Events

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
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
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
Fri, Feb 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…
Gatton Student Center Cinema
Free
Sat, Feb 8 2025, 10am

The Singletary Center presents the inaugural Visual Music Festival in the SCFA Recital Hall.  Join us for a day of dynamic expressions of abstract art featuring a curated program of multimedia works from an international collection of contemporary artists. Experience the harmonies of light and sound as we explore what goes on in the mind while listening to music!

The Visual Music Festival program begins at 10:00am and will play…

Singletary Center
FREE ADMISSION
Sat, Feb 8 2025, 7pm

"Koyaanisqatsi" is a groundbreaking 1982 American non-narrative documentary film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, features a score composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.

The title, derived from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," encapsulates the film's central theme: the growing disconnect between humanity and the natural world. Through a powerful juxtaposition of breathtaking natural…

Singletary Recital Hall
FREE, but ticket required for entry
Fri, Feb 14 2025, 7:30 - 9pm
University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, John Nardolillo, conductorCaleb Weber, BA & BM’25, piano Pre-concert lecture presented by the UK School of Music on the Concert Hall stage at 7:00 PM

Lecturer, Mary Margaret Zrull

· Debussy: Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”

· Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

· Prokofiev: Suite from Cinderella

· R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Singletary Concert Hall
$20 Adults/ $10 Students
Sat, Feb 15 2025, 7:30pm

"Thirst" is a trailblazing live electronic performance that redefines the boundaries of audiovisual art. Utilizing multi-projection techniques, the show seamlessly merges the aesthetics of road movies, American iconography, and hyper-saturated 3D visuals to create a vibrant, immersive experience.

Exploring profound themes of desire, freedom, and societal transformation, "Thirst" invites viewers to reflect on the evolving nature…
Singletary Concert Hall
FREE for UK Students, $23 Adults/$10 Students
Tue, Feb 18 - Sat, Aug 2 2025, All day
Dear Jay, When we spoke about this exhibition, neither of us knew that you would not live to see it. While deeply sorrowful, I am buoyed by bringing together a handful of touchstones—artists whose printmaking and drawing you held in high regard. A few of them we never discussed, but I think they are relevant. Your audacity, inventiveness, and mastery of materials put you in their august company. Some of these individuals are referred…
UK Art Museum
Free
Tue, Feb 18 - Sat, Aug 2 2025, All day
“I enter the classroom as an evangelist for the idea that photography is the most complex, important form of communication in our culture, and that it takes energy, will, humor, pathos, research, and legwork to learn to use the medium effectively.” This statement by artist, educator, and writer Tim Davis affirms his belief in active image-making, something he has done consistently since the early 1990s. Davis’s photographs revel in surfaces…
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…
Briggs Theatre
GENERAL ADMISSION: $8.23
Feb 22 2025 | 7 - 10pm

Presented by the UK Art Museum

Save the date! The 2025 An Inspired Evening will take place February 22nd. More details to come. Tickets will be on sale in November.

Cocktail Attire

Tickets: $125 each. $85 of the $125 ticket price is tax deductible.

Harper Hall
177 N Upper St, Lexington, KY 40507
$125