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 | 7:30pm
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 15, 2025 | 3:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for a senior recital from WFU Music major Jacob Kathman. Featuring the works of Jacques Castérède, Stjepan Šulek, Johannes Brahms, and Jan Sandström. Free and open to the public. -
February 16, 2025 | 3:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterWake Forest University Department of Music presents our 2025 Flute Fest! Free and open to the public. -
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. -
February 20, 2025 | 5:00pm
Z. Smith Reynolds LibraryDr. David Sterling Brown is a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College (Connecticut). He is the author of Shakespeare’s White Others (Cambridge University Press 2023). He has delivered more than 80 invited talks internationally, and has published numerous peer-reviewed and public-facing essays. He is … -
February 25, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for our first WFU Wind Ensemble concert of the semester! Free and open to the public. -
February 26, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for a special faculty recital with WFU Music piano faculty Mathilde Handelsman! Free and open to the public. -
February 28, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music and Symphony Orchestra present our 2025 Concerto Competition Winners Concert! A highlight of our concert season, the WFU Symphony Orchestra will share the stage with the winners of our Fall 2024 Concerto Competition. Featuring Haozhen Xu, marimba, Sarah Bo, cello, and Karina Yang, flute. Free and open … -
March 2, 2025 | 3:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents a special Presidential Scholar Recital from Nora Resk ('25). Free and open to the public. -
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 … -
March 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music welcomes Dr. Yevgeny Yontov to Brendle Recital Hall for a special guest recital. Yevgeny Yontov has received international top prizes including gold medals at the Wideman International Piano Competition and Berliner International Music Competition, and additional prizes at the Boesendorfer International Piano Competition, the Olga … -
March 22, 2025 | 10:00am
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents our annual Giles-Harris Music Competitions! 10:00 am: Piano Competition 1:00 pm: Open Competition Both competitions to be held in Brendle Recital Hall, Scales Fine Arts Center. Free and open to the public. The Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance began in 1977. The … -
March 26, 2025 | 7:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music and Program for Leadership and Character welcome acclaimed choral director, educator, and author Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt! Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Professor Emerita of Choral Studies at the University of Toronto where she held the Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting. From 2013–2018, she … -
March 26, 2025 | 7:30pm
Brendle Recital HallFrenchman Thomas Dunford is a rising star of the European early music movement, and a dynamic and charismatic performer of Renaissance, Baroque, and modern music on the lute. BBC Music Magazine has written of him, “Dunford’s supple technique, combined with his passion for jazz, allows him to … -
March 28, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for our first Choirs concert of the semester! Free and open to the public. -
April 1, 2025 | 7:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music invites you to a special presentation from WFU Music major Alexandra Eliasek. For this project, Alexandra will explore the soundtracks in children's films and demonstrate how the film industry uses movies to teach children about various music genres and the cultures associated with them.&… -
April 4, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe Tempest By William Shakespeare Directed by Michael Kamtman April 4-5 & 10-12 at 7:30 pm & April 6 & 13 at 2:00 pm Long ago and somewhere far away: A mighty storm. A shipwreck. An island. Fantastical creatures. A sorcerer and the sorcerer’… -
April 9, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music invites you to our Spring 2025 Student Chamber Music Concert! Free and open to the public. -
April 11, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for a Senior Honors Recital from WFU Music major Adam Waszkiewicz. Featuring Solo de Concours – André Messager Fantasiestücke, op. 73 – Robert Schumann Sonata for Clarinet and Piano – Francis Poulenc Bug – Bruno Mantovani Three Preludes – George Gershwin Arr. Jay Gach for … -
April 13, 2025 | 3:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents a special Presidential Scholar Recital from Kyria Pidherny ('25). Free and open to the public. -
April 15, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents our Spring 2025 concert for our Collegium Musicum and Gamelan Giri Murti! The Collegium Musicum ensemble is devoted to the performance of Renaissance and Baroque music on period instruments such as recorders and violas da gamba. The Gamelan Giri Murti ensemble is WFU's Balinese … -
April 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe Wake Forest University Department of Music and Symphony Orchestra welcome special guest, EMMY award-winning and three-time BAFTA-nominated composer Inon Zur to Brendle Recital Hall in Scales Fine Arts Center. Inon Zur is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful composers in the media industry today, internationally renowned …