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.
Coming up
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January 20, 2025
Wait ChapelFounder 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” … -
February 7, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterDead 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 … -
February 18, 2025 | 6:00pm
ZSR LibraryDocumentary Film Program alumnus Rodney Wild (MFA '23) returns to screen his new documentary We Are, Because We Were. The short documentary features the Winston-Salem African American Archive and its mission to preserve the history of the Black community in Winston-Salem. A Q&A will follow the screening. -
March 3, 2025 | 5:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterFilm Screening & Reception | Sick-Amour: A Love Story by Joel Tauber (Professor of Art, Activist, Artist, and Filmmaker) Monday, March 3, 2024 / 5-8pm / Scales 102 (Reception Immediately Following in Scales Lobby) Sick-Amour: A Love Story (2024) celebrates the forlorn and lonely Tree that Joel Tauber adopts in the … -
March 6, 2025 | 7:30pm
Brendle Recital HallDescribed by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” Vijay Iyer is one of today’s most in-demand jazz musicians, and is a composer, pianist, and professor in the Harvard University music department. His honors include …