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The University of West Florida and the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the Runge Strings Orchestra in concert on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts on the Pensacola campus.

For their first performance of the spring semester the Runge Strings Orchestra will present a concert entitled “Incurably Romantic.” The program will include music by Tchaikovsky and Smetana. The Runge Strings Orchestra is led by Leonid Yanovskiy, director and Aleksandra Pereverzeva, assistant director.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Face coverings are not required, however the University, as well as the CDC, highly recommends the use of face coverings indoors. This will allow us to keep our on-campus and off campus communities safer and healthier. For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact the CFPA Box Office at 850.857.6285.

The University of West Florida’s Dr. Grier Williams School of Music is proud to sponsor the UWF Singers as they present ‘“Collaborations”’ on Tuesday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts on the Pensacola campus.

The ‘Collaborations’ concerts began in 2016 to connect the UWF Singers with other local choirs at the High School and Collegiate levels. For the March 1st concert, the Singers will be joined by the choir from Navarre High School. The UWF Concert Choir will be performing excerpts from the ‘Song of Survival’ collection by Margaret Dryburgh and Norah Chambers, who were interred on Sumatra during World War II. The UWF Singers will be performing an eclectic set including movements from Benjamin Britten’s “Rejoice in the Lamb,”, Bernstein’s “Somewhere” from “‘West Side Story”’ and John Lennon’s “Imagine.”. Navarre High School will be performing their repertoire from the upcoming High School Choir festival season.

This event is free and open to the public but tickets are required. Face coverings are not required, however the University, as well as the CDC, highly recommends the use of face coverings indoors. This will allow us to keep our on-campus and off-campus communities safe. For tickets or more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

The University of West Florida and the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present a weekend of Bands Saturday, February 26 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 27 at 4 p.m. The concerts will be held in the Saenger Theatre, 118 South Palafox Street, downtown Pensacola.

On Saturday, Feb. 26, the UWF Jazz Ensemble will perform followed by the UWF Symphonic Band. On Sunday, Feb. 27, the UWF Honor Band will perform. The UWF Honor Band consists of some of the best high school band students from across Northwest Florida. Conductor and composer, Dr. Jack Stamp, will conduct the UWF Honor Band.

UWF is hosting its second Honor Band after starting the program in February of 2020. Students from across the region will spend Friday through Sunday in masterclasses and workshops as well as rehearsals for the performance on Sunday.

Currently serving as “International Composer in Association” to the world-renowned Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, Stamp recently served as visiting professor of music at Luther College in Fall of 2018, where he was acting director of bands and taught conducting. He spent the prior three years as adjunct faculty at UW-River Falls. He recently retired from full-time employment as professor of music and director of band studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducted the Wind Ensemble and taught courses in graduate conducting. Stamp received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education from IUP, a master's degree in percussion performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Eugene Corporon.

He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. He has won the praise of American composers David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio, Ron Nelson, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Robert Ward, Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, Nancy Galbraith and Bruce Yurko for performances of their works. He is also a contributing author to the "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band" series released by GIA Publications.

This event is free and open to the public and no tickets are required. Face coverings are not required, however the University, as well as the CDC, highly recommends the use of face coverings indoors. This will allow us to keep our on-campus and off campus communities safe. For more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

The University of West Florida and the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present a weekend of Bands Saturday, February 26 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 27 at 4 p.m. The concerts will be held in the Saenger Theatre, 118 South Palafox Street, downtown Pensacola.

On Saturday, Feb. 26, the UWF Jazz Ensemble will perform followed by the UWF Symphonic Band. On Sunday, Feb. 27, the UWF Honor Band will perform. The UWF Honor Band consists of some of the best high school band students from across Northwest Florida. Conductor and composer, Dr. Jack Stamp, will conduct the UWF Honor Band.

UWF is hosting its second Honor Band after starting the program in February of 2020. Students from across the region will spend Friday through Sunday in masterclasses and workshops as well as rehearsals for the performance on Sunday.

Currently serving as “International Composer in Association” to the world-renowned Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, Stamp recently served as visiting professor of music at Luther College in Fall of 2018, where he was acting director of bands and taught conducting. He spent the prior three years as adjunct faculty at UW-River Falls. He recently retired from full-time employment as professor of music and director of band studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducted the Wind Ensemble and taught courses in graduate conducting. Stamp received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education from IUP, a master's degree in percussion performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Eugene Corporon.

He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. He has won the praise of American composers David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio, Ron Nelson, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Robert Ward, Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, Nancy Galbraith and Bruce Yurko for performances of their works. He is also a contributing author to the "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band" series released by GIA Publications.

This event is free and open to the public and no tickets are required. Face coverings are not required, however the University, as well as the CDC, highly recommends the use of face coverings indoors. This will allow us to keep our on-campus and off campus communities safe. For more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present Sheila Dunn and Blake Riley in “If I Can Not Fly” a faculty recital celebrating Dunn’s promotion to full professor, on Monday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola campus.

Dunn and Riley will be joined by special guests, Jerry Shannon, piano and Richard Jernigan, clarinet and will be performing works by Schubert, Poulenc, Barber, Harold Arlen among others.

Dr. Sheila Dunn, soprano, was promoted to full professor in the summer of 2021 when she was also promoted to director of the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music. She teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, vocal literature, opera workshop and women in popular music. She received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and both a Master and Doctor of Music from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, all in vocal performance.

Blake Riley, assistant professor and director of collaborative piano, teaches class piano, applied piano and foreign language lyric diction. He studied at Mount Allison University and the University of Toronto and received a master's degree in collaborative piano from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCCM), where he participated in masterclasses with Warren Jones, Brian Zeger and Stephanie Blythe. He was also an apprentice coach at CCCM’s summer program in Lucca, Italy. In addition to this concert, Dunn will also present her Rite of Passage lecture by the same name on Friday, April 22, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. in the Argo Athletic Club. The Rite of Passage lecture series event celebrates UWF faculty recently promoted to full professor. This series commemorates the work of top academics in achieving the highest level in higher education teaching -- the coveted full professorship. The lecture series gives the professor the opportunity to share with colleagues, students, friends and community members life lessons outside the classroom.

The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Face coverings are not required, however the University, as well as the CDC, highly recommends the use of face coverings indoors. This will allow us to keep our on-campus and off-campus communities safe. For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact the CFPA Box Office at 850.857.6285 or online at uwf.edu/tickets.

The University of West Florida and the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the UWF Chamber Music class in concert on Wednesday, March 2 at noon. The concert will be held at Old Christ Church in historic downtown Pensacola.

The UWF Chamber Music Series at Old Christ Church is celebrating its 15th season. Under the direction of Dr. Hedi Salanki, the UWF Chamber Music Class will perform well-known songs, opera arias and chamber music pieces of Giordani, Gluck, Mozart, Schumann and others. The concert will feature a wide variety of instruments, including, piano, harpsichord, viola, flute, trumpet and three vocalists.

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required for this event. Face coverings are not required, however the University, as well as the CDC, highly recommends the use of face coverings indoors. For more information, call the Dr. Grier Williams School of Music office at 850.474.2147.

Special needs families are invited to join The Starfish Project for the organization's 5th Annual Special Needs Mardi Gras celebrating, taking place Saturday, March 5 at Navarre High School. The event is free for special needs families and begins with lunch and snowballs at 11 a.m. A parking lot parade starts at 12 noon. For more information visit www.thestarfishprojectnwfl.org.

The UWF Reubin O'D. Askew Department of Government hosts Dr. Carla Martinez Machain, Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University, for a discussion of American power projection. Professor Martinez Machain and Assistant Professor Brian Crisher will explore the soft and hard power aspects of American power projection capabilities and implications for the future. Please join us Thursday, March 24, 2022, at The Museum of Commerce located at 201 Zaragoza Street in downtown Pensacola. A reception will start at 5:30pm, with the lecture beginning at 6:00pm.

Join us for the ever Pensacola Archaeological Society Virtual Lecture: “UWF Field Schools: Summer 2021 Recap/Summer 2022 Preview” by Dr. John Worth, Dr. Ramie Gougeon, and Meghan Mumford, UWF Anthropology!

The Pensacola Archaeological Society Lecture Series is a free online series that features a short presentation by an archaeologist via Zoom and an opportunity for participants to ask questions at the end of the presentation (duration is about one hour and a half total). Space is limited, however, and a password will be required for access. Please register for this presentation at the link provided:
https://bit.ly/36JnRQtMarPAS2022.

After your registration is complete, you will receive an email invitation with the Zoom link to the lecture!

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JULY 11, 2022 – PENSACOLA, FLA. – Keep Pensacola Beautiful will be hosting a beach cleanup in conjunction with the popular Blue Angel Air Show at Pensacola Beach. Just this year, KPB with the support of volunteers has picked up over 8,000 lbs. of litter through our various cleanups across Escambia County.

"We want to help keep our beaches looking beautiful and we encourage beach goers to make sure that they leave only their footprints," says Sigrid Rehrig, Executive Director of Keep Pensacola Beautiful. "However, we know that litter inevitably gets left behind which is why we are calling on our community to come out to volunteer to help clean up after all the fun!"

Any weather and event updates can be found on the Post-Blues Sunset Beach Cleanup Facebook Event under Keep Pensacola Beautiful on Facebook.

For more information, please visit the Keep Pensacola Beautiful website, email
volunteer@keeppensacolabeautiful.org, or call the office at 850-438-1178.