Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities Arts/Events Calendar

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.

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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.

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.    

National Undergraduate Literature Conference (NULC) 

When: March 28-30
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 28

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

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.

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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.

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. 

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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!

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.

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