UCF Celebrates the Arts

Friday, April 17, 2020

• CANCELED: The Middle Passage: Virtual Reality Experience

  April 17, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
  Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Della Phillips Grand Lobby

  This virtual experience immersion project on African Captivity in Brazil from 1750-1850 lets patrons live the journey from Elmina Castle in Ghana to Salvador, Bahia (Brazil). This six-to-seven week period was essential in transforming the captive’s body and mind from free to newly-enslaved person. The stories are based on research obtained from visual and archival materials, the database slavevoyages.org and …

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• CANCELED: UCF Symphony Orchestra: "Oceana" and Beethoven's "Pastoral"

  April 17, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m.
  Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Walt Disney Theater

  Explore our oceans with the UCF Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Chung Park in the Florida premiere of Stella Sung’s Oceana, a piece that lets patrons swim with whales and explore new depths to learn about marine conservancy and ocean noise pollution. Accompanying the music is a film by underwater filmmaker and photographer, Annie Crawley. (In order to join …

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• CANCELED: UCF Opera: Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri (Recurring Event)

  April 17, 2020 at 8 p.m. until 10 p.m.
  Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Pugh Theater

  In classic Rossini style, this high energy and melodic opera turns the familiar “rescue story” on its head, with our confident and strong-willed heroine setting the men straight. Full of adventure, fun, love, trickery and beautiful music, this opera was written when the composer was just 21 years of age—around the same age as many of our UCF performers! Mustafà, …

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