The Bulldog Brass Society, UGA’s premier graduate brass quintet, will perform a free concert. The ensemble, one of the most active student chamber groups on campus, was created in the fall of 1996 and performs repertoire ranging from Bach to 20th century works as well as more popular music, including home-grown arrangements by their members.

For more information, visit: http://www.music.uga.edu/ensembles/bulldog-brass-society-0

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Contact: Justin Jeffery 706-542-5867

"How Looking Sideways Can Expand Your View of the World," Rose George, an award-winning author. 

UGA dance students will perform a variety of dance styles in classical and contemporary ballet, contemporary modern, and aerial dance with mixed media featuring faculty created choreographic works by UGA Ballet Ensemble, CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company and Spring Dance Concert.  This will showcase a sample of works to be presented in the Spring 2016 Department of Dance concert productions.

 

Choreography and production by graduating senior dance major and B.F.A. candidate Alexis Birts combined with the Emerging Choreographers showcasing choreography by second and third year dance majors, performed by dancers selected by audition.  A reception will follow the Friday evening performance.

An epic evening of music with the Hodgson Wind Ensemble and director Cynthia Johnston Turner features Audivi Media Nocte by Oliver Waespi and David Maslanka’s imposing Symphony No. 8.

American Samurai: A Teenager’s Journey from New England to the Satsuma Rebellion”

Come explore the work of students and artists at the various Dodd facilities, including demonstrations and talks on fabric design, printmaking and book arts, drawing and painting, graphic design, ceramics, interior design, photography, jewelry, metals and sculpture and art education.

Raise the Roof is a 2014 documentary film that follows artists Rick and Laura Brown to Sanok, Poland, as they begin rebuilding Gwoździec, a magnificent wooden eighteenth century synagogue in Poland that was later destroyed by the Nazis. Their vision inspires hundreds of people to join them, using their hands, old tools and techniques to bring Gwoździec’s history, culture, science, and art back to life. Free for UGA students with ID; $5 for all others;

A second showing will be held at 8:30 p.m.

Join Kathleen Staples, independent scholar and co-curator of the exhibition, for a gallery talk.