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Create holiday cards for pediatric patients

The annual Hearts for the Holidays program, presented by Friends for Life of America, will provide an opportunity for University of Florida students, faculty and staff to make holiday cards for pediatric cancer patients. Card-making stations will be located at Turlington Plaza and the Reitz Student Union Colonnade from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dec. [...]

Filed under Happenings, InsideUF (Campus) on Tuesday, November 24, 2009.

Sarasota modern architecture exhibit on display in Smathers Library

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The exhibit “Sarasota Modern: The Sarasota School of Architecture, 1941-1966” is open through Dec. 24 at the University of Florida in the Special Collections exhibit gallery on the second floor of the Smathers Library.
This exhibition features architectural models, drawings and photographs from John Howey’s Sarasota School of Architecture Collection in the UF [...]

Filed under Happenings, InsideUF (Campus) on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

Florida Players presents ‘The Pillowman’

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players, the University of Florida’s student-run theatre group, continues its fall 2009 showcase season with Martin McDonagh’s terrifying and funny The Pillowman on Nov. 6, 7 and 8, in the Phillips Center Squitieri Studio Theatre, formerly the Black Box Theatre.
In a totalitarian police state, acclaimed writer Katurian is brought in for [...]

Filed under Happenings, InsideUF (Campus) on Thursday, November 5, 2009.

School of Music celebrates 195th birthday of saxophone inventor

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida School of Music will celebrate the 195 birthday of the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, with a concert of saxophone music at 12:50 p.m. on Nov. 6 in the University Auditorium.
Adolphe Sax, the son of a Belgian musical instrument maker, was born on Nov. 6, 1814. His [...]

Filed under Happenings, InsideUF (Campus) on Thursday, November 5, 2009.

Musician, physicist to present ‘Einstein’s Cosmic Messengers’ concert

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An award-winning composer and the leader of the largest astrophysics experiment in the world will come together Sunday for the Florida premiere of “Einstein’s Cosmic Messengers,” an inventive multimedia concert.
This concert will feature Andrea Centazzo, composer, percussionist, and multimedia artist, and University of Florida professor of physics David Reitze, head of the [...]

Filed under Happenings, InsideUF (Campus) on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.