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Saturday, October 17, 2026, 1–3PM
Main Gallery
Celebrate the hard work of our Dynamic Docent team at BUAM's Art and Access Day. Enjoy art talks, practice Chinese caligraphy on our magic scrolls, and cheer on our Dynamic Docents as they show off their love for art. This event is in partnership with GiGi's Playhouse Southern Tier, Decker College Speech Language Pathology.
Esteemed film critic and Binghamton alum J. Hoberman joins us to celebrate the memory of experimental filmmaker and BU Cinema founder Ken Jacobs, who passed away last year, and his experience of the fledgling years of Cinema at Binghamton. Following a screening of short films which Hoberman first saw as screened by Jacobs in Lecture Hall 6 (Arnulf Rainer, by Peter Kubelka, and Calling All Girls, by Jean Negulesco), Hoberman will talk about his time programming the Harpur Film Society (now Harpur Cinema), his experiences with Larry Gottheim, and the lasting and life-changing influence of Jacobs.
J. Hoberman was a Junior in Harpur College when experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs arrived to teach a week-long seminar at the invitation of Harpur Film Society. The following academic year (1969-1970), Jacobs was hired permanently, the Film Department was established, and Hoberman started working as the projectionist for Jacobs’s epic marathon lecture-screenings. The experience would be a life-changing one for Hoberman.
Jacobs passed away last year at the age of 92, after decades teaching in the Binghamton Cinema Department, leaving behind an unforgettable body of work and countless students who were impacted by his mentorship. Hoberman joins us to recount his experiences in celebration of the memory of Jacobs and the fledgling years of Cinema at Binghamton.
Following a screening of short films which Hoberman first saw as screened by Jacobs in Lecture Hall 6 (Arnulf Rainer, by Peter Kubelka, and Calling All Girls, by Jean Negulesco), Hoberman will talk about his time programming the Harpur Film Society (now Harpur Cinema), his experiences with Larry Gottheim, and the lasting and life-changing influence of Jacobs.
Sinking Feeling: The Films of Zachary Epcar
Thursday 10/22 @7pm LH 006
"Zachary Epcar (b. San Francisco) is a filmmaker whose work has screened at the international film festivals of Toronto, New York, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Vancouver, Edinburgh, and Melbourne; Pacific Film Archive, Media City, IndieLisboa, SF Cinematheque's Crossroads, European Media Art Festival, EXiS, 25 FPS; and in solo screenings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of the Moving Image, and Black Hole Cinematheque. Zachary lives in Oakland, California where he is the distribution & collections manager at Canyon Cinema and a member of the film programming collective Light Field.
Sinking Feeling (2024, 16mm/video, 21 min)
The Canyon (2021, 16mm/video, 15 min)
Life After Love (2018, 16mm/video, 8 min)
Return to Forms (2016, 16mm/video, 10 min)"
Common Ground Reading
Friday, October 23, 6-7:30pm, Alumni Lounge, Old O’Connor Hall
Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers.
Cirque Kalabanté - World of Words
Friday, October 23, 2026
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334898
The Anderson Center for the Performing Arts brings in Cirque Kalabanté, performing with the Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble.
Experience a vibrant world where ancestral African traditions meet breathtaking cori'temporary circus. Through powerful storytelling, live music, dance, and extraordinary acrobatics, Cirque Kalabante explores how gesture, rhythm, and movement can transcend language, erase boundaries, and unite cultures.
Imagine a stage where ancestral African wisdom captivates the audience. Separated by a symbolic line, one group shares its knowledge through powerful storytelling, hypnotic songs, and ritual initiation, while the other listens and learns—sometimes with fear, sometimes with resistance.
The exchange begins with spoken language as an obstacle, but the universal forces of gesture, rhythm, and sound quickly overcome it. The set and its ropes become a language of their own: double Dutch skipping, bungee straps, and rope-based contortion become pathways of communication, pulsing with dialogue. Three guiding figures—Trust, Respect, and Wisdom—lead the journey.
Through acrobatic contact and moments of mutual support, the dividing line fades. Bodies merge, blending tradition with contemporary movement. The finale culminates in a powerful choreography of unity and collective awakening, transforming the journey itself into a revelation.
The program also celebrates the 150th anniversary of Manuel de Falla with songs reflecting memory, grief, and a mother’s prayer for children spared from war. Completing the recital is a revival of rarely heard songs in French by Mexican composer Gustavo Campa, newly edited and presented as a U.S. premiere, all brought to life by Binghamton faculty artists Brenda Iglesias, contralto, and Curt Pajer, piano.
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Nicole Santalucia is the author of the new poetry collection Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians (Bordighera Press, 2026). Her other collections include The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press). Santalucia’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Indiana Review, the Colorado Review, the Los Angeles Review, the North American Review, the Rumpus, the Normal School, Out Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English and director of first-year writing at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang, 2025, 89 minutes)
October 30 & November 1
Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang, 2025, 89 minutes)
October 30 & November 1
Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.
Works by Peggy Ahwesh
Tuesday 11/3 @ 7pm LH 006
"Over the course of her career, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most heterogeneous bodies of work in the field of experimental film and video. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance and scripted dialogue, synch-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and crude Pixelvision video. Using this range of approaches, she has extended the project initiated by 1960s and '70s American avant-garde film, and has augmented that tradition with an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the subject.
Ahwesh started out working in Super-8, attracted to the medium's evocation of home movies. For her, this was a subversively amateur form, and also a discourse that yielded traditionally women-gendered themes like home and family, relationships, and confessions, which she appropriated as scenarios. She and other filmmakers of the time, including Sally Potter, Su Friedrich, and Leslie Thornton, had little use for the primarily formal strategies of the structural materialist film tradition (which was in any case dominated by men), and viewed conventions of direction, character, and performance as tools. For these filmmakers, feminism presented a viable avant-garde praxis: unlike the radical formal dislocations of materialist film, the political narrative inherent in feminist art was exceedingly resistant to co-optation by dominant media or advertising.
Ahwesh's work, for all its reliance on theoretical concerns, isn't dry or forbidding. She values humor, playfulness, and, ultimately, the pleasure of the audience. The cluttered sets and fragmented stories in much of her work evince a baroque and almost mystical sensibility, with a lineage including the ornate films of Jack Smith and Kenneth Anger. Of course, this is a mysticism that locates its systems of meaning in mass culture, and in recent years Ahwesh has expanded her work to consider the techniques and critiques of nascent digital culture, including videogames and the Internet.
Ultimately, Ahwesh has developed a practice that insists on political and social topicality, handled with theoretical and formal rigor, while remembering the audience. It is her lighter touch that has helped make her work, densely critical as it is, so accessible to so many people. She draws them into the world and traditions of avant-garde film and video, where, as she has remarked, "there's nothing to prove and no money to make," only the pleasures of the text.
Peggy Ahwesh was born in 1954. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Her work has been widely shown, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Balie Theater, Amsterdam; the Filmmuseum, Frankfurt; the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Microscope Gallery, New York and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, among other venues. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Ahwesh lives in Brooklyn, New York."
Yixuan Pan: Ice Cold: Studies on Glass
On View 10/1-11/5/2026 | M-F 9-5 p.m.
Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission
Pan is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington in Tacoma.
"Ice Cold" begins with a concept album and makes it physical: sound, poetry, sculpture, costume, graphic design, 3D animation, digital video, and performance collide inside the gallery. Pan uses pop sensibilities — hooks, drops, costume changes, and adolescent yet serious romance in catchy rhythms — to tell stories about identity: how it expresses, splits, challenges, and belongs.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 5–7PM
Chat with our curator, Joseph Leach, snack on some cookies and tour student-curated exhibitions led by BUAM curatorial interns!
Polish interdisciplinary conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant at 6:30 PM on Thu 5 Nov in FA 258
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
MOM (Mamá) (Xun Sero, 2022, 80 mins)
November 6 & 8
As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and
Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and
blaming my mother for it. ‘Mom’ is a dialogue between mother and son exploring
their contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other, and reflecting on
naturalized violence and its reproduction.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Xun Sero is a Maya-Tsotsil filmmaker, born in Chiapas, Mexico. He began his work
in documentary filmmaking by chronicling events related to the struggle of
indigenous peoples in Chiapas. He tries to develop the true cultural heritage of the
characters and to avoid clichés about indigenous peoples. He currently works as a
cinematographer. "Mom", his directorial debut, was selected at Hot Docs, IDFA and
FIC Guadalajara, as well as more than 60 festivals, winning 20 awards. In 2022
Variety magazine considered "Mom" as “one of the 10 Mexican films that contribute
to diversity and giving voice to that diversity”.
Tickets
Artist Bio
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
MOM (Mamá) (Xun Sero, 2022, 80 mins)
November 6 & 8
As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and
Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and
blaming my mother for it. ‘Mom’ is a dialogue between mother and son exploring
their contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other, and reflecting on
naturalized violence and its reproduction.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Xun Sero is a Maya-Tsotsil filmmaker, born in Chiapas, Mexico. He began his work
in documentary filmmaking by chronicling events related to the struggle of
indigenous peoples in Chiapas. He tries to develop the true cultural heritage of the
characters and to avoid clichés about indigenous peoples. He currently works as a
cinematographer. "Mom", his directorial debut, was selected at Hot Docs, IDFA and
FIC Guadalajara, as well as more than 60 festivals, winning 20 awards. In 2022
Variety magazine considered "Mom" as “one of the 10 Mexican films that contribute
to diversity and giving voice to that diversity”.
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10–12PM
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Library News Blog
#BingCollects is back for the fourth time this year! Initiated in fall 2022, this pop-up exhibition is a collaboration between the Binghamton University Art Museum and the Libraries Special Collections. It aims to raise student awareness of both collections’ rich holdings available for them to explore. Pop-ups are held in different locations on campus throughout the year, and feature objects from our collections on a common theme and sub-theme.
Come and see our pop-ups around campus throughout the year, and enjoy cool art and books up close, ask questions and chat with librarians, curators, and museum interns. Learn about the history of protest and activism available in our collections, or just enjoy the artwork and other historical material. Everyone is invited! Be on the lookout for where #BingCollects pops up next!
The following pop-ups are scheduled:
Out of the Closet
October 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 11, 2026, 12–2PM
Location: University Union
World AIDS Day
December 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
On View 11/12-12/10/2026 | M-F 9-5 p.m.
Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission
Opening reception & lecture: Thursday, November 19
Lecture: 5:30-6:30pm, FA 308
Reception: 6:30-7:30pm, Rosefsky Gallery, FA 259
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Gandahar (René Laloux, 1987, 83 mins)
November 13 & 15
An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet’s outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society’s strife and—together with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)—travels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar’s very existence. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, Gandahar is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13 8pm Friday
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18 8pm Wed.
Nov. 20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334908
Soloists for Beethoven
Sarah Fleiss, soprano
Samuel Higgins, countertenor
Landry Allen, tenor
Patrick Wilhelm, baritone
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When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13 8pm Friday
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18 8pm Wed.
Nov. 20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334908
Tickets
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
Gandahar (René Laloux, 1987, 83 mins)
November 13 & 15
An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet’s outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society’s strife and—together with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)—travels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar’s very existence. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, Gandahar is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.
Talk: Refresh and Reboot - An Evening with Kristin Lucas
Tuesday 11/17 @ 7pm LH 006
"Kristin Lucas is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, installation, live, networked, and hybrid media art forms. In works that gain their currency within the context of public and private systems, Lucas responds to the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and to the fast-changing mediascape that reconfigures perception and identity. Lucas critically engages with the tools she investigates, re-imagining and re-contextualizing their use in a way that looks to technology to provide new platforms for social and community engagement. In works that gain their currency within the context of public and private systems, Lucas responds to the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and to the fast-changing mediascape that reconfigures perception and identity.
Lucas has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Engadget, and Hyperallergic, and she is the recent recipient of an Engadget Alternate Realities Grant and a SciArt Institute The Bridge Collaborative Residency. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Artists Space, FACT Liverpool, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Harvestworks, Haus der Kunst, HeK Basel, ICA Philadelphia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Pioneer Works, OK Center for Contemporary Art, MoMA, New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and ZKM; and at festivals including BAM Teknopolis, Cinekid, EarthxFilm, Impakt, ISEA, Okeechobee Music & Arts, Print Screen, TIFF, Transmediale, World Wide Video, and WSJ Future of Everything.
And/Or Gallery and Postmasters represent her work, and her videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. Her immersive augmented reality experience Dance with flARmingos was selected for the Radiance research platform. She earned degrees in art from Cooper Union and Stanford University and is faculty of Studio Art at University of Texas at Austin. She is currently based in Austin, TX."
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13 8pm Friday
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18 8pm Wed.
Nov. 20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334908
Jason Farago, a critic at large for The New York Times, writing about culture and its place in the wider world.
Common Ground Reading
Friday, November 20, 6-7:30pm, Alumni Lounge, Old O’Connor Hall
Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers.
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (Kahlil Joseph, 2025, 110 mins)
November 20 & 22
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph's renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph's family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder ScheduleNov. 13 8pm Friday
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18 8pm Wed.
Nov. 20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334908
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Schedule
Nov. 13 8pm Friday
Nov. 15 2pm Sunday
Nov. 18 8pm Wed.
Nov. 20 8pm Friday
Nov. 21 2pm Saturday
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334908
Tickets
Live Stream
Harpur Cinema Program
All screenings at 7:30PM in LH6 (doors open at 7PM)
Free for students w/ID, $4 for all others
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (Kahlil Joseph, 2025, 110 mins)
November 20 & 22
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph's renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph's family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10–12PM
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Library News Blog
#BingCollects is back for the fourth time this year! Initiated in fall 2022, this pop-up exhibition is a collaboration between the Binghamton University Art Museum and the Libraries Special Collections. It aims to raise student awareness of both collections’ rich holdings available for them to explore. Pop-ups are held in different locations on campus throughout the year, and feature objects from our collections on a common theme and sub-theme.
Come and see our pop-ups around campus throughout the year, and enjoy cool art and books up close, ask questions and chat with librarians, curators, and museum interns. Learn about the history of protest and activism available in our collections, or just enjoy the artwork and other historical material. Everyone is invited! Be on the lookout for where #BingCollects pops up next!
The following pop-ups are scheduled:
Out of the Closet
October 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 11, 2026, 12–2PM
Location: University Union
World AIDS Day
December 1, 2026, 10 AM to noon
Location: Bartle Breezeway
Artists:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia Den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Dustin Donahue, percussion
Visit their website
Free Admission
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334911
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334911
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334911
Jazz Nutcracker, through a series of kinetic dance performances, tells the story of a young girl named Clara who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her godfather, Drosselmeyer . The nutcracker comes to life and whisks Clara away to a fantasy dreamland, where she is treated to gifts and dances from representatives from across the globe.
Jazz Nutcracker Schedule
Dec 4, 8pm
Dec. 5, 2pm and 8pm
Dec. 6, 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334911
Tickets
Live Stream
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Live Stream
On View 11/12-12/10/2026 | M-F 9-5 p.m.
Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission
Opening reception & lecture: Thursday, November 19
Lecture: 5:30-6:30pm, FA 308
Reception: 6:30-7:30pm, Rosefsky Gallery, FA 259
Thursday, December 10, 2026, 5–7PM
Take a deep breath and de-stress with BUAM for "And now, your moment of Zen" event. Enjoy quiet contemplation in the galleries, test your calligraphic skills, create your own mini Zen garden, or sketch a peaceful landscape inspired by our scholar's rocks.
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
BUAM Main Gallery | Free Admission
Mountains and Water: Traditions in East Asian Art
Mountains and water are at the heart of East Asian arts and culture. They form an essential framework for engaging with the natural world and understanding people’s place within it. This exhibition explores the wide-ranging significance, symbolism, and sacrality of mountains and water in China, Korea, and Japan. It considers landscapes and scholar’s stones as both scholastic objects of aesthetic consideration and supernatural sites of cosmic power.
Generous support and donations for this exhibition were provided by John C. Copoulos ’73.
All events are free and open to the public.
T-S Noon-4 p.m. | TR Noon-7 p.m.
Lower Galleries | Free Admission
Capturing Music: Material Culture and Changing Notations in Medieval Music
Frames Within Frames: Intimacy through Visual Exchange
Hands ON! Experiencing Art through Touch
All events are free and open to the public.
A Doo Wop ChristmasSaturday, December 12, 2026
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334899
The Doo Wop Project will get everyone into the holiday spirit with old-school classics such as The Drifters' "White Christmas," The Temptations' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons' version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," along with contemporary favorites such as "This Christmas" and "Last Christmas." It's sure to be a jolly good time!
The dynamic Broadway stars of The Doo Wop Project are on a mission to put doo-wop music on everyone’s playlist. Backed by their smokin’ hot band, they capture the classic sound of the groups that—back in the day—harmonized on stoops, in subway stations, and on street corners. They have also created a unique, exciting, and fun way to “doo-wopify” today’s biggest hits, reimagining them as though they had been written in another era. Once you experience The Doo Wop Project live on stage, you’ll understand why audiences across the country call them “America’s premier doo-wop group.”
The Silhouettes - Love HappensThursday, February 18, 2027
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 5:30 p.m.
Show: 6 p.m.
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334900
The Silhouettes’ acclaimed show, Love Happens, is an entertaining, family-friendly shadow-dance story celebrating the many forms of love in our world: friendship, family bonds, affection for children and pets, romantic love, a love of music and life, and even a love of chocolate. The production also explores love’s more painful side, taking audiences on an emotional journey filled with laughter, tears, and goosebumps—and ultimately bringing love to the heart.
Founded in 2009, The Silhouettes are America’s premier shadow-dance company. The group was named first runner-up on Season 6 of America’s Got Talent in 2011 and received a Golden Buzzer on America’s Got Talent: The Champions in 2020. Created and directed by Lynne Waggoner-Patton, the company trains its performers, films its productions, and stages its live shows at its own theater in Westminster, Colorado.
The Silhouettes have appeared in television commercials and on the Muscular Dystrophy Show of Strength and Nickelodeon’s See Dad Run. They have also performed around the world, including in Ireland, Poland, Mexico, and Canada. The company appeared as a resident act in America’s Got Talent Presents SUPERSTARS Live in Las Vegas. Over the years, The Silhouettes have raised millions of dollars for children’s charities. Their mission is to help children achieve their dreams and goals, regardless of their circumstances, and to empower them to make a meaningful impact on the world.
by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward humor, this strange and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving. - NT Times
Small Mouth Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and 8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337388
by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward humor, this strange and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving. - NT Times
Small Mouth Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and 8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337388
For the fourth year, the Department of Art & Design's Student Advisory Committee will host a 24-Hour Drawathon & Non-perishable Food Drive.
This competitive event will take place from Saturday, February 27 to Sunday, February 28, 11 a.m - 11a.m.
by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward humor, this strange and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving. - NT Times
Small Mouth Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and 8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337388
by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward humor, this strange and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving. - NT Times
Small Mouth Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and 8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337388
by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bess Wohl
Directed by Elizabeth Mozer
In the overwhelming quiet of the wods, six runaways from city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their views of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward humor, this strange and compassionate play asks how we address life's biggest questions when words fail us.
An enchanting play by Bess Wohl. As funny as it is, uh, quietly moving. - NT Times
Small Mouth Sounds Schedule
Feb. 25: Thursday, 8pm
Feb. 26: Friday, 8pm
Feb. 27: Sat. 2pm and 8pm
Feb. 28: Sun. 2pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337388
March 26, 7–9pm, Chamber Hall
Rehearsal slots March 22 and 23 for those performing.
Our third SOARJam brings together visual art, dance, spoken word, performance, cinema, and more, turning the Chamber Hall into a live laboratory of sound, movement, and image.
Open to all.
Join students across disciplines in a live, collaborative art action. Come to watch, or participate - we’ll help you find ways to join in and create live.
Opportunities include collaborative drawing, dance, music, spoken word, video projection, audio-reactive installation, and experimentation with digital and analog media—including 35mm slides and performing with live loops of yourself!
Come watch, participate, or move between both. No prior experience required.
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents World on a String - Swinging Songs of Broadway
Thursday, April 15, 2027
Osterhout Concert Theater
Doors: 7 p.m.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
For the fifth production in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents series, guest vocalists Kate Kortum and David Marino will perform new arrangements of songs from some of Broadway's most beloved productions, including Hamilton, Wicked, South Pacific, West Side Story, and more, in a special concert event titled World on a String: Swinging Songs of Broadway.
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=334902
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm
April 18, Sunday 7pm
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337419
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm
April 18, Sunday 7pm
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337419
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm
April 18, Sunday 7pm
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337419
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm
April 18, Sunday 7pm
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337419
Directed by Lisa Rothe
The Welkin is a historical dark comedy by Lucy Kirkwood, set in 1759 rural England, where a young woman accused of murder claims to be pregnant to avoid execution, forcing a jury of twelve ordinary women to decide if she's telling the truth. The play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2020, uses this premise to explore themes of justice, patriarchy, and female solidarity, contrasting its historical setting with modern relevance through sharp wit and fierce humor.
The Welkin Schedule
April 15, Thursday, 8pm
April 16, Friday, 8pm
April 17, Saturday 2pm
April 18, Sunday 7pm
April 19, Monday 8pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=337419
Week of April 26 + both weekends
In 2027, the Festival of the Arts will take place during the week of April 26, with events on the weekends before and after as well.
Experience a week of creativity, performance, and collaboration as Binghamton University’s Festival of the Arts brings campus to life with concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and showcases across every discipline in the arts. From hands-on activities and faculty presentations to student research and performances, the Festival highlights the imagination and innovation that define the School of the Arts.
Detailed program tbd.
Week of April 26 + both weekends
In 2027, the Festival of the Arts will take place during the week of April 26, with events on the weekends before and after as well.
Experience a week of creativity, performance, and collaboration as Binghamton University’s Festival of the Arts brings campus to life with concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and showcases across every discipline in the arts. From hands-on activities and faculty presentations to student research and performances, the Festival highlights the imagination and innovation that define the School of the Arts.
Detailed program tbd.