events sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program in the College of Arts and Humanities

Saturday, April 08, 2017

  • Diversity Certificate Series (Recurring Event)

    Barbara Ying Center: 140

    Must attend all four modules to receive completion certificate.Facilitator: Rachel Luce-HittThis four-module program is designed as an introductory overview series of workshops to provoke thought with respect to diversity in general, and more specifically, with respect to several important dimensions of diversity. Participants must attend all four modules to receive completion certificate.Dates Modules 1 and 2: Thursday, February 23 and …

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  • April is Financial Literacy Awareness Month!

    UCF Main Campus

    April is Financial Literacy Awareness Month! There are events happening throughout the month of April to assist students being financially well: - April 5, 2017 Salary Negotiation and Understanding Your Paycheck (2:00pm - 3:00pm in CSEL Room 121) - April 13, 2017 FUNNY MONEY featuring Colin Ryan (Doors open at 5:30pm, 6:30pm - 8:00pm Morgridge International Reading Center) - April …

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  • UCF Celebrates the Arts 2017

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Lobby

    UCF Celebrates the Arts 2017 April 7-14, 2017 The Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts comes alive with a showcase of UCF music, visual arts, and theatre! “I enjoyed EVERYTHING! The students were amazing and we really enjoyed seeing some familiar faces. Providing free performances allows those who normally wouldn’t be able to come to the theater a chance to …

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  • SVAD Banner Art and Arcade Games

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

    Experience top-of-the-line interactive gaming from the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design’s game design students. Housed in custom-built classic arcade cabinets, patrons will be able to play video games created by undergraduate students. This year’s lobby banners display examples of undergraduate student artworks from the areas of Character Animation, Experimental Animation, Architecture, Ceramics, Drawing, Design, Digital Media, Film, Graphic …

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  • Without Borders

    Gallery at Avalon Island

    “Without Borders” features painting, video, sound, sculpture, photography, and performance art by artists from diverse cultural and ideological backgrounds. This show explores themes of identity, perception, blackness, feminism, gender roles, and interactivity. “Without Borders” is a statement of our unique perspectives. http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/without-borders/

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  • Theatre UCF Costume Exhibit

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Lobby

    Ooh la la! Get a sneak peek into corsets and petticoats designed and constructed in Theatre UCF’s costume shop. http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/theatre-ucf-costume-exhibit/

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  • A Memory Wingding: Nostalgia and Ephemera in UCF Undergraduate Fine Art

    City Arts Factory

    This exhibition features the paintings, photography, and sculpture of eight artists from UCF’s undergraduate BFA program. The show includes works by Gabe Cortese, Emile Mausner, Samantha McCoy, Jordan Pascal, Christopher Rivera, Andrew Snow, Sheherazade Thenard, and Lila Villalobos who all share the theme of the aesthetics of remembrance in psychologically charged spaces. http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/a-memory-wingding-nostalgia-and-ephemera-in-ucf-undergraduate-fine-art/

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  • SVAD Multi-media “Multiples” Exhibit

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Lobby

    Discover conceptual visual art pieces in unexpected places throughout the Dr. Phillips Center! Taught as an introduction to principals in conceptual, non-narrative visual art, School of Visual Art and Design professor Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz challenges students to produce interpretations that explored repetitive forms, which would be then used to solve site-specific installation art problems. http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/svad-multiples-exhibit/

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  • In the Eyes of the Hungry: Florida’s Changing Landscape

    Terrance Gallery at Orlando City Hall

    Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read and inspired by John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, In the Eyes of the Hungry: Florida’s Changing Landscape inspires and contributes to conversations about demographic, geographic, and ecological shifts, with an emphasis on human relationships with the environment. The selected artists, which include School of Visual Arts & Design faculty …

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  • Oklahoma!

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

    Music by Richard Rodgers Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Directed by Earl D. Weaver Part of UCF Celebrates the Arts 2017 Friday, April 7, 2017 at 8:00 pm Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre …

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  • 32nd Annual Lupus Awareness Seminar

    UCF College of Medicine

    Register: http://tinyurl.com/lupusseminar On April 8, healthcare providers and lupus patients will meet at the UCF College of Medicine to discuss the latest treatments and research on the disease. Dr. Michelle Petri, director of the Johns Hopkins Lupus Center and an international expert on lupus is the featured speaker and will talk about the need for multidisciplinary healthcare teams to treat …

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  • Women's Club Soccer Spring Round Robin

    RWC Park

    Women's Club Soccer will be hosting a Spring Round Robin at the Sport Club Grass Fields featuring: Florida State University Florida Atlantic University University of South Florida Coastal Carolina University

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  • UCF Alumni: Community Service Day at Meals on Wheels Atlanta

    Meals on Wheels Atlanta

    This April, we're sharing the Knight spirit and giving back to our local community. Join the Atlanta UCF Alumni Chapter for a volunteer event with Meals On Wheels Atlanta (MOWA), where we'll prepare, package and deliver meals to MOWA's homebound seniors. If you'd like to join us, please register in advance so we can send you a waiver and make …

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  • OMGraduation!

    Career Services and Experiential Learning

    Are you a senior and still not sure how to write a resume? Do you think getting a root canal sounds more appealing than going to a job interview? Have you always meant to come into Career Services but never was able to fit the time into your busy schedule? If you find yourself stressed out about any of these …

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  • Women's Club Lacrosse

    RWC Park

    Knights Lacrosse Doubleheader vs University of South Florida at 11am vs Florida Gulf Coast University at 1pm

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  • Puddin’ and the Grumble

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Pugh Theater

    Puddin’ has a secret and if she doesn’t do something fast, it may just eat her alive! To make matters worse, her mom is sending her away, she has to start a new school, and soon she’ll be stuck living with her crazy, ex-lounge singing, yoga-loving grandma. Can things get any worse? Or maybe…just maybe, they’re about to get better. …

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  • Oklahoma! Behind-the-Scenes Talk

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

    Join the Theatre UCF production team for a behind-the-scenes perspective on the ins and outs of producing a musical. http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/oklahoma-open-rehearsal/

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  • A Reading of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

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

    With a cast of over thirty UCF guest artists, faculty, staff, alumni and students, the School of Performing Arts is proud to present a reading of Frank Galati’s 1990 Tony Award winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.Renowned first as a novel, and then as a prize-winning motion picture, the story of the Joad family and their flight …

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  • Theatre UCF Makeup Demonstration

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Lobby

    UCF Students and faculty from the Advanced Makeup Techniques class present makeup demos on a variety of types of theatrical makeup, including characters, special effect, facial hair, aged, animal, fantasy and the Monster from The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein! http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/theatre-ucf-makeup-demonstration-2/

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  • Tableaux Vivants

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Lobby

    The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design 3D Art students and instructors under the creative direction of Debi Starr have teamed up to design and produce “living art” tableaux vivants displays. http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/tableaux-vivants-3/

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  • Mahler 2: Resurrection

    Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre

    The UCF Choirs perform Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. For more details visit: https://orlandophil.org/events/mahler-2-resurrection/

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  • Piano Extravaganza!

    Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Pugh Theater

    The UCF piano studio hosts an evening of piano ensembles and duos with a special guest appearance! http://arts.cah.ucf.edu/event/piano-extravaganza/

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  • Recfest 27

    Recreation and Wellness Center

    The greatest day of play and the biggest RWC event of the semester! Sign up for a night of team games, food and fun! Do you have what it takes to make it to the top? Register at rec.ucf.edu/IM!

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