The University of Central Arkansas BearBones Trombone Choir will perform its end-of-the-semester concert on April 3 in the Snow Fine Arts auditorium. The 7:30 p.m. performance is free and open to the public. “The BearBones will perform Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor, Dukas' Fanfare from La Peri and a new fanfare titled Apogee Fanfare by Chris Sharp,” … [Read more...]

Rashod Ollison, a music and cultural critic, will visit the University of Central Arkansas as artist-in-residence April 5. Ollison, an Arkansas native, will give a reading, followed by a Q&A and book-signing, at 7:30 p.m. in the College of Business Auditorium 107. The event is free and open to the public. Ollison has been a staff critic at the Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, … [Read more...]

UCA Theatre will present the critically acclaimed “Arms and the Man” by celebrated playwright George Bernard Shaw in the Bridges/Larson theatre in the Snow Fine Arts Center on the University of Central Arkansas campus in April. Performances are scheduled for April 12, 13, 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m., as well as two matinee shows April 14 and 21 at 2 p.m. Stacy Pendergraft, associate professor of … [Read more...]

Funds to support film, theater, creative writing initiatives The Bridges-Larson Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to the University of Central Arkansas Department of Film, Theatre and Creative Writing in the College of Fine Arts & Communication. Awarded this past fall, the grant is the largest gift in the history of the department, and $100,000 will be awarded over five … [Read more...]

University of Central Arkansas Professor Dr. John Vanderslice, along with his latest novel, “The Lady Days of Oscar Wilde,” will be featured Friday on Arts & Letters on KUAR 89.1 FM. The show will air on the National Public Radio affiliate at 7 p.m. Friday, March 9, and at 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 11. This 30-minute episode, “Oscar Wilde: Signs, Omens, Portents & Divinations", is a … [Read more...]

Through a collaborative effort, the bands of the University of Central Arkansas and Hendrix University will bring Frank Ticheli to Conway as a composer-in-residence March 15. Ticheli, a professor of Composition at the University of Southern California, will lead the UCA and Hendrix Wind Ensembles in a gala concert in Reynolds Performance Hall at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and open to the … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas Theatre will present "Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Gene Roddenberry Story" as a documentary devised work March 13-15. Directed by senior Levi Smith, the play is scheduled for the University of Central Arkansas’s Black Box Theatre in Snow Fine Arts Center 210 at 7:30 each night. A devised work is a collaborative piece where a team works together to … [Read more...]