LOGGERPALOOZA 2023

Celebrate the year's end with LOLLAPALOOZA 2023, featuring free massage therapists, Hypnotist Tammy Harris Barton, a movie marathon (High School Musical) Pizza from Sammy's and Puget Sound Pizza, a tie-dye station, a hatchet toss, dessert with an assortment of cakes (celebrating anyone with a birthday in May) and... ROCKARAOKE, the phenomenal band which provides the music support for YOU (and friends) to become the Rock Star you've always wanted to be. Free, fun, and presented by ASUPS Student Programs. 

Art Market

KUPS will be hosting an art market in the Rotunda and on the Slab hosting student artists!

KUPSFEST

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.

Lunchtime Concert in the Library

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

Drawn to Tacoma: The Illustrative Art of Chandler O'Leary

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.  

Organ at Noon Series

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.

Organ at Noon Series

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.

Latinx Festival

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.

Lunch concert: "The PlayTonics"

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.