UALR’s Community Chorus — joined by the UALR Concert Choir and Chamber Choir — kicks off its season with a performance of Joseph Haydn’s Te Deum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building.
UALR’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance inaugurates a new annual arts series this season with “Dance Harvest” featuring original student choreography at 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 19 to 22, at the University Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts.
Members of the UALR Student Government Association will celebrate reaching and exceeding the goal of collecting 12,000 items of food for local community food banks at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Diamond Area of the Donaghey Student Center.
At the start of the fall semester, SGA members began a drive to collect a food item by November for every student enrolled at UALR this semester – a record-high 12,167.
Christopher D. Smith, president of UALR’s SGA, said the food drive netted “well over 15,000” food items.
For more information about the celebration and the food drive, contact Smith at 501-569-3567 or cdsmith@ualr.edu.
At a recent opening for the exhibit “Law in a Land Without Justice: Nazi Germany 1933-1945” at the UALR Bowen School of Law Library, Wilson and Associates PLLC pledged a total donation of $100,000 over three years.
UALR broadened the scope of its annual International Celebration Day to include a week filled with activities designed to enhance inter-cultural awareness and understanding, including films, panel discussions, an international Thanksgiving, and an interfaith dialogue lunch.
The University District Partnership will host a town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Jack Stephens Center’s Legends Room and will ask neighbors and educators to discuss the “State of Our Kids,” particularly the children living and going to school in the neighborhoods around the UALR campus.
UALR’s Department of Music will host the Central Arkansas Choral Directors Association’s All-Region Choir Clinic on Saturday, Nov. 21 providing a day of choral workshops that will culminate in a 6p.m. free public performance at Robinson Auditorium with members of the Arkansas Symphony.
UALR’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance inaugurates a new annual arts series this season with “Dance Harvest” featuring original student choreography at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 19 to 22, at the University Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts.
A team of six students in social work, psychology, and criminal justice are fanning out through the neighborhoods surrounding the UALR campus in a new University District-AmeriCorps program aimed at identifying idle teens and engage them in school, job training, work, and recreation programs.
U.S. Bank has presented Dr. Anthony F. Chelte, dean of UALR’s College of Business, a gift of $10,000 to help enhance the College’s high quality educational programs and economic development initiatives.