Please join UK’s College of Arts & Sciences faculty authors for readings and inspirations featuring their newest book releases
Reception to follow in the Alumni Gallery
Join us for the Kentucky Appalachian Arts & Culture Festival co-sponsored by the Student Activities Board.
Y’all means ALL and we want all of you at the KY Appalachian Fest! The Appalachian Center and SAB are partnering to bring to campus a festival of foods, art, music, and more to represent Kentucky/Appalachia’s Heritage. Grab a FREE t-shirt while supplies last, March 31st from 5:00-8:00 pm
Kentucky Appalachian Arts and Culture Festival is an event where UK students can experience different types of foods, art, music, etc. that make up Kentucky’s/Appalachia's Heritage.
Join us for Dr. Turner's presentation titled The Blues on Black Mountain: Stories from The Harlan Renaissance on Monday, October 17th at 5:00 pm in the UKAA Auditorium in the William T. Young Library.
Dr. Turner's The Harlan Renaissance is the 2021 Winner of the Weatherford Award for Non-Fiction. He is a distinguished alumnus of the UK College of Arts & Sciences and a 2021 inductee into the College of Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.
This event is co-sponsored by the Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the African American and Africana Studies Program, and the Department of Sociology.
Join us on the Appalachian Center Lawn (Bosworth Lawn) just off Limestone for a fun filled day of food, music, dance, and celebration of Appalachian and Latinx culture! Starting at 1:00pm and running until 5:00 pm, come enjoy some free food from Nathan’s Taqueria, visit booths from various organizations on campus, and listen to some amazing music!
1:00 pm: Dr. Sophia Enriquez, Mexilachian Music
2:00 pm: Fernando Moya and Yani Vozos, Andean Instruments Demonstration
2:45 pm: Carla Gover, Appalachian Flatfooting
3:15 pm: CornMaiz, String Band Music
4:00 pm: UK Bluegrass Ensemble
Cornbread & Tortillas is a collective of Appalachian and Latino artists whose mission is to build community by sharing art, music, dance, and cultural heritage. Through outreach events, educational shows, workshops, and performances they celebrate our similarities and differences to create unity in a diverse world.
The centerpiece of their work together is the CORNBREAD & TORTILLAS theatrical show, a dynamic bilingual production that features stories, music, and dancing. Audiences will journey from the Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky to Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and beyond, exploring connections and celebrating our shared human experience all the while!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0gwxKSWMJU&t=1s
This event is part of the Many Mountains Fall Festival, check out our full calendar for other events!
Join dancers from the Salsa Center Dance Studio for a Salsa Dancing Workshop and demonstration!
Open to UK Students, Faculty, & Staff with a Campus Recreation membership
On Tuesday, September 27th at 6:00pm in the basement of Donovan Hall, join undergraduate students Alan Luc and Aryan Patel in a conversation about what it means to navigate cultural identities as Asian American Appalachians. This event is co-sponsored by the UK Asian American Association.
We're excited to host the Malina Brothers! An extraordinary fusion of Bluegrass and Baroque music from the Czech Republic.
In 2010 the three Malina brothers, namely banjo player Luboš (oftheaward-winning „Czechgrass“ group Druhá tráva), guitarist Pavel, and violinist Josef, formed their family band Malina Brothers, which was eventually joined by Pavel Peroutka on double bass. All four “Brothers” are natives of Náchod, a city on the Czech-Polish border. They have toured extensively in the USA, as well as on domestic and European stages, and they have collaborated with Czech and international musicians such as Peter Rowan, Charlie McCoy, Béla Fleck and others. The Malina Brothers honour their musical connections to the Eastern-Bohemian Bluegrass and “Tramping” traditions, which were their main influences during the stark years of the Communist regime. The three Malina brothers eventually developed their own, unique musical style based on their listening to American Country and Bluegrass recordings (which would occasionally make their way into Czechoslovakia through the Iron Curtain), combined with the musical influences of the local “Tramping” movement, Eastern European Folklore, and Classical music.
On their latest album, “Baroquegrass 1721-2021” the Malina Brothers introduced a fusion of Bluegrass and Baroque music with a series of original arrangements, creating a brand new musical style: Baroquegrass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mzW_9QWAtE
This event is part of the Many Mountains Fall Festival, check out our full calendar for other events!
Join us for a Work-In-Progress screening and discussion of The Mountain Fiesta: Bridging the Gap & Building Community in Rural Appalachia, featuring filmmakers Roderico Yool-Díaz and Emily (Gibson) Rhyne of Iximché Media at the Niles Gallery on Monday, September 26th at 5:00pm.
This event is part of the Many Mountains Fall Festival, check out our full calendar for other events!
Please join us for a virtual performance and Q&A featuring Appalasia. Appalasia was formed by Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, and Sue Powers in Pittsburgh, PA. Together they have created an evocative and ambitious performance language for dulcimer, erhu, banjo, and vocals that combines the influence of their folk-roots with original composition and inspired improvisation.
This event is co-sponsored by the UK Appalachian Center & Appalachian Studies Program, the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, Passport to the World's Year of Cultures Without Borders, the Gaines Center for the Humanities, and the Office of China Initiatives. It is presented in association with the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
We'll have a virtual viewing session at the John Jacob Niles Gallery, April 1st, at 3:30PM, or you can tune in via Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/83469552756
