All Upcoming Events
Below are all upcoming events. To view the archives of past events, please click here.
2023
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2023
September

Friday, September 29, 2023 at 4:30pm
Outdoors between Crowell Concert Hall and World Music Hall
FREE!
October

Monday, October 2, 2023 at 5:30pm
Jones Room, Theater Studios

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 1:20pm
Theater Studios 114
FREE!
Digital Death Dive is a dip into finding poetic inspiration via digital technology. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the ethics and theories of technology as a means of artistic production, weaving in the history of techno music. Then we’ll launch into different means of unlocking a poetic flow through the use of personal technology. Please be prepared to use a smartphone and bring a laptop! Workshop is from 1:20pm to 4:10pm.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 7:30pm
World Music Hall
FREE!
Violin duo String Noise presents a tribute to the late legendary composer Alvin Lucier. In addition to the three works from their self-titled album String Noise on Black Truffle Records (”Tapper,” “Love Song,” and “Halo”), they will perform three new works written specifically for them in homage to the composer by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Jacob David Sudol and Paula Matthusen.

Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:30pm
Adzenyah Rehearsal Hall, Room 003 (Daltry Room), 60 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown
FREE!
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology/Musicology at Ohio University Garrett Field MA ’08, PhD ’13 examines the playing of South Indian Karnatak mandolinist U. Srinivas (1969–2014) to offer a clearer view of the interesting musical processes that occur during improvisational performances.

Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Friday, October 6, 2023 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 11:00am
World Music Hall
FREE!

Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 2:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 4:30pm
Music Library, Third Floor, Olin Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown
FREE!
A collaborative, durational performance and installation project from 4:30pm to 7:30pm by Professor of Music Paula Matthusen and visual artist Olivia Valentine creates a feedback loop between textile construction processes and feedback-based live electronic music. Featuring students from MUSC 221 "Live-Electronics for Composition, Improvisation, and Sound Art" plus special mystery guests.

Friday, October 13, 2023 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater

Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater

Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown
FREE!

Friday, October 20, 2023 at 2:00pm
Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History: Fourth Floor, Exley Science Center, 265 Church Street
FREE!

Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 1:00pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
FREE!

Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
November

Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 8:00pm
CFA Theater

Friday, November 10, 2023 at 2:00pm
South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!

Friday, November 10, 2023 at 8:00pm
CFA Theater

Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 2:00pm
CFA Theater

Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 8:00pm
CFA Theater

Friday, November 17, 2023 at 4:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
FREE!

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
December

Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater

Friday, December 1, 2023 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater
The Dance Department celebrates the beauty of dance, diversity, queering, and the legacy of the Center for the Arts’ glorious 50th anniversary at the “WesDance Party.”

Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:30pm
World Music Hall
FREE!
Wesleyan's Javanese Gamelan Ensemble and guest musicians, under the direction of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Sumarsam, present a Javanese wayang kulit shadow puppet play.

Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 2:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 4:00pm
World Music Hall
FREE!

Monday, December 4, 2023 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
The Wesleyan University Ebony Singers present an inspirational evening of traditional and contemporary gospel music under the direction of Marichal Monts '85. This joyful event is great for the entire family.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 6:00pm
World Music Hall
FREE!

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 7:00pm
Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street
The Fall Senior Thesis Theater Festival will include two productions: Aca(pan)demic!—The COVID Variety Hour by Joe Greenfield ’24 and Anna Bella Eema written by Lisa D'Amour and directed by Adri Bollinger ’24; and the costume installation revise/revisar created by By Martinez-Castaneda ’24.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 12:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 6:00pm
World Music Hall
FREE!

Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 7:00pm
Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street
The Fall Senior Thesis Theater Festival will include two productions: Aca(pan)demic!—The COVID Variety Hour by Joe Greenfield ’24 and Anna Bella Eema written by Lisa D'Amour and directed by Adri Bollinger ’24; and the costume installation revise/revisar created by By Martinez-Castaneda ’24.

Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
The Wesleyan Concert Choir presents a program featuring both a cappella and accompanied selections from classical and modern choral repertoire under the direction of Nadya Potemkina, Director of Private Lessons and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 9:30pm
Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street, Middletown
FREE!

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 12:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 2:00pm
CFA Tunnels (meet in Zilkha South Gallery)
FREE!

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 6:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
FREE!

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 7:00pm
Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street
The Fall Senior Thesis Theater Festival will include two productions: Aca(pan)demic!—The COVID Variety Hour by Joe Greenfield ’24 and Anna Bella Eema written by Lisa D'Amour and directed by Adri Bollinger ’24; and the costume installation revise/revisar created by By Martinez-Castaneda ’24.

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra, directed by Professor of Music and African American Studies Jay Hoggard ’76 MA ’91, and the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, directed by Noah Baerman, present an exciting evening of classic and contemporary jazz repertoire.

Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater