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University of Northern Colorado
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Let the Games Begin!
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Union Colony Civic Center
701 10th Street, Greeley
| 6:00 -7:30 |
Opening Ceremony - the Art Reception Tointon Gallery
& UCCC lobby |
| 7:30 |
The Games - the Performance*
Monfort Concert Hall
(*Performance ticket required)
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| 9:30 |
Closing Ceremony - the Sponsors’ Party** directly south of the UCCC in the social hall of historic |
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St. Patrick Presbyterian Church
(** Sponsor’s Contribution required) |
In anticipation of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, let us entertain you with our own world-class team of student artists and performers in a Gala-style look at the Olympics. Gold medal caliber actors, dancers, and award-winning music ensembles will fill the Monfort Concert Hall at Greeley’s Union Colony Civic Center, and the work of top-rated visual artists will cover the walls of Tointon Gallery. This UNC showcase features the incredible variety of talent displayed by more than 500 of the students from the University of Northern Colorado College of Performing and Visual Arts.
This 26th annual Gala arts festival, complete with all the drama and pageantry of an Olympic celebration, promises to be an evening of entertainment you won’t soon forget.
The Gala performance has evolved its own unique style over the years-. It’s fun, it’s funny, and there are moments that will move you. It is always immensely entertaining and is sure to please audience members of all ages.
Your Gala hosts, the Community Advisory Board for the Performing and Visual Arts, are a group of enthusiastic patrons and volunteers who work 12 months a year to ensure the financial success of this annual event. They encourage you to support the Gala with a sponsor’s level contribution in addition to your ticket purchase. All proceeds benefit the College of Performing and Visual Arts.
Won’t you come and be a part of the festivities as we celebrate
26 years of student excellence?
What you’ll see and hear:
- UNC’s outstanding art and design students’ work on display
- nationally and internationally recognized Jazz Lab Band I and the University Symphony Orchestra
- students from the best theatre program in Colorado
- choirs considered to be among the finest in the United States.
- “triple threat” actors-singers-dancers casting agents can’t ignore
- a program of evertything from musical theatre and jazz to opera and percussion
- 400+ musicians performing a classical finale that brings done the house
Tickets available by phone or mail. Please click here to Download PDF Order Form.
In 1909, the College in Greeley began presenting its once-famous May Festivals, featuring fine music and pageantry for the entertainment of the campus and local communities. Students and faculty collaborated to create an outstanding festival of the arts.
Today, the annual UNC Performing and Visual Arts Gala, like its predecessor, features students from the College in a festive evening performance of music, dance and theatrical interludes, with the work of visual arts students on display in the lobby art gallery in Greeley's lovely Union Colony Civic Center.
The current PVA Gala began in 1982 as a benefit for the performing and visual arts scholarship fund. The event is held annually on the second Saturday evening in February.
Last year more than 1500 patrons enjoyed the artistry of more than 420 performers from the School of Music and the Department of Theatre and Dance, and viewed the art work of selected students from the Department of Visual Arts.
The UNC Gala has evolved its own style over the years - a little parody, a little spoof, a lot of exceptionally fine music, dancing and acting. If you enjoy an evening of pure entertainment that includes everything from musical theatre and jazz to the incredible sound of more than 400 musicians performing a classic finale that brings down the house, then our annual Gala evening is for you!
We are extremely proud of our student artists and performers and look forward to this annual opportunity to share their premier talents. All proceeds benefit the UNC Performing and Visual Arts Scholarship Fund.
Each Gala begins with a reception in Tointon Gallery where selected Visual Arts students are showing their work. Following the performance, members of the Community Advisory Board host an elegant champagne and dessert reception for the Gala Sponsors.
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