The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the UConn Puppet Arts Program will present the 2018 UConn Fall Puppet Slam on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 at 8 p.m. in UConn’s von der Mehden Recital Hall located at 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, Conn. 06269. The UConn Fall Puppet Slam will feature short works by professional puppeteers and performers from around New England, including Hilary Chaplain, Kali Therrien, Mindy Escobar-Leanse, and Anatar Marmol-Gagné, as well as new works by Puppet Arts students and puppet animation films by students from UConn's School of Fine Arts.

The 2018 UConn Fall Puppet Slam will showcase the work of women puppeteers from New York City and Connecticut. Multi-talented performer Hilary Chaplain, together with Ariel Lauryn and Mindy Escobar-Leanse, performing The Last Rat of Theresienstadt, the story of a rat, a cook, and survival in a Czech concentration camp; Mindy Escobar-Leanse will perform A Genteel Jaunte, a tale of two drunken knights based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; Kali Therrien will present The Sock Project, about what happens when everyday objects take on a life of their own; and Anatar Marmol-Gagné will present an experimental piece with Tarek the marionette. The UConn Fall Puppet Slam will also feature new works by UConn graduate and undergraduate students studying puppetry, and stop-motion filmmaking. Funding for the UConn Fall Puppet Slam is made possible in part by the Puppet Slam Network.

The UConn Fall Puppet Slam is free and open to the public; donations are greatly appreciated. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in UConn's von der Mehden Recital Hall located at 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, Conn. For directions to the von der Mehden Recital Hall, visit http://vdm.uconn.edu. These performances are recommended for mature audiences. For more information about these performances or if you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Ballard Institute staff at 860-486-8580 or bimp@uconn.edu.

This varied, premier program of the 2018/19 season will serve as a benchmark for discerning how far the jazz students progress by semester's end.

A select member of jazz's piano pantheon, Fred Hersch is a pervasively influential creative force as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator and recording artist. A twelve-time Grammy Award nominee, he continues to earn jazz's most prestigious awards, including recent distinctions as a 2016 Doris Duke Artist, 2016 and 2018 Jazz Pianist from the Jazz Journalists Association and the 2017 Prix Honorem de Jazz from L’Academie Charles Cros for the totality of his career.

Works by John Adams, Mason Bates, David Biedenbender, Jess Langston Turner.

This performance is part of the Ensemble in Residence Program, established by UConn's School of Fine Arts and Department of Music with an Academic Plan Grant from the Office of the Provost.

Free and Open to the Public

Works by John Adams, Mason Bates, David Biedenbender, Jess Langston Turner

Works by Elgar and Britten.

This performance is part of the Ensemble in Residence Program, established by UConn's School of Fine Arts and Department of Music with an Academic Plan Grant from the Office of the Provost.

Free and Open to the Public

Works by Barfield, Gorb, Holst, Rosner, and Stamp

Works by Bernstein, Fuchs, Saint-Saens, and Tchaikovsky

A Celebration of African-American Music from Spirituals to Art Song, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights Era.

Works by Luciano Berio as well as Hartford composers Jessica Rudman and David Macbride.

David Bowling, violin; Tony Cho, piano (Oberlin College and Conservatory) will perform music of Korngold, Poulenc, Schubert, and Huang Ruo

Shouldering the Dead: Schubert, Kernis, Moe, and Rorem

This performance is part of the Ensemble in Residence Program, established by UConn's School of Fine Arts and Department of Music with an Academic Plan Grant from the Office of the Provost.

Free and Open to the Public

This performance is part of the Ensemble in Residence Program, established by UConn's School of Fine Arts and Department of Music with an Academic Plan Grant from the Office of the Provost.

Free and Open to the Public

An exploration of music at the intersection of African and European culture before 1800

Wind Ensemble: Remembrance – works by Chen Yi, W.G. Still, & more.
In recognition of the anniversaries of the African American and Asian American Cultural Centers, the Wind Ensemble presents pieces by Chen Yi, Adolphus Hailstork, and William Grant Still. Music of David Maslanka and Catherine Likhuta will also be on the program.

Featuring the winners of the 2018 UConn Concerto Compeitition and Scott Joplin's overture to Treemonisha and Florence Price's Mississippi River Suite

DMA percussion recital.

Featuring Ecstatic Waters by Steven Bryant and the premiere of a piece for amplified bassoon, live electronics, and wind ensemble by Frank Felice

Music by Adès, Couperin, and Debussy

UConn Opera Sackler World Premiere: Bessie and Ma. A world premiere of a chamber opera about pioneer African-American aviator Bessie Coleman by Douglas Buchanan, winner of the 2017 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Composition.

A world premiere of a chamber opera about pioneer African-American aviator Bessie Coleman by Douglas Buchanan, winner of the 2017 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Composition.

Celebrating the beauty of the outdoors and the 50th anniversary of Zion National Park with pieces by Carter Pann, Dan Welcher, Alex Shapiro, and John Mackey

Ensemble in Residence. Works by Brahms and Fuchs.