Join us in Room 101 of the Music Building for a recital with award-winning composer Jonty Harrison. Harrison studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York, graduating with a DPhil in Composition in 1980. To learn more about his distinguished career, visit www.electrocd.com/en/bio/harrison_jo/.

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This year, several University of Florida (UF) colleges and organizations have partnered to lead the celebration on campus. UF’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, College of the Arts, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, Harn Museum of Art and UF Performing Arts will celebrate by encouraging students and members of the community to attend their various events, which range from art exhibitions to theatre productions to photography workshops.

Hateful Things is an exhibit created with labels, advertisements, postcards and other printed materials that show the appalling lack of sensitivity that was acceptable in American culture until recent memory. As we view the derogatory images and stereotypes, we find a deeper understanding in the power of propaganda to marginalize and dehumanize others.

Inspired by Osha Gray Davidson's book of the same name and based on a true story, Mark St. Germain's drama, THE BEST OF ENEMIES reveals a universal truth: all people, no matter their differences, are capable of change. Amidst their incendiary words of prejudice and fear, Ann, a civil rights activist, and C.P., an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK, forge an alliance based in respect and trust in an honest-to-goodness, modern-day parable of transformation and triumph for civil rights.
This is a one-performance event dedicated as a fundraiser for the Holocaust Center.

Film: Last White Knight (at Orlando Museum of Art) which will include a presentation and QA with filmmaker Paul Saltzman. In the 1960s Paul Saltzman journeyed from Canada to Mississippi to help with voter registration in the hard-core bastions of the Old South. One of the first days he was there he was assaulted by a group of young men led by Byron “Delay” De La Beckwith, the son of the man convicted of killing civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Decades later, Saltzman returns to meet with Beckwith and see what, if anything, has changed in the New South.

Exhibit: Hateful Things

“Hateful Things” is a 39-piece traveling exhibition created and circulated by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at the Ferris (MI) State University. It represents nearly 150 years of anti-black/racist material. The objects and images within the exhibit portray the cruel reality that the African-American culture endured during the Jim Crow era, and silently voices African-Americans’ struggles for racial equality.

President and CEO Bob Lynch is serving his second term on the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, a position appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. He is the Co-Chair of the Cultural and Natural Heritage Subcommittee, which provides recommendations on ways the Department of Commerce can increase international tourism through leveraging America’s cultural and natural treasures.

President and CEO Bob Lynch participated in the inaugural Brevard County Cultural Summit hosted by the Brevard Cultural Alliance. After delivering the lunch keynote about how local arts organizations can advance cultural tourism and the economic impact of the arts, he joined a panel about future funding for the arts. Also presenting at the conference were the National Arts Marketing Project and the Arts Education team, which was represented by Americans for the Arts Arts Education Program Coordinator Jeff Poulin.

Two project managers and two artists discuss building successful relationships and developing skills sets that lead to the best art project while cultivating creative thinking and problem solving. Public art professionals at all levels of experience are encouraged to register.