FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The week of Nov. 8-15 is filled with events in the visual and performing arts, presented by membersof  the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Boston Mountain Brassworks, the university's faculty brass quintet, will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in the Fine Arts Center's Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. 

 

At the same time, Schola Cantorum and the American Guild of Organists will perform at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville.

Also on Friday, the Tournées Festival presents Berlin 1885: la ruée sur l'Afrique (Berlin 1885: the Scramble of Africa) at 7:45 p.m. in Old Main's Giffels Auditorium.

Charity Cox will give a flute recital at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Saturday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Kolby Palmore will give a percussion recital at 6 p.m. and Felipe Antonio will give a guitar recital at 8 p.m.

The department of music will host a Brown Bag Lunchtime Concert featuring Stephen Byars on tuba and Nicole Johnson on piano at noon Monday, Nov. 11, at Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville.

The University Jazz Band will give its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, in the Arkansas Union Theatre.

Also on Wednesday, the Tournées Festival presents Amour (Amour) at 7:45 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium.

The department of art will host a reception for visiting artist Petah Coyne at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery. The reception will be followed by a lecture at 6 p.m. in Vol Walker, room 250.

Concerts on Thursday include a performance by the Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble at 6 p.m. and a piano concert by guest artist Ratko Delorko at 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Thursday, the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society will host a screening of the documentary Makers: Women Who Make America at 7 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Theatre.

The Tournées Festival continues on Thursday with Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat) at 7:45 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium.

Moon-Sook Park, associate professor of vocal studies, will give a studio recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.

Also on Friday, She Stoops to Conquer will open in the University Theatre. The play will run through Sunday, Nov. 24. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors, $14 for University of Arkansas faculty and staff, $7 for children under 18 and $3 for students with a valid student ID.

Continued from Last Week

An exhibit of works by students of associate professor Angela LaPorte continues until Friday, Nov. 15, in the Fine Arts Center hallway exhibition cases.

Resonance: Audible Silence in Portraiture continues until Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

An Odyssey of Dreams: A Decade of Paintings 2003-2012 an exhibit curated by Judith Brodsky continues until Friday, Dec. 6, in the Arkansas Union Anne Kittrell Gallery. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

This is not a comprehensive list. Please refer to the University of Arkansas events calendar for more information. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.