Wake the Arts Events

The Arts are alive in every corner of campus, with new events happening every week. Whether you’re into hip-hop or abstract painting, poetry or puppetry, ballet or Balinese gamelan, we’ve got you covered. The Arts are for you.

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  • Fall Faculty & Guest Artist Concert
    November 21, 2024 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Fall Faculty & Guest Artist Concert Directed by Nina Lucas Rice November 21-23 at 7:30 pm & November 24 at 2:00 pm   The Fall Faculty & Guest Artist Concert will feature modern, jazz, contemporary and classical ballet choreography by our dance faculty and renowned guest choreographers, under the direction …
  • Jazz Ensemble
    November 21, 2024 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The WFU Department of Music presents our annual fall Jazz Ensemble concert.
  • Helene Benefit Concert
    November 23, 2024 | 2:00pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Join Dr. Rachael Keplin, violist and Department of Music adjunct faculty, and Davide Bianchi, pianist and faculty with UNCSA Community Music School, for an intimate recital inspired by and in support of the victims of Helene on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. Through their improvised performances, …
  • Sounds of the Season: A Holiday Gala at Wake
    December 6, 2024 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Join the WFU Department of Music for our second-annual WFUSO holiday gala! Featuring seasonal favorites performed by the WFU Symphony Orchestra and WFU Wind Ensemble. This collaboration will include an evening of holiday classics, old and new, sure to get you into the holiday spirit!
  • Secrest Series: Tonality, vocal ensemble
    January 20, 2025
    Wait Chapel
    Founder and Artistic Director Alexander Lloyd Blake (Wake Forest ’10) created Tonality to connect people through song, using choral music to stimulate community conversations about important issues in the contemporary world. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the 2024 GRAMMY-winning vocal ensemble will present their “America Will Be” …
  • Dead Man’s Cell Phone
    February 7, 2025 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Dead Man’s Cell Phone By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Brook Davis February 7-8 & 13-15 at 7:30 pm & February 9 & 16 at 2:00 pm Ring Theatre   When Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone premiered in 2007, the play questioned our connections, our disconnections, and how our …
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