Every Wednesday at 12:30-1:00pm starting Sept. 11th 2024
Learn mindfulness and practice meditation to effectively manage stress while under the stars in the UTA Planetarium. The event will be led by Dr. Vyas from CAPS and in collaboration with the SAR Center. Free to all UTA faculty, staff, and students.
This event is only for UTA faculty, staff, and students.
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September is National Suicide Awareness Month, and UTA Social Work has invited The Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation to screen its documentary, 1800 Miles: The Light the Trail Story, in the UTA Planetarium. The screening will be followed by a discussion panel and is free for all UTA students, faculty and staff.
This event is only for UTA faculty, staff, and students.
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Dallas Ambient Music Nights began in January 2015 as a showcase that combines experimental music and original video art in equal parts. It has since blossomed into a Dallas institution. DAMN celebrates mostly local music acts and local video artists. DAMN's main focus is creating the most beautiful experience possible, an encompassing beautiful experience for the audience in attendance and for all of the artists involved.
Brigitte Mena was born to be a storyteller, and her vehicle is music. The singer-songwriter’s heartrending tunes tell
raw, personal tales enveloped in atmospheric, catchy melodies. But the artist has her sights set on much more than producing pop rock tracks. Armed with her versatile voice, a pen and a penchant for crafting compelling songs, Mena strives to strike a chord with audiences and tell relevant, resonant stories.
Her debut album “Maslow” released in 2018 explored Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and heralded the arrival of a distinctive new talent, showing audiences across Texas what’s possible when talent meets a one-of-a-kind voice. Mena released her sophomore album “Element” in 2020 and has released her third full-length album, “After The Storm,” in February 2024. While her bandmates, sound and style have evolved over the years, her resolve to tell powerful stories has remained. “I create a story that is relatable to a wide range of listeners,” she says of her music. “These are songs I think we can all resonate with in one way or...
Christopher Royal King is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as the founding member and composer of the cinematic rock ensemble, This Will Destroy You. King has created musical scores for a variety of environments ranging from Michelin awarded restaurant Vespertine to Oscar winning films. His work has also been featured as the opening music for the Olympics in China, Climate Resolve in Switzerland, and U.S. Pentagon briefings on natural disasters. King studied at both the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Texas State University, achieving a double Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in communication design and philosophy. Over the past two decades, he has been engaged in roles such as art director, senior visual designer, and video/sound editor, all while showcasing his fine art in numerous galleries worldwide. His commercial visual art has ranged from award winning design for the music group, Deftones to promotional animations for the network Adult Swim.
The Panther City Quartet is comprised of four classical musicians with a passion for both classical and contemporary string quartet performance. As you might guess from our name, we are based in Fort Worth, Texas- otherwise known as "Panther City." With 70+ years of collective music performance experience, our members have played stages ranging from Carnegie Hall to the local pub, and we are passionate about bringing music to the masses. Whether you are looking for upscale classical music or face-melting electric rock arrangements, we can fit the bill!
Diana Rojas is an interdisciplinary artist whose research explores human attempts and desires to engage with the invisible through installation, video, sound, and sculpture. Informed by her interests in philosophy, history, physics, and material science, she approaches the role of technology in art making as the catalyst for larger conversations of existence, consciousness, and metaphysics. Her work, which exists physically and virtually, has been exhibited, screened, and published nationally and internationally in spaces such as: Fiesp Cultural Center, Dallas Contemporary, Chapel of Santa Maria dei Carcarati, Canyon Flats Video Wall, Rockport Center for the Arts, Texas Theater, the Yale Theater, and more. She is the recipient of several OER Grants from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the 2023 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, 2022 Judson-Morrisey Excellence in New Media Award and the Arrowmont Windgate University Fellowship. Diana was born in Mexico, received her MFA from the University of North Texas, and is an Assistant Professor of Sound Art at the University of Texas...
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