The Arts and U
Enhance classroom teaching through class visits to the museum galleries and explore visual art objects in ways that illuminate course themes.
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The Arts and U
The complete cast, including visiting cast with Broadway credentials and returning local actors, has been announced for Pioneer Theatre Company’s concert production of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.”
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School of Dance pushes boundaries with fall performance, “Power Couples” symposium at UMFA, and “Cagney,” the highly-anticipated musical, runs through Oct. 5 at Pioneer Theatre Company.
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National Geographic live, a concert and masterclass with American composer Anna Weesner, the first Jazz at the Café of the year and a “survival-of-the-fittest” production of “Macbeth.”
Read MoreYour freedom to read
Intellectual freedom—the right to access books and other media without censorship—is important and can also be controversial.
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The Department of Film & Media Arts hosts the 9th annual F&MAD Film Festival, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library awarded faculty, staff and students the Fellowship in Collections Engagement.
Read More‘Dracula, the Musical’
The U’s Department of Theatre opens the season with the thrilling drama of suspense and Gothic romance of dreamlike temptation based on the world-famous novel by Bram Stoker.
Read MoreU alums and UMFA challenge anti-Islamic bias
The Emerald Project and new “Ummah” exhibit aim to promote understanding of Islam and to bridge the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims by separating Islam, culture and politics.
Read MoreHumans of the U: Aaron Quinlan
“I love research. It’s exciting and incredibly rewarding to identify problems and devise creative solutions with a marriage of molecular biology and computer science. I feel like I won the lottery. I’m a full professor at the university I love. I’m eager to get to work, and it’s often hard to leave. Loving what you do is an incredible blessing.”
Read MoreArts Bash is back, and it’s bigger
Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., the arts at the University of Utah are taking over the Marriott Library Plaza with live performances, free food and swag, interactive art and info on how you can experience the arts on campus.
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The annual Howard Clark Scholarship Exhibition in the Alvin Gittins Gallery is open now through Aug. 30, with a special reception on Thursday, Aug. 29, from 6-8 p.m.
Read MoreHumans of the U: Jeff Metcalf
“I’m very excited about the novel (fiction) called ‘Wacko’s City of Fun Carnival.’ It is loosely based on my own experience of running away from home at 15 and a half and joining a traveling carnival. As my mother always told me, ‘How could somebody be born on Halloween, in a cab, in San Francisco and not have an interesting life?’ And, she was absolutely correct.”
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