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UWF will host the first annual Holocaust Remembrance Event on Jan. 26, 2023, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the UWF CFPA, Building 82, Rolfs Music Hall.

The event's purpose is to remind students and the community about the harm associated with hate and how we have to combat antisemitism and all other hate in a proactive and vocal manner.

The event will feature various speakers from across campus, reading of names from family members who perished in the Holocaust, lighting memorial candles, a somber musical interlude and sharing a Righteous Among the Nations bio.

Dr. Leon Chameides will be the evening's presenter (via Zoom) and invite the audience into question and answer. Chameides was born on June 24, 1935, in Katowice, Poland. With the German invasion of Poland, Leon's family fled eastward and settled near Soviet-occupied Lwów, Poland (present-day L'viv, Ukraine).

The event is co-sponsored by the UWF College of Education and Professional Studies; UWF College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities; the UWF Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Pensacola Jewish Federation; Temple Beth El of Pensacola; Bnai Israel Synagogue; and Chabad of Pensacola. Light refreshments will be served after the event.

West Florida Genealogical Society invites you to attend the 2023 Spring Conference. The Conference will be held in person at the Pensacola State College Library and will be offered via Zoom.

Mark Mullinax will discuss "I Can’t Read That! Tips for Translating Foreign Genealogy Documents" and "Vital Records: Finding & Using Birth, Marriage & Death Records." KB Barcomb will discuss "Researching the American POW/Internee Experience in Europe" and "Men & Women of the YMCA and How They Impacted WWI."

SNAP is a life-changing program that teaches parenting skills for adults, and teaches children ages 6-11:
Emotional regulation, problem solving skills, and self-control.

Meetings are once per week for 13 weeks

SNAP is provided at no cost
Dinner is served at each meal at no cost
Sibling care- & transportation available if needed at no cost
Call or text 850-375-3646 to get started

The West Florida Genealogical Society, a 501(c)(3) organization located in historic Pensacola, Florida, is the largest genealogical society in Northwest Florida. WFGS was founded in 1982 to promote knowledge of and stimulate interest in the study of genealogy. All meetings are open to the general public and include a presentation on genealogical research or relevant history. The February General Mtg will start 1030 am and will be followed by library personal providing details of the new layout of the Genealogical section.

Come out and help us clean the trees of leftover Mardi Gras beads from the downtown Pensacola parade!

♻After the cleanup, all beads are brought to a recycling center that specializes in cleaning and repackaging beads for future use.
Swag giveaways for volunteers who weigh in with the heaviest bag of beads!

We will meet at the fountain at Plaza Ferdinand VII, East Government St. and Palafox St.

Gloves, mesh collection bags, and grabbers will be provided. If you have extra long grabbers, a telescoping boat hook or similar tool (no pruning tools), please bring one to help reach extra high areas!

*If you are a minor (younger than 18) you will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Please RSVP to mtross@ppbep.org

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will Craig Hultgren, cello on Sunday, January 29 at 2:30 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.
 
Cellist Craig Hultgren has been active in new music for decades. He now resides outside of Decorah, Iowa as the farmer-cellist. The New York Classical Review commented that he, "…played with impressive poise and sensitivity…" for Dorothy Hindman's 2016 chamber music retrospective at Carnegie Hall.

A recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he was a member for many years of Thámyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta. He is a founding member of Luna Nova, a new music ensemble with a large repertoire of performances available on iTunes. Hultgren is featured in four solo CD recordings including UK composer Craig Vear’s hyper-media concerto Black Cats and Blues on Métier Recordings.

Recently, Hultgren entered the realm of digital online releases with four works Songs for Cello and Piano by Ben Hippen available on Spotify. For ten years, he produced the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international competition that highlighted the best new compositions for the instrument. He is a founding member and former President of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and was on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestras of Birmingham and their Scrollworks program.

Currently, he is President of the Oneota Valley Community Orchestra Board of Directors in Decorah and recently served three years as Chair for the Iowa Composers Forum.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For tickets or 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 our Music Hall Artist Series with School of Music alumna Lee Harrelson, euphonium on Monday, February 6 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.
 
Lee Harrelson is a Professor of Music at Missouri Western State University. At Missouri Western, he serves as the Director of Instrumental Studies and Bands. Dr. Harrelson attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied music education and music performance before completing his masters and doctorate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Dr. Harrelson is the founder of the Fountain City Brass Band and currently serves as its artistic director, executive director and principal euphoniumist. The Fountain City Brass Band (FCBB) is one of America’s premiere brass and percussion ensembles and has been featured throughout the U.S. and Europe in concerts and competitions. The FCBB is currently the top ranked brass band in the United States. Under Dr. Harrelson’s artistic leadership, the band has won eight North American Brass Band Association Championships, nine U.S. Open Brass Band Championships and one Scottish Open Brass Band Championship, since it began competing in 2004. At the 2011 All England International Brass Band Competition, as a member of the FCBB, Lee was named Best Instrumentalist; a first for an American at an English brass band competition. During his tenure, the FCBB has produced four commercial recordings, performed with countless world-class soloists and developed a youth brass program, the Fountain City Youth Brass Academy, that serves over 120 students per year.

Dedicated to furthering the brass band movement in America, Dr. Harrelson regular serves on the faculty of the North American Brass Band Summer School and in 2019, along with his wife Helen, founded the National Youth Brass Band of America.

In the fall of 2019 Dr. Harrelson was awarded the first ever Visiting International Professor position with the world famous Brighouse & Rastrick Band (England). In addition to collaborating with and conducting the band, Dr. Harrelson was able to work closely with Professor David King, during preparations for the band’s appearances at the British Open Brass Band Championships (Symphony Hall, Birmingham) and the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain (Royal Albert Hall, London).

Dr. Harrelson can be heard on numerous commercially released recordings and has appeared throughout North America and Europe as a clinician, soloist and chamber musician.

Lee Harrelson is a Buffet Group/Besson Performing Artist.

The program will include such works as Café 1930 by Astor Piazzolla, Harlequin by Philip Sparke, Ducati SPS 916 by Roland Szentpali, and more.

Ticket prices are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors and military, $14 for UWF faculty and staff and non-UWF students and $7 for high school students. UWF students get in free with a valid Nautilus card. For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact the CFPA Box Office at 850.857.6285 or online at uwf.edu/tickets.

Join the Krewe du YaYas at our 10th Annual I Pink I Can Run 4 miler run/walk for breast cancer ! In keeping with the times... we are planning a hybrid event: Participate live and in person at The Flora-Bama, or for our friends near and far...virtually on February 25th, 2023!!

How will this work?? Participate live and in person at The Flora-Bama or virtually in your own neighborhood, at a local park, or even a treadmill. For those that choose the virtual option.. Sign up now, and then gather some friends, decide on a route, and, of course, plan how you'll celebrate after you rock your 4 miler!! **** Virtual participants: MUST complete their event between February 18th and February 25th, 2023. Virtual Race participants are not eligible for prizes.

Family Promise of Escambia County and Pensacola State College Culinary Arts Program presents Serving The Promise. Enjoy a five-course dinner and wine pairing to support local families. Presented by Team Bruce Baker, M.B.A, Remax Infinity, Thursday, March 9 at 5:30 p.m.

Pensacola State College Room 534 - Molly McGuire Dining Room

Tickets available at https://www.familypromiseofescambia.org/events

The University of West Florida’s Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the UWF Singers in their “Collaborations Concert.” The performance will be held on Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the UWF Pensacola campus.


The UWF Singers, Concert Choir, and Tate High School Vocal Ensemble present their annual “Collaborations Concert.” This tradition began eight years ago as a way to showcase material being prepared by multiple choirs. The Tate High School Vocal Ensemble will present works from their upcoming competition season, including works by Handel, Mozart and The Beatles. UWF choirs will perform Les Chansons des Roses, a greatest-hit song-cycle from American composer Morten Lauridsen. Set to French poems of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the five-song cycle for a cappella mixed chorus is a unified study in elegance, as are its poems and the roses they describe.

A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), Lauridsen was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years. In 2006, Lauridsen was named an 'American Choral Master' by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007, he received the National Medal of Arts from the President in a White House ceremony, "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide."

Additional works in the performance will span from medieval works to contemporary pieces.


This event is free and open to the public but tickets are required. For tickets or more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.