All Upcoming Events

Below are all upcoming events. To view the archives of past events, please click here.


2025
May

2025

May

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West African Drumming and Dance Concert
Friday, May 9, 2025 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall (Moved indoors due to rain)

FREE!

An invigorating performance filled with the rhythms of West Africa, featuring Assistant Professor of Music John Dankwa PhD ’18 and Associate Professor of Dance Iddi Saaka joined by students in West African music and dance classes.

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African Pop Music
Friday, May 9, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall

FREE!

Wesleyan’s African Pop Music Band, directed by Assistant Professor of Music John Dankwa PhD ’18, present an invigorating performance of contemporary African music.
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Sprung and Flung: Featuring the Methods of Improvisation Ensemble and Experiments in Sound and Technology Collective [NEW DATE, TIME, AND VENUE]
Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

FREE!

Students in the course MUSC 224 Experiments in Sound and Technology present a concert under the direction of Professor and Chair of the Music Department and Director of the Electronic Music and Recording Studios Ron Kuivila '77. And Wesleyan's new Methods of Improvisation Ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Darius Jones, will perform an end-of-semester concert. Guest artist Michael Johnsen will perform David Tudor's work Pulsers.

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Moon Bounce
Monday, May 12, 2025 at 4:30pm
Van Vleck Observatory, 96 Foss Hill Drive, Middletown, Connecticut

FREE!

Wesleyan's Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble examines the creative possibilities of reflecting signals off the moon, and transmission arts more broadly, this spring.
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WESeminar: The Balalaika Files—Uncovering Early Manuscripts and Archival Recordings of Music from the Russian Empire
Friday, May 23, 2025 at 1:00pm
Olin Library, 252 Church Street, Room 014 (Jakobson Room), Middletown, Connecticut

FREE!

This event is part of Wesleyan's Reunion + Commencement Weekend

A talk by PhD candidate in ethnomusicology Anya Shatilova MA ’20 about her research into
balalaika (Russian plucked lute) ensembles in the United States and related archival collections in Wesleyan’s World Music Archives and Music Library with discussant Nancy Wight.
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Time and Place: Selections from the 2025 Senior Theses in Studio Art Reception
Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 2:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

FREE!

The Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio Program will host a reception with remarks at 3pm. This event is part of Reunion + Commencement Weekend.

Spring tickets and reservations are on sale online.

The Wesleyan University Box Office is open for walk-up and phone sales every day from 10am to 5pm.

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