UCF Celebrates the Arts 2018

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Gaming Cabinets

Experience new, interactive games from game design track SVAD undergraduates housed in custom-built classic arcade cabinets.

Ongoing • Off-Site

Individual Theorem

How do you remain yourself in a complex society? UCF's Emerging Media graduate students weigh in through their artwork.

Ongoing • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Character Animation Film Presentations

Presented by the School of Visual Arts & Design (SVAD), visitors will experience student-created animation over the past five years.

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

SVAD Banners

View massive banners displaying School of Visual Arts and Design student artwork. Includes images from drawing, painting, printmaking, graphic art, architecture and animation.

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Collaborative Assemblage Totem Sculptures

3D Design classes from the School of Visual Arts and Design incorporated everyday objects into six-foot tall totem compositions.

Ongoing • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Theatre UCF Costume Exhibit

Explore costume pieces curated by UCF faculty member Kristina Tollefson to find out what happens behind-the-scenes.

April 6 – April 13, 2018 • Della Phillips Grand Lobby

Tableaux Vivants

An exhibition of the collaborative work of more than 160 School of Visual Arts and Design students.

April 6 – April 7, 2018 • Walt Disney Theater

Bernstein's MASS

Join the UCF Symphony Orchestra, UCF Choirs, Theatre UCF singers and dancers, and School of Performing Arts alumni for a tip of the hat to classical music icon, Leonard Bernstein! Also runs on April 7.

Saturday, April 7, 2018, 6:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

A Celebration of Arts, Storytelling and Technology

One night of exhibitions showcasing work that weaves together arts and technology, featuring interactive displays, demonstrations of digital storytelling and tools for videogaming.

Saturday, April 7, 2018, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Project Spotlight's Play It By Ear

A play by UCF graduate student Daniel Romano about a group of 20-somethings trying to figure out how life works while living in NYC.

Sunday, April 8, 2018, 3:30 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

The Refugee Plays: A Staged Reading

A series of short plays that explore the experiences of refugees and undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Sunday, April 8, 2018, 5:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

UCF New Music Ensemble

The Collide Contemporary Music Series presents the student-based UCF New Music Ensemble in a concert of world premieres of original music by UCF composers, performed by UCF musicians.

Sunday, April 8, 2018, 7:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

Quadruple Stuffed Oreos

A student-produced sketch comedy group inspired by Saturday Night Live.

Sunday, April 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

UCF Choral Concert

The UCF Women’s Chorus, Men’s Ensemble, University Chorus, and Chamber Singers treat guests to a musical performance with a social justice theme.

Monday, April 9, 2018, 6:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

The Assassination of the American Dream

A theatrical collage investigating how the issues surrounding the #MeToo movement, immigration, and gun violence push us to interrogate what it means to be American.

Monday, April 9, 2018, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

UCF Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band

Featuring a performance by the UCF Wind Ensemble of the Zodiac Concerto with world-renowned solo artists, William Caballero, Principal Horn with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and Roger Oyster, Principal Trombone with the Kansas City Symphony and former Principal Euphonium with the United States Marine Band: The President’s Own.

Monday, April 9, 2018, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Blackberry Winter

To raise awareness of caregiving in its various forms for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other conditions, Orlando Shakespeare Theater is remounting their production of last season’s Blackberry Winter by Steve Yockey as a staged reading with a post-show talkback with the playwright, caregivers, and performers.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 5:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

15th Annual Writes of Spring: Mystic Glen

Central Florida K-12 students were given the writing prompt, “From My Perspective: Let Me Tell You About…” The best submissions have been transformed into the show Mystic Glen, a collaboration between Theatre UCF graduate students and the Orlando REP.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 5:30 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

UCF Rising! Applied Bystander Prevention Workshop

A workshop combining theatrical skills with victim advocacy and prevention training. Selections from Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and One Billing Rising will precede the workshop.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 7:00 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

Choral Invitational Concert

UCF Choral faculty, UCF Music Education and UCF Choral students host 400+ students from seven school choral programs in a day of choir workshops led by Dr. Kristina Caswell-MacMullen. There will be a final concert performance open to the public.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Just Like Us

Orlando Repertory Theatre presents a staged reading of Just Like Us by Karen Zacarias, inspired by the nonfiction book by Helen Thorpe. This documentary-style play follows four Latina teenage girls in Denver—two of whom are documented and two of whom are not—through young adulthood.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 4:00 p.m. • DeVos Family Room

K-12 Fine Arts Showcase

K-12 students from public and private school fine arts communities of Brevard, Orange, Osceola, Lake, Hillsborough, and Seminole counties gather for performances, shows, and presentations.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7:30 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

Percussion Festival Concert

A day of workshops and performances culminates in a celebration featuring guest artist Anders Åstrand and the UCF Percussion Ensemble.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 8:00 p.m. • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

UCF Woodwind Ensembles

The UCF Flute Knights, Clarinet Choir, Saxophone Ensemble and Oboe Trio come together for an evening of woodwind chamber music.

April 13 – April 14, 2018 • Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater

Opera Double Feature: Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Michael Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost

UCF Opera and the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra commemorate the centennial of Puccini's comedic opera Gianni Schicchi with a performance of the aforementioned. Michael Ching's Buoso's Ghost will follow.

Friday, April 13, 2018, 8:00 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

Imagine Something Wonderful: The Flying Horse Big Band meets the UCF Orchestra

The Flying Horse Big Band partners with the UCF Orchestra for a swinging evening of music.

Saturday, April 14, 2018, 8:00 p.m. • Walt Disney Theater

An Evening with Mayim Bialik

Acclaimed actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik shares her keen scientific mind and her wonderful sense of humor as she explores the work of the brain, of behavioral development, of her life as an actress and scientist, and of the special relationship that exists between The Big Bang Theory and its audience.