University of Georgia Opera Theatre and the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music proudly present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's sensual masterwork Don Giovanni, coming February 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2017. You won't want to miss a thrilling production created with guest artists Maestro Hilary Griffiths, conductor, and director Vince Liotta. 



Performed in Italian with English supertitles. Presented in the UGA Fine Arts Theater in collaboration with the University of Georgia Opera Orchestra.



Parking is available in the Hull Street Parking Deck.

February's Thursday Scholarhip Series event will ask its audience, "what do two dozen hands on 440 piano keys playing a million notes sound like?" The 2017 Piano Extravaganza, held in Hodgson Concert Hall on February 9 at 7:30 p.m., showcases the piano area and its beautiful Steinways with a wide array of music, faculty-led talks on the history of the instrument, a behind-the-scenes look at our piano selection process, and a special opportunity for an audience member to become a one-note soloist.

"The Curious Case of Mammography: Breast Cancer, Science, and the Rhetoric of Risk" by Nicole Hurt

"Ditch Disney! Indigenous Women's Political Animation" by Channette Romero

Tuesday, 2/14

Saxophone Masterclass featuring Dr. Jan Baker, professor at Georgia State University and co-director of Atlanta-based contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency

5pm - 6:30pm, Edge Hall, HHSOM

Wednesday, 2/15

Percussion Masterclass featuring guest artists Professor Allen Otte, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Dr. John Lane, Sam Houston State University (TX)

9am - 10:30am

Percussion Suite, 1st floor HHSOM

The UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s internationally-renowned Regents Professor and Franklin Professor of Violin, Levon Ambartsumian, will perform several brilliant works for violin. $12; $6 with UGA student ID; For more information, visit: http://music.uga.edu/

University Theatre presents Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, directed by Kristin Kundert. Performances will be held in the Cellar Theatre February 16-18, 21-25 at 8 p.m. and February 26 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $16, $12 for students, and can be purchased at drama.uga.edu/box-office, by phone at 706-542-4400, or in person at the Performing Arts Center or Tate Center box office.

Join us for our Winter Art Party Extravaganza!!! Help us celebrate 4 new exhibitions featuring Atlanta-based artist, Michi Meko, Dodd graduate students Alexis Spina, Katherine Miller, & Yeonsoo Kim, and a group show of undergraduate work curated by our friend Candice Greathouse, director of ATL's Mint Gallery. You can read up on all the upcoming exhibitions here: http://art.uga.edu/galleries/upcoming-exhibitions



As always there will be FREE snacks, drinks, tunes (hellllo DJ Blau Blau!!), and a zany photobooth for all your memory-making needs.

Joycelyn Elders, Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, will give the Mary Frances Early Lecture entitled “Bridging the Gap in Higher Education” April 5, 3 – 4 p.m.. The event will take place at the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art with a reception to follow. Elders was the 15th Surgeon General of the United States, and the first African American and only the second woman to head the U.S. Public Health Service.

Sponsored by the Graduate School, Graduate and Professional Scholars and the Office of Institutional Diversity

Barbara Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University, will present a lecture entitled “Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenges” as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. The first woman president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Grosz specializes in natural language processing and multi-agent systems. She developed some of the earliest computer dialogue systems and established the research field of computational modeling of discourse.