GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The 1920s come roaring back with a vengeance when the hit musical “Chicago” comes to town on April 11 for two performances at the Phillips Center.
Based on the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, “Chicago” is, as we are told in the show’s opening lines, “a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mark your calendars: The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has announced its 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, which will bring some of the nation’s top health policy and rehabilitation researchers to UF in celebration of the college’s milestone anniversary.
Complete times, locations and topics for the fall lectures will [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Discover gems, dig for fossils and uncover the beauty of the Earth at the Florida Museum of Natural History from 5 to 9 p.m. March 27 during “Can You Dig It?,” part of the Museum Nights program open to the public. Visitors can enjoy family-friendly, hands-on activities like “Oreo tectonics” and geologist-led demonstrations of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s National Nutrition Month campaign welcomes nationally renowned speaker Jean Kilbourne at 7:30 p.m. March 24 in the Reitz Student Union Grand Ballroom.
Kilbourne will present “Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession With Thinness,” which focuses on body image and the effects of advertising on the fixation with thinness in [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s School of Art and Art History presents “Visions of Bahia, Brazil, from the Collection of Frances F. Switt” on display now through Aug. 15 in Grinter Gallery.
This selection from Frances F. Switt’s extensive art collection highlights artists who lived and worked in Bahia, Brazil, during the mid- to [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The banjo, which traces its roots to West Africa, has been a tremendous vehicle of American cultural expression since the mid-1800s. Scholars, musicians and artists will explore the shared lineage of the African and American musical art form March 20 in the daylong “AIM for Africa Akonting” banjo symposium at the University [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The “Radical Women in Gainesville” online digital collection and exhibit is now open in celebration of Women’s History Month. To view the exhibit, visit http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?s=rwg&m=hitletter.
“Radical Women in Gainesville” documents the valiant history of feminists who helped reform the conservative Gainesville college town in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. The collection [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The powerful impact that a great film score adds to a motion picture is indisputable. Though composers of film scores may not have achieved the legendary acclaim of Mozart, composers of film scores have caught the attention of many, including the Academy Awards and the University Symphony Orchestra at the University of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The John Gray Fund for Excellence Distinguished Lecture Series will feature Robert S. Simpson, senior vice president of the American Forest Foundation’s Center for Family Forests. The title of his presentation is “America’s Family Owned Forests: Under Valued, Under Served, Under Siege.” The lecture is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on April 16 at the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players is pleased to announce the third production of its Spring 2008 season, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Sunday in the Park with George.”
Directing the monumental musical is University of Florida senior and Florida Players artistic director Danny Sharron, who directed last year’s Florida Players production of “Proof.” “Sunday in [...]