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EVENT: “¡A Viva Voz!” presents “Filmformance and Hacktivism: New Directions in Latin@ Performance,” with performance artist Nao Bustamante and new media activist artist Ricardo Domínguez. WHEN: 7-9 p.m., Thursday, April 12, 2012

Undergraduate student Kelsey McKinney describes her Harry Ransom Center internship experience and how a poet’s typewriter led her there.

Through exposure to and interaction with collection materials at the Harry Ransom Center, undergraduate students can open the door to the creative process.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is filling three important vacancies with some of the best and brightest minds in the museum field, strengthening The Blanton’s leadership role among university art museums.

Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effects producer for such films as “Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back” and “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial,” has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Smith was hired by George Lucas as the first head of Industrial…

Event: Latitudes 4: Architecture in the Americas When: Thursday, March 29, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m.; Friday, March 30, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Where: Goldsmith Hall, Mebane Gallery

On March 28 at the Game Changers live taping, the Undergraduate Studies dean discusses the “Ajax dilemma” and issues of fairness in American society.

Senior Cooper Neely took unexpected steps to his major in dance. He’s now one of the stars performing lead roles in the program’s spring show, “Catalyst.”

Event: The University of Texas Wind Symphony and Butler School of Music (BSOM) faculty tuba soloist, Charles Villarrubia will premiere BSOM faculty composer, Donald Grantham’s, “Tuba Concerto.” The event is free and open to the public.

The Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin announced that composition professor and director of the university’s New Music Ensemble, Dan Welcher, has received the music award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eighteen recipients are honored with the award each year in music. The winners are selected by…

This summer, the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents two exhibitions that examine methods and motivations for building art collections.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Texas State University-San Marcos, is offering the inaugural Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, a three-week, pre-professional summer intensive for high school stude