Students are invited to attend a meet and greet with classmates and faculty of CF's Visual and Performing Arts Department while viewing the "Past2Present" alumni exhibit in the Dassance Fine Arts Center Breezeway on Wednesday, Aug. 21, from 12:30-2 p.m. Students can learn about classes, upcoming events and performance opportunities. Refreshments will be provided. For ... Read more
CF invites students, parents and community members to its free Arts College Fair from 4-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the Stearns Learning Resources Center at the CF Ocala Campus. This event is for area college and high school students who plan to pursue a degree or career in the visual and performing arts: studio, ... Read more
CF Theatre will present “Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 17-19, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. This production is adapted by Ken Ludwig, directed by CF Associate Professor Dr. Kathleen Downs, and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French. ... Read more
CF's Wind Symphony and Choral Ensemble will present a free fall concert on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Charles R. Dassance Fine Arts Center. The Choral Ensemble will present music consisting of well-known folk songs and modern techniques, while the Wind Symphony will perform five pieces of music. Doors open to the ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Department will present an Instrumental Recital on Monday, Nov. 4, at 12:30 p.m. in the Charles R. Dassance Fine Arts Center at the Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road These recitals will feature piano, vocal and instrumental performances by students who are currently enrolled in CF music classes. Students will ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Department will present a Piano and Vocal Recital on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 12:30 p.m. in the Charles R. Dassance Fine Arts Center at the Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road These recitals will feature piano, vocal and instrumental performances by students who are currently enrolled in CF music classes. ... Read more
CF's Patriot Blues Jazz Band and Combo will present “Songs,” featuring vocalist Kelsey Plante on Friday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Charles R. Dassance Fine Arts Center. The CF Jazz Ensembles will perform a poem of song, while vocalist Plante joins the big band and the combo for renditions of Stevie Wonder, Peggy ... Read more
CF's Theatre and Musical Theatre Department will present “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” Friday and Saturday, Nov. 22-23, starting at 6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 24, at 3 p.m., in the Dassance Fine Arts Center, 3001 S.W. College Road. This production, with music and lyrics by Neil Bartram, book by Brian Hill, is directed by Jason ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Department presents a free performance of one-act plays on Tuesday, Dec. 3, and Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 6 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. CF Theatre Department’s Beginning Play Production class and CF’s Next Generation Drama Club present “The Audition” by Don Zolidis and “The Insanity of Mary Girard” by ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Band and Vocal Departments present their signature Prism Concert on Friday-Saturday, Dec. 6-7, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. The concert will feature many of CF’s band and vocal ensembles in one powerful, fast-paced music production. Named for the prism ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Band and Vocal Departments present their signature Prism Concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. The concert will feature many of CF’s band and vocal ensembles in one powerful, fast-paced music production. Named for the prism that reveals the varied colors of light, ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Department presents a free lecture, "Chekhov, Viewpoints and LeCoq," a physical theatre/acting workshop by Paul Gabbard, artistic director of Y-Not Theatre, on Monday, Feb. 24, at 12:30 p.m. in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. Gabbard will use the fundamentals of three approaches to movement. This master class explores flow, energy ... Read more
CF's Theatre Department presents “The Great Gatsby,” Thursday-Saturday, March 5-7, starting at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8, at 3 p.m., in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. This play is directed by Dr. Kathleen Downs, CF associate professor of Theatre, and presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc. in New York. ... Read more
CF's Theatre Department presents “The Great Gatsby,” Thursday-Saturday, March 5-7, starting at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8, at 3 p.m., in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. This play is directed by Dr. Kathleen Downs, CF associate professor of Theatre, and presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc. in New York. ... Read more
The College of Central Florida’s Musical Theatre Department presents “Chicago,” Friday-Saturday, April 3-4, starting at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 5, at 3 p.m., in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. The musical explores the themes of celebrity, scandal and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. “Chicago” centers on two murderesses, a vaudevillian and a ... Read more
The College of Central Florida’s Musical Theatre Department presents “Chicago,” Friday-Saturday, April 3-4, starting at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 5, at 3 p.m., in the Dassance Fine Arts Center. The musical explores the themes of celebrity, scandal and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. “Chicago” centers on two murderesses, a vaudevillian and a ... Read more
CF's Theatre Department presents “Intimate Apparel,” Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 15-18, starting at 7:30 p.m. online. This play by Lynn Nottage is directed by Dr. Kathleen Downs, CF associate professor of Theatre, and presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc. in New York. Set in 1905, the play is a deeply moving portrait of Esther, ... Read more
CF’s Musical Theatre Department will present “In Willowbark Woods,” Friday, Nov. 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. online. This production, with book, music and lyrics by Joshua Mazur, is directed by Jason Longtin, CF associate professor of Music. “In Willowbark Woods” is a theatrical cycle of songs and monologues exploring the people found on a very ... Read more
CF’s Visual and Performing Arts Department presents “Sorry, Wrong Number,” Tuesday, Dec. 1, starting at 7:30 p.m. online. This classic radio thriller is about a woman driven to the edge of madness as she tries to prevent a murder she accidently overhears being plotted over the telephone. The play is being presented for free by ... Read more
CF's Visual and Performing Arts Department presents “Motherhood Out Loud,” Friday-Sunday, March 12-14, starting at 7:30 p.m. online. If you have a mother, know a mother, are a mother or are even thinking of becoming a mother, you need to see “Motherhood Out Loud.” Conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein, the play is ... Read more
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