To kick off the Spotlight on the Arts festival, UGA’s arts programs present an hour-long kaleidoscope of student performances and presentations. This brilliant, non-stop collage of the arts provides a window into the vast scope of the creative work on our campus, from dance to music, theater, creative writing and art.

To see this year's Spotlight on the Arts festival schedule, please visit: http://arts.uga.edu/spotlightuga2017/

Giuseppe Verdi wrote some of the most famous operas in the current repertoire of opera houses worldwide. This UGA Opera Theatre concert presents arias, duets, trios, quartets, and ensembles from a dozen of Verdi's greatest compositions, as well as the well-known choruses from “Aida,” “Il Trovatore,” “Nabucco,” “Falstaff,” and “La Traviata.” A second Viva Verdi performance is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m.

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall

$20, $6 (student/child)

Science Olympiad Outreach is a student-run organization that goes out into the local Athens-Clarke Community and promotes STEM through the Science Olympiad Program. This will be the group's fourth annual Invitational Science Olympiad Tournament. For more information, visit: http://www.ugascienceolympiad.net/

This fall, the Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series will highlight the exhibition “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête” through a gallery tour and discussion led by curator Dr. Shawnya Harris in collaboration with the UGA Institute for Women's Studies and Institute for African American studies.

Do facts still matter? The UGA Libraries and the Georgia Debate Union are hosting a debate on the importance and status of facts. The affirmative/pro side of the debate will be Facts matter more than fake news in contemporary society. Debate website includes a suggested reading list. For more information, visit: http://guides.libs.uga.edu/factsdebate

“Post-Truths and People: The Armenian Genocide and its Negation,” Antonia Arslan, author and former professor of Italian modern and contemporary literature at the University of Padova, and Siobhan Nash-Marshall, professor of philosophy and the Mary T. Clark Chair of Christian Philosophy at Manhattanville College.

Sponsored by the Romance Languages Fund

Join The Georgia Review for its Fall Issue Release featuring poet Kaveh Akbar. Akbar will read at 7 p.m. accompanied by sign language interpreter Lynn Young.

Enjoy Mozart’s music from one of the most joyous and optimistic periods of his life. Fresh from the triumph of The Marriage of Figaro and at the height of his creative path, the exuberant genius expressed his elation in three of the most effervescent chamber works of his career.

"Women's Bodies and the Slave Trade in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger," Carolyn Medine, religion and African American studies.

Many of the School of Music’s instrumentalists and vocalists come together when the Hodgson Wind Ensemble and the Hodgson Singers collaborate for this Thursday Scholarship Series performance.

The Thursday Scholarship Series began in 1980 and, as the flagship concert series at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, continues the tradition of “Music Appreciation Programs” started by Hugh Hodgson himself in the 1930s. Proceeds from contributions and ticket sales to these concerts are among the primary means through which School of Music scholarship funds are raised each year.