Events

Mon, Feb 24 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Symphony BandDr. Shayna Stahl, ConductorAdam Miller, Graduate Conductor Concert BandBrian Froedge, ConductorJalen Allred, Graduate Conductor Featuring works by Yagisawa, Giroux, Ticheli, Stamp and more
Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Wed, Feb 26 2025, 11am - 1pm

Join Dr. Everett McCorvey for a SNEAK PEEK of the upcoming spring production of Sanctuary Road and hear the students of the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre program perform as you enjoy a delicious lunch, all on the stage of the Concert Hall at the Singletary Center!

World-class entertainment | Delicious food | Reserved Parking is available at no extra cost

$49 per ticket (online processing fees apply)

Singletary Concert Hall
$49 per person (additional fees apply online)
Thu, Feb 27 - Wed, Mar 5 2025, All day
SCRAP show – members of the SA/VS Sculpture area student group will exhibit recent work MFA in Art Studio Fatemeh Tajaddod thesis exhibition Reception Thursday, February 27, 4:30-7 pm
Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Thu, Feb 27 2025, 7:30pm
University of Kentucky Philharmonia, with SCAPA StringsNicoletta Moss, conductorSara Francis, conductorSingletary Recital HallFree/open to public
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Fri, Feb 28 2025, 6:30 - 8pm

Campus community and members of the public are invited to explore our new second-floor exhibitions, including curator Rachel Hooper’s inaugural installations at the UK Art Museum.

IMAGE: Carrie Mae Weems, Mayflowers from the series May Days Long Forgotten, 2002, chromogenic print. Collection of the UK Art Museum, purchase: The Robert C. May Photography Fund. 

UK Art Museum
Free
Sat, Mar 1 2025, 9:30am - 4pm
Discover the joy of the viola at this exciting event featuring:Guest masterclasses and performancesViola ensemblesViola Day Virtual Competition for pre-college and undergraduate levelsSpecial Guests:Lauren Burns Hodges: Associate Professor of Viola, University of FloridaHannah Levinson: Assistant Professor of Viola, Bowling Green State UniversityRegistration Details:Open to all student participants$30 registration feeLunch not…
Singletary Center
$30, Registration Required
Sat, Mar 1 2025, 3pm
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sat, Mar 1 2025, 7:30pm

This program of all French music will encapsulate and translate the beauty and grace of the French impressionist painters to a sonic landscape depicted by the orchestra and choir.  

Louise Farrenc’s Overture No. 2 followed by Claude Debussy’s La mer, meaning The Sea. Preferring painted seascapes, The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is featured on the Debussy first edition. Following intermission, LexPhil and Music…

Singletary Concert Hall
$28-$78 adults; $11 youth & students
Sun, Mar 2 2025, 2 - 4pm

Talented vocalists from across the U.S. and beyond will compete before a live audience in the 20th annual Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition on Sunday, March 2. This one-of-a-kind event awards more than $700,000 in scholarships and prizes and provides an opportunity to attend the University of Kentucky as part of the UK Opera Theatre program.

Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and the competition begins at 2 p.m. at the UK Singletary Center for…

Singletary Concert Hall
Free
Tue, Mar 4 2025, 7:30pm
Let your soul dance to the rhythm of life! Celebrating more than 40 years, Kodo returns to North America with One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe, a thrilling performance that revisits the ensemble’s early repertoire – blending simple forms of taiko expression that highlight its unique sound, resonance, and physicality. With Warabe, Kodo explores the desire to play the drums with the simple heart of a child. These highly athletic drummers, bearers of a…
Singletary Concert Hall
$18 Students with valid ID, $55 / $41 / $29 by location
Thu, Mar 6 2025, 6 - 7pm
Join curator Rachel Hooper for a closer look at A-Tisket, A-Tasket, an exhibition organized in association with WE ARE THE CULTURE: A Symposium on Black Girls & Girlhood hosted by The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies.
UK Art Museum
Free
Fri, Mar 7 2025, 10 - 11am
A special performance of SANCTUARY ROAD just for school groups! Interest FormInfo Sheet

University of Kentucky Opera Theatre presents

SANCTUARY ROAD by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and librettist Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, following the writings of the real-life “Father of the Underground Railroad” William Still. 

This stunningly beautiful and emotional opera relives the telling of enslaved peoples’ journeys to…

Lexington Opera House
$8.50 per student (School groups only)
Fri, Mar 7 2025, 4 - 5pm
Davis earned his BA from Bard College in 1991 and currently teaches there as Associate Professor of Photography. His work has been exhibited widely and his photographs are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center, to name a few. His art writing has appeared in publications including Aperture, Blind Spot, Bomb, and Cabinet. Exhibiting artist…
Gatton Student Center Cinema
Free
Fri, Mar 7 2025, 6:30 - 7:30pm

Martha Spencer is a singer-songwriter, mountain musician and dancer from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She grew up in the musical Spencer family and learned to play several instruments (guitar, fiddle, banjo, bass, dulcimer, mandolin) and flatfoot/clog at a young age. She performs and has recorded with various groups and has been involved with several roots music projects. She has played shows, festivals and led workshops …

John Jacob Niles Gallery
Free
Fri, Mar 7 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

University of Kentucky Opera Theatre presents

SANCTUARY ROAD by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and librettist Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, following the writings of the real life “Father of the Underground Railroad”, William Still. 

This stunningly beautiful and emotional opera relives the telling of enslaved peoples’ journeys to freedom, as they recount their tales to Still, who documented their stories and helped them…

Lexington Opera House
$18-$58+ ticketing fees