Art Beat - WUCF

Voci Dance begins its 9th season this weekend with performances at the new Garden Theatre in Winter Garden. Voci's company of professional dancers will welcome guest artists from New York and Chicago.

Spirit of the Child is a special themed concert by the UCF Chorus and Chamber Singers, led by Dr. David Brunner. It's presented to raise awareness of the plight of neglected children worldwide. The concert is Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 at First United Methodist Church of Winter Park. It's free but donations will benefit the Children's Home Society of Central Florida.

Related Links - Children's Home Society
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Saturday night, the Orlando Philharmonic will give the premiere of a new work by Stella Sung, a composer and professor in UCF's Digital Media department.  The concert is at 8pm at the Bob Carr PAC.

Dr. Jennifer Blackmer is a playwright and a theatre professor at Ball State University in Indiana. She was the keynote speaker at a statewide symposium sponsored by UCF's Office of Undergraduate Research. She talks about some surprising ways the performing arts can be used in research.

Jocelyn Bartkevicius talks about the activities offered by the university's English Department, including this week's reading by Honor Moore and Eamon Grennan.

The Blueman Group is the wildly popular show playing across the country, including Universaly Orlando CityWalk. One of the group's members is UCF alumnus, Richard Cravens.

UCF Conservatory Theatre brings this popular musical to the stage.  Be Boyd directs. Tickets are going fast - call the Box Office at 407-823-1500.

The UCF Film Department invites you to bring your old 8mm, 16mm and Super 8 films to Orlando's Home Movie Day; it's part of an international Home Movie Day event.

The final events of the festival include two art exhibits. At the UCF Art Gallery an exhibit with Pedro Brull and Obed Gomez runs this week only - and a reception is Tuesday at 6pm. Brull's work is also featured in the Masceras exhibit at the Maitland Art Center.

Two UCF faculty members, visual artist Carla Poindexter and electronic musician Jay Batzner, collaborated on the short animated film Carnival Daring Do.  Batzner talks about the film score.

Related Sites - Carla Poindexter; Jay Batzner