Events

Dec 15 2024 | 2:30 - 3:30pm

Featuring the UK Opera Theatre and Friends

We invite you to help make the 2024 Celebration of Song, presented by Alltech and friends, the most magical one yet.

Alltech’s annual holiday gift to the community since 2006, Celebration of Song features the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and winners of the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition. The event is complimentary and open to the public, showcasing the sounds of the season…

Alltech Arena
Kentucky Horse Park
Free
Sun, Dec 15 2024, 5 - 6pm

Featuring the UK Opera Theatre and Friends

We invite you to help make the 2024 Celebration of Song, presented by Alltech and friends, the most magical one yet.

Alltech’s annual holiday gift to the community since 2006, Celebration of Song features the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and winners of the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition. The event is complimentary and open to the public, showcasing the sounds of the season…

Alltech Arena
Kentucky Horse Park
Free
Mon, Dec 16 2024, 8 - 9:30pm

Performance by the UK Jazz Ensemble, recently invited to participate in the 2024 Midwest Clinic in Chicago.

Singletary Recital Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Tue, Dec 17 2024, 5 - 6pm

The School of Art and Visual Studies presents the best-moving image work of the semester from students in Animation and Lens Arts classes at The Digital Media Blast! This bi-annual screening event will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 5:00 pm at the FCU Esports Theater in the Cornerstone Building. Free and open to the public.

Cornerstone Building FCU Esports Theater
Free
Tue, Dec 17 2024, 5 - 7pm

The Studio Season Board invites you to join us for an upbeat cabaret showcasing the work of UK's newest students! The Freshman Cabaret will be performed on Tuesday, December 17th, at 5 p.m. in the Briggs Theatre. Admission is free, and seating is first-come-first-serve. Come support your fellow students! We hope to see you there.

Briggs Theatre
Free
Fri, Jan 17 - Sat, Jun 21 2025, All day
Jay Bolotin was an ambitious and exacting artist who regularly crossed disciplines including visual art, literature, theatre, music, and film. Weaving together personal musings and universal myths, he formed epic narratives requiring years of labor-intensive studio activity and the mastering of both traditional and state-of-the-art techniques. A gifted storyteller, he was informed by children’s bedtime reading, Biblical tales (and their…
UK Art Museum
Free
Fri, Jan 17 2025, 7:30pm
Windborne Productions presents The Music of Pink Floyd with the Lexington Philharmonic. Experience the kaleidoscopic fusion of live orchestra and progressive rock with the Music of Pink Floyd featuring the Dark Side of the Moon album and other highlights.
 Mélisse Brunet, conductor
Singletary Center for the Arts
Singletary Concert Hall
$28-$78 adults; $11 youth & students
Fri, Jan 24 2025, 8am - 2pm

In addition to being admitted to UK, a successful audition is required to be declared a dance major. Applications for admission to the University of Kentucky, as well as application deadline and materials information, are available on the UK Admissions site. To learn more about what to expect and wear please see the BA in Dance page.

AuditionsFall BA in Dance Audition Date:  Friday, November 8, 2024Spring BA in…
Fine Arts Building
Fine Arts Building, Room 117
Audition Registration Required
Fri, Jan 24 2025, 12 - 1pm

Available for new incoming freshman to apply. The Department of Theatre and Dance is committed to making scholarship opportunities available to our incredible incoming students. This is also a great opportunity to meet UK faculty and participate in a theatre or dance class. 

Theatre performance 
Please prepare a 1 to 2-minute monologue of your choice to perform. 

Design and/or Tech focused 
Examples of…

Fine Arts Building
Fine Arts Building, Room 102
Audition Registration Required
Tue, Jan 28 2025, 7:30 - 8:30pm
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Fri, Jan 31 - Sun, Feb 2 2025, All day

George R. Boulden Honor Band Weekend features two fantastic bands and lots of opportunities to learn, grow, and share in a once-in-a-lifetime experience with giants of the wind band world and other band students.

Entrance into the Honors Concert Band is based on high school director recommendation and all names must be submitted by director and not by student.

Entrance into the Honors Wind Ensemble will be based on a personal…

Singletary Center
Audition/Nomination Required, $75 per selected performer
Sat, Feb 1 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Dr. John Cody Birdwell, conductor

Dr. Frank Ticheli, guest conductor

Dr. Scott Wright, clarinet 

Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Sun, Feb 2 2025, 2pm
Singletary Concert Hall
Free
Fri, Feb 7 - Sun, Feb 9 2025, All day
Dance Concert: Dancing With the Environment 
 February 7-9, 2025 | Guignol Theatre 
 Dancing with the Environment features five contemporary dances each focusing on one of five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space. The concert bridges dance and the environment with new ways of understanding environmental issues, insight into how resources are used, and, hopefully, a way of promoting change. The choreography is…
Guignol Theatre
ADULT: $20.59, STUDENT: $14.40
Fri, Feb 7 2025, 9:30am - 9pm

If you are a high school dancer and interested in our program, we would love for you to attend our High School Dance Day on February 7, 2025.  During your visit, you will tour the facilities on the University of Kentucky’s beautiful campus, gain insight into what it is like to be a dance major at UK, take dance classes from our professional faculty, and attend Q&As with current dance students. All participants will be provided lunch…

Fine Arts Building
$10, Registration Required