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UPCOMING EVENTS
November 14 - November 20
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Neal Galloway: Tin Can Conversations
October 18 – December 20, 2025 in the Project Gallery
Artist Talk: November 20, 2025, 6pm
Tin Can Conversations uses the core motif of a tin can telephone to explore the fragility, complexity, and profound value of interpersonal communication. A series of sculptures and time-based artworks explore physical and psychological distance, miscommunication, disagreement, sensitivity, power dynamics, love, and connection. Inspired by a difficult cross-country displacement, and by the challenge of maintaining healthy relationships during the COVID pandemic, Galloway uses unconventional materials in his artworks to connect with audiences, while pushing those materials to overcome their humble origins.
Neal Galloway is an artist and educator from Flagstaff Arizona serving as the Associate Director and an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Art + Design at Northern Arizona University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in 3D and Extended Media from the University of Arizona as well as a bachelor’s degree in both Art and Music from the University of Tulsa. Galloway has been teaching college-level art courses for more than 14 years and has exhibited artwork at a wide range of venues across the U.S. Through the re-appropriation of discarded materials into art objects that reference and incorporate the natural world, Galloway most often explores our relationship to nature, waste, consumption, materiality, and our emotional connection to objects and the natural environment. These works take a variety of forms including sculptures, installations, environmental artworks, paintings, photographs, performances, and videos.
#CALisArtandDesign #CALisCommunity #GallowayArt
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Low brass Studio Recital
November 20, 2025 | 4:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Sumburros fundraiser for Thin Air Literary Magazine form the NAU English MFA program!
Thursday | November 20
all day
Sawmill/ Little Scottsdale Shopping Center
#CALisCommunity
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Update Your Application Materials (CAL Career)
Make your application materials stand out! Bring your resume, cover letter, or CV and learn how to tailor them for specific jobs and internships. We’ll share examples, formatting tips, and language that highlights your strengths
Thu, Nov 20 · 4 PM
In person: Riles Building 15 Room 308
register here: https://app.joinhandshake.com/stu/events/1844712
#CALworks #CALisCommunity #CALCareer
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Viola Studio Recital
November 20, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Come on downtown for some live jazz with NAU Jazz Combos at Firecreek Coffee! The perfect break before the flurry of family sets in for Thanksgiving week!
Thursday | November 20 | 7:30 PM
$10 General Admission#CALisCommunity #KittSchoolOfMusic #NAUjazz
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Lysistrata
Nov 14, 15, 20, 21,22 at 7:30 PM
November 16 at 2 PM
NAU Clifford E. White Theatre
Lysistrata was written by Aristophanes, with translation and adaptation by Carolyn Balducci
Directed by Nathanael JohnsonOriginally performed in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece — Lysistrata— remains a crowd favorite. Fed up with never-ending war, the Greek and Spartan women form a radical plan to end the conflict: a sex strike! The play follows the women's unwavering commitment to their cause, the men's increasingly comical desperation, and the eventual negotiations for peace. How successful are negotiations? Join us for the answer!
Aristophanes, a political satirist, used laughter to highlight the follies of society from the dangerous obsession with war, to the Greek culture itself. Lysistrata is a bawdy comedy “without peer in the history of theatre” (Goodreads).ALSO ENJOY EXPO Fall 25
November 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 2025 6:15-7:30pm
November 16, 2025, from 12:45 to 2:00pm
The Clifford E. White LobbyThe expo is Free and Open to the public, but Lysistrata is not included
Please join us for our annual showcase of the creative and innovative work produced by NAU Theatre Students. We invite you to experience our students’ artistry and craft, and to see, first-hand, what it takes to create a theatrical production.
November 21 - November 27
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The Beasley Gallery proudly presents Resonance: BFA Capstone Exhibition, showcasing the creative achievements of graduating BFA candidates from the School of Art + Design.
The exhibition features works created by senior studio arts majors in a range of disciplines including ceramics, new media, painting, and printmaking, showcasing the culmination of the students' academic and creative growth in the School of Art + Design.
Bring your family and friends to experience this exhibit and support the next generation of artists and NAU alumni.
Opening reception | November 21 | 5 - 7 PM
Exhibition Remains Open:
November 21 - December 12 | Wednesday & Thursday 10-4
Beasley is in the performing and Fine Arts Building, Room 216
#CALisCommunity #CALisArt #Beasleygallary #NAUartanddesign
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Join us for an exciting evening of band music from the NAU Wind Symphony and NAU Symphonic Band featuring the works of Katahj Copley, Shelley Hanson, Frank Ticheli, Viet Cuong, and David Maslanka!
Come to:
Band-A-Rama!
Friday | November 21, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Ardrey Memorial AuditoriumFree and Open to the Public
Stephen Meyer, conductor
TJ Mack, conductor
Kristen Volta, graduate student conductor
Oscar Osorio, graduate student conductor#CALisMusic #CALisCommunity #NAUbands
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SR Piano Recital
November 22, 2025 | 11:30 AM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Flute Studio Recital
November 23, 2025 | 9:30 AM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Guitar Studio Recital
November 25, 2025 | 4:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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NAU Symphony Orchestra:
Fiesta in the Highlands
Sunday | November 23, 2025 | 3 PM
Ardrey Auditorium
Adults $15 | Seniors & NAU Staff $10
Youth, NAU & CCC Students Free
Featuring:
Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26
Florence Price: Ethiopia’s Shadow in America
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
#CALisMusic #KittSchollOfMusic #NAUSymphonyOrchestra
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Join Kitt School of Music for the Fall NAU Piano Studio recital! Gorgeous solos from our fabulous pianists will blow you away! Free and Open to the Public! A great evening out to kick off Thanksgiving weekend!
Tuesday | November 25, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
#CALisCommunity #CALisMusic #NAUpiano #KittSchoolOfMusic
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String Chamber Ensemble Recital
November 21, 2025 | 4:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Jr Cello Recital
November 21, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Cello Studio Recital
November 21, 2025 | 8 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Saxophone Studio Recital
November 22, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Woodwind Chamber Concert
November 22, 2025 | 1:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Double Bass Studio Recital
November 24, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
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Master’s recital: Composition
November 22, 2025 | 4 PM
Kitt Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
November 28 - December 4
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A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Directed by Richard Lester
December 9 | 7 PM
This NAU tradition continues with Film screenings and discussions hosted by NAU’s own Paul Donnelly and Paul Helford on most Tuesday evenings in Cline Library Auditorium. This year we are celebrating directors on the outside of the mainstream. Free and Open to the Public
Lester’s breakthrough film, starring The Beatles and released during the height of Beatlemania, portrays 36 hours in the lives of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they prepare for a television performance.
The film is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical films, with Village Voice critic Andrew Sarris deeming it, “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.”
Rotten Tomatoes 98%
#CALFilmSeries #Beatles #RichardLester #1964
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What is Sacred land to you?
Explore your spiritual connection to the more-than-human world through community writing and sharing.
December 3 & 10 (Please plan to be at both sessions)
6:00-7:30pm
Downtown Library Community Room
300 W. AspenFree event! No writing experience needed!
Bring a pen/pencil and a notebook/journal.
This program is not sponsored, nor endorsed by the Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library. All views and opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Library.
Join us for two consecutive sessions of a decolonial writing workshop. We will write silently together, share in small groups with guided compassionate feedback, and reflect together on the process of engaging with the living world through writing.
Our workshop will include time for meditation, quiet time writing together in response to offered prompts, and sharing in small groups what we've written with guided compassionate feedback. We will then spend a week between the two sessions journaling based on our observations and interactions with the more-than-human world and come together again for sharing and a discussion of our personal and spiritual insights that arise through the writing/journaling process.
What is a decolonized writing workshop?
We center perspectives that provide alternatives to the dominant (Western, industrialized, colonized) viewpoint of land as a resource.
Rather than focusing on a “product”, we focus on the process of writing.
This space is intended for witnessing and deep listening to each other.
While we give feedback to each other, we will not be critiquing each other.
We build community and foster relationships by mutually sharing stories and experiences.
We approach other participants, facilitators, and oneself with care and openness.
We engage each other through curiosity and respect, understanding that we are all on a journey of learning and growth.
We strive to be courageous, knowing that self exploration and relationship-building sometimes leads us into spaces of discomfort.
Cost: FREE
Bring: Journal, Pen/ Pencil
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SPARC your interests with: Student-led Projects in the Arts, Creative Activity, and Scholarship (SPArCS)!
The SPArCS program solicits applications from full-time NAU undergraduate students in the arts, letters, humanities, photography, and film. The SPArCS program encourages undergraduate students to pursue academic interests outside of their regular coursework by providing funding that will enable them to work on special projects of their own design.
Applications will be accepted February 1 – March 1, 2026.
Announcements about the 2026-2027 SPArCS award recipients will be sent by April 7.
INFO SESSIONS:
December 3, 2025 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
SAS Building (#60) | Room 434
December 4, 2025 | 4 - 5 PM
SAS Building (#60) | Room 434
February 12, 2026 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
SAS Building (#60) | Room 434
February 18, 2026 | 4 - 5 PM
SAS Building (#60) | Room 434
Student projects in Arts, Creative Activity, and Scholarship
#NAUSPARCs #NAUstudentresearch #CALisCreative #CALisInterdisciplinary
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CCC Ceramics Sale! Shop CCC December 2 - 4 and NAU December 5 - 7! Support all of our local artists!
December 5 - December 12
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Join NAU’s Kitt School of Music for our annual holiday choir concerts, now with two new locations!
Enjoy the concert in Phoenix, with the stunning acoustics of Camelback Bible Church. Or join us at home in Flagstaff, where we will be in NAU’s Ardrey Auditorium. You can also purchase tickets for a catered dinner at the 1899 Bar and Grill on North Campus following the concert, where you will experience more holiday music, a warm fireside hearth, and specially crafted holiday cocktails.
Concerts at both venues will include a festive pre-concert reception with refreshments and caroling. Flagstaff’s multi-lobby reception will also include photo stations and a holiday boutique!
Our Holiday Concerts include five choirs, as well as the Harold M. Harter Memorial Handbell Choir and our Holiday Brass Quintet!
We will close each concert with our traditional Candlelight Carol including all alumni who are present: Still, Still, Still.
All proceeds benefit NAU Choral Studies programming.
Details for our venue in The Valley:
Camelback Bible Church
3900 E Stanford Dr, Paradise Valley, AZ
Friday, December 5, 2025
6:00 PM: Festive Reception with Caroling
7:30 PM: Concert (Tickets $20 - $50)
Details for NAU Mountain Campus:
NAU Ardrey Auditorium & 1899 Bar and Grill
Sunday, December 7, 2025
2:00 PM: Festive Reception, Holiday Boutique, Photos, Caroling
3:30 PM: Concert (Tickets $5 - $40)
5:30 PM: Dinner with Holiday Music at 1899 ($35)
Early Bird discount available for Mountain Campus venue.
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The Annual Holiday Ceramics Sale is just around the corner!
Come support NAU artists Friday!
December 5 | 3 PM - 8 PM
Saturday December 6 | 10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday December 7 | 10 AM - 3 PM
at the NAU Ceramics Complex
1919 South Lonetree Road
#CALisCommunity #CALisArt+Design #NAUceramics
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Tickets for all three performances of The Nutcracker with NAU Community Dance Academy are on sale! This annual festive event happens on Friday, December 5th and Saturday, December 6th this year. Get your tickets today!
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CAL graduates walk this fall in the Sky Dome at 10 AM on Friday, December 12!