Pre-first year students study global leadership in Costa Rica
For the first time, UCCS offered incoming first-year students an opportunity to have an international experience before they started class this fall. (More)
Arts & Culture
RUBBERBAND Dance Group brings “Vic’s Mix” to Ent Center Sept. 26
RUBBERBAND dance founder Victor Quijada revisits his company’s 15-year history in a mixed repertory evening entitled “Vic’s Mix” when the award-winning dance company presents in the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Arts Sept. 26. (More)
Horowitz Piano Festival brings concerts and opportunities to play historic piano Sept. 16-21
Top piano students and piano lover’s alike will have an opportunity play and photograph Vladimir Horowitz’s historic Concert Grand Steinway piano when it visits the Ent Center for the Arts. (More)
Star of “A Raisin in the Sun” returns to Theatreworks to play one of our nation’s greatest heroes in “The Mountaintop”
Calvin M. Thompson and Marisa D. Hébert return to the Theatreworks stage, led by award-winning director, donnie l. betts, in this drama in which playwright Katori Hall imagines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night at the Lorraine Motel, as a mysterious visitor comes to call. (More)
Latin Grammy-winner Gaby Moreno opens 2019-20 Artist Series Aug. 22
The UCCS Presents Artist Series opens its 2019-20 season at 7 p.m., Aug. 22 with Latin Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno. (More)
GOCA’s fall exhibition featuring Nashville-based Vadis Turner opening September 5
Vadis Turner, a Nashville-born artist who explores female experience, intergenerational wisdom, rites of passage and gender roles, often through the lens of her own family history in the southern United States, will present “Megaliths” in the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art fall exhibition. (More)
New UCCS chef committed to fresh, local food
“Food doesn’t have to be complex,” says Chef Mark Painter, the new residential chef at Roaring Fork Dining Hall. “It can be, but it doesn’t have to be. That’s the Italian mentality, to me – (More)
Two new student sculptures welcome shoppers at University Village Colorado
Each fall, UCCS students in the Visual and Performing Arts Department are invited to submit proposals for sculptural work to representatives from the University Village Colorado. Two student designs are selected to be fabricated as large scale permanent outdoor sculptures. This year’s winners are Deborah Schoen and Jennifer Marquez. (More)
Martorella named assistant vice president at Point Park University
Drew Martorella, a campus and regional leader for arts production and education, and executive director of UCCS Presents, will be the new assistant vice president and managing director of the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University. (More)
Students assist alumna and city archaeologist on dig at Garden of the Gods
Anna Cordova’s job is to make sure that as Colorado Springs builds for its future, the city protects its past.
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