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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

  • February 13, 2025 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    When Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone premiered in 2007, the play questioned our connections, our disconnections, and how our lives have changed as we navigate a piece of technology that follows us everywhere, all the time.  In 2025, that examination is even more profound. After …
  • February 15, 2025 | 3:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Join us for a senior recital from WFU Music major and Presidential Scholar 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 Center
    Wake Forest University Department of Music presents our 2025 Flute Fest! Free and open to the public.
  • February 18, 2025 | 6:00pm
    Z. Smith Reynolds Library
    Documentary 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 Library
    Dr. 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 Center
    Join 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 Center
    Join us for a special faculty recital with WFU Music piano faculty Mathilde Handelsman! Featuring the works of Unsuk Chin, Maurice Ravel, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Free and open to the public.
  • February 28, 2025 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The 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 Center
    The WFU Department of Music presents a special recital from WFU Music minor and Presidential Scholar Nora Resk. Free and open to the public.
  • March 3, 2025 | 5:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    Film 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 Hall
    Described 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 Center
    The 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 19, 2025 | 6:00pm
    Porter Byrum Welcome Center
    Wake Forest University’s Documentary Film Program Teams with Get in the Game to celebrate the groundbreaking documentary “Hoop Dreams” The Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University, and Get in the Game, invite you to a special event honoring the 30th Anniversary of the groundbreaking documentary …
  • March 22, 2025 | 10:00am
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The 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 25, 2025 | 2:00pm
    The WFU Department of Music welcomes Dr. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, curator in the Musical Instruments Division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a special online lecture for Dr. Stewart Carter's First Year Seminar, The World of Musical Instruments. Free and open to the public.
  • March 26, 2025 | 7:00pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The 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 Hall
    Frenchman 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 Center
    Join us for our first Choirs concert of the semester! Free and open to the public.
  • April 1, 2025 | 7:00pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The 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 Center
    The 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 Center
    The 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 Center
    Join us for a Senior Honors Recital from WFU Music major and Presidential Scholar 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. …
  • April 13, 2025 | 3:00pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The WFU Department of Music presents a special recital from WFU Music minor and Presidential Scholar Kyria Pidherny. Free and open to the public.
  • April 15, 2025 | 7:30pm
    Scales Fine Arts Center
    The 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 …
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