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What happens when a writer loses the world that made him legible? That is the question that keeps bringing me back to Ovid’s exile poetry, the “Tristia” and “Ex Ponto,” written after Augustus banished him in A.D. 8 to Tomis, …
On Thursday night in Mills Hall, George Ellzey Jr. ’13 screened his award-winning 2023 short film “Cottage Grove” and offered filmmaking advice to current students. A project that stemmed from his Master of Fine Arts film program at DePaul University, …
Last weekend, students, faculty and community members filled Memorial Hall’s Wish Theater to see “Bunk Beds,” a dance performance brought to campus by the Department of Theater and Dance.
With performances Friday and Saturday nights, “Bunk Beds” explored themes of …
For Selima Terras ’26, music has always been connected to understandings of community and home.
Throughout her childhood, Terras recalls writing music with her older sister. She explained that their songwriting evolved from lighthearted familial musings to a mechanism for …
Last Friday, 11 special musical groups competed in the treacherous Battle of the Bands, held in Jack Magee’s Pub. In its lengthiness, the event successfully staged a diverse array of genres and talent. Between funk improvisation, intense percussion and pure …
On Monday night, three-time Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Joe Henry performed in Studzinski Hall. The evening also included a conversational interview with Professor of English Brock Clarke and a Q&A session.
Over his 40-year career, Henry has written over 18 albums, …
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 …
On Thursday, student curators Tess Mooney ’26 and Caitlin Panicker ’26 welcomed students and community members to the opening of eARTh, an art show “celebrating Earth in its beauty and fracture.” As the audience clustered on the wooden stairs, Anaïs …
This one’s a little on the nose for me, friends. Just this month, I was at my first Classics conference, presenting on a panel (I’m sure you could never guess) on the topic of my column this week, Plutarch. I …
Hidden away in a staff corridor at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), there is a Wall of Things. Crevices of the original outer stone wall of the Museum have become resting spots for everything from Elvis Presley pictures …
