’s their dead, abandoned relatives come back to life, but can any of them ever really find peace?

Content warnings: abusive language, a corpse, very light body horror

Open to the public. Purchase your ticket at events@reed.edu

Greenwood Theatre is located at the north end of the west parking lot on the Reed College campus and is not part of the Performing Arts Building. It is a gray structure set in the Canyon, on Botsford Drive. Due to a current construction project, parking is extremely limited in the west lot. Please plan to arrive early, and you may need to part in one of our other lots (north or east). The shows will begin promptly at the performance times, and there is no late seating and no refunds.

Masks are required for this performance.

Friend Feud! (7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. @ Chapel)

Join the Student Engagement Program Board for a fun evening of Friend Feud! Watch your friends battle it out for prizes.

Friend Feud will mirror the American game show, Family Feud, to which two families (friends in this case), each composed of five members, compete against each other to guess the most popular answers to a series of survey questions posted to 100 people.

Participate in the Friend Feud Survey by clicking here!

Cloud Ball (10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. @ Student Union)

Join us at Cloud Ball hosted by Asian Pacific Islander Student Union (APISU)! Dance your booty off and have a good time!

Saturday, March 4th

Exhibition: Dark Moves (12:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Blue Heart (5 p.m. @ Greenwood, Performance Stage)

A theatrical exploration of Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and other desperate grasps at connection. Directed by thesis candidate Will Stevens.

Content warnings: abusive language, a corpse, very light body horror

Open to the public. Purchase your ticket here.

Masks are required for this performance.

Sustainability Movie Night (7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. @ PAB 131)

We will vote on an environmentally-themed movie or TV show from the Reed e-reserves and will be watching while enjoying delicious movie snacks.

Love Never Dies Ball (9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. @ Student Union)

Attend a ball hosted by the House of Elvira! Featuring a drag show with three returning and three debut performers! February may be over, but love never dies! ♥️

Sunday, March 5th

RIPP Art Market (11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. @ GCC Patio)

Student artists will showcase and sell their art this Sunday at RIPP’s Art Market! Come support these talented creators this Sunday in the GCC Patio from 11 AM – 3 PM, and learn about ways to show off your own art!

Exhibition: Dark Moves (12:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Spring Cleaning Garage Sale (1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. @ Grove Lawn)

Sign up to sell art, clothes, or anything else you need to get rid of on the Grove lawn. If you don’t want to sell, come by and look at the stuff for sale! This is a great opportunity for you to start thinking about cleaning out extra things from your apartment, especially if you’re moving out next year! And also, make some money!! There will be drinks and snacks available to everyone who shows up! Sign up here!

Gryphon Group AA (4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. @ Psych 108)

The Gryphon Group of Alcoholics Anonymous is an open meeting that meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-8:15pm via Zoom and in person on Sundays from 4:30-6pm. We welcome all who seek to know more about alcoholism. We share our experience, strength and hope. Gryphon was founded by Reed students in 1982. As an open meeting we invite all who seek answers to addictions. If you would like further information contact Mike Sweeney at 503-821-9526 or msweeney@easystreet.net

Monday, March 6th

Reed Academic Quizbowl Practice (4:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. @ PAB 131)

Come practice with the Reed QB team! NAQT Tournament-style team gameplay on any subject under the moon (and over it, if yours is astrophysics)!

Senate Public Meetings (4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. @ Student Union)

Student senate’s weekly public meeting for questions and concerns from the community and hearing about our ongoing projects!

Liberation Literacy Monthly Meet Up (6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ Vollum College Center, 126)

Join local nonprofit Liberation Literacy (liberationliteracy.org) and its Reed student collaborators for an informal discussion of Angela Davis’s _Are Prisons Obsolete?_ (2003). We’ll focus on the first chapter, “Prison Reform or Prison Abolition” (pages 9-21).

The meeting will also serve as a chance to connect Liberation Literacy with local Portland undergraduate students, faculty, and community members interested in Liberation Literacy’s mission of reimagining and rearticulating the relationships between incarceration, our communities, and ourselves.

Come for the discussion and stay for a conversation about the state of Liberation Literacy’s current projects and ways you can get involved!

Please RSVP to liberation.literacy@gmail.com to let us know that you will attend and to receive a PDF of the selected reading; please note as well if you will require any assistance with transportation to the meeting so that we can follow up with you.

Music Colloquium: Jad Abumrad (6:10 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ Virtual Event)

Join remotely for a guest visitor and class colloquium event in MUS315 Electroacoustic Storytelling with NPR and WNYC radio host, composer, storyteller and producer, Jad Abumrad. https://reed-edu.zoom.us/j/94326926437

Jad Abumrad is the creator and former host of Radiolab, a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times a month as a podcast. Abumrad hosts Everything. Together. Radio on Apple Music Hits. Each episode offers a kaleidoscopic mix of uptempo, electro, dance, funk, hip-hop, experimental noise, soul, and everything in between.

Chabad’s Annual Purim Party (6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ Gray Campus Center, BC)

Welcome to Chabad’s Annual Purim Party, where students will celebrate the Jewish holiday Purim by wearing costumes, hearing the Megillah being read, and having sweet treats.

Writer’s Bloc Weekly Meetings (6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ Vollum College Center, Vollum 120)

We’re an on-campus writer’s group dedicated to making time for creativity during the semester. Come and find us Monday nights, 6:30 -8:30 PM, for snacks, time to write, and time to share your work with other writers!

Tuesday, March 7th

CLBR Drop In – Tuesdays, GCC-A (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Commons, GCC-A)

Come visit CLBR advisors on Tuesdays from 11:30-1:30 in the breezeway of Commons (just next to the stairs) if you’re looking for a quick career chat! We’re happy to help with resume revisions, seeking out alumni to network with or designing a strong cover letter. If you’re not even sure where to start in you’re career journey, we happy to help you take that first step!

Student Artist/Musician Showcase: Zev and Leo Grossman (12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. @ Commons)

Check out the yacht rock musical stylings of brothers, Zev and Leo Grossman, during your lunch break!

Nature Based Mindfulness (3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. @ Great Lawn)

We are so glad you are interested in joining our nature based mindfulness experiences!

Chabad’s Annual Purim Party (6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ Gray Campus Center, BC)

Welcome to Chabad’s Annual Purim Party, where students will celebrate the Jewish holiday Purim by wearing costumes, hearing the Megillah being read, and having sweet treats.

Wednesday, March 8th

De-Stress Fest Care Stations (11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. @ GCC Patio)

DIY S’mores: Enjoy tasty s’mores on the GCC patio to celebrate making it through the first halfof the semester.

Testing and Study Strategies Workshop (12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Virtual Event)

Do you struggle with testing, study, and concentration? At this workshop, we’ll discuss tangible tools to help you sharpen your testing, study, and concentration skills.

Greenboard Weekly Meetings (5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. @ Gray Campus Center, Info Shop)

Join us in the Info Shop to work on sustainability initiatives at Reed! This semester we will focus on expanding existing sustainability initiatives and putting on Canyon Day.

Reed on the Road 2023 – Portland, OR (6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. @ Reed College Chapel)

Reed on the Road is a series of regional events designed for Reed alumni and parents, offering rich institutional and academic knowledge delivered by campus leadership and faculty.

The 2023 event series places Reed’s founding values and educational mission in the context of the college’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Attendees will receive an update on the college from Audrey Bilger, president, and hear from Kathy Oleson, dean of the faculty and professor of psychology, as she talks about an academic resource she developed as the founding director of Reed’s Center for Teaching and Learning. She ultimately wrote a book, Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education: A Research-Based Pedagogical Guide for Faculty, that included her student-faculty collaborative research projects as part of a broader framework of inclusive pedagogy.

Thursday, March 9th

STEMGeMs’ Anti-Procrastination Study Sessions (6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ Library, LIB 203)

We all have things we need to get done, so why not do them at STEMGeMs’ weekly anti-procrastination study sessions while consuming free snacks? Stay the whole time, or pop in whenever! Put it in your calendar, and suggest your favorite snacks here!

CLBR Drop In – Thursday, Student Center (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Student Center)

CLBR staff are available and offering advising services during their drop-in hours, Thursdays in the Student Center. If you’re looking to have your resume reviewed, want advice on grad school and fellowship applications or just don’t know how to get started in seeking for internship opportunities. Come see us!

Happy Early Pi Day (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. @ Student Union)

Pi Day falls during spring break this year, so we are celebrating early! Hang out with Reedies while enjoying a free slice of pie & coffee/tea. (While pies last!)

Exhibition: Dark Moves (12:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Cooley Art Gallery)

Math & Statistics Colloquium: Fan Bu, University of California Los Angeles (4:40 p.m. @ Eliot 314)

Jesse’s Supersoft Birthday Party (5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. @ Quad)

Friendly dogs and people are invited to Jesse’s Supersoft Birthday Party! She will be 6 years old. There will be pink lemonade, pink cupcakes, and ponies! (This event is sponsored by Jesse and Rowan.)

House of Elvira Weekly Meetings (6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. @ Student Union, Student Union Main Hall)

Are you an aspiring drag performer? Do you have an interest in make-up, costume design, or tech? Join the House of Elvira in hosting and performing in amateur drag events on campus! We currently hold meetings every Thursday from 6-8 PM.

Email siennaotero@reed.edu for more information and to be added to our mailing list. You can also stay updated on our Instagram page @house.of.elvira 🙂

Visiting Writers Series: Larissa Pham (6:30 p.m. @ Eliot Chapel)

Larissa Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, and elsewhere. She has received support from Jack Jones Literary Arts and the Bennington Writing Seminar. She is the author of Fantasian, a novella, and the essay collection Pop Song, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for first book.