"Arts for Life" Celebration: 1960-2010

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In 1960, the Paul Creative Arts Center was first opened to the public.  In the last 50 years, thousands of students have cultivated their artistic pursuits.  In honor of the creativity that has gone on and will continue, a year-long celebration entitled "Arts for Life" will take place throughout the 2010-2011 academic year.  The Departments of Art & Art History, Music, Theatre & Dance, and the Museum of Art have special events planned throughout the year to celebrate the arts at UNH.

SEPTEMBER 2010

Art Exhibition / The Artists Revealed
Art History Lecture: The Finger
Flash Mob Celebrating "Arts for Life" Takes place in front of T-Hall 

OCTOBER 2010

Rent, the musical (Directed by Brian Swasey '95)
Art History Lecture: Medieval in the Modern
Arts for Life Opening Reception
Music Faculty Recital
PCAC Open House
Arts Lecture: Embracing the Past
“Cultural Stages: The Woodward International Drama and Dance Initiative” Announced!

NOVEMBER 2010

Arts Lecture: Life on the Burning Deck
Art Exhibitions / Fusion: Merging the Arts in PCAC, and The Shape of Color: Carol Aronson-Shore
Voices of Terezin, a play (Costumes designed by Jessie Kellog '99 and Lighting designed by Keri Thibodeau '98)

DECEMBER 2010

Hamlet in Seven Years, a play
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

JANUARY 2011

Art Exhibitions / Legacy: Works by Distinguished Former Faculty and Re-Viewed: Recent Work by UNH Alumni Barbara Bonney

FEBRUARY 2011

Baroque Music for Trumpets and Organ
The Season of Lust and Betrayal, staged readings (featuring "Diverting Devotion" by Mike O'Malley '88.  Dan Beaulieu '05, CJ Lewis '07, and Christine Penney '99 will perform in these staged readings.)
A Tribute to Blue Note Records
Arts Lecture: Recollections
Strega Nona, touring theatre

MARCH 2011

Arts Lecture: Choices and Considerations
Wounded Dove, music and dance

APRIL 2011

Wounded Dove, music and dance
Arts Lecture: Enhancing the Future
Museum, a play
Bach's The Passion According to St. John
Art Exhibitions / Senior BA and BFA, and MFA Thesis Exhibitions

MAY 2011

Arts Lecture: Time-based Painting and Other New Media