A look ahead: UGA and Athens events this week
This week's look ahead features a Parade of Flags & World Fest to kick off UGA’s International Education Month, multiple arts events for the tenth annual Spotlight on the Arts
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This week's look ahead features a Parade of Flags & World Fest to kick off UGA’s International Education Month, multiple arts events for the tenth annual Spotlight on the Arts
Pensacola Opera inspires in a season of uncertainty | Guestview Cecily B. Kopytchak “Aspire to inspire before you expire” is an adage that continues to resonate in my mind almost two decades after I first heard it in the studio of my undergraduate voice teacher and life changing mentor, Dr. Gregory Broughton, at the University of Georgia. It is a phrase that when spoken literally, to a singer, certainly possesses a valuable didactic meaning, since “breath” is the absolute foundation of song. Alternatively, when its significance is viewed in broader terms, it could apply to almost ever...
The night of Black Theatrical Ensembleâs first performance on March 8, 1976, in the University of Georgia Chapel, founder Larry Calhoun and other members of the organization gathered in a circle to pray. âWe knew what it meant to us â but we prayed that what we had to present would mean something to our fellow students on campus,â Calhoun said. Calhoun decided to form BTE when he was a graduate student at UGA in 1976. Six years before Calhoun founded BTE, Nawanna Lewis Miller founded the Pamoja groups: the Pamoja Singers, Pamoja Dancers and Pamoja Drama and Arts. Although ...