Sunday, April 07, 2019

  • Spring Reading Clinic for K-6 Students

    UCF: TBD

    Would your child benefit from more one-to-one and small group instruction in reading and writing? This spring, the College of Community Innovation and Education is offering a reading clinic for K-6 students on UCF's main campus. Your child will be paired with an undergraduate education student for individualized support in developing their reading, writing, and thinking abilities. In our final …

    Fall
  • Spring Math Clinic for K-5 Students

    Teaching Academy

    Would your child benefit from more one-to-one and small group instruction in mathematics? Would you like more specific information about your child’s mathematics performance and at-home suggestions? Your child will be paired with an undergraduate education student for individualized support in developing their mathematics and thinking abilities. Our clinic meets Wednesdays, with the exception of March 13, 20 and April …

    Fall
  • Flights of Fancy: Joy Postle’s Birds

    John C. Hitt Library: main floor

    Artist, Poet and Entertainer Joy Postle was one of Florida's pioneering Naturalists, but perhaps is best known for her entertaining and educational stage shows titled "Glamor Birds" in which she would paint Florida's birds while sharing bird songs, music and poetry. This exhibit highlights some of her bird painting and poetry.

    Fall
  • Thriving Through the Arts

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Seneff Arts Plaza: Seneff Arts Plaza

    Thriving Through the Arts is a free-form, collaborative art-making event that recognizes, reinforces and celebrates the causality between mental health and creative expression. Through immersive “happenings” involving drumming, drawing, dancing and more, Theatre UCF and UCF’s Counseling and Psychological Services invite you to explore the intersectionality between the arts and wellness in this immersive event for all ages. Through drumming, …

    Fall
  • Service Learning to Promote, Understand and Engage in the Arts

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Della Phillips Grand Lobby

    In this competitive session, students will present posters about service learning projects they completed with community partners and arts organizations. Learn more about the event and reserve your tickets here. UCF Celebrates the Arts is an annual showcase of creativity, innovation and collaboration, featuring performers and artists from across the university. Highlights of the 2019 festival include a Tony Award-winning …

    Fall
  • Staged Reading: Scenes from Station Eleven

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: DeVos Family Room

    In Station Eleven, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel, the author explores mankind’s need to continue the arts even in the most dire times of civilization. At this event, students, faculty and alumni from Theatre UCF will present pieces, scenes and monologues from Shakespeare to modern plays that seek to answer the question of why theatre, art and music …

    Fall
  • UCF New Music Ensemble

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Pugh Theater

    Enjoy original music by UCF student, faculty and alumni composers inspired from documentary video, personal journeys and social bonds in this concert of world premieres. The Collide Contemporary Music Series presents the student-based New Music Ensemble in a concert of world premieres of original music by UCF student, faculty, and alumni composers, performed by UCF musicians. Learn more about the …

    Fall
  • Creative Clash

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Seneff Arts Plaza: Seneff Arts Plaza

    Teams of artists from the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design, armed with black markers, race against the clock to create artwork in live action. The theme will be announced seconds before the start of the event, so come cheer on the artists and help choose a winner at the end of the competition. The finished artworks will be …

    Fall
  • Author Talk with Emily St. John Mandel

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: DeVos Family Room

    NEA Big Read at UCF presents award-winning author Emily St. John Mandel for a discussion of her post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven lead by UCF faculty member, David James Poissant. Book signing to follow at 7 p.m. Emily St. John MandelEmily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National …

    Fall
  • UCF Choral Concert: Building Bridges

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Walt Disney Theater

    FREE with UCF I.D. or if 18 & under if reserved by April 5 at 5 p.m.! UCF choirs return with an eclectic program of music centered on the theme of building bridges. The program concludes with the Florida premiere of Lou Harrison’s La Koro Sutro, a setting in Esperanto of the Buddhist Heart Sutra for chorus and gamelan, a …

    Fall