Country Music Star Neal McCoy To Perform at UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall
CONWAY—Country music singer Neal McCoy will perform in concert at the University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. McCoy has released 15 studio albums. In 1993, McCoy’s career began with back-to-back No. 1 singles “No Doubt About It” and “Wink” from his platinum-certified album “No Doubt About It.” His success continued with two more platinum albums, a gold album and six more top-ten hits in the late 1990s. In 2005, “Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On” from his self-released album “That’s Life” reached number seven on the top-ten hits. In 2012, McCoy released […]
Tess Taylor visits UCA as artist-in-residence
By: Aurora King, Office of Media Relations CONWAY— The University of Central Arkansas will host acclaimed poet Tess Taylor as artist-in-residence from Thursday, Nov. 3, to Friday, Nov. 4. Presented by the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Taylor will hold a public reading and book signing on Friday, Nov. 4, from 6-7:30 p.m. in the McCastlain Ballroom. This event will be held in conjunction with the 2022 C.D. Wright Women’s Writer Conference, in which Taylor will be the keynote speaker. “Tess Taylor’s poetry is steeped in the details of place, from the geology beneath our feet to both […]
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre to announce season at ‘Sounds and Sweet Aires’
Partnership with The Max offers series of Shakespearean events CONWAY—The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre will present “Sounds and Sweet Aires” as its first installment of Experience Shakespeare at the Max on Friday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m., at The Max Event Venue, 1007 Spencer Street in downtown Conway. The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (AST) will also reveal the 2023 AST season. Event tickets are $20 and can be purchased on the AST website. “Experience Shakespeare at The Max” is a series of fun, interactive and insightful events aimed at exploring the magic behind Shakespeare’s poetry and theatrical craft. The first installment will […]
UCA Norbert O. Schedler Honors College hosts 2022 Challenge Week
CONWAY— The University of Central Arkansas Norbert O. Schedler Honors College will host its 2022 Challenge Week titled “The Mental Health Crisis: Finding Our Way” from Monday, Oct. 24 to Friday, Oct. 28. Through the week’s events, students will draw on a variety of disciplines and practices to explore ways to understand and approach individual and collective anxieties, grief and trauma. Events Monday through Thursday are sponsored by the Schedler Honors College and are free and open to the public. Schedler Honors College alumna Whit Barringer will speak on the history of mental illness on Monday, Oct. 24 from 4-5 […]
Natural State Update: Episode #10
Learn more about the Conway Symphony Orchestra, see the emotional story of a Little Rock man meeting his sister who he didn’t know existed, and hear some valuable retirement advice from Scott Inman.
Alexander Markov to be UCA artist-in-residence
CONWAY— The University of Central Arkansas will host Russian American violinist Alexander Markov as artist-in-residence from Thursday, Oct. 27, to Sunday, Oct. 30. Markov will perform alongside students in UCA’s Department of Music at the Conway Symphony Orchestra’s Power, Mystery and Fate concert on Sunday, Oct. 30, from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Reynolds Performance Hall. UCA students can attend for free with their UCA ID. The public can purchase tickets from the Reynolds Box Office or the Conway Symphony Orchestra’s website. “Alexander Markov is not only a world-class violinist, he’s also a unique musical personality,” said Israel Getzov, music professor […]
UCA presents ‘An Evening of David Ives One Acts’’
CONWAY—The University of Central Arkansas theatre program kicks off its 2022-23 season with “An Evening of David Ives One Acts” at the Bridges-Larson Theatre in Snow Fine Arts Oct. 26-28, at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 29 at 2 p.m. UCA students, faculty and staff can receive free tickets. General admission tickets are $10 and can be purchased online. Tickets may also be purchased at the Reynolds Box Office Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by calling UCA Ticket Central by phone at (501)-450-3265 or toll-free at (866)-810-0012. Featuring a trio of comedic one-act plays by American […]
Frank Warren to bring PostSecret Project to Reynolds Performance Hall
CONWAY—The University of Central Arkansas Reynolds Performance Hall welcomes bestselling author and founder of the PostSecret Project, Frank Warren on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. In this uplifting presentation, Warren will speak on PostSecret, sharing secrets, mental health, reducing stigma and building a community of support. Warren’s PostSecret Project is a growing collection of over one million artful secrets, mailed to his home on postcards. He started PostSecret as a community art project, inviting strangers to anonymously mail in their never-voiced-before secrets on homemade postcards, sparking a global phenomenon. He has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, the […]