PCAL Calendar
- Location: FAC - FAC 0189
- Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location: First Christian Church - 1106 State Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101
- Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Come hear the University Singers ensemble as they prepare to present at the 2025 KMEA conference!
Admission will be free!
- Location: Recital Hall - FAC 189
- Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Please direct questions about this event to Dr. Zachary Lopes!
- Location: Downing Student Union
- Time: 2:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location: Kentucky Museum
- Time: 5:00pm - 6:00am
Shake Rag Neighborhood: Past and Present
The Shake Rag neighborhood is a vital part of Bowling Green’s past and present. The downtown community grew steadily after the Civil War as a segregated part of the city for many African Americans. Join us for a panel discussion about this vibrant National Register of Historic Places neighborhood and the community’s culture. Learn more about those who built Shake Rag, along with present day community leaders.
Sponsored by the Kentucky African American Heritage Commission.
Location: Kentucky Museum
- Location: The Capitol Arts Center (416 E Main Ave.)
- Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
O Pioneer reckons with and redefines the American pioneer.
This documentary follows three West Virginians—a blacksmith, a seamstress, and a hospital chaplain—as they creatively navigate hardship and call us to champion the pioneer within.
Narrated by lyricist and musician Kaïa Kater, the film weaves verité moments with archival footage, poetic vignettes, and dream-like animation—as Tim Hibbs, Nellie Rose Gundersen Davis, and James Morley humbly answer their calls to pioneer a way forward.
Free tickets are available at capitolbg.org. After the screening, a Q&A with filmmakers will be offered.
- Location: FAC 239
- Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Join the Department of Society, Culture, Crime, and Justice Studies (SCCJS) for their monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series! This event is free and open to all.
- Location: DSU Auditorium
- Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Join us for the second event of this year’s PCAL Cultural Enhancement Series on Thursday, February 13th, at 7 PM in the DSU Auditorium as we host columnist, New York Times bestselling author, and MSNBC analyst, Charles Blow!
Blow fearlessly tackles today’s most pressing issues with depth, nuance, and tremendous insight. Now an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times, Blow previously served as the paper’s Graphics Director, leading the publication to significant awards. He has also worked as the Art Director of National Geographic Magazine and for The Detroit News.
Additionally, Blow is the New York Times bestselling author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which won a Lambda Literary Award, the Sperber Prize, and appeared on numerous “best of” lists. A memoir, the book was called “searing and unforgettable” by People Magazine and was adapted into a critically-acclaimed opera with a groundbreaking run at The Metropolitan Opera – the first performance of an opera there by a Black composer. His second book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, draws on both his personal experience and observations of society to call for an end to systemic racism.
Heralded for his forward-thinking coverage of American politics and society, as well as his skill in graphic design to create powerful narratives with compelling visuals, Blow is also an in-demand speaker and gifted moderator. He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, SalonTV, CBS News and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Ringer, Oprah Daily, and more about his highly acclaimed work.
Admission is free, no tickets are necessary, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Following his talk, a book signing will be offered. A QR attendance code will also be available for students.
- Location: Gordon Wilson Hall Lab Theatre
- Time: 7:30pm
This formal and adjudicated dance concert features the original choreography of WKU dance students. Creations include diverse and unique stories and themes presented through a variety of dance genres and styles!
All tickets are $8. Purchase tickets now on wku.showare.com.
- Location: Gordon Wilson Hall Lab Theatre
- Time: 7:30pm
This formal and adjudicated dance concert features the original choreography of WKU dance students. Creations include diverse and unique stories and themes presented through a variety of dance genres and styles!
All tickets are $8. Purchase tickets now on wku.showare.com.
- Location: Recital Hall - Fine Arts Center room 189
- Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
A performance of love songs brought to you by the Mu Iota chapter of SAI. Tickets are $5 and can be bought at the door! (cash/check)
- Location: Gordon Wilson Hall Lab Theatre
- Time: 7:30pm
This formal and adjudicated dance concert features the original choreography of WKU dance students. Creations include diverse and unique stories and themes presented through a variety of dance genres and styles!
All tickets are $8. Purchase tickets now on wku.showare.com.
- Location: Gordon Wilson Hall Lab Theatre
- Time: 2:00pm
This formal and adjudicated dance concert features the original choreography of WKU dance students. Creations include diverse and unique stories and themes presented through a variety of dance genres and styles!
All tickets are $8. Purchase tickets now on wku.showare.com.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: CH 210
- Time: 4:30pm
Historical Figures Who Give You The Ick
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: Van Meter Hall
- Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
contact for this event is gary.schallert@wku.edu
- Location: FAC 248
- Time: All Day
Folk Studies Alumni Roundtable Discussion
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Location: First Christian Church
- Time: 4:00pm
Student Capstone Recital - Will Mason-Walker
- Location: First Christian Church - 1106 State Street, Bowling Green, KY 42101
- Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Graduate student William Mason-Walker will be conducting his capstone recital at First Christian Church. Concert is free and open to the public, featuring WKU Chorale.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Jody Richards Hall Auditorium
- Time: 6:00pm
Join the Department of History as they invite Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo to campus. Dr. Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She has authored important historical texts like Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery and The Enduring Significance of the History of Atlantic Slavery.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Van Meter Hall
- Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
To include repertoire from:
Grieg Piano Concerto, movement 1
Beethoven Symphony 3, movements
