Excerpts from the “Library of Babel,” an art installation by UW Bothell Assistant Professor Ted Hiebert will be on display through Dec. 3 at Kirkland Arts Center.
Arts and entertainment
Craig Taborn and Gust Burns, two leaders of east and west coast piano innovation, debut their new collaborative two-pianos project at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, in Brechemin Auditorium.
Dancer David Wolbrecht will wear electroluminescent wire that glows like neon, and viewers will press a computer touch screen to control his movements. Its all to promote the next exhibit of the UW Photographers Group.
The Carpe Diem String Quartet performs at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Meany Hall. The group will perform works by Sowash, Mendelssohn, Monti, Piazzola and its own violist, Korine Fujiwara.
Pilobolus kicks off the 2011-12 World Dance Series at Meany Hall with a program of fan favorites. Their performances will be at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 6-8.
隆Carnaval!, Carnival, Mardi Gras: What is the origin of these words and the rowdy festivals associated with them? Find out at a new multimedia exhibit at the Burke Museum opening Sept. 25.
Concrete, Cracks, and Colors will be shown at the Naked City Brewery & Taphouse through Oct. 14.
The School of Music will offer two musical evenings of different types and in different locations, both on Thursday Aug. 18. The UW Summer Concert Band will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. outside Meany Hall, and the University Summer Chorale will perform an innovative new piece at 7:30 p.m. at University Lutheran Church.
Looking for some good live music near the UW? The Up Your Ave Music Festival will offer folk, jazz, soul, reggae, bluegrass, rock, ska, comedy 鈥� and even accordion music — Aug. 5-13 at a number of locations throughout the University District.
UW Bothell graduate Bernadette Pajer has published a mystery novel that takes place more than a century ago on the UW campus. The story is fictional, but the details of the setting, the time period and the technology are real.
She might have been a star as a jazz singer, but at Seattles Tulas she still is. And each workday Bethany Staelens stars at Educational Outreach.
The UWs Jacob Lawrence Gallery is offering this special exhibit in partnership with the Mad Art Project, which is using a group of old homes on North Capitol Hill to create art.
The Henry Art Gallery will screen the documentary “We Live in Public” at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5 in its auditorium. The film reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris.
Connecting Threads, an exhibition of fiber artwork by alumni of the 榴莲视频 Certificate in Fiber Arts Program, will be on display July 15-Sept. 30 in the fourth floor mezzanine of the UW Tower.
The College of Arts & Sciences has named Michelle Witt as the new executive director of Meany Hall and artistic director of UW World Series. She will begin Aug 1, and work with departing director Matthew Krashan until his September retirement.
The exhibit shows the powerful influence of Latino music and culture on the pop mainstream in the years since World War II. Its three UW-based curators could not be more proud (Then comes “American Sabor,” the book.)
This summer, the howling cry of the wolf will be heard at the Burke Museum. Wolves and Wild Lands in the 21st Century examines human-wolf interactions in light of recent history and the economic and cultural factors that are shaping wolves future.
The 16th Annual Harborview Staff Fine Art Exhibition runs now through July 1, in the Cafeteria Atrium, Level B, in the West Hospital of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The artworks include paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures.
The story of a UW alumna, her lifelong love of Japan and the powerful World War II-era propaganda leaflets she created for the U.S. Office of War Information will be a segment of the PBS television series “History Detectives” to air Friday, June 24.
The School of Music is donating its Brechemin Auditorium and the talents of some members of its community to a benefit concert for victims of Japans earthquake and tsunami. The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11.
Students earning their master’s degrees in art show their work at the Henry Art Gallery through June 19: Sculpture, painting, photography and more.
The Percussion Ensemble will perform on May 31 and the University Symphony will play on June 3, with Melia Watras as soloist on viola.
The UW Studio Jazz Ensemble and the UW Modern Band, under the direction of Cuong Vu, will present a year-end concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, in Meany Hall.
The University Singers, Womens Choir and Mens Glee Club will present their popular year-end concert featuring a variety of songs from around the world at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 2, in Meany Hall.
Thomas Harper directs UW voice students in scenes from the opera repertoire, including scenes from “Carmen,” “Idomeneo,” “Zauberfloete,” “L’Elisir d’Amore” and “Le Nozze di Figaro.”
The Chamber Singers, under the direction of Geoffrey Boers, will perform works for choir and organ in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, in Meany Hall.
World-renowned avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan will visit campus for a two-day residency, including a free afternoon workshop, the screening of a 2004 documentary about her and an evening recital on May 26.
The UW Chorale, directed by Giselle Wyers; and the UW Gospel Choir, directed by Phyllis Byrdwell, will perform in different venues on May 23.
An evening of music by the UW Contemporary Group will feature faculty and students, a rarely performed group of madrigals and a new contemporary chamber choir. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, in the Meany Studio The
The UW Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band and Concert Band will perform music by Percy Grainger, John Adams and Clifton Williams in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 26, in Meany Hall.
Student jazz ensembles coached by Marc Seales, Cuong Vu, Tom Collier and Steve Korn will perform “Jazz Innovations I and II” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, May 18 and 19, in Brechemin Auditorium.
Six new dances will be presented at the MFA Dance Concert May 19-22, and though two share the same theme, they are very different.
Corella Ballet Castilla y Le贸n performs at Meany Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 19-21.
UWTV and the Seattle International Film Festival are teaming up to provide an exclusive opportunity to UW students and the community to preview some of the 400 films featured at the annual film festival. “Husky Film Night鈥� is set for 7 p.m. Monday, May 16, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall.
The air will be filled with the sound of music, as the School of Music plunges into a busy season of concerts in coming days.
The Seattle Modern Orchestra, led by co-artistic directors and School of Music alumni Julia Tai and Jeremy Jolley, will perform their season finale at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 13, in Meany Hall. The program is titled 20th Century Concerti.
Artist Pablo Picasso and scientist Albert Einstein turn up as characters in the School of Dramas next production, set in 1904 in a Paris bar.
Jonathan Pasternack and Meena Hwang will conduct, and the symphony will be joined by guest soloist Elisa Barston on violin.
The UW English Department and American Ethnic Studies Program will sponsor the world premiere of an original ballet about the forced removal of the Chinese community from the Puget Sound region on May 15.
Art meets engineering when Axel Roeslers art students help redesign an airplanes flight deck and create a program to record a hospitals emergency treatment protocol.