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Bowdoin dancers bring it during the December dance concert.
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Bowdoin dancers bring it during the December dance concert.
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Remembering a Musical Adventurer

composer marion brown74 outside gibson
Bowdoin, Black Friday, and Free Jazz

Record Store Day’s Black Friday releases include a reissued recording by avant-garde jazz pioneer Marion Brown ’74, who was also on the faculty at Bowdoin and after whom an annual prize is awarded for emerging composers.

Santagata Lecture

Belinda Kong, Michelle Zauner, Kyubin Kim '22
Grammy Nominee Michelle Zauner on Identity and “Crying in H Mart”

Michelle Zauner, leader of the alternative pop band Japanese Breakfast and this semester’s Santagata lecturer, spoke about her sudden rise to fame after publishing her book, Crying in H Mart, and her struggles with identity in the public eye. Zauner was one of the inaugural speakers for Bowdoin’s Asian American Reckonings initiative.

Idealism + Pragmatism

Solutions Exhibition
Bowdoin Students Focus on Finding Solutions

In between classes and activities, several Bowdoin students are working on ambitious and innovative projects to help alleviate problems and improve the lives of others.