The Third Annual Bowling Green Community Collaboration Day
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Bowling Green State University
City of Bowling Green
Bowling Green City Schools

Adding vitality to the community through teaching and research, the arts and public service initiatives

The Arts

• Dr. Joyce Eastlund Gromko met with Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland to share her findings about the Kindergarten Project. Gromko utilizes advanced teaching methods students to work in Bowling Green and other area schools to teach music to the children.
• The interdisciplinary University/community “Water Works” project kicked off in October with an Arts & Sciences Luncheon Forum and a Water Matters Symposium. This event included conversations, activities and art work that circulate around water topics, such as the environment, and the economics, politics and representation of water. The event was jointly sponsored by several BGSU departments and programs, as well as the BG Community Foundation.
• Jazz artist Terence Blanchard was on campus in September as part of the Hanson Musical Arts Series, which annually provides significant representatives of the musical and creative arts to share their talent and knowledge with students and the community.
• The University Choral Society welcomes singers from the University and from the community to come together to sing great choral music with orchestra. The ensemble performs frequently with the Bowling Green Philharmonia.
• University and BG community readers came together in October to hear author Jeannette Walls speak about her book, “The Glass Castle,” which was the selected reading for the University’s Common Reading Experience for first-year students and Community Reads, the city’s reading program.
• The Gateway to BG project, the public artwork that identifies the corner of Poe and College roads as part of the Great Black Swamp, the city of Bowling Green and the northwest entryway to the University, was dedicated in May 2007.