Spring 2016 Arts Calendar
Past Events
Jan 14 - Mar 3, 2016
Art Gallery: Heather Hornbeak Exhibition
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Lecture: Thursday, Feb 11, 4:30p – A72
Reception: Thursday, Feb 11, 5:30p – Main Gallery
Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Heather Hornbeak Reception
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Exhibit runs January 14 – March 3, 2016
Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Sabrina Warren
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Sabrina Laney Warren will present a voice recital on twentieth century songs. The program will feature Benjamin Britten's On This Island (1937), Maurice Ravel's Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (1904-1906) and Richard Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder (1949). Mrs. Warren is a DMA candidate at the University of Memphis and has been teaching voice for Union University since 2013. The recital will take place on Union University's campus in the Hartley Recital Hall located in Jennings Hall on Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. There will be no admission charge and the public is welcome to attend.
Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Guest Piano Recital: Elaine Harriss
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Tue, Mar 1, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Piano Recital: Terry McRoberts
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Mar 7 - Apr 14, 2016
Art Gallery: Kelsey Nagy Exhibition
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Lecture: Tuesday, March 8, 4:30p – A72
Reception: Tuesday, March 8, 5:30p – Main Gallery
Tue, Mar 8, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Kelsey Nagy Reception
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Exhibit runs March 7 – April 14, 2016
Tue, Mar 8, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: St. Louis Brass Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Master Class | 5:30 p.m. | Hartley Recital Hall
Concert | 7:30 p.m. | Savage Memorial Chapel
Although the members of the Saint Louis Brass look formal when they perform, audiences are pleasantly surprised at the relaxed and informal atmosphere they create. With extraordinary grace, the ensemble transforms the stuffiness associated with classical chamber music, combining professionalism and showmanship to produce a thoroughly enjoyable musical experience.
The Saint Louis Brass will perform a great variety of selections featuring music from their CD "Pops Music of the Americas" and from several other CDs plus their new DVD. Especially for this tour, they will present the premier of Joshua Hobbs “Four Times Five”. Commissioned by the quintet in 2015, it was just recently completed. Also new for this tour is Anthony Plog's "Animal Ditties" with music behind the clever Ogden Nash poems. On the lighter side is a new jazz medley - "Tribute to Pops": hits of Louis Armstrong, plus everybody’s favorite “St Louis Blues”. New to the Quintet is the hard driving tango "Libertango" by the noted Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla.
More information about the Saint Louis Brass and this concert can be found at www.SaintLouisBrass.com
The Quintet brings with it many of the ancestors of the brass family of instruments starting with the animal's horn and the conch shell to the short trumpet found in King Tut's tomb and onward into the present. The group has even found a straight trombone from the fourteenth century - a time before man had learned to bend the metal.
Since 1964, the Saint Louis Brass has been performing throughout the country and continues to thrive as a top-notch ensemble. Members of the group include trumpet players Allan Dean, from Yale University and Ray Sasaki from the University of Texas. Jeff Nelsen played horn with Canadian Brass for eight year before becoming a professor at Indiana University. Melvyn Jernigan, formerly with the Saint Louis Symphony, plays trombone and the tubist is Indiana University's Daniel Perantoni. Several of the members are well known as soloists and clinicians and also perform with Summit Brass.
Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 1:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading: George David Clark
Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)
The reading is part of the schedule of events for Union’s 24th annual Creative Writing Workshop for West Tennessee high school students.
The author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press), Dr. Clark’s recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Believer, Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere.
After earning an MFA at the University of Virginia and a PhD at Texas Tech University, Dr. Clark held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and, later, the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University. He has received additional honors from Southern Poetry Review (the Guy Owen Prize), Narrative Magazine (the 30 Below Prize), and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (a Walter E. Dakin fellowship), among others. The current editor-in-chief of 32 Poems, he teaches creative writing and literature as an assistant professor at Washington & Jefferson College.
The reading is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.
Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Queen and the Rebels
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
A Drama by Ugo Betti
Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Queen and the Rebels
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
A Drama by Ugo Betti
Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Queen and the Rebels
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
A Drama by Ugo Betti
Sun, Mar 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Queen and the Rebels
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
A Drama by Ugo Betti
Mon, Mar 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Queen and the Rebels
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
A Drama by Ugo Betti
Tue, Mar 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Queen and the Rebels
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
A Drama by Ugo Betti
Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Student Film Festival: Screening and Directors' Talk
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Douglas Owens
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Violin Recital: Esther Humphries
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 8:00 p.m.
Student Film Festival: Screening and Awards
Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe
Sat, Apr 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Mozart Requiem
Location: FBC, Sanctuary
Union University Singers & Jackson Symphony Orchestra
Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Guest Recital: Warren Trio
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Lily Glass Reception
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Exhibit runs April 18 - August 12, 2016
Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert
Location: FBC, Sanctuary
Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
Theatre: Blank Slate Improv Show with Dr. Dub
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Blank Slate Improv presents: Hubbub & DUB
Tickets: $5 a piece. Tickets will also be sold from 11-2p outside Brewer Dining Hall @ Union 4/18-4/22.
For questions about ticketing, emails can be directed to unionimprov@gmail.com. Folks can also check out the official Facebook page: facebook.com/blankslateimprov
Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Jazz Band Concert
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Mon, May 2, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Theatre: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
A Children's Theatre Musical by Judith Viorst
Tue, May 3, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Theatre: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
A Children's Theatre Musical by Judith Viorst
Tue, May 3, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
A Children's Theatre Musical by Judith Viorst
Tue, May 3, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert
Location: FBC, Sanctuary
Wed, May 4, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Theatre: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
A Children's Theatre Musical by Judith Viorst
Thu, May 5, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Opera Workshop
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Fri, May 6, 2016, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
May 9 - May 13, 2016
Art Gallery: Annual Student Show
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Reception: Tuesday, May 10, 5:30p
Tue, May 10, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Annual Student Show Reception
Location: PAC, Art Gallery
Exhibit runs May 9-13, 2016
Thu, May 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Student-Directed One Acts
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Thu, May 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Orchestra Concert
Location: FBC, Sanctuary
Fri, May 13, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Student-Directed One Acts
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sat, May 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Student-Directed One Acts
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sun, May 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Student-Directed One Acts
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Thu, May 19, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Voices of Proclamation Concert
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)