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Jan
23
We Shall Overcome7:30pm
We Shall Overcome
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
A Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Featuring Damien Sneed
Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., We Shall Overcome showcases repertoire from across the African American music traditions that electrified generations of civil rights activists with interwoven spoken word from Dr. King’s recorded speeches. Producer and Musical Director Damien Sneed ties together a living lineage of music and culture that includes traditional and modern gospel, classical, jazz, Broadway and spirituals. From Duke Ellington to Stevie Wonder; Aretha Franklin to Wynton Marsalis; Nina Simone to Donny Hathaway; and traditional spirituals and music from The Wiz, Sneed covers a lot of musical ground in one evening.
Sponsored by the UConn Office for Diversity and Inclusion in collaboration with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Convocation
Media Sponsor: WFCR/NEPR
TICKETS: https://jorgensen.uconn.edu -
Feb
15
The Tap Pack8:00pm
The Tap Pack
Saturday, February 15th, 2020
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
A CABARET EVENT
Doors Open at 7 pm
Cabaret fare & cash bar
The Tap Pack is an entertaining and elegant nod to the Rat Pack era. Complete with live swing music, lots of tap dancing and witty banter, get ready for some high-energy fun. This five-member troupe from Australia wins the audience from the first downbeat and the pace never slows. They sing. They dance. They joke. They bring a new, invigorating energy to a timeless style. Old School Cool from the new Kings of Swing.
"genuinely breath-catching" - http://Timeout.com
Media Sponsors: CPBN cptv | wnpr & Lite 100.5 FM WRCH -
Feb
20
DRUM TAO 20207:30pm
DRUM TAO 2020
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Athletic bodies and contemporary costumes meet explosive Taiko drumming and innovative choreography in a show that has critics waxing lyrical about the group’s extraordinary precision, energy, and stamina. Time Out calls them “powerful, dynamic and unique,” and the Chicago Tribune says they are “extraordinarily talented...[with] incomparable muscular zeal” as they bring non-traditional flair to the rich heritage of Japanese drumming.
Recommended for all ages (4+)
Co-Sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center
Media Sponsor: Lite 100.5 FM WRCH -
Feb
22
Vienna Piano Trio8:00pm
Vienna Piano Trio
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Concert Talk 7:15 pm
Celebrated for its infectious exuberance, and perennially fresh in its artistry, the Vienna Piano Trio has long been hailed as one of the “world’s leading ensembles of piano, violin, and cello” (The Washington Post). These stellar musicians bring their passion and razor-sharp performance skills to a richly diverse program that includes works by Haydn, Ravel and Mendelssohn.
The Trio was founded in 1988 by the Viennese pianist Stefan Mendl. His partners are the Californian violinist David McCarroll, a member of the trio since 2015, and the Austrian cellist Clemens Hagen, who joined in 2018. Together, the players embody the ensemble’s continuing commitment to bridging the traditions and practice of Europe and America. This philosophy stems from the trio’s early years and its mentoring by such ensembles as the Trio di Trieste, Haydn-Trio Wien, Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri and LaSalle quartets, and by the violinists Isaac Stern and Jaime Laredo.
Both sustaining and expanding the repertoire for piano trio, the ensemble complements the masterworks of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with new works — the product of collaborations with such leading contemporary composers as Friedrich Cerha, Georg Friedrich Haas, György Kurtág, Johannes Maria Staud and Jörg Widmann.
A Lenard Chamber Series Event
TICKETS: https://jorgensen.uconn.edu -
Feb
23
Pete the Cat2:00pm
Pete the Cat
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
A Theaterworks USA Production
Everyone’s favorite rockin’ blue cat takes the stage in this musical performance. When the unsuspecting Biddle family takes in the fantastic feline, Pete the Cat rocks the family’s world with his strumming and strutting. Everybody loves Pete the Cat, well, everyone except Jimmy, the planet’s most organized second-grader. That all changes, of course, when Pete the Cat takes Jimmy on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Based on the New York Times #1 best-selling children’s books by authors Kimberly and James Dean, Pete the Cat is also a popular animated series on Amazon Prime Video.
Recommended for ages 5 and up
Media Sponsor: 100.9 K-Hits
TICKETS: https://jorgensen.uconn.edu
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Jan
30
Opening Reception4:30pm
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
04:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Join us for an Opening Reception at The Benton Museum for "UConn Through the Viewfinder: Connecticut Daily Campus Photographs from the Howard Goldbaum Collection, 1967-70".
RSVP appreciated to benton@uconn.edu or 860-486-4520.
FREE. Open to everyone.
Cash Bar; Light hors d'oeuvres
Music
Remarks at 5:30
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Jan
31
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue12:15am
Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue
Friday, January 31st, 2020
12:15 AM - 12:45 AM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Learn to look with a critical eye
Friday, January 31,
12:15–12:45pm
Tap your powers of observation and
investigate a single work of art through
close looking and discussion with
Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/
Academic Liaison.
The focus of this month's subject is a print in the Democracy of Print exhibition.
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Feb
6
FIRST THURSDAY AT THE BENTON4:30pm
FIRST THURSDAY AT THE BENTON
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
04:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
FREE and FUN for everyone!
Open house in partnership with the Beanery, WHUS & SHaW.
5:00–8:00
WHUS DJ's live in the galleries (DJ Kalabi Yau and others)
5:00-7:30
Visit with cute Therapy Dogs
4:30–8:00 in the Beanery
• 25% off coffee and espresso drinks
• Open Mic
4:30–8:00 in the Museum Galleries
• DIY Valentine/Friendship Cards (all materials provided)
• Play-Doh
• Scavenger Hunts
• Giveaways
• Enjoy Live DJ music
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Feb
10
Meditation Monday with SHaW - UConn Students only4:00pm
Meditation Monday with SHaW - UConn Students only
Monday, February 10th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Students only. Join us for Meditation Mondays with Nishelli Ahmed of Student Health and Wellness Services in the Benton Museum galleries for a guided meditation.
All levels are welcome to foster your wellbeing and enjoy meditating among the art.
This program is open to students only.
First come, first serve with a maximum of 30 participants.
Please arrive between 3:45 and 4pm to check in at the front desk.
Late arrivals will not be granted access. **Please note that all beverages, food, and bags will be stowed at the reception desk.
This event is In collaboration with Student Health and Wellness.
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Feb
20
Film Screening: Cold War (2018)4:00pm
Film Screening: Cold War (2018)
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Film Screening of "Cold War" (2018). 88min
FREE
Set against the backdrop of the 1950s Cold War in Poland, two people of differing backgrounds and temperaments begin an almost impossible romance.
This is a historical period drams directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on 10 May 2018. Critics praised its acting, screenplay, direction and cinematography.
After the film, Professor Friedemann Weidauer, German Studies at UConn, will hold a short discussion about the period.
Rating: 92% by Rotton Tomatoes
This film is shown in collaboration with the Human Rights Institute Film Series
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Feb
7
2020 UConn Winter Puppet Slam8:00pm
2020 UConn Winter Puppet Slam
Friday, February 7th, 2020
08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Storrs Campus UConn's von der Mehden Recital Hall, 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, CT
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the UConn Puppet Arts Program will present the 2020 UConn Winter Puppet Slam on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020 at 8 p.m. in UConn’s von der Mehden Recital Hall, located at 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, Conn. 06269. The UConn Winter Puppet Slam will feature short works by professional puppeteers and performers from around New England, including BodyWave and Amy West, as well as new works by UConn Puppet Arts students.
The 2020 UConn Winter Puppet Slam will showcase the work of BodyWave, a Boston-based collective of artists and performers who will present The Good Oak, a crankie (or moving scroll performance) inspired by Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac which incorporates live music and over 30 puppets to show the life of one tree over more than a century. Come early to the von der Mehden lobby to see BodyWave’s Miniature Migration, an audience-of-one show about Sandhill Cranes on Nebraska’s Platte River.
Amy West, a puppeteer, alumna of the UConn Puppet Arts certificate program, and a writer, photographer, and wedding DJ from Boston, will perform her new work Coming Home to You, a shadow crankie celebrating the annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in the Berkshires.
The UConn Winter Puppet Slam will also feature new works by UConn graduate and undergraduate students from the university’s Puppet Arts Program. Funding for the UConn Winter Puppet Slam is made possible in part by the Puppet Slam Network.
The UConn Winter Puppet Slam is free and open to the public; donations are greatly appreciated. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in UConn's von der Mehden Recital Hall located at 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, Conn. For directions to the von der Mehden Recital Hall, visit http://vdm.uconn.edu. These performances are recommended for mature audiences. For more information about these performances or if you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860-486-8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.
