Sept. 3—Poet Laural Adams and fiction writer Matt Bell, graduate students in BGSU’s Creative Writing Program, will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel on the Bowling Green campus. Free.

Sept. 5—A juried exhibition of high school artwork from northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, “FOCUS” opens in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery of the BGSU Fine Arts Center. Featuring 286 accepted entries from students at 26 schools, the exhibit continues through Oct. 4. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. Free.

Sept. 8—BGSU’s “Tuesdays at the Gish” film series opens with “Bad Taste” by Peter Jackson at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater in Hanna Hall. The 1987 film, Jackson’s first feature-length effort, follows a group of special government agents in their attempt to save the world from flesh-harvesting aliens. Free.

Sept. 9—“There Will Be Oil,” an exhibition of paintings by Seth Bordner, opens in BGSU’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union Art Gallery. Bordner is a graduate assistant in the political science department. The exhibition continues through Sept. 28. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays. Free.

Sept. 10—Poet Callista Buchen and fiction writer Stephanie Marker, graduate students in BGSU’s Creative Writing Program, will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel on the Bowling Green campus. Free.

Sept. 11—BGSU’s College of Musical Arts will hold its annual convocation at 2:30 p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free and open to the public.

Sept. 13—The Festival Forum, a pre-concert event in BGSU’s College of Musical Arts, will be held from 2:15-2:45 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. The forum will feature a talk on the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, which is opening this year’s BGSU Festival Series. Free.

Sept. 13—The opening concert of the 2009-10 Festival Series at BGSU features the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, made up of top alumni of the national Sphinx Competition for young black and Latino string players. Joining the orchestra for the 3 p.m. performance in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center will be guest violinist Elena Urioste and the Harlem String Quartet, comprised of the orchestra’s principal chairs. Urioste was recently selected by Symphony magazine as an emerging artist to watch. The diverse program will include well-known repertoire by Mozart and Vivaldi, in addition to works by Latino and African-American composers such as Piazzolla, Michael Abels and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. For tickets, call the Moore Center box office at 419-372-8717 or 1-800-589-2224.

Sept. 14—“Reframing African Art: The Contemporary” will be Dr. Tavy Aherne’s topic for a BGSU ARTalk at 6 p.m. in 1101 Fine Arts Center on the Bowling Green campus. Aherne is an art historian at Indiana University. Free.

Sept. 15—“Tuesdays at the Gish” continues at BGSU with Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater in Hanna Hall. The 1960 thriller tells the story of a soft-spoken cameraman with a deadly secret: he murders young women and captures their dying moments on film. Nearly 50 years after its release, the film still has the power to shock and provoke thought. Free.

Sept. 16—BGSU’s Faculty Artist Series continues with trumpeter Charles Saenz (pronounced “signs”) and pianist Solungga (soh-luhn-gah) Fang-Tzu Liu at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. The program will include “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano” by James Stephenson and “Concerto” by Charles Chaynes. Free.