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Tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” at Morton Theatre sold out; Chapel event open to public

All tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 15 at the Morton Theatre have been distributed. Walker’s reading at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the UGA Chapel will be free and open to the public except for approximately 100 of the Chapel’s 433 seats, which will be reserved for groups including UGA and high school students. The doors will open at 2:30 p.m., and it is expected that the Chapel will fill to capacity.

For more information on Walker’s visit, please see http://willson.uga.edu/home-feature/alice-walker-to-visit-uga-in-fall-2015-as-inaugural-delta-visiting-chair/. To learn more about the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, please see www.deltachair.uga.edu.

Order a UGA All Arts Card today!

The UGA Arts Council has introduced the “All Arts Card” for students.

For $99, the card gives students admission to more than 60 concerts and plays with a full ticket price value of more than $2,000. The All Arts Card includes admission to performances at the UGA Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Department of Theatre and Film Studies and Department of Dance during the 2015-2016 academic year.

To order, go to http://pac.uga.edu/ and click on the student tab.

Many additional UGA Arts events are free to all students, including admission to the Georgia Museum of Art and galleries at Lamar Dodd School of Art, various events from The Georgia Review, UGA Press, Special Collections Libraries and more.

Go to arts.uga.edu to sign up for a monthly preview of events or follow UGA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more information on events year-round.

21st century humanities

Provost Pamela Whitten touts digital humanities at UGA, including programs associated with the Willson Center’s DigiLab.

Pulitzer-winning author and journalist to speak at UGA

Douglas A. Blackmon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,” will visit the University of Georgia for a talk on April 2 at 4 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall.

Third annual Slingshot festival begins March 26

Spread over five city blocks and dozens of venues, Slingshot spotlights international, national, and local acts on stage, boundary pushing artworks throughout the urban environment, and tech talks with leading innovators.

Dedication of the new location of the Willson Center

Through the generosity of Jane Willson, our Board of Friends and individual donors, and with support from the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Willson Center has relocated to a historically renovated two-story house at 1260 South Lumpkin Street. 

Global Georgia Initiative 2014-2015

The Global Georgia Initiative brings world class thinkers to Georgia. It presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. Global Georgia.

Photos from Spotlight • Slingshot now online

An estimated 2,000 people came out to College Square in downtown Athens for our signature event in UGA’s 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival, and they saw a marvelous concert by five enormously talented musical acts.

Global Georgia Initiative 2014-2015

The Global Georgia Initiative brings world class thinkers to Georgia. It presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene.