Fine Arts Series
Unless specified, tickets are available at the Information Center Desk, level 3 of the Union, or by calling (940) 565-3805. Free tickets are available for UNT students with a valid ID and discounted tickets are available for UNT faculty, and staff.
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UNT Fine Arts Series
The UNT Fine Arts Series strives to provide a variety of programming to encourage the students and the community to evaluate and discern their own tastes. It is the goal of the series to provide programming that will benefit the UNT and Denton communities through a variety of experiences. Arts are an extremely important aspect of world cultures, and the Fine Arts Series wants our university family and community to experience, understand, and evaluate the programs that we present in the context of their own lives and the global society in which we all live. To allow for greater student exposure to the Arts, the Fine Arts Series offers all of our regularly scheduled programming free to UNT students with a valid ID.
History
The UNT Fine Arts Series enters its 109th season this year. The Series is the oldest continual program on campus charged with presenting a well balanced season of the visual, performing, and literary arts. Welcome, and please peruse the site and take the poll.
Having originated as the "Lyceum Series" in 1903 when North Texas called itself North Texas Normal College the series began presenting performing arts and lectures. The series has grown over the past century while never losing sight of its purpose. In all our endeavors we hope to enrich the students' lives and provide a higher quality of life here at North Texas.
Upcoming Guests
Theodora
February 23, 2012 – 7:30 pmMurchison Performing Arts Center
The UNT College of Music Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Singers and A Cappella Choir, and the Dallas Opera Artistic Director, Graeme Jenkins will join together to present Handel’s oratorio Theodora, on February 23 at 7:30 pm at the Murchison Performing Arts Center. Featured soloists include College of Music faculty and guest artists Ava Pine, Jennifer Lane, Ryland Angel, Richard Croft and Jeffrey Snider. An encore presentation will take place off campus at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. All UNT students are free with ID for the Murchison performance on February 23.
Ticket Information
FREE for UNT Students!
Tickets at the Murchison Box Office
Nick Cave
February 24 – March 24, 2012
Opening Reception February 24, 5 – 7 pm.
UNT on the Square
As the 2011-2012 Artist in Residence for UNT’s Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, Nick Cave will present a collaborative performance piece and an exhibition of his renowned Soundsuits. Cave’s Soundsuits, which began with fallen twigs built into a sculptural costume, remind us of the potential in the ordinary objects around us and in the urge for self-expression. Cave’s exhibition at UNT on the Square will showcase costumes designed by Cave and built by UNT students for his performance piece, Herd, to take place on campus next spring, and Soundsuits from Cave’s studio, designed as elaborate, wearable sculptures that embody the artist’s desire to bring communities together to create, express and enjoy.
Ticket Information
No tickets are required
Henry Rollins
March 3, 2012 - 8 pm
Murchison Performing Arts Center
Join us for a presentation from punk rock icon, Henry Rollins. There isn’t much that can be said about Rollins that hasn’t been already. He is the author of 15 books, an actor, a radio DJ, a publisher, a spoken word artist, and the former front man of Black Flag and Rollins Band.
For more than 25 years Henry has been touring the country. It’s not so much the mere wisdom of age, but the wisdom of experience that audiences are likely to encounter when he takes the stage – whether he’s relaying rock n’ roll anecdotes, or tackling more serious topics with his distinctive synthesis of anger, amusement, and global perspective. A relentless traveler on an unyielding quest for firsthand knowledge, Henry’s most recent excursion took him across the Pacific to China, North Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and Vietnam. He is currently filming a series with the National Geographic Channel.
Come see the amazing Henry Rollins when he performs here at UNT.
Ticket Information
FREE for UNT Students!
$10 for UNT Staff/Faculty/Alumni
$20 for General Public
Tickets @ Murchison Box Office
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