The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Grand Pavilion
Free, open to all majors

Love the performing arts? Interested in a future internship or career related to the performing arts and/or arts administration? Don't miss this special chance to connect with nearly 20 organizations looking to hire UMD students and alumni for internships, part-time, full-time and volunteer opportunities in the performing arts.

Presented by UTAS, the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, the School of Music, The Clarice, the College of Arts & Humanities and the University Career Center.
 

Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, Room 2303
Free, no registration required.

The Department of Art and the Immersive Media Design program are pleased to present an artist talk by renowned artist Andrew Roberts.

Andrew Roberts lives and works in Mexico City. His research-based practice explores the historical parallel development of war technology and the entertainment industry, analyzing the role of images as operational weapons within colonial, racial and extractive mechanisms and their poetic, political, and aesthetic ramifications in the production of capital and death. His work employs elements from video gcames and the popular genres of cinema, taking on the form of multimedia narrative and speculative fiction, materialized across space through digital animations and immersive installations in the company of objects, actions, and writing.
 

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Open to all, registration required.

We need some R&R! Not rest & relaxation, but risk and regeneration. Perhaps even rage & repair. There is no returning to what came before, so how can we fall into new possibilities, realities and ways of being? For this next season, how do we hold that "if no one goes first, how can anyone follow?" BlackLight 2023 is taking the leap into risking wrong, risking right, risking being loved and seen. In order to take these steps, how are we recovering and regenerating? We have lost so much. How can we find who we are and who we want to be? Join us for some much needed R&R.

Through three days of groundbreaking dance performances, inspiring keynote speeches, energizing movement workshops and intimate panel discussions, The Clarice’s BlackLight Summit aims to activate the unimagined possibilities in dance. It is a convening that envisions dance as a conduit to galvanize resilience and inventiveness, and in 2023 offers a combination of free and Pay What You Wish in-person events and free livestream events. Throughout the 2022–23 season, the BlackLight Summit will continue to foster community connection by facilitating a series of mentoring and professional development opportunities, conversations and performances.

Register now to reserve your tickets for all free events and to receive livestream access for virtual events.
 

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre
Pay what you wish

The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies' Fearless New Play Festival celebrates the development of new scripts that address the urgent issues our society faces today. Join TDPS as they lead the way into the future of American theater through readings of works in development written by past and present TDPS students!
 

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
Free, tickets required.

For her first Dean’s Lecture Series as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Stephanie Shonekan will be in conversation with legendary singer, activist and philanthropist Dionne Warwick. Shonekan and Warwick share a rich background in music. Shonekan is an esteemed ethnomusicologist, and Warwick is an award-winning, chart-topping musician. They will discuss the connection between music and social justice and how celebrities can catalyze positive change in the world. They will also delve into a timely dialogue around race, culture, identity and history. The lecture will conclude with a Q&A.

Warwick has sold more than 100 million records and charted 75 hit songs. Some of her most popular recordings include “Walk on By,” “Are You There (With Another Girl)” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” Warwick has six GRAMMY awards including the prestigious Best Contemporary Female Vocalist Performance award. Her extensive philanthropic efforts have raised millions of dollars to support music education, AIDS research, global hunger, children’s hospitals and disaster aid.

Presented by the College of Arts and Humanities in partnership with the School of Music, this event is part of Arts for All, a campuswide initiative leveraging the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time. This event is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public.
 

Stamp Student Union, Atrium Room
Free, RSVP required.

Join us for the 7th Annual Visual Arts Reverse Career & Internship Fair at the University of Maryland!

Structured as a reverse career fair, connect with approximately 40 talented students skilled in graphic design, video production, and immersive media/AR & VR!

Students will display their work at each table. Employers are able to circulate around the room to meet students, check out their work and pick up resumes. Students will be seeking a mix of part-time, full-time and internship opportunities.

Questions? Please contact Kate Juhl at kjuhl@umd.edu. 

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Co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Humanities and the University Career Center & The President's Promise