Events Calendar 2/24

Friday, February 24th

Photography Club Meeting (1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. @ Winch,ODB Winch/Capehart)

Interested in meeting other photographers on campus? Do you enjoy experimenting with lighting and composition? Join the photography club for photo walks, editing nights, and possibly an end-of-year exhibition! No prior experience is required for any meetings, and everyone is welcome to join.

Friday @4 Music Series (4:00 p.m. @ Eliot Hall, Chapel)

Features Black Heritage Month programming.

Biology & Chemistry Seminar: Gary Ware (4:10 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. @ GCC-BCD)

Play makes us more creative, more connected to one another, and more likely to find new solutions to old problems. In this highly interactive communication skills workshop you will learn from Professional Improviser Gary Ware about the power of purposeful play and improv thinking to assist you in becoming more agile communicators. Gary will facilitate experiential activities that will allow you to develop and practice the skills involved in decoding emotional intelligence and excelling at non-verbal communication.

3:50pm Snacks & Socializing

4:10pm Talk Begins

Chess Club (6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ PAB, 332)

Are you interested in playing chess? Then join chess club! We meet weekly in the PAB on Fridays from 6- 8:30 PM. For more info, join our mailing list by contacting Conor (conorbekaert@reed.edu) or Kellen (kelbrosna@reed.edu).

Jarden (6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. @ GCC, Commons Patio)

Put on your best jeans (or denim article of clothing), and have a beer at Jarden! We’ll have good beer, wine, and food! 21+ with a $10 beer pass and $5 for a kombucha pass (food included with both passes)!

Family Feud (7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. @ PSY 105)

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.

Fill out the survey and events.reed.edu

ARG Smash Bros. Night! (7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. @ Trillium multipurpose room)

Want to play some games? Every month, on the last Friday, swing by to play some Smash Bros! Casual players and skilled players are welcome! Standard games will be offered, as well as a tournament for fun!

Friends of Chamber Music’s Chanticleer group presents: “Labyrinths” (7:30 p.m. @ Kaul Auditorium)

"Labyrinths:" From Des Prez to Ayanna Woods, with jazz standards and new arrangements in between, Chanticleer explores all the twists and turns of a labyrinth.

Ticket information at events.reed.edu

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

Dance for South Asian students celebrating Bollywood! Bollywood bops only & themed dress and decor!

All are welcome!

Email us: dpandya@reed.edu or ruhiputta@reed.edu

Saturday, February 25th

Volunteer with SEEDS at All Saints (10:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. @ All Saints Episcopal Church)

Join the SEEDS team to volunteer at All Saints's Food Pantry on Saturday, 2/25 from 11am-2pm, meet in front of the library at 10:45am and we will walk over together!

The All Saints Episcopal Church is located near Reed. They are a community dedicated to racial justice, allyship, and service to the most vulnerable and those in need. Volunteers will receive and move food from Oregon Food Bank and/or hand out groceries to neighbors. Volunteers must be able to work at a quick pace and carry items back and forth, and walk about half a mile to the Church (on the corner of Woodstock and Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.)

Dark Moves: Conversation and Opening Reception (2:00 p.m. @ Eliot Hall, Chapel)

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.

Menchelli and Watkins are artists deeply invested in the sensory and perceptual possibilities of light—along with its orbital complements, darkness and shadow. With artistic methodologies drawn from poetry, cosmogony, and scientific experimentation, the artists modulate the luminal in pursuit of unknown outcomes. Resultant forms of disappearance, reversal, and refraction communicate across the entirety of the Cooley—particularly in the center, where a hexagonal room with open ends echoes the internal angles and shadows of Menchelli and Watkins’ work. As viewers move through, and around, the hexagon, their bodies draw the symbol of the lemniscate—the infinity symbol (∞). Dark Moves seeks to emulate the ways that shadow becomes a medium in the artists’ hands—contouring, obscuring, and unfolding their work across the deep, azure walls of the museum.

Menchelli and Watkins employ color, line, and saturation—dematerializing modernist geometries, and transforming planarity into ascending angles and curves. Their experiments produce enigmatic effects and lacunae—voids and folds that touch and trace one another. In Dark Moves, Menchelli brings new dimensionality to her translucent color photograms, made entirely in the dark—folding and manipulating the photosensitive paper. These alchemical agents become embodied sculptures mounted on a stainless steel substructure that thrust their geometric volumes, casting shadows on the wall. In the darkened surroundings of the space, Watkins transforms the dynamic linearity of her ink-based drawings into rising, swooping organic forms that radiate wild shadows. These sculptural forms accompany numinous gold reliefs created by imperceptible forces, and small works on paper that oscillate between a fluid lyricism and darker visions of interior compression.

ARTPOP (10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. @ student union)

ARTPOP- Artistic revolution through the potential of pop. Gaga, Charli Xcx, Sophie, Madonna, Bjork, Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Janet Jackson, and much much more!

Sunday, February 26th

Gryphon Group AA (4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. @ Psychology 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

Black Lives Masquerade (5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. @ PAB first floor atrium)

Join us in an evening of artistic celebration for Black History Month. The Black Lives Masquerade will begin in the Performing Arts Building Atrium, followed by a procession to Kaul Auditorium for a performance by Sebé Kan West African Drum and Dance Ensemble.

The Black Lives Masquerade is an honoring garment that includes an estimated fifty images of Black lives lost to racial injustice, police brutality, and gun violence. The BLMQ8 is site specific ritual, performance processional, restorative justice, and creative direct action. The project seeks to invoke healing, remembrance, elevation, awareness, and the eradication of police terror and racial injustice against Black people and those of African Diaspora Worldwide.

Rashad Pridgen is a multimedia performing artist, choreographer, creative director and innovation strategist. Rashad’s works span dance, theater, film, video, tech, mixed-media, fashion, and creative eco-systems. Recent works include: Today at Apple, Record A Global Street Dance with Apple Union Square San Francisco; artistic director of The Black Lives Masquerade short film with national showings at the San Francisco Public Library, Berkeley Art Museum, Duke University, and Portland Art Museum; director and choreographer of Ethos de Masquerade, a theatrical version of the Global Street Dance Masquerade in partnership with Camp Santos and Strand Theater SF; and masquerade collaborations with Sadie Barnett’s Eagle Creek Saloon presented at the SF LAB San Francisco and the Institute Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

Sebé Kan is a local African drum and dance ensemble that weaves music and dance together in a vibrant celebration of culture. Founded in 2000 by Derrell Sekou Soumah Walker, Sebé Kan became a space for community and solace among Portlanders of the African Diaspora and began a youth-specific dance group in 2018. The collective performs at halftime shows at the Moda Center and at numerous schools in the Portland Metro area. They perform works from the West African nations of Guinea, Mali, and Ivory Coast.

Free and open to the public.

EU+ Sunday Conversation (7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. @ Virtual)

Join us for our regular conversation with Reedies from Europe and beyond on the last Sunday of each month, 19:00 to 21:00 Central European Time (10am to 12pm Pacific, 1 to 3pm Eastern).

This virtual event is organized by the Europe alumni chapter and Reedies from all over the world are welcome to join in! Our discussions range from the serious to the frivolous, depending on peoples’ whims.

Monday, February 27th

Anthropology Symposium: Helena Kapuni-Reynolds (4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. @ Vollum, 116)

Halena Kapuni-Reynolds (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) is a haku mele (composer) and scholar born on Hawaiʻi Island and raised in the Hawaiian Home Land community of Keaukaha and the rain forest of ‘Ōla‘a. Currently, Halena is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he is finishing a dissertation that tells a decolonial

story of the ʻāina aloha (beloved lands) of Keaukaha. Halena’s academic work and scholarship reflect his commitment to serving his community, Hawaiʻi’s museum profession, and the fields of museum anthropology and Indigenous studies. He serves as a board member for the International Institute in Indigenous Resource Management and the Council for Museum Anthropology (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and is an advisory board member for the East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center. Most recently, he assisted in the development and implementation of Weaving a Net(work) of Care: A Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Museum Institute, a museological training program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Professor of Insects and Worms: The Life-Made World of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (4:30 p.m. @Psychology, 105)

This lecture, drawn from a book-in-progress, will examine Revolution- and Romantic-era French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and the science that Lamarck named “Biology,” with the first evolutionary theory at its core. It will also explore the political and cultural struggle over the nature of science in which Lamarck’s biology figured crucially and will consider how science emerged from this struggle to be, as it is today, in a position of supreme intellectual authority yet also potential intellectual isolation.

Tuesday, February 28th

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 your career journey, we’re happy to help you take that first step!

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

We will offer a variety of nature-based mindfulness experiences that can be modified depending on attendee preferences and accessibility needs. These practices will either be stationary or mindful walking experiences. If we decide to engage in a walking experience on the Reed campus, the pace will be slow and the focus will be on engaging your senses. The paths may be uneven/muddy. The focus of these practices will be to strengthen your relationship with the land and nature and to transition from “thinking” to “sensing” and from “doing” to “being” which will help facilitate nonjudgmental present-moment focus, connection, self-reflection, and centering.

American Nuclear Society Club Meetings (6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ Eliot 207)

Students interested in learning, discussing, and exploring all things nuclear should join the Reed College Student Section of the American Nuclear Society. Meetings happen every two weeks. Open to all Reed community members and other Portland undergraduate students.

Wednesday, March 1st

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

This week is all about getting crafty! Learn to knit and have the opportunity to explore working with crafts.

Radical Embodiment Workshop (3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. @ GCC, Meeting Room A)

This Radical Embodiment Workshop combines reflection, art, discussion, and skill-building. We will explore our body narratives and cultivate awareness, empowerment, connection, and community.

As a community we will work to create a space that centers fat, disabled, BIPOC, queer and trans students, with a focus on body liberation.

Greenboard Weekly Meetings (5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. @ GCC, 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 Forum For Foreign Affairs Weekly Meetings! (6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ Eliot 414)

If you want to learn more about our changing world, join us for our weekly meeting! During club meetings, we will discuss current events in foreign affairs while enjoying some tasty foods and beverages. Even if you have never been to our previous club meetings, we would be happy for you to join us!

Thursday, March 2nd

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 internship opportunities, come see us!

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

Eddings Workshop: Acting as Research (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. @ GCC-D)

Dr. Musa Gurnis (PhD Columbia) is a theater scholar and practitioner. She is the author of Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling: Theater in Post-Reformation London, co-published by the University of Pennsylvania Press and the Folger Shakespeare Library (2018). She is a co-editor of Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Palgrave 2021). Musa’s articles appear in academic journals such as Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies, and, most recently, in the Arden Shakespeare’s essay collection The Changeling: State of Play (2022). She has held fellowships from the Andrew C. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library; and taught early modern English drama extensively while an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Musa has dramaturged projects such as the devised piece Shakespeare Is A White Supremacist (Fractal Theater Collective, DC); nude performances of Hamlet and The Rover in Prospect Park (Torn Out Theater, NY); Romeo and Juliet (Gate Theatre, Dublin); and As You Like It (Abbey National Theatre, Dublin). For Bedlam Theatre (NY), Musa has dramaturged The Crucible, King Lear, and The Winter’s Tale. The company has a production of her new adaptation of Jane Eyre in development. As an actor, Musa has trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London), The Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), The Red Bull Theater (NY), and HB Studios (NY). In the Shakespeare mash-up webseries BEDLAM, which she co-wrote with Eric Tucker, she plays Regan.

Chemistry Seminar: Andre Isaacs, Ph.D. (4:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. @ Biology, 19)

Dr. André Isaacs (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He moved to the U.S. upon finishing high school in Kingston, Jamaica and received his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He then worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley before accepting his current faculty position. In addition to teaching courses in Organic Chemistry, he conducts and publishes research in the area of copper-mediated organic reactions and synthesis. He is a faculty advisor to numerous student groups including the Caribbean African Students’ Assemblage and is a member of the college’s GLBTQ Faculty and Staff Alliance.

PRPL Division Speaker: Asifa Majid, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (4:30 p.m. @ Psych 105)

The Limits of Language: Why do Some Experiences Elude Communication?

Why are some things relatively easy to express in language (e.g., geometric shapes) but others hard (e.g., odors)? Various explanations have been suggested for this differential ineffability (i.e., the impossibility of putting phenomena into words). Perhaps it is due to something fundamental about the cognitive architecture of our mind~brains. The ease of naming visual as opposed to olfactory entities, for example, has been attributed to the amount of brain area devoted to processing each sensory modality. Accordingly, there appear to be asymmetries in our ability to represent sensory information—studies show people generally report vivid visual and auditory imagery, for example, but only weak smell and taste imagery. Based on fieldwork and laboratory studies, I illustrate how differential expressibility across the senses reflects cultural, not just cognitive, biases. Things that elude description in English are nevertheless easily conveyed in other languages, highlighting the role culture and experience play in understanding the nature and limits of language and cognition.

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

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 :)

Eddings lecture: Musa Gurnis (6:30 p.m. @ Psych 105)

Blue Heart (7:00 p.m. @ Greenwood)

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

Greenwood Theatre:

Thursday, 3/2 at 7pm

Friday, 3/3 at 7pm

Saturday, 3/4 at 5pm

Reed YDSA Weekly Meetings (7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ PAB 332)

Join Reed's Young Democratic Socialist of America, and help build socialist power on campus, in the community, and beyond! Discuss political issues, organize campaigns and actions, and join the shared struggle!

Weapons of Mass Distraction (WMD) Weekly Practice (8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. @ Student Union, SU porch)

Weapons of Mass Distraction is a student group specializing in "combustible badassery." We are Reed's resident fire-spinning troupe! We're open to all backgrounds and skill levels, so feel free to pick up a prop and have some fun!

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