On Tuesday evening, Barbara Drake Boehm, curator emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke to students and faculty about one of the tiniest treasures Northern European art has to offer: carved boxwood prayer beads. The talk, entitled “In a …
Last Friday and Saturday, Masque & Gown welcomed audiences to “Doing David,” a collection of eight short plays by playwright and novelist David Ives. Directed by Julia Starck ’26, the three performances took place in Pickard Theater before students, faculty, …
On Tuesday, Associate Professor of History Salar Mohandesi delivered a lecture entitled “The Israeli-U.S. War on Iran: A Longer History.” Before a packed room in Searles Hall, Mohandesi offered a historical perspective on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, …
On Friday, the Bowdoin Music Collective (BMC) hosted the annual Battle of the Bands competition to determine the student opener for the upcoming Spring Concert. Far from Juno, composed of five musicians— Courtney Burnett ’26, Jacob Goodman ’26, Joseph Gordon …
This past weekend, I fled Bowdoin’s blizzard conditions for the warm embrace of my sister and the city of Los Angeles. What began as a desperate attempt to outrun the isolation of Brunswick quickly became an escape from the winter …
Last week, Brunswick Public Art (BPA) announced that a design had been selected for an art installation along the Androscoggin River to honor the Frank J. Wood Bridge, slated for demolition later this year. The winning design was created by …
Last Thursday and Friday, the College hosted DragFest, a two-day event consisting of workshops, talks and performances celebrating drag culture. The events were organized by the theater and dance and gender, sexuality and women’s studies (GSWS) departments in collaboration with …
On Wednesday afternoon in Hubbard Hall, President of the Maine State Senate Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) spoke to students at an event organized by the McKeen Center for the Common Good. Daughtry, whose senate district includes her hometown of Brunswick, began …
This past semester, a new band has officially bloomed at Bowdoin. Sunshower is a self-proclaimed alternative rock band that is made up of Zain Blair-Roberts ’28, Maya Funez ’28, Rhys Vaughn ’28 and Lionel Yu ’28. They have already made …
Founded in 2021, the Student Community Action Network (SCAN) is a volunteer-based internship program for 12 Bowdoin sophomores and juniors to work at local Midcoast nonprofits or in local Maine government offices. Throughout the semester, students work virtually or in …