This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: Nov. 22-Dec. 6

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, this week's list of events in the visual and performing arts covers two weeks. Nov. 22-Dec. 6 will offer many opportunities for students, faculty, staff and friends to attend on-campus and off-campus events hosted by faculty, departments and programs in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Bachelor of fine Arts students will present artwork at sUgAR (the university's student art gallery), located at 1 East Center on the downtown Fayetteville square. The exhibition opens Friday, Nov. 22, with a reception at 5 p.m.

Also on Friday, the department of music will host a vocal class at 6 p.m. and Stephen Byars will give a tuba recital at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center's Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The Razorback Marching Band will present their Yellow Brick Road Show during half time of the Arkansas Razorbacks football game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock Saturday, Nov. 23.

Also on Saturday, Nicole Johnson will give a piano recital at 6 p.m. and Manchusa Loungsangroong will give a clarinet concert at 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Shannon Horner will give a cello recital at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Sunday in Stella Boyle Smith, guest artist Douglas Lindsey will present a trumpet concert at 7 p.m.

David Malis, assistant professor of music and director of opera, will give a studio recital at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Monday, the University of Arkansas Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Fayetteville High School Performing Arts Center.

Melis Soyarslan will give a piano recital at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall will hold two violin recitals Sunday, Dec. 1. Miranda Baker will perform at 3:30 p.m., and Heather Werschky will perform at 6 p.m.

The department of music will host a German Lied class at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Nadi Cinema will host a screening of A New Day in Old Sana'a (dir. Bader Ben Hirsi, Yemen 2005) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Mullins Library, room 104.

Also on Wednesday, James Greeson, professor of music, will give a guitar studio recital at 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Guest artist Cole Closser will give a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, in room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.

Also on Thursday, the University of Arkansas Opera Theatre will perform at 3:30 p.m. and the University of Arkansas Horn Studio will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

The University of Arkansas Choral Ensembles will present Winterfest at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville.

Also on Friday, Jura Margulis, the McAllister Professor of Piano, will give a studio recital at 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Continued from Last Week

She Stoops to Conquer continues until Sunday, Nov. 24, in the University Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for faculty, staff and seniors and $7 for children under 18.

Resonance: Audible Silence in Portraiture continues until Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

An Odyssey of Dreams: A Decade of Paintings 2003-2012 continues until Friday, Dec. 6, in the Arkansas Union Anne Kittrell Gallery. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

An exhibition of work by students and faculty in the paining program of the department of art continues until Friday, Dec. 6, in the Fine Arts Center's hallway exhibition cases.

This is not a comprehensive list. Please refer to the University of Arkansas events calendar for more information. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.