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Calendar of Events


Celebration Day

Monday, Feb 17

Ribbon Cutting & Dedication Ceremony
SUMC Canyon South by UA Mall
noon
Reception - Refreshments & Cookies: UA Mall
12:30 – 1:30 pm
VIP Luncheon Hosted by Wells Fargo Bank
Grand Ballroom South
1 pm
New Union Tours
Sign Up at Info Desk, 621-7755
2 & 2:30 pm
GO Games
Play a different GO Game every day.
Win fabulous prizes!
Pick up a GO Gamebook @ SUMC Information Desk and play every day!
Drawing at 6 pm, UA BookStores Lobby
all week
Jazz Band
The Olive Street Stoppers
SUMC Food Court
1 pm
Construction Exhibit Opens
Ventana Room (SUMC 442)
2 – 4 pm
Comedy Performance
New Kevin
Wilbur's Underground (Cellar)
3 pm
Free Prizes & Giveaways: UA BookStores
all day
Live Music: Wilbur's Underground (Cellar)
5 pm
Free Feature Film
Pearl Harbor
Gallagher Theater
7 pm & 10 pm
   


Involvement Day

Tuesday, Feb 18

Involvement GO Game!
Drawing at 6 pm, UA BookStore Lobby
all day
Restaurant Specials
Throughout SUMC
all day
Free Prizes & Giveaways
from UA BookStores vendors
all day
Construction Exhibit
Ventana Room (SUMC 442)
10 am – 2 pm
Blood Drive: Grand Ballroom
10 am – 2 pm
The Varney Center for Student Involvement & Leadership and Commuter Student Affairs Dedication
CSIL (SUMC 404)
10 am
Billiards Tournament
Wilbur's Underground (Games Room)
10 am
ASUA Dedication & Celebration
11am
Faculty/Local Authors
Janet Sturman Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage
Robert Glennon, Water Follies; George Pickett: The Brave
Judith Totman Parrish, Interpreting Pre-Quaternary Climates from the Geological Record
UA BookStores
11 am – 1 pm
Club & Organization Fair
Grand Ballroom
11 am – 2 pm
Student Services Fair
Grand Ballroom
11 am – 2 pm
Sundae/Nacho Bar: Throughout SUMC
noon
Live Music: UA BookStores
noon – 1 pm
Live Music @ the Cellar
Wilbur's Underground (Cellar)
noon – 2 pm
Billiard Trick Shot Artist Dr. Cue
Wilbur's Underground (Games Room)
noon – 7 pm
Wilbur's Underground Dedication
With Live Music at Wilbur's Underground
12:30 – 3:30 pm
Career Services Dedication
Career Services (SUMC 411)
2 pm
Assisted Technology Demonstration
UA BookStores
2 pm
New Union Tours
Sign Up at Info Desk, 621-7755
2 & 2:30 pm
Union Gallery Open House
Union Gallery
3:30 pm
The BOARD Spring Recruitment – Get Involved!
Union Kiva – FREE FOOD
5 pm
Gallagher Theater Dedication & Movie
Revenge of the Nerds
Gallagher Theater
7 pm & 9:30 pm
Comedy Performance
The Charles Darwin Experience
Wilbur's Underground (Cellar)
10 pm
   


Memorial Day

Wednesday, Feb 19

Memorial GO Game!
Drawing at 6 pm, UA BookStores Lobby
all day
Veteran's Roll Call
SUMC Canyon
all day
Self-Guided Tour of Memorial Artifacts
Throughout SUMC
all day
Uniform Display: Union Kiva
all day
Free Prizes & Giveaways: BookStores vendors
all day
Construction Exhibit
Ventana Room (SUMC 442)
10 am – 2 pm
U.S.S. Arizona Lounge Dedication
U.S.S. Arizona Lounge
10:30 am
Faculty/Local Authors
Nimi Nichter, Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parent say About Dieting
Jerry Hogle, The Undergrounds Of The Phantom Of The Opera
Jay Rochlin: Race & Class on Campus
Bella Vivante, Events That Changed Ancient Greece
UA BookStores
11 am – 1 pm
Live Music
UA BookStores, Lower Level
Old Time Fiddlers and displays of the TPAC "Cultural Corridor's of Pima County" (Guidebook) and signing by Jack Loeffler
noon – 1 pm
Bell Tolls in Memory of Pearl Harbor
12:07 pm
U.S.S. Arizona Documentary Films
Showcasing artifacts from UA Special Collections, Gallagher Theater
2 pm
New Union Tours
Sign Up at Info Desk, 621-7755
2 & 2:30 pm
Time Capsule Dedication
SUMC Canyon, south entrance
3 pm
World Rhythms, Fashions & Crafts
UA BookStores
4 – 5 pm
Free Feature Film
Pearl Harbor
Gallagher Theater
7 & 10 pm
 
 


Diversity Day

Thursday, Feb 20

Diversity GO Game!
Drawing at 6 pm, UA BookStores Lobby
all day
International Flag Display
permanent display in the Bookstore
all day
International Food Selections
Cactus Grill
all day
Book Display: UA BookStores
all day
Free Prizes & Giveaways
BookStores vendors
all day
Kiva Dedication
Union Kiva
9:30 – 10 am
Construction Exhibit
Ventana Room (SUMC 442)
10 am – 2 pm
Study Abroad and Student Exchange Fair
UA Mall, outside SUMC
10 am – 2 pm
Tunnel of Oppression Videos
Wilbur's Underground (TV Lounge)
10 am – 6 pm
Cultural Booths
Wildcat Food Court Walkway
11 am – 3 pm
Faculty/Local Authors
Bill Raetz, Shadows and Secrets
Carey Neff, Miraval Chef, Conscious Cuisine
Nancy Huber, Leading From WIthin
Miklos Szilagyi, How to Save Our Country
Gerald Dawavenedwa, Butterfly Dancing
Thorton Edwards, Dancing with Ice
UA BookStores
11 am – 1 pm
History of the Chicano Movement
Speaker Veronica Martinez, Union Kiva
11 am – 1 pm
Culture Cafe
UA BookStores
noon – 1 pm
Safe Zone Training (GLBT)
Presidio Room (SUMC 446)
1 – 3 pm
Bhakti Yoga & Mantra Meditation
Union Kiva
1 – 3 pm
"Emergence" Stairway Dedication
UA BookStores
1:30 pm
Native American Dancers
SUMC Canyon & Rotunda
2:30 – 3:30 pm
New Union Tours
Sign Up at Info Desk, 621-7755
2 & 2:30 pm
Film & Discussion
When Billy Broke His Head and Other Tales of Wonder, Kachina Lounge
2 – 3:30 pm
Multiracial Identity Roundtable
Tubac Room
2 – 3 pm
Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium
Video & Workshop, Grand Ballroom
3 – 5 pm
Can I Say That?
Kachina Lounge
4 – 5 pm
Mariachi Band
Café Sonora
4:30 – 6:30 pm
"Art of Celebration" Gallery Reception
Union Gallery
5 – 7 pm
Cultural Mixer
Grand Ballroom
6 – 7 pm
Interactive Theater
Wilbur's Underground (Cellar)
6 – 7 pm
Global Film Festival
7 pm & midnight: Life Is Beautiful
9:30 pm: Amistad
Gallagher Theater
7 pm – midnight
Cultural Entertainment Showcase
Grand Ballroom
7 – 10 pm
 


Heritage Day

Friday, Feb 21

Heritage GO Game!
Drawing at 6 pm, UA BookStores Lobby
all day
Sea of Red
Campus-wide: Show your Heritage by wearing Red! 
all day
Free Prizes & Giveaways
UA BookStores vendors
all day
Heritage Lounge Open House
Heritage Lounge
9 am – 3 pm
Construction Exhibit
Ventana Room (SUMC 442)
10 am – 2 pm
Historic Car Show
UA Mall
10 am – 2 pm
Heritage Exhibit
Kachina Lounge
10 am – 5 pm
Faculty/Local Authors
Reed Booth, Killer Bees & Honey Sampling
Trudy Griffin-Pierce, Native Peoples of the Southwest.
George Rieke, Detection of Light; Bobby Burns, Shelter
Diana Freund, Four Corners; Bobette Levy, Bobette's Recipes
11 am – 1 pm
A Taste of UA Heritage
Historic Favorites in SUMC Restaurants
Free Carrot Cake at Union Plaza (north of SUMC)
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Fashionably Historic Fashion Show
Union Plaza (north of SUMC)
noon
Betty's Welcome Back
Betty's Buffet at Cactus Grill
noon
Comedy Corner
Wilbur's Underground (Cellar)
noon
Live Music
UA BookStores, Lower Level
String Quartet, featuring Mac Kim, Violin
Jose Flores, Violin
Melissa Melendez, Viola
Roman Wowk, Cello
noon – 1 pm
Honor's Lounge Grand Opening
Honor's Lounge
1 pm
New Union Tours
Sign Up at Info Desk, 621-7755
2 & 2:30 pm
Free Feature Film
7 pm: Life is Beautiful
9:30 pm: Amistad
Gallagher Theater
7pm & 9:30 pm


Community Day

Saturday, Feb 22

Bridal & Special Events Fair
Grand Ballroom
10 am – noon
Heritage Exhibit
Kachina Lounge
10 am – 5 pm
Story Time
UA BookStores
10:30 – 11:30 am
Pictures w/Clifford the Big Red Dog
UA BookStores
10:30 am – 3 pm
Pictures w/Wilbur
UA BookStores
11 am
Live Remote with STAR 97.5
11 am – 1 pm
Children's Carnival
SUMC Canyon/UA Mall
11 am – 3 pm
New Union Tours
Sign Up at Info Desk, 621-7755
11 am
1:30, 3:30 & 5 pm
Pep Rally: Union Plaza
11:30 am
"3rd Street Kids" Performance
UA BookStores
noon
Free Food Sampling
noon - 1:30 pm: Café Sonora
1:30 – 3 pm: 3 Cheeses & a Noodle
noon & 1:30 pm
Children's Reading
Mary Ann Mitchell, "Finding Zola"
UA BookStores
1 pm
Game Room Specials
Wilbur's Underground
1 – 4 pm
Harpfusion: UA BookStores
2 pm
Free Movie
Fantasia 2000
Gallagher Theater
3 & 7 pm
Tucson High School Steel Drum Band: SUMC
4 pm
Grand Finale Event
6 pm: Dance Performance & Appetizers
7:30 pm: Jazz/Swing Dancing Band Misbehavin' with swing dancing demonstration by the Swing Cats,
Dessert Reception, Grand Ballroom
6 – 9:30 pm
UA Men's Basketball vs ASU
Wilbur's Underground, Food Specials at the Cellar, Watch the Game at the TV Lounge
7 pm
Poetry Reading
Union Kiva
8 pm
Free Feature Film
Life Is Beautiful
Gallagher Theatre
9:30 pm
Fireworks Finale
view from UA Mall
9:30 pm