Held in the air-conditioned conservatory,  this popular annual concert features popular and patriotic tunes. This concert is always standing room only, so arrive early.

This free student music series that features new groups each month: 

July 3:

Cello Duo from 5:30-6:30, featuring Valentina Ignjic and Adriana Ceia, first-year doctoral students.

Jazz Quintet from 6:30-7:30, led by Michael Jarrell.

August 7:

Jazz Quintet 

All musiicans are current Hugh Hodgson School of Music undergrad and/or graduate students. The Savannah Room Restaurant & Bar are open during the performances.

July 4th holiday; no classes; offices closed.

To celebrate its upcoming issue, The Georgia Review will host a reading by Elly Bookman, winner of the fifth annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Review assistant editor Soham Patel will be the opening reader, and the event will include a musical performance by Cortez Garza.

A reception with light refreshments will follow the reading.

Sponsored by The Georgia Review and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fall 2018 classes begin. 

To commemorate the garden’s 50th anniversary, the Sunflower Music series season starts with a celebration of 1968 (the year of the Beatle’s White Album). William Tonks will review each concert and tell a few tales of the more than 60 Sunflower concerts since he first proposed outdoor concerts that would bring together people from two of his favorite places: the Athens music scene and the botanical garden. Includes a full breakfast.

Labor Day holiday. Offices closed; no classes;

Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the streets of Chicago, including a classic scene at the Art Institute of Chicago. Directed by John Hughes. (1986, PG-13, 103 minutes).

Join Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art, for a special look at the exhibition.

Debonair, adventuresome billionaire Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is bored of being able to buy everything he desires and cultivates a secret hobby: stealing priceless works of art. He believes he has pulled off the perfect multimillion-dollar heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art but matches wits with an insurance investigator (Rene Russo) who will do anything to get her man. (1999, R, 113 minutes).