KUPSFEST is back! This semester's show will include all new bands to UPS playing live music at Alma. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here or by scanning the QR code at the KUPS table during lunch.

The Collins Memorial Library and School of Music Present a lunchtime concert in the library

Featuring:

Larissa Gaulke, Soprano

Kim Davenport,, Piano

Ivan Tarasenkov, Piano

Performing Works by Samuel Barber

Exhibition dates: May 10 - 24, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, May 12, 4-6pm

This retrospective exhibit will feature a variety of the Chandler O'Leary's many sketchbooks, prints, textiles, artist books, broadsides, cards, ornaments, paper sculptures, materials and tools. Please join us at the opening reception on Friday, May 12 from 4-6pm.  

Join us for the Organ at Noon Series, with Wyatt Smith, organist, presenting The Skies, Unlimited - music by Hina Sakamoto, Aaron David Miller, and a song cycle by Frederick Frahm, featuring Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano.

Free and open to the public.

Join us for the Organ at Noon Series: Journey to Resurrection, featuring Wyatt Smith, organ, performing The Seven Last Words and Triumph of Christ (2018) composed by Pamela Decker. 

Free and open to the public.

The Latinx Festival is back! Join us for student performers, Mariachi Alma Nueva, Ballet Folklorico, and delicious Latin American foods. Entrance to the event is free and open to the entire campus community. All proceeds from food and activity sales will go to the Latin American Heritage Scholarship. Te esperamos!

This event is presented by Sin Fronteras and sponsored by Hispanic Studies, Art & Art History, Latin American Studies, Latina/o Studies, the Department of History, and the Matthew Norton Clapp Visiting Artists Endowment.

A love of jazz, of playing at Farmers Markets, and musical adventures throughout the Northwest, the Playtonics feature talented musicians from all over the US, as well as KNKX's Paige Hansen, plying their vocals and horns and now packing venues including recently at Tacoma's Spanish Ballroom. They are creative wordsmiths, too, and their performances feature originals which will be available onsale at following their lunchtime performance.

Tango is a mini-residency presented by three of the northern hemisphere's leading practitioners, led by choreographer Chelsea Eng, with support from tango masters Joe Powers and Count Glover.

"Everybody Needs a Wife: How Intensive Grandparenting Reinforces Gender Deference and the Stalled Revolution in Families" w/Prof. Jennifer Utrata

The northwest's oldest annual lu'au and show returns to the UPS Fieldhouse. Now in it's 53rd year and produced by UPS's Hawaii club and students, you can skip the airfares and luggage, as this family-friendly event will transport you to the Islands and back, a fun evening which will include those imports and goodies you ask for, for sale at the country store during intermission.