GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players, under the direction of Artistic Director Michelle Karst, will host auditions for the spring 2009 season today, Dec. 11.
If planning to audition, you are asked to sign up on the Florida Players bulletin board in the Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. Audition times begin at 6 p.m. in G-15 [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — Public television station WUFT-TV is celebrating 50 years of broadcasting to 16 counties in North Central Florida (21 via cable). To honor the milestone, Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and political editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will give a special presentation at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Margaret Werth, author and University of Delaware associate professor of art history, will give a lecture at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20 at the Harn Museum of Art during Museum Nights.
Titled “Modernity and the Face,” the lecture will feature discussion of her current project, a book studying representations of the human face in painting, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Gators Canned Goods Challenge for Kids already has helped raise more than 3,300 pounds of food for the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank in Gainesville, but many local food banks are in dire need of contributions to assist families for the upcoming holiday season.
Head Coach Urban Meyer [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For centuries, African beadwork has “spoken” in a visually coded language to convey thoughts about personal relationships, family ties, wealth, religious beliefs, and social and political standing. “Between the Beads: Reading African Beadwork” is an exploration of this practice. The exhibit will be on display until spring 2009.
The exhibition illuminates the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The George A. Smathers Libraries will host an all-day event to showcase the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to the academic community and the public on Nov. 19. GIS Day is a global event that celebrates GIS and is held each year on the Wednesday of National Geographic Society’s Geography Awareness [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Gator swimming and diving teams will hold a meet at 2 p.m. on Nov. 8 against South Carolina.
The meet also will mark UF Student, Faculty and Staff Day. The first 150 students, faculty and staff who show their Gator 1 ID card will get a free slice of pizza.
A UF Student [...]
David Colburn, historian and author, will speak about his new book “From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans” covering Florida’s political trends and its place in national politics at 2 p.m. on Nov. 3 in Smathers Library Room 1A on the first floor. The talk will be followed by a reception at 3 p.m. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A classic Roman comedy with an animated cartoon style defines the upcoming Florida Players production of “The Braggart Soldier” which will debut at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21 in the Nadine McGuire Black Box Theatre.
“The Braggart Soldier,” written by Plautus and translated by Erich Segal, is a Roman comedy with a fast-paced [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The 2008 Riker Lecture will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 in the University Auditorium. The lecture will be given by Vasti Torres and is entitled “Would you Recognize Racism When it Happens Around you?” The lecture is sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and the Department of Housing [...]