If you missed sign-up's in the fall, you have one more chance to register for staff/faculty tickets to Parable of the Sower Opera on Friday, April 14th at 7:00 PM at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. To register, email Monica Bouyea (mbouyea@bowdoin.edu) by this Friday 3/24 at 5:00 PM. Please note in your email if you would like 1 or 2 tickets – you'll receive your tickets via email by early April. *Tickets have sold out to the broader community, and these are the last few remaining. If we’ve run out of tickets by the time we receive your email, we’ll add you to our waitlist. 

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As part of Toshi Reagon's McKeen Visiting Fellowship this year, Indigo Arts Alliance and Portland Ovations (in association with Bowdoin College) will present Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower Opera on Friday, April 14 at 7:00 PM at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. Bus transportation to the event and back to Campus is available. 

 
Based on the landmark sci-fi novels by Afrofuturist author Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower Opera is a genre-defying, modern congregational opera that celebrates two centuries of Black music. Written by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Parable chronicles the spiritual awakening of Lauren Olamina amidst an America plagued by the products of unrelenting greed, systemic injustice and climate change denial. With an ensemble of more than 20 musicians, Parable transforms the operatic form, fusing African-American spiritualism, deep insights into gender and race, and climate activism into a new musical experience that thrills and inspires.  
 
Toshi Reagon’s tenure as the 2022-23 Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow has provided the Bowdoin community and communities across Maine the opportunity to explore related themes including racial justice, climate justice, gender justice, and faith.