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African Student Union - 40th Annual African Showcase
Co-Sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and will feature the Pazeni Sauti Africa Choir

Every spring the African Student Union (ASU) celebrates our annual Showcase with the University of Florida, African Communities of Gainesville, and around the state of Florida. This April 7, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. the 40th Annual African Student Union Showcase: Reigniting the Fire will take place in the J. Wayne Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The richness, diversity, and beauty of the African continent is sometimes unrecognized. Our goal is to educate in an enticing manner.

Now in its 40th year, ASU Showcase is making great strides to display the many great things that Africa has to offer. We are celebrating our Past, Present, and Our Bright Future. We would love to celebrate and enjoy this event with all of you. The African Student Union would be pleased to have you partake in this year’s festivities. Any and everyone is encouraged to attend! Please direct any questions to ufafrisu@gmail.com.

UF CFA’s partner, the New World School of the Arts in Miami, has been selected for the Magnet School of Excellence Award


UF College of Fine Arts is proud of our partnership with the New World School of the Arts (NWSA) in Miami and we are proud to announce that NWSA has been selected for the Magnet School of Excellence Award. This national award by Magnet Schools of America is based on a commitment to high academic standards, curriculum innovation, successful diversity efforts, and the consistent delivery of high quality education to students. the principal, faculty and staff members are commended for their commitment to the students of NWSA. Congratulations on such a prestigious award!

Apply now for the 2012 UF International Piano Festival


The University of Florida International Piano Festival (UFIPF), first held in 2007 as the Chinese-American International Piano Institute (CAIPI), assembles exceptional college and pre-college pianists for lessons and master classes with distinguished piano teachers from North America and China. The 2012 UFIPF will run in two concurrent divisions: College Division and Pre-College Division, June 16-23, 2012. Additionally, a limited number of observers will be accepted.

Participants will work with faculty in small, rotating lesson groups, and in masterclasses.  Public recitals will feature participants every evening.  UFIPF is proudly hosted by the University of Florida School of Music, an All-Steinway institution. 

2012 Artist Faculty:
Marian Hahn, Peabody Conservatory
Nelita True, Eastman School of Music
Chengang Yang, Sichuan Conservatory
Hee Jung Kang, University of Florida
Kevin Robert Orr, University of Florida
Alexander Tutunov, Southern Oregon University

Check out the website for more information or to apply. The application deadline is April 20, 2012.


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

Check out these photos of the visiting baroque violinist Raúl Orellana teaching a Masterclass to UF students.

Raúl Orellana is participating in UF’s Latin America Music Week: Lectures and Concerts. Listed below are the remaining scheduled events:

Tuesday, February 7 (Holy Trinity Church, 100 NE 1st St., Gainesville, FL 32601 (352) 372-4721, 7:30 pm): Music of the Missions, University Chorus, Will Kesling, conductor. Special participation of Raul Orellana, baroque violin

Wednesday, February 8 (Friends of Music Room at the University Auditorium, 3:00 pm): Dale Olsen (Distinguished Research Professor of Ethnomusicology Emeritus, FSU): “Calling the Gods from the Mountains to the Sea: Ancient Ocarinas for Supernatural Communication from the Altar of a Northern Coastal Shaman in Moche, Peru”

Wednesday, February 8 (Baughman Center, 7:30 pm): Chamber Music from the Baroque Missions, featuring Raul Orellana, baroque violin

Thursday, February 9 (Choral Gables Museum, Miami, 7:30 pm): Chamber Music from the Baroque Missions Archives, featuring Raul Orellana (Chile) and Neyza Copa(Bolivia), Baroque violins, Benny Plasencia (Peru) harpsichord. Sponsored by the Bolivian Consulate in Miami.

Museum Nights at the Harn Museum of Art celebrates African and African American art and culture this Thursday

Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
**free and open to the public**

Join us for an engaging after-hours experience celebrating African and African American art and culture. Wander the galleries and enjoy works from the Harn’s African collection as well as works by African American artists in Vanishing Points and Open Engagement. Guests will also enjoy free food, art making activities, poetry readings, a performance by “Pazeni Sauti” the UF African Choir, storytelling, dance performances, a gallery talk, and a film screening of Edouard Glissant: Un monde en relation (One world in relation). The Camellia Court Café will be open from 11 a.m. – 8:45 p.m.

Museum Nights is an ongoing program made possible by the generous support of the University of Florida Office of the Provost, Student Government and Honors Program. This evening is also supported by the Center for African Studies. Film sponsored by the University of Florida’s France-Florida Research Institute.

www.harn.ufl.edu

UF Professor and Director for the Center of World Arts has work published in The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium


UF School of Theatre+Dance Professor and Director for the Center of World Arts Joan Frosch’s Building Enduring Partnerships: A Report to the Field can now be purchased in hardcopy or read online.

Building Enduring Partnerships: A Report to the Field by Joan D. Frosch, Ph.D., published by MAPP International Productions and The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium in October 2011, is an 87-page, beautifully illustrated report that tells the story of the first 8 years of activity undertaken by the Consortium and makes an argument for sustaining and valuing relationships as the basis for enduring international cultural exchange.

Latin American Music Week begins February 6th


Baroque Music from the Chiquito and Moxo Missions (ca. 1691-1767 Bolivia)

As part of the 2011-2012 theme “Music, Dance, and Ritual Experience,” the University of Florida Musicology Colloquium has invited Dr. Piotr Nawrot to speak about one of the most important musical discoveries in the late twentieth-century: thousands of musical scores from the Baroque period found in eight mission towns in Bolivia. Dr. Nawrot, a Jesuit priest and musicologist, has restored over 27 volumes of music and has directed the revival of this repertoire. This discovery has been the subject of several national and international news reports, including NPR’s “Morning Edition” and CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

In order to give the Florida community a complete experience of this music, we are glad to announce the visit of Mr. Raúl Orellana from Chile. He is a Baroque violinist specialist on this repertoire and will perform concerts with the UF Baroque Consort, a new group born as an initiative by one of the University of Florida’ graduate student Neyza Copa. Neyza is a native of Bolivia, who is actually pursuing his Master’s degree in Violin performance.

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