Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities Arts/Events Calendar
Weber State University's Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities is comprised of five departments: Communication, English, Foreign Languages, Visual Art & Design, and Performing Arts. Whenever possible, we include events for all departments and their supporting programs. If you would like to submit an event, please contact Christie Denniston, Director of Marketing and PR for the Lindquist College, at cdenniston@weber.edu.
Spotlight Event
Browning Presents: Ronan Farrow
When: Saturday, January 19 at 7 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: $15 Adults | $8 WSU Students with I.D.
Farrow is a Pulitzer-Winning Author and Journalist for The New Yorker. As an investigative reporter, he published the first sexual assault allegations against now-disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. His world-shaking reporting during the past year on sexual violence has helped ignite conversations in workplaces in the US and beyond. He is the author of
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.
January 2019
Browning Presents: Ronan Farrow
When: Saturday, January 19 at 7 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: $15 Adults | $8 WSU Students with I.D.
Farrow is a Pulitzer-Winning Author and Journalist for The New Yorker. As an investigative reporter, he published the first sexual assault allegations against now-disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. His world-shaking reporting during the past year on sexual violence has helped ignite conversations in workplaces in the US and beyond. He is the author of
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.
WSU Arts Learning Collaborative: 2019 Arts Integration Conference - Arts as a Catalyst for Creating Change
When: Friday, January 25 at 8 a.m.
Location: Weber State University, Shepherd Union
Cost: Free for WSU Faculty/Staff/Students | $10 General Public
registration required
Join us for hands-on arts integrated workshops with guest artists in dance, drama, music and visual art.
Honor Orchestra Concert
When: Saturday, January 26 at 4 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: Free and open to the public
High School orchestra players meet in Weber State University to form this Honor Orchestra.
February 2019
WSU Theatre presents: Illumination: New Play Readings
When: Friday, February 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Allred Theater
Cost: $13 Adult | Free for students with WSU I.D.
Performed by a small company of talented actors, this staged reading shows off the diverse voices of Weber State University playwriting students.
Familiarte / Snow Days at the Shaw Gallery
When: Saturday, February 2 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Parking is FREE, and available next to the Kimball Visual Arts Building
Cost: Free and open to the public
A FREE, bilingual community arts program designed for Ogden-area families with children ages 3-12! Participants tour the Shaw Gallery and make fun works of art from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Formosan Violin-Piano Duo Recital
When: Monday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: $7 Adult | $4.50 Students | $6 Seniors/Military
Weber State University’s Formosan Violin-Piano Duo features professors Dr. Shi-Hwa Wang (violin) and Dr. Yu-Jane Yang (piano).
Formosan returns to Ogden for a concert featuring works by Debussy, Grieg, Beethoven, John Williams and Saint-Saëns.
Yasuaki Onishi: Reverse of Volume
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8 from 7 - 9 p.m.
When: February 8 - April 6
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public
In his installation, Reverse of Volume, Yasuaki Onishi uses the simplest materials — plastic sheeting and black hot glue — to create a monumental, mountainous form that appears to float in space. The process he calls "casting the invisible" is Onishi’s meditation on the nature of the negative space, or void, left behind. Visitors will be able to walk among the contemplative space, and observe how the simplest qualities of light, shape and line change from different perspectives.
3rd Annual Weber Jazz Review
When: Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Allred Theater
Cost: $7 Adult | $4.50 Students | $6 Seniors/Military
The 3rd Annual Jazz Review will showcase local area high school and middle jazz bands and end with a performance featuring the Weber State University Jazz Ensemble and a special guest artist. This jazz festival is one of the few in Northern Utah in the spring and represents a great opportunity to hear jazz, in addition to a chance to hear the band play with our special guest artist.
WSU Arts Learning Collaborative: Evenings for Educators: Floating in Space - Creating Positive & Negative Shapes with Simple Materials
When: Thursday, February 28 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
(sign in from 5:00 - 5:30 p.m.)
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public registration required
Presented by Erinne Roundy (K-6) & Erica Lyon (7-12)
In connection with the exhibition Yasuaki Onishi: Reverse of Volume, we will explore the concepts of space, shape, form and weight. In his installation, Onishi uses the simplest materials—plastic sheeting and black hot glue—to create a monumental, mountainous form that appears to float in space. Shaw Gallery Director, Lydia Gravis, will introduce the exhibition, and K-12 educators will participate in hands-on workshops exploring how visual arts can be used to shape learning in the classroom.
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First Friday Art Stroll
When: Friday, March 1 from 5 - 9 p.m.
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public
Join us for free, after-hours access to WSU's Shaw Gallery and other art galleries, events and receptions in downtown Ogden every first Friday from October through April.
*Please note that we do not participate year-round.
Familiarte / Snow Days at the Shaw Gallery
When: Saturday, March 2 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Parking is FREE, and available next to the Kimball Visual Arts Building
Cost: Free and open to the public
A FREE, bilingual community arts program designed for Ogden-area families with children ages 3-12! Participants tour the Shaw Gallery and make fun works of art from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
WSU Arts Learning Collaborative: Forms: A Visual Arts and Dance Workshop for Elementary & Middle School Teachers
When: Thursday, March 14 from 4:45 - 6:45 p.m.
(sign in from 4:15 - 4:45 p.m.)
Location: Weber State University, Shepherd Union, Ballroom A
Cost: Free and open to the public registration required
Presented by Jason Manley & Amanda Sowerby
Form can describe the ways in which artists use the elements in their discipline to create work. It can also refer to 3-dimensional compositions; sculpting with bodies and/or materials in space.
Participants will explore shared elements in the visual arts and dance such as line, space, shape and texture/energy. The following activities are created to assist educators in furthering their students’ proficiency with common elements for interdisciplinary arts imagination and creation: drawing, wire sculpting, movement improvisation and composition.
Mountain Film Screening
With an introductory keynote address by Steve Hawk, former executive editor of Sierra Magazine, and founding director of the Tony Hawk Foundation
When: Wednesday, March 20th at 7 p.m.*
Location: Peery's Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? Through astonishing images and beautiful cinematography, Mountain explores the evolving relationship we have with peaks around the world.
The Shaw Gallery is pleased to co-sponsor this screening as the kickoff for the WSU Outdoor Weber entrepreneurial event.
*Doors open at 6 p.m., first 100 people through the door receive 2 tickets for post-film screening outdoor gear prize giveaway
Concerto Night Concert
When: Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: $7 Adult | $4.50 Students | $6 Seniors/Military
Concerto Night recognizes winners of an annual music competition. Students perform solos with the Weber State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francisco de Gálvez.
Browning Presents: The Choir of Clare College Cambridge
When: Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: $10 Adult | $8 Students/Seniors/Military
The Choir of Clare College has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. Join us for a special concert at Weber State University.
National Undergraduate Literature Conference (NULC)
When: March 28-30
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 28
Social hour 5:30 - 6:15 p.m. | Dinner 6:15 p.m. | Keynote 7 p.m.
The National Undergraduate Literature Conference welcomes Jesmyn Ward, Michelle Kuo and Tom McAllister. Ward is the author of three novels, Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones and Sing Unburied Sing, and one memoir, The Men We Reaped. Kuo is the author of Reading with Patrick. Tom McAllister is the author of the novels How to Be Safe and The Young Widower's Handbook, as well as the memoir, Bury Me in My Jersey. Undergraduate students from all over the United States visit WSU to present original work in categories ranging from creative works of poetry, fiction and narrative, to critical examinations of pertinent works of American, British and World Literature. The public is invited and encouraged to attend any of the presentations. A schedule of all events will be posted on the NULC website: www.weber.edu/nulc
April 2019
WSU String Chamber Ensembles
When: Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Garrison Choral Room 136
Cost: Free and open to the public
Weber State University strings students collaborate for a fun & engaging chamber music concert.
Orchesis Dance Theatre presents: Resonance
When: April 4-6 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Allred Theater
Cost: $13 Adult | $8.25 Students | $11 Seniors/Military
Directed by Amanda Sowerby
Orchesis Dance Theatre, comprised of student and faculty choreography, presents an evening of exploration entitled Resonance. Through creative collaboration and the investigation of the energetic body in time and space, choreographers seek to communicate through the medium of movement. During this shared event, Weber State University's Moving Company director, Dance Professor Amanda Sowerby, will present the second part of a year-long collaboration with Music Professor Dr. Carey Campbell and Department of Visual Art & Design (DOVAD) sculpture students under the direction of DOVAD Professor Jason Manley.
First Friday Art Stroll
When: Friday, April 5 from 5 - 9 p.m.
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public
Join us for free, after-hours access to WSU's Shaw Gallery and other art galleries, events and receptions in downtown Ogden every first Friday from October through April.
*Please note that we do not participate year-round.
5th Annual Spanish Spelling Bee and Language Talent Competition
When: Tuesday, April 9 at 9 a.m.
Location: Weber State University, Shepherd Union Building, Ballroom A and the Wildcat Theater
Cost: Free and open to the public
The competition is for students grades and is organized by student members of WSU, Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society. Our goals are to promote the Spanish language overall, as well as bilingual education. This event will showcase local area school children trying to win the state's only awards dedicated to empowering school-age children to develop linguistic skills.
Spring Jazz Showcase
When: Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Allred Theater
Cost: $7 Adult | $4.50 Students | $6 Seniors/Military
The Spring Jazz Showcase will feature many of WSU different jazz groups, including our big band, combos, and WSU Vocal Jazz.
WSU Department of Performing Arts presents: Sunday in the Park with George
When: April 11-13 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinee Apr. 13 at 2 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: $13 Adult | $8.25 Students | $11 Seniors/Military
Book by James Lapine
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Andrew Barratt Lewis
Musical Direction by Dr. Karen Bruestle & Kenneth Plain
Sunday in the Park with George merges past and present into beautiful, poignant truths about life, love and the creation of art. The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat is struggling to make meaningful art and maintaining a relationship with his lover, Dot. Amid the scorn of the artistic community, Seurat's artistic ability thrives while his love diminishes.
Shijun Wang Piano Solo Recital "The German Three Bs"
When: Friday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Allred Theater
Cost: $7 Adult | $4.50 Students | $6 Seniors/Military
In a one-night-only performance, Shijun Wang, the department's newest faculty member, will perform the German masters: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
WSU String Project Concert
When: Monday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium
Cost: Free and open to the public
This concert will feature the winner of the String Project and Ogden Youth Symphony Concerto Competition!
Browning String Trio
When: Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Val A. Browning Center, Allred Theater
Cost: $7 Adult | $4.50 Students | $6 Seniors/Military
This biannual string concert features the talents of Dr. Shi-Hwa Wang (violin), Dr. Viktor Uzur (cello) and Dr. Francisco de Galvez (viola). Join the trio for an evening of passionate chamber music!
Spring 2019 BFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19 from 7 - 9 p.m.
When: April 19 - May 3
Location: Kimball Visual Arts Center, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public
Students pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the Department of Visual Art and Design at Weber State University exhibit their capstone work in a thesis exhibition prior to graduation. The exhibition takes place twice a year, for both Fall and Spring graduates, and provides a valuable opportunity for students to showcase their best art and design work alongside their peers.
Location of Performing Arts Events
Austad Auditorium (Weber State University Val A. Browning Center)
Allred Theater (Weber State University Val A. Browning Center)
Eccles Theater (Weber State University Val A. Browning Center)
Garrison Choral Room (VBC 136) (Weber State University Val A. Browning Center)
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Stewart Stadium
Special Notes:
Tickets will be sold beginning one hour before curtain at the Val A. Browning Center ticket office. Please be sure to arrive early in order to avoid waiting in line.
Please contact Christie Denniston, Director of Marketing & PR for Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, at cdenniston@weber.edu at least two days prior to any event to request accommodations in relation to a disability.