Annual UVA Arts Welcome Picnic
Picnic, Arts Festivities, & FREE Swag!!

UVA Arts Welcome Picnic
Sunday, August 27, 2023 • 6:00-8:00pm
Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds
Open to all UVA Faculty, Staff & Students
We can't wait to WELCOME YOU!!
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UVA Arts invites all UVA faculty, staff, & students to the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds for a FREE picnic from 6:00 to 8:00pm with performances, information tables, and food and drinks!! Come learn about curricular, extra-curricular, programmatic, and volunteer opportunities from the Visual & Performing Arts & Architecture departments, programs, and community.
Musical Performances all evening! Stay Tuned for the lineup...
Department Happenings:
- Photo Booth all evening! Come take some awesome photos and leave with a copy…
- The first 300 people to sign up for the UVA Arts Newsletter at the UVA Arts table will get a FREE T-Shirt!!
- WTJU will be giving away FREE WTJU t-shirts for the first 50 people to stop by + brand new WTJU buttons and the world-famous WTJU soaps!
- Creative Writing Table: Opportunities for Student Writers and Poems-on-Demand on old school typewriters
- Pick up SWAG from Dance & Drama, Music, Arts Administration, the Arts Libraries, The Fralin Museum of Art, Virginia Film Festival, the Career Center, UVA Acts + many others!
- Virginia Film Festival Swag Raffle Giveaway, VAFF Colored Pens, and stickers!!
- Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection will have Posters for the taking!
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Arts Council.
Picnic from Harvest Moon.
Participating Departments & Programs: Architectural History, Architecture, Art History, Arts Administration, Arts Libraries, Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, The Fralin Museum of Art, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Landscape Architecture, Miller Arts Scholars, Music, Studio Art, University Career Center, Urban & Environmental Planning, UVA Acts, UVA Arts, UVA Arts Box Office, Virginia Film Festival, WTJU 91.1FM, & WXTJ Radio
Please note: The Culbreth Parking Garage will be open & FREE, but Culbreth Road will be closed for the event, access will be available from University Avenue (not Rugby Ave).
Rain Location: Drama Building: Food in the Lobby; Tabling will be in Helms Theater