Events
Feb 18 - Aug 2 2025
This exhibition celebrates Black girls’ complex emotional lives as portrayed in a range of artworks, from portraits painted in the 1930s to twenty-first-century photographs. Resistance, hope, anger, defiance, curiosity, joy, anxiety, vulnerability, and exhaustion are some of the feelings seen on the faces of children who have been on the front lines of profound social changes such as the Great Migration, Civil Rights movement, Women’s March, and…
UK Art Museum
Free
Fri, Feb 21 - Sat, Feb 22 2025, All day
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
A STAGED READING
February 21 and 22, 2025 | Briggs Theatre
In this staged reading of Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful masterwork, a small-town doctor, who considers himself a proud and upstanding member of his close-knit community, discovers a looming catastrophe that endangers the lives of everyone in town. As he raises the alarm, he is shaken to…
A STAGED READING
February 21 and 22, 2025 | Briggs Theatre
In this staged reading of Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful masterwork, a small-town doctor, who considers himself a proud and upstanding member of his close-knit community, discovers a looming catastrophe that endangers the lives of everyone in town. As he raises the alarm, he is shaken to…
Briggs Theatre
GENERAL ADMISSION: $8.23
Sat, Feb 22 2025, 7 - 10pm
Presented by the UK Art Museum
We are thrilled to gather for a fundraiser honoring two men who have made profound contributions to the arts, historic preservation, LGBTQ+ legacies, and social services in Lexington. Together and separately, Jonathan Coleman and Robert Morgan have made Kentucky a more informed, empathetic, and exciting place to live.
Coleman was a James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky where he…
Harper Hall
177 N Upper St, Lexington, KY 40507
$125
Mon, Feb 24 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
UK Symphony Band
Dr. Shayna Stahl, Conductor
Dr. Shayna Stahl, Conductor
Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
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
Mon, Mar 3 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Dr. John Cody Birdwell, Conductor
Luis Serrano Alarcon, Guest Composer and Conductor
Miles Osland, Alto Saxophone
Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
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
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. ohthattimdavis.com…
Singletary Recital Hall
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
Sat, Mar 8 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
Sun, Mar 9 2025, 2 - 4pm
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
Tue, Mar 11 2025, 7:30 - 9pm
UK Chorale and the Lafayette High School Madrigals
Singletary Recital Hall
Ticketed