BDx to host Parkinglottapalooza venue this Saturday
BDx Coffee on University Street will be having their first annual Parkinglottapalooza outdoor music festival on April 12 beginning at noon.
Parkinglottapalooza will feature 13 local bands performing live. Many of the bands have played previously at BDx.
This will be a treat since there are no other venues in Martin that offer live music regularly.…
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Students Hummer, Singleton and Hensley display works at senior art exhibit
An opening reception was held Tuesday, April 1 for the senior art exhibits of art majors Laura Hensley, Bethany Hummer and Lauren Singleton.
Laura Hensley's collection included paintings and ceramics. The paintings were created by using a number of different media such as charcoal, acrylic paint, mixed media, pastels, ink and the conte crayon.…
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Concert pianist and poet Oni Buchanan performs on campus, conducts kinetic poetry workshop
A published poet and concert pianist held a workshop with English students the day following her piano concert. Oni Buchanan, currently touring the eastern U.S. for a series of piano performances, poetry workshops and readings, visited UTM to perform in a piano concert for the university's guest artist series and to conduct a kinetic poetry workshop.…
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Student swingers joined forces Friday night to raise money for Le Bonheur
About 150 student swing dancers went to the Student Life Center Friday night to learn about swing dancing while raising money for Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.
The Le Bonheur Dance Marathon was Friday, April 4, from 6:30 to 9 and has taken place the past three years in order to raise money for the Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.…
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Writing Center hosts 'Literature from Other Cultures' roundtable literary reading
The Hortense Parrish Writing Center hosted their tenth annual "Literature from Other Cultures" reading on April 2nd as part of UTM's International Week.
Select students read literature unique to their native countries and in the original language in which it was written, after which they translated the piece in English and explained its significance.…
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Music Department holds annual Spring Choral Concert featuring University Singers and New Pacer Singers
UTM's Department of Music held its annual Spring Choral Concert on Sunday, April 6, in the Harriet Fulton Theatre.
The concert, featuring the University Singers and the New Pacer Singers, consisted of what Dr. Mark Simmons, director of Choral Activities, called standard choral literature.…
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Music professor performs faculty recital, continues work on upcoming CD
Dr. Amy Yeung of the Fine Arts Department performed fifteen songs with Dr. Jung-Won Shin of Lane College on Tuesday, as part of a concert of "night songs."
This concert was Yeung's fifth faculty recital at UTM. The performance featured. Yeung, a soprano, as vocalist and Shin as pianist.…
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Work of UT Martin art students recognized at Artists of the 21st Century event
The work of several UT Martin art students was selected and displayed at the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt last Thursday for an exhibit entitled Artists of the 21st Century. …
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