Think Outside the Box
Monday, April 16th at 5:30 p.m.
Orange and Brew, Reitz Union
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In this workshop, current and rising student leaders from a wide range of majors, including the Fine Arts, will gain valuable experience in networking, teamwork, and lateral thinking. In this workshop, participants will be placed in multidisciplinary teams and will attempt to come up with the most creative and realistic solutions to real problems on campus. The top solutions will not be picked simply on how practical they are, but also on how many academic disciplines contribute to the idea. The winning solution may be implemented on campus!
The world is changing fast. A new kind of leader is needed, one who can think broadly across disciplines and consider the human dimensions that are at the heart of every design challenge. With that said, we hope to see you in attendance with an open mind and ready to Think Outside the Box!
Friday April 6th at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday April 7th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Sunday April 8th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Philips Center Black Box Theatre
You may reserve your free tickets at http://floridaplayers.org/ticketing.php
12.21.2012 by Amelia Harris, directed by Colin Hudson
The Bender Method conceived and directed by Joshua Sallers
Front Porch Play, by Andrew Bailes, directed by Kenny Frechette
Florida Players is a student-run theater company that provides opportunities for students to explore the world of theatre and showcase their works in doing so. Florida Players is open to all University of Florida students, regardless of their major and is sponsored by UF Student Government. Florida Players offers students opportunities in all aspects of theatre, including direction, design, performance, and playwriting, as well as leadership positions. Florida Players is also an umbrella organization to Floridance, a dance company.
VISITING ART ARTIST CHIP LORD
6:30 PM, Thursday, March 29, 2012
Fine Arts Building B 103
The Visiting Artist and Scholars Committee, with support from the Marston Fund and the Dept. of English, is pleased to announce Chip Lord will speak on Thursday, March 29th, at 6:30PM, in FAB 103. Chip Lord is an artist who works with video and photography. As a member of Ant Farm [1968-1978] he produced the video art classics Media Burn and The Eternal Frame as well as the Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. Since 1980 he has worked independently and in collaboration producing video installations and single channel videotapes. His media work straddles documentary and experimental genres, often mixing the two, and has been shown widely at film and video festivals and in Museums. In 2005 a retrospective of his video work was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. His project Movie Map, which includes photographs of San Francisco neighborhood theaters and video was shown at the Rena Bransten Gallery in 2003 and in the exhibition, AUTO.SUEÑO Y MATERIA in Gijon and Madrid, Spain, 2009. In partnership with Bruce Tomb he executed a temporary public Art commission for the City of San Jose, Hello, San Jose, in 2008. In 2010 he completed a public video art piece for the remodeled Bradley Terminal at LAX Airport titled To & From LAX. A related single channel video, IN TRANSIT, has just been completed, 2011.
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From the Gainesville Sun, Correspondent Hannah Winston:
Arts and cultural events in Gainesville and surrounding areas are launching a coordinated marketing initiative next week with the hope to make the city a cultural destination.
“We knew we had a vast possibility of a real cultural destination,” said Annie Pais, the director of Florida’s Eden, a nonprofit citizen initiative leading the effort.
Pais said she knows Gainesville is artistic, has great food and culture and that nature is central to the area. She said she hopes the new marketing effort will help spread the word regionally and even internationally.
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Hey stranger,…looking for a way to turn small talk into big ideas? Collaborating with Strangers Workshops are designed to connect students, faculty and researchers on campus during 3-minute speed-meetings. You’ll walk away with new friends, more resources, solutions and creative ideas than you could have ever imagined.
When: Wednesday, March 21, 4:00-5:30 p.m. (NEW DATE)
Where: Library West, 3rd floor InfoCommons
Who: University of Florida students and faculty
Visit http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/communications/CoLAB/home.html for more information and registration link.
Space is limited.
Cookies and beverages will be served.
Apply to win a mini-grant for your collaborative project! $2,800 in partnership with the NSF funded I-Cubed Program (5 to 6 available awards)
You are more creative than you think. The inspiration you’ve been looking for is right around the corner. Someone will soon help you solve an old problem. Big ideas come from one person. Bigger ideas come from two. An unexpected stranger will become your teammate. To reach your potential, you must first meet each other. You will soon meet a future collaborator. If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.
Sponsored by the George A. Smathers Libraries
Co-sponsored by I-Cubed, College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Honors Program, the UF Graduate School, Florida Opportunities Scholars Program and Women in Science and Engineering.
Funded by the Creative Campus Committee Catalyst Fund.
Professor Robert Wagman from the UF Department of Classics will present his research titled: “Caves of the Nymphs: The Archaeology of Greek Countryside Cults”
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Oak Hammock at the UF Commons Building, Williston Road and SW 25th Terrace
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Caves were often used as places of worship in the Classical Greek world. This lecture will give special attention to the Greek cult of Pan and the Nymphs. Dr. Wagman will discuss famous rupestral shrines such as the Cave of the Nympholept at Vari, or the Cave of the Lamps at Phyle (the scene of Menander’s Grouch), as well as some previously unknown sites identified during fieldwork conducted by the UF Department of Classics between 2005 and 2011.
Professor Wagman is in the UF Classics Department, where he specializes in Greek Poetry, Epigraphy and Ancient Religion. He took a Doctorate of Literature from the University of Pisa (Italy) and a PhD. from Johns Hopkins University.
Like the Archaeological Institute of America Gainesville Society now on Facebook.
Sponsored by:
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
AIA GAINESVILLE SOCIETY http://www.classics.ufl.edu/aia/index.html
Uf College of Fine Arts,
Classics and Anthropology Departments
Please join UF School of Theatre+Dance Professor and Director for the Center of World Arts Joan Frosch for a screening and discussion of her film Showing of Movement (R)evolution Africa: a story of an art form in four acts as part of the Dance in the Diaspora conference hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies co-hosted by the Center for World Arts.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Reitz Union, Room 282
1:30-3:00pm
Showing of Movement (R)evolution Africa: a story of an art form in four acts
Followed by a discussion with Producer and Director Joan Frosch
From the Gainesville Sun, author Nathan Crabbe:
The University of Florida wants its undergraduates to get an idea of the good life before they get wrapped up in their majors.
UF is seeking legislative approval to be able to require freshmen to take a set of general education courses, even if they fulfilled those requirements by earning advanced credits in high school. The university has already been testing one course, a multi-disciplinary humanities class called “What is the Good Life?”
Read more in the Gainesville Sun
There will be an information session for the UF in Berlin summer A study abroad program in the UF International Center’s conference room on Wednesday, February 15 from noon-1:00 p.m. If you want any more information about the program or have specific questions to ask, this will be the last infosession that will be held before the March 1 deadline for applications. If you can’t make it out and have questions, feel free to email either Roger Beebe <rogerbb@ufl.edu> or Wes Kline <wkline@ufl.edu>, and they will be happy to help.
Berlin is an incredibly exciting place to be, students will be visiting Documenta (one of the most important art fairs in the world) as well as be engaged in a very stimulating program. Take advantage of this great opportunity!
The Florida Association of Public Art Professionals (FAPAP) conference entitled Innovations and Strategies for the 21st Century - How New Technologies and Strategies are Advancing the Field of Public Art: Conservation, Education and Marketing is a great opportunity to network with other Florida professionals working in various fields related to public art. Conference attendees often include artists, administrators, architects, city officials, professors, students and environmentalists just to name a few. The 2012 FAPAP Conference is May 3-5, 2012 in Naples, FL and this year’s speakers include:
Anna Heineman from Culture NOW, Session Title: Promoting Public Art through New Technology
Rachel Cain, Public Art Archive™, Session Title: The Best Practices Public Art Database for Everyone
Rosa Lowinger & Associates, Conservation of Sculpture + Architecture, Lesley Elwood, Elwood and Associates public art consultants, Session Title: New Strategies for the Long Term Care of Public Art
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