A comprehensive summary of campus arts and cultural events
RENO, Nev. – The School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno presents world-class offerings from guest artists and performers, as well as faculty and students within the school’s departments of art, dance, music, theatre and visual arts. Most arts365 performances and exhibits take place in the Church Fine Arts Building on the University campus — many are free and all are open to the community.
Free parking is available after 7 p.m. in the Brian Whalen Parking Complex, north of Church Fine Arts, and in the Sierra Street Parking Complex, one block west of North Virginia Street between 11th Street and College Drive. A patron drop-off area is adjacent to Nightingale Concert Hall on North Virginia Street near College Drive.
Tickets are available (without a convenience fee) at the campus’ Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., lower level entrance, Monday – Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.- 1 pm.; or at the Church Fine Arts Building box office on campus, one hour prior to performances. Tickets are available (with a convenience fee) online at http://www.UNRSchoolOfTheArts, or by calling 1-800-225-2277.
For a copy of the University’s arts365 calendar or more information about the exhibits and performances, visit http://www.UNRSchoolOfTheArts call (775) 784-4ART or 1-800-233-8928, or email arts365@lists.unr.edu.
NEW events, just added to the calendar:
Jazz Night at Se7en West
Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Se7en West, West Street Market, 148 West St., Reno
Join members of the University of Nevada, Reno Program in Jazz and Improvisational Music for an all-ages jam session. Sponsored by the City of Reno, For the Love of Jazz and the Program in Jazz and Improvisational Music.
Free and open to all ages
Guest Lecture by Dr. H.L. “Bud” Goodall
Blood, Sh*t, and Tears: The “Terrorist” as Abject Other
Nov. 5, 11 am-12:15 p.m.
Theatre, Joe Crowley Student Union
Guest lecturer, Dr. H.L. “Bud” Goodall, will give a lecture titled Blood, Sh*t, and Tears: The “Terrorist” as Abject Other, which is based on his current research project titled “Identifying Terrorist Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Embedding Story Analysts in Expeditionary Units.” Dr. Goodall is a professor of communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and a founding member of the Consortium for Strategic Communication (CSC) at Arizona State University. Parking is available on the top level of the Brian Whalen Parking Complex with a daily use permit. For more information call 775-784-6837.
Free
5th Annual Ceramic Society Silent Auction
Nov. 12, 6:30-7:30 p.m. (Bidding closes at 7:30 p.m.)
Front Door Lobby, Church Fine Arts Building
The Ceramic Society of the University of Nevada is holding their 5th Annual Silent Auction featuring pottery and artwork created by University of Nevada, Reno ceramic professor, Rebekah Bogard and her students. These works make for unique, one-of-a-kind holiday gifts. All proceeds go toward funding student travel fees to attend the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference held in Philadelphia, PA.
Attending is free. Bidding on work is requested, but not required.
Sheppard Gallery presents
Prospectives.09 – International Digital Arts Festival
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Nov. 12-Dec. 16, Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Nov. 12, Opening Lecture, 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Reception, 6:30-8 p.m.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building
The Digital Media Studio of the Department of Art of the University of Nevada, Reno presents Prospectives.09 (previously RIFNM) featuring invited interdisciplinary graduate and Ph.D. students working on emerging interdisciplinary practices in the digital, visual, performing and auditory arts. Prospectives.09 features a juried exhibition in the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, along with three days of performances, symposia, game art and full-dome projections located in venues around campus and in downtown Reno. For a complete schedule of events, visit http://www.unr.edu/art/prospectives09.html.
Free
Flute and Oboe Studio Recital
Dec. 2, 7 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Students of University flute instructor, Mary Miller, and University oboe instructor, Andrea Lenz, will perform a variety of music including works by Mozart, Poulenc, Bach, Burton, and more!
Free
Jazz Night at Se7en West
Dec. 6, 6-8 p.m.
Se7en West, West Street Market, 148 West St., Reno
Join members of the University of Nevada, Reno Program in Jazz and Improvisational Music for a concert featuring students from the Jazz Combo Forum. Sponsored by the City of Reno, For the Love of Jazz and the Program in Jazz and Improvisational Music.
Free and open to all ages
Arts365 events for the November–December 2009 semester include:
Program in Jazz and Improvisational Music presents
bug
Nov. 2, 7:00 p.m. (note new starting time)
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
What’s “bug” you ask? It all started because a group of jazz musicians and friends, saxophonist, Peter Epstein; guitarist, Jeff Miley; pianist, Roger Shew; and drummer, Brian Hamada, played some gigs together. It was so successful that they convinced another jazz friend to join them, pianist James Miley, who not only plays piano, but is an awesome composer. One thing led to another and “bug” was born. Things really clicked with this band right from the start and that chemistry has made it easy for them to further develop their music concepts each time they hit the road together. The rest is history. For more information on bug and its members visit www.bugtet.com.
$10 General; $5 Students, at the door
L-Cubed
Look, Lunch & Listen
Nov. 4, 18, 25 • Dec. 2, Noon – 1 p.m.
Frank and Joan Randall Rotunda, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
Join us for L-Cubed, a dynamic new series of concerts/exhibitions showcasing University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Music and Dance and Department of Art students and faculty. Bag your lunch and drop in for a better-than-usual lunch break.
Free
Performing Arts Series presents
Esperanza Spalding Trio
Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Uncanny instrumental jazz chops, soaring vocals spanning three languages and composing/arranging talent cross-fluent in both old school and new edge: bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding owns the x-factor. No one was surprised when she enrolled in Berklee College of Music at 16, and became its youngest faculty member at 20. Playing in the big leagues, the young veteran has already landed touring and recording gigs with such other prodigies as Herbie Hancock, Patti Austin, Joe Lovano and Pat Metheny, and was named 2008 Best New Artist in the recent Jazz Times Readers’ Poll. Not bad for 24 years old.
$24 General; $20 Senior, UNR Faculty, Staff and Alumni; $12 Student; $7 UNR Students
University Percussion Ensemble Concert
Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Join the University Percussion Ensemble for an evening of percussion music from around the world. Every year this concert turns out to be one of the audience’s favorite events.
Free
Reno Wind Symphony
Nov. 8, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
The Reno Wind Symphony is an adult community band of 65 musicians that was organized in January 2006 by University music faculty member A.G. “Mack” McGrannahan III. Thirty-one band members are music educators in Northern Nevada. The RWS gives music educators and other professionals a musical performance outlet. Tonight’s concert is a tribute to the veterans of our armed forces through concert band music. Concert Band selections will include “Jericho Rhapsody” by Morton Gould, “Hymn for the Lost and Living” by Eric Ewazen and “Victory at Sea” by Richard Rodgers. Several marches by John Philip Sousa will complement the program, as well as a musical salute to the five branches of our armed forces.
University Fall Dance Festival
Featuring Katie Elliott and 3rd Law Dance/Theatre
Nov. 12, 13, 8:00 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
The 2009 Fall Dance Festival will feature the performance of 3rd Law Dance Theatre and the choreography of guest artist Katie Elliott. The Fall Dance Festival will also showcase choreographic works by Kristin Heavey and University of Nevada, Reno dance faculty members Cari Cunningham, Barbara Land, Jennie Pitts, Jamie McCoy, Ava Kerr and selected university dance students.
$15.00 General; $12.00 Students, Children and Seniors
Nevada Repertory Company presents
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Jim Bernardi
Nov. 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 15, 21, 22 at 1:30 p.m.
Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building
One of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families. The play contains some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written.
$13 Opening Weekend Special; $15 Wednesday and Thursday Night Special; All other shows, $17 General; $15 Seniors, University Students and Children. Season Tickets Available.
Nevada Chamber Opera presents
Die Fledermaus
by Johann Strauss II
Artistic Director, Damon Stevens
Director, Sue Klemp
Nov. 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Nevada Chamber Opera presents Johann Strauss’s most popular operetta, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) and will feature a special guest appearance by Nevada Opera soprano, Suzette Thoeni. Celebrate the resiliency of love and friendship in this amusing tale of disguises and desires. After a wild night of carousing, Dr. Falke was left by his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein to wander home, drunk and dressed as a bat. To exact his revenge, he arranges for von Eisenstein to attend a masked ball at the home of the perpetually bored Russian aristocrat, Prince Orlofsky. There, Eisenstein seduces a mysterious Hungarian countess, who is actually his own wife disguised to secretly witness her husband’s indiscretions. Confusion mounts, but after dancing, drinking, and mutual reproach, all are able to join in a rousing hymn in praise of champagne. Die Fledermaus is hailed as one of the 20 most frequently performed operas in North America and will be sung in English. Designed and directed by the creative team from NCO’s recent hit, H.M.S. Pinafore, this new production will be directed by Sue Klemp, with musical direction by Damon Stevens and choreography by Barbara Land.
$15 General; $7 students
University Orchestra
Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Join the University Orchestra under the direction of Jason Altieri in a concert featuring music by French composers including Marche Militaire Francaise by Camille Saint-Saens; Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel; Dances Sacred and Profane, for Strings and Harp by Claude Debussy; and Carmen Suite No.1 by Georges Bizet.
Argenta presents
French Kiss
Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Join Argenta for their second concert of the season “French Kiss” featuring the Rameau’s Piece de Clavecin No. 3, the Faure Trio in d minor, Op. 120 and the Ravel Trio (1914). Argenta is the resident faculty trio at the University of Nevada and features faculty members Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, violin; Dimitri Atapine, cello and James Winn, piano.
$15 General; $8 Students and Children. Season tickets available.
University Composer’s Concert
Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Tonight’s concert will feature an evening of premieres introducing new works by University student composers.
Free
University Flute Quartet
Dec. 6, 7 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Members of the University Flute Ensemble will perform a variety of music including works by Kuhlau, Hoover and Frackenpohl.
Free
University Wind Ensemble presents
The Music of Leonard Bernstein
Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
For their second concert of the fall semester the University Wind Ensemble will perform music written exclusively by Leonard Bernstein, one of America’s greatest composers. Included on this evening’s program are the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Overture to Candide and Divertimento.
Free
University Winter Choral Concert
Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
The University of Nevada Choirs celebrate the winter solstice, the holiday season and the end of another musical semester with music by Dave Brubeck; a Caribbean Carol; the Southern Harmony tradition, Carol of the Bells and others. Please join us for another choral music adventure with students, staff, faculty, and community members lifting their voices in song.
Free
Reno Wind Symphony
Dec. 13, 2009. 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Tonight’s concert will feature band literature with a holiday flare, including A Christmas Festival by American composer Leroy Anderson, Rhapsody for Hanukkah arranged by Stephen Bulla, Ukrainian Bell Carol arranged by Michael Saucedo, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, an arrangement made popular by the group Mannheim Steamroller. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, for narrator and band will be one of the highlights of the program.
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