Paul Creative Arts Center

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Be wowed. Explore the edge of passion, daring, intellect, power and poetry. The Paul Creative Arts Center (PCAC) is UNH’s center for the fine and performing arts. Visual art, music, dance, and theatre are living and breathing every day at PCAC. Be part of the experience.

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Upcoming Events!

  • Oct
    9
    4 p.m. - 6 p.m., Danielle Williams will be presenting her work on Computational Models in Neuroscience, with a discussion to follow. Colloquium will take place in Hamilton Smith 240. Scientists use many different kinds of models to investigate and understand the world. This has raised a number of questions for philosophers of science: How do models represent the phenomena they are used to study? What kind of thing is a model? What do we learn from models? One type of model that has been of…
  • Oct
    10
    9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Paul Creative Arts Center. Bratton Recital Hall, M-135
  • Oct
    14
    5 p.m. - 6 p.m., INFO SESSION for the Summer in Costa Rica Faculty-Led Program 2027. Take 2 classes, earn 8 credits for direct transfer to UNH. Learn about dates, classes, travel conditions, safety, excursions and deadlines to participate in the Summer program for UNH students in San Joaquín de Flores, Costa Rica. More information Prof. Daniel Chavez  daniel.chavez@unh.edu
  • Oct
    14
    5 p.m. - 6:15 p.m., If you are a psychology major considering doing a psychology internship, please plan to attend one of the information sessions.  Dr. Joan Glutting will be there to give you an overview of the internship class (yes, you get credit!) and will help you understand the process.  The PSYC 793 Internship class satisfies the senior capstone requirement and can be taken for 4-8 credits.
  • Oct
    14
    The Pajama Game Performance 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., Book by George Abbott and Richard BissellMusic and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry RossBased on the novel "71/2 cents" by Richard BissellDirected by Tom Alsip PRICE: $22 General Public  |  $18 Senior (65+)  |  $12 UNH ID Holder/Youth (17 & under) PURCHASE TICKETS  Conditions at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful as sparks fly between the new superintendent, Sid Sorokin, and Babe Williams, the leader of the union grievance committee. Their stormy…
  • Oct
    15
    12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m., Damani Partridge, University of Michigan, will deliver the McCann International Seminar on citizenship and political exclusion in Germany. 
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  • photo of Bryson Badeau
    Secondary Theatre Education and Design & Theatre Technology Major
    Hometown: Dedham, Mass. What made you choose UNH? I was looking for schools that had a secondary theatre education major and when I visited UNH I fell in love with the campus! I found a place where I…
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    Music Education B.M, Conducting M.A. | Graduate Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    What you are currently doing for work and how did you get there? Currently I am a D.M.A. candidate focusing in wind band conducting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where I will be serving as the band graduate assistant. I graduated with my B.M. in music education at UNH before teaching at Paul Elementary School for four years in Wakefield, N.H. I would then return…
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  • Brendan McWalter
    Music Education Major
    Brendan McWalter has enjoyed music since he was a child in Franklin, Mass.: music was his favorite class in elementary school, and he started playing saxophone when he was in 6th grade. “Music was a stress reliever for me,” he says. During high school, as a counselor at a summer music camp, he helped draw out shy campers with musical improvisations. “Working with those students gave me so much…
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  • Kylie Smith with violin
    Refugee Composers of the Twentieth Century: The Impact of Displacement on Musical Identity During World War II
    The spark of interest for Kylie Smith's article entry in UNH's Undergraduate Research Journal Inquiry  began with her first Music History course, taught by Professor Rose Pruiksma. With a new-found interest in long-term research, a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SEED) grant, and Professor Pruiksma as mentor, Kylie began a deep inquiry into…
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  • photo of Alyssa Ostrowski
    Music Performance Major
    Hometown: Scarborough, Maine What made you choose UNH? During all four years of high school, our jazz ensemble participated in the annual Clark Terry Jazz Festival at UNH, an adjudicated event that welcomes middle high school groups from all…
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