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       UF - Performing Arts

March 19 at 7:30pm

UF School of Music presents UF Men’s Glee Club and Women’s Choral

March 20 at 7:30pm

UF School of Music presents University Orchestra

March 22 at 7:30pm

UF School of Music presents Verdi Requiem

March 22 at 7:30pm

UF School of Music presents Jacare Brazil Unplugged

March 25 at 7:30pm

School Board of Alachua County presents Alachua Honor Band

March 25 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Russell Brown - Graduate Composition Recital 
March 26 at 7:30pm The Eroica Effect - Andrew Manze conducts the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
March 28 at 7:30pm Dance Alive presents Ballet Spectacular
March 28 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Phillip Swayze - Composition Recital
March 29 at 8:00pm Stage Aurora Theatrical Company presents "Frat House"
March 29 at 7:30pm JIGLI! Thunder Drums of China
March 30 at 4:00pm CDS Family & Behavioral Services, Inc. presents Spotlight on Youth 
March 31 at 10:00am American Theatre Arts for Youth presents Beauty and the Beast 
March 31 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Natalie Addcox French Horn Recital
April 1 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Stephanie Acevedo Composition Recital
April 3 at 7:00pm UF School of Music presents Eduardo Aguiar - Classical Guitar Recital
April 3 at 7:30pm Diavolo
April 3 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Jazz Band
April 4 at 10:00am Gainesville Chamber Orchestra presents Walk Through the Orchestra 
April 4 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Bezzera and Estibaliz Piano Duo Recital 
April 5 at 10:00am UF College of Pharmacy presents White Coat Ceremony 
April 5 at 7:00pm UF Women Raising Awareness in People presents Black Female Extravaganza
April 5 at 5:30pm UF School of Music presents SCI Composition Recital - Piano
April 7 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Percussion Ensemble
April 8 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Steel Pan Ensemble
April 9 at 7:30pm UF School of Music Steven Thomas Cello Recital
April 10 UF School of Music presents Electro-Acoustic Music Festival
April 10 at 7:30pm Jazz Ambassadors of the United States Army Field Band
April 10 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Wind Symphony
April 10 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Elaine Li Violin Recital
April 11 & 12 
at 7:30pm
Chicago
April 11 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Jacare Brazil and Agbedidi Africa
April 12 at 7:30pm Takács Quartet with Joyce Yang 
April 13 at 2:00pm UF School of Music presents Ken Martinson Recital - Viola
April 13 at 7:30pm Itzhak Perlman
April 13 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Julie Fine Cello Recital
April 14 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Charlie Anderson Flute Recital
April 15 at 5:30pm UF School of Music presents Jillian Coons Bassoon Recital
April 16 at 7:30pm Spirit of Uganda 
April 16 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Concert Bands
April 16 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Marisa Bradford Flute Recital
April 17 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Symphonic Band
April 17 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Stanley Figaro Tuba Recital
April 19 at 2:00pm 
and
8:00pm
Santa Fe Community College presents Elements of Style
April 20 at 9:00am UF College of Business presents MBA Graduation
April 20 at 7:30pm UF Danza presents Spring Dance Performance
April 21 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents Student Composition Recital - Piano
April 22 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents University Orchestra
April 23 at 7:30pm UF School of Music presents UF Concert Bands
April 26 at 2:30pm Gainesville Ballet Theatre presents Danse Fantasque
April 26 at 7:30pm UF Dancing Gators presents Spring Dance Performance
April 27 at 7:30pm UF Floridance presents Spring Dance Performance
April 27 at 7:30pm Alachua County Youth Orchestra

     Harn Museum

Sept 5, 2006 - ongoing

Highlights from the Harn Museum African Art Collection
The exhibition will showcase the best of the Harn's African collection, one of the largest African art collections in the southeast, emphasizing the historical and geographical diversity of the collection as well as a range of mediums now well-represented in the collection. It will include wood sculpture, masquerades, ceramics, textiles, metalwork (including jewelry), and architectural elements. The exhibition will draw attention to some recent acquisitions not previously exhibited at the Harn. The exhibition will also focus on works by identified artists or hands, including works by Osei Bonsu, Ubah of Usufoia, Olowe of Ise and Agbonbiofe Adesina.

Sept 5, 2006 - ongoing

Highlights from the Harn Museum Asian Art Collection
Featuring Chinese, Japanese, and Indian paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and other arts from the third millennium BCE to the present. Highlights include Chinese ceramics, Japanese enamelwares and Indian stone sculptures. The Harn has one of the largest Asian art collections in the southeast.

Sept 5, 2006 - ongoing

Highlights from the Harn Museum Modern Collection
This exhibition presents highlights from the Museum’s holdings of modern American, European and Latin American art spanning the mid-19th century through the first half of the 20th century. Featured works include landscapes, city views, mural studies, portraits, figural studies and sculpture by more than 30 artists. In addition, this exhibition includes a special area devoted to works on paper such as charcoal and pencil drawings, pastels, watercolors and prints. Among the artists represented are European artists Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin, Mexican artist Diego Rivera, and American artists Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Preston Dickinson, Werner Drewes, John Flannagan, Childe Hassam, Herman Herzog, Gaston Lachaise, Reginald Marsh, Fairfield Porter, Raphael Soyer, and Hale Woodruff. The exhibition is curated by Dulce Roman, Curator of Modern Art.

Mar 18, 2008
to
Aug 17, 2008

Highlights from the Photography Collection
University of Florida's Photographic Legacy
The installation of approximately 40 photographs by University of Florida faculty and graduates celebrates almost a half century of the innovative and influential photography program. 

Feb 10, 2008
to
May 18, 2008

Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection
This exhibition of 100 paintings, sculpture and drawings by 75 internationally renowned 20th and 21st century artist is drawn from the Florida collection of Carol and Stephen Shey.  Created mostly by artist from the United States, these works reflect the extraordinarily diverse and innovative trajectories of the period. 

Nov 13, 2007
to
July 20, 2008

Vision/Revision:  Contemporary Art from the Harn Collection
This exhibition highlights the mutable relationships among art, artist and viewers.

      Florida Museum of Natural History

 

Permanent Exhibit Halls

Butterfly Rainforest: Where Science Takes Flight!
This new addition to the Florida Museum is dedicated to research and education about butterflies, moths and global biodiversity. The Butterfly Rainforest is a four-story, outdoor screened enclosure with waterfalls, a walking trail, lush subtropical and tropical plants and hundreds of live butterflies. The indoor exhibits feature a spectacular "Wall of Wings" reaching nearly three stories high that contains thousands of scanned and actual Lepidoptera specimens and information about butterfly and moth biology. Visitors also may look into the collections and observe scientists working in laboratories, preparing specimens for the collection and rearing new butterflies.

Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life & Land
Drawing upon the Florida Museum's internationally acclaimed fossil collections, this award-winning exhibit describes the last 65 million years of Florida's history. Walk through time beginning with the Eocene, when Florida was underwater, through the Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs when the first humans arrived 14,000 years ago, Florida's first land animals and the land bridge between North and South America that formed about 3 million years ago provide an exciting environment to view the reconstructed specimens. See a 15-foot-tall ground sloth and a two-foot-tall horse. More than 90 percent of the 500 fossils are real and many were found within 100 miles of Gainesville.

Northwest Florida: Waterways & Wildlife
This exhibit follows water as it flows through the unique environments of northwest Florida, the most biodiverse region of the state. The hardwood hammock features a life-sized limestone cave and is patterned after the forest at Florida Caverns State Park during early spring. The pitcher plant bog showcases carnivorous plants of the coastal plain, and the Native American trading scene highlights the river gallery. Visitors strolling along the boardwalk of the coastal salt marsh also can see the Eastern monarchs on the barrier island beach. The butterflies visit the northwest Florida coast to consume wildflower nectar before continuing their annual fall migration to Mexico.

South Florida People & Environments
This award-winning exhibit celebrates South Florida and the people who have lived here for thousands of years, including the Calusa, Miccosukee and Seminole Indians. Based extensively on the Florida Museum's archaeological and ecological research, this exhibit features exciting new knowledge about the history of these peoples and the environments that supported them. Visitors experience a full-scale mangrove forest, underwater scene and a Calusa leader's house. Also on display are more than 700 objects from the museum's collections, ranging from everyday items such as Calusa shell tools and fishing gear to artistic masterpieces such as a thousand-year-old painting of an ivory-billed woodpecker.

 

Outside Exhibits

Fossil Plant Garden
The garden, located south of the Florida Museum's main entrance, is landscaped with modern species of plants whose ancestors lived millions of years ago and are preserved as fossils in many places around the world. The plants in the garden include mosses, sago and sabal palms, saw palmetto, east and west coast coontie, ginkgo biloba and an 18-million-year-old fossil cypress tree.
Mar 15 - 
Sept 7 2008 
Current Exhibits

Inside Africa
Journey into the heart of Africa and experience its people and rich cultural history. Based on "Africa," a permanent exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago, this exhibit takes visitors through a journey to selected sites on the world's second-largest continent and offers a deeper understanding of the vitality, richness and significance of its people from historical and contemporary perspectives.

Apr 21 2007
through
Jan 31 2008
Charles R. Knight: Studies of Lost Worlds
Seven study paintings by Charles R. Knight, the first and the most renowned "paleo-artist" of all time are on display in the Hall of Florida Fossils.  Knight's murals depicting ancient life grace the halls of America's greatest natural history museums.  The paintings include many animals that once lived in Florida, and Knight visited the state many times throughout the 1800s and early 1900s.
Dec 3 2007
through
Dec 31 2008
Butterflies and Moths in Contemporary Zuni Art
This exhibit highlights the role of butterflies in the belief system and art contemporary Zuni people, Native Americans who live in the high desert of the American southwest.  Many Zuni traditional arts feature butterflies and moths, and this tradition continues today in their fine arts, crafts, and tourist art forms.
 

       Hippodrome State Theatre  -  2007 Season

2008 April 18 - May 11 The Pursuit of Happiness

       Oaks Mall

Date: March 3rd through March 22, 2008
Time: Monday-Friday 11am - 8pm
         Saturday 10am - 8pm
         Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Locations:  Belk Court

Puttin' on the Ritz

Date: March 30th, 2008
Time: 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Locations:  North end of The Oaks Mall
Sponsor:  Children's Home Society
Contact:  Kelly Ping 334-3827  ext. 312

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