Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events



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Calendar of Events and Activities

FALL 2006

AUGUST

Friday,
August 25th

Welcome Social and Open House
Institute of Black Culture @ 6 pm
Refreshments will be served

August 26th – September 1st ~ Black Student Welcome Week

Tuesday, August 29th

Black Student Assembly
Reitz Union Grand Ballroom @ 7 pm

Wednesday, August 30th

Faculty Student Mixer
Institute of Black Culture @ 6 pm

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday,
September 5th

First BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Tuesday, September 12th

Association of Black Faculty and Staff Annual Reception for New Faculty, Staff, and Grad Students
Hillel Student Center, 2020 W.University Avenue @ 5:30 pm

Tuesday, September 12th

Rev. Al Sharpton
O’Connell Center @ 8 pm, Doors open @ 7 pm

Tuesday, September 19th

BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Sunday, September 24th

Mombasa Party (Taarab Artists) featuring the Royal Drummers of Burundi (East African Coastal Tradition)
Phillips Center for Performing Arts @ 4 pm

Community Service Activity

Wilhelmina Johnson Center (Gainesville Community Center & Cultural Arts Coalition) – help w/CROP program (Details TBA)

OCTOBER

Tuesday,
October 3rd

BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Tuesday,
October 17th

BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Wednesday,
October 18th

Imani Winds, "Josephine Baker: A Life of Le Jazz Hot!"
(music and dance)
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts @ 7:30 pm

Saturday,
October 21st

Graduate Prep Workshop 9:00am – 2:00pm at the IBC

• Designed for undergraduate students who are thinking about graduate/professional school
• Keynote Motivational Speaker: Donnette Russell Love, Attorney at Law
• Mentorship Sessions: Law, Medical & Vet School, Engineering, Liberal Arts &
Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Journalism/Communications, etc.
• BGSO Members are needed to lead the mentorship sessions

Tuesday,
October 31st

BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Community Service Activity

Partnership w/Wilhelmina Johnson Center ~ helping w/grant writing & fundraising; tutoring for Middle to High School Students (Details TBA)

NOVEMBER

Tuesday,
November 14th

BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Thursday,
November 16th

Brazil’s Orquestra de Sao Paulo (featuring director John
Neschiling and cellist Antonio Meneses)
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts @ 7:30 pm

Thursday,
November 23rd

Thanksgiving Social (Details TBA)

Tuesday,
November 28th

BGSO General Body Meeting
Institute of Black Culture @ 7 pm

Community Service Activity

Continue Partnership w/ Wilhelmina Johnson Center
Holiday Food Drive (Details TBA)

DECEMBER

Christmas Social (Details TBA)

SPRING 2007

JANUARY

Saturday,
January 13th

21st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Celebration & Banquet
Grand Ballroom, Reitz Union @ 6 pm
Keynote Speaker: Amiri Baraka, Poet & Activist
Theme: “A Call to Consciousness: Activism through the Arts”
High School & College Scholarship Contests: Artistic Expressions (essays, poems, art work).For information on college scholarship contest, click here. For information on high school contest, click here. For an entry form, click here.
[Dinner tickets will go on sale at the end of October.]

Sunday, January 28th

"I Can’t Stop Loving You" (Theatrical Celebration of the life and music of the late legend Ray Charles)
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts @ 7:30 pm

[Meetings alternate Tuesdays @ 7 pm – dates TBA]

Community Service Activity

FEBRUARY

Black History Month:

Black History Month: coordinate events with Black History Month Committee
• Book Presentation
• Forum/Panel Discussion
• Support and Participate in several Black History Month Committee Events
• BHM Kid’s Day (Community Service Activity)

Thursday,
February 1st-
Saturday,
February 3rd

Dimpho Di Kopane: The Mysteries (South Africa-based
Lyric Theater Company)
Phillips Center for Performing Arts @ 7:30 pm each night

Tuesday,
February 6th

Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra
Phillips Center for Performing Arts @ 7:30 pm

Friday,
February 16th

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (inspired by the paintings of African-American artist Jacob Lawrence)
Phillips Center for Performing Arts @ 7:30 pm

Social/Cultural Event:
Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Orlando
(Details TBA)

Community Service Activity

MARCH

March 18th- 24th

BGSO Week
(Tentative Theme: Black Arts & The African Diaspora)
• African Film Festival
• Co-Sponsoring African Diaspora Conference (March 23rd & 24th: Speaker: Professor Carolyn Cooper, prominent cultural critic and scholar)
• Writer’s Workshop (need coordinator)
• Poetry and Jazz night
• Art Show
• Old School Jam

Conference: National Black Graduate Student Association

Sunday,
March 18th

Midori, Violin
University Auditorium @ 4 pm

Community Service Activity

APRIL

Nominations and Elections

Community Service Activity