Events

It's a Grand Night for Singing! graphic, decorative only

Jun 22 2025 | 2 - 4pm

It's a Grand Night for Singing! 2025

UK Opera Theatre's annual It's a Grand Night for Singing! is a popular musical revue featuring the best of Broadway's past and present, starring more than 100 UK Opera Theatre and community performers. In 2017, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Grand Night and won an Emmy for the KET broadcast of the production.

What can you expect from Grand Night? A little of everything! From large dance numbers to…

Singletary Concert Hall

Ticketed

Graphic for Create and Curate UK Art Museum Summer Camp program with image of interior of Museum and pink marker drawing overtop image with event text details in yellow and neon blue

Mon, Jul 7 2025, 1 - 5pm

Daily, 1 - 5pm until Fri, Jul 11 2025

CREATE AND CURATE: UK Art Museum Summer Camp

Open to grades 6-8.

We had so much fun with our debut summer camp last year that we’re bringing it back for 2025! For one special week this summer, museum-curious middle-schoolers will have a chance to get hands-on with the exhibition creation process from brainstorming to opening reception. Campers will go behind the scenes and discover the secrets of the UK Art Museum’s collection, learn the ropes from art world professionals, and…

UK Art Museum

$150

CREATE AND CURATE: UK Art Museum Summer Camp

Open to grades 6-8.

UK Art Museum

$150

CREATE AND CURATE: UK Art Museum Summer Camp

Open to grades 6-8.

UK Art Museum

$150

CREATE AND CURATE: UK Art Museum Summer Camp

Open to grades 6-8.

UK Art Museum

$150

CREATE AND CURATE: UK Art Museum Summer Camp

Open to grades 6-8.

UK Art Museum

$150

Thu, Aug 7 2025, 7pm

The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra

In The Mood for swing?

Don’t miss the most popular and sought-after big band of all time on their stop in Lexington as a part of their 2025 international tour! The world famous Glenn Miller Orchestra will perform their hit songs including In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Pennsylvania 6-5000, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction and more classic songs of the swing era at the Singletary Center.

Music director…

Singletary Recital Hall

$55 Individual

Masatoshi Naito, [a street performer swallowing a snake], in Ken, no. 2 (pp. 22-23), October 1970, magazine, 9 x 7 ½ x 1/2 inches (23 x 18.9 x 1.3 cm). Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Manfred Heiting Book Collection. Photo: Paul Hester, Hester + Hardaway Photographers.

Tue, Aug 19 - Sat, Dec 20 2025, All day

Self and Others: Japanese Photography after 1968

The first issue of Provoke magazine, published in Tokyo in November 1968, declared that “we as photographers must capture with our own eyes the fragments of reality that can no longer be grasped through existing language.” With this manifesto, Provoke encapsulated the energy of a time in which established conventions were discarded, and a new generation experimented with fresh outlooks and new technologies that shattered assumptions of what a…

UK Art Museum

Free

Promotional "save the date" image with two band members in uniform. All details in the image are produced in text on the page.

Sat, Aug 30 2025, 1 - 11:30pm

Wildcat Marching Band Honor Day 2025

Join the Sound of the Wildcats, the largest and most visible student experience at the University of Kentucky, for our annual WMB Honor Band Day! The event is open to all students in 9th - 12th grades. Registration may be submitted on an individual basis by the student, by their parent/guardian, or by the teacher on behalf of the student.

The day will include:

Opportunity to learn from UK Faculty and StaffRehearsal with the Wildcat…

$35 advanced registration to participate