WUGA Events

African Perspectives at 20: A Celebration

By JSanders • Oct 23, 2017

Please join WUGA as we celebrate our longest-running local program, African Perspectives. The 20th Anniversary celebration will be held at The Foundry in Athens on Monday, November 13. Akinloye Ojo will host a special production of the program, which will be broadcast at a later date. Dance to the African rhythms, with guest performances by UGA African Students Union dancers, the African Fellowship of the Church of Nations choir, and Unitarian Universalists’ Palms of Fire drumming group.

WUGA Artist in Residence Event for October

By JSanders • Oct 3, 2017

The last Artists in Residence event this year will require about a half-hour trek east of Athens but will be well worth your time!

The 2017 Athens Jazz Festival

By Chris Shupe • Sep 27, 2017

WUGA and Jazz Athens (JAGA) present the 2017 Athens Jazz Festival.

Dates and venues:

Friday, 9/29: The Globe

Saturday 9/30: Hendershots

Sunday 10/1: The lawn of the Georgia Center and Hotel, located at 1197 S. Lumpkin Street, Athens. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Food and beverages will be available for purchase onsite. There is free parking around the GA Center and paid parking available in the South Campus Deck. This is a free concert featuring performances from a wide variety of outstanding musicians and singers.

UGA's McWillie To Be Featured

By Chris Shupe • Jun 21, 2017

Painter, photographer, and author Judith McWillie is WUGA's featured Artist in Residence for June. This is event is now SOLD OUT. Professor emerita of drawing and painting at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, McWillie has exhibited her work in the United States, Japan, Italy and Sweden. More recently, in 2016, she produced a two-hour collaborative event, Beloved Land, at Smithonia Plantation House in Oglethorpe County in collaboration with Knowa and Mokah Johnson, musician Peter Sloan, and poet Steven Scurry to honor the Native People and convict laborers buried there.

June Artist In Residence Event

By Chris Shupe • Jun 1, 2017

Painter, photographer, and author Judith McWillie is the station's featured Artist in Residence for June. Professor emerita of drawing and painting at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, McWillie has exhibited her work in the United States, Japan, Italy and Sweden. More recently, in 2016, she produced a two-hour collaborative event, Beloved Land, at Smithonia Plantation House in Oglethorpe County in collaboration with Knowa and Mokah Johnson, musician Peter Sloan, and poet Steven Scurry to honor the Native People and convict laborers buried there.