Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 4, UVU welcomed the first performance of the summer from “What’s So Funny?,” the university’s first improv club. Set up similar to the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the club members play different improv games that rely heavily on audience suggestions and participation. The club’s founder and current president, Reed Parkinson, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute New York Times best-selling author and former Utah Valley resident Orson Scott Card will be holding a two-day writing seminar called Uncle Orson’s Writing Seminar at UVU on June 28-29. Card is well-known as the writer of the popular Ender’s Game series of books, but has also found fame with works as diverse as Biblical […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The creative writing faculty will be holding the second annual Sleeping Rainbow Writer’s Workshop at UVU’s Capitol Reef Field Station on Sept. 15-18. This workshop is for full-time students who are passionate about creative writing in the areas of poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. The cost is a low $25, which includes transportation, lodging and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes 110 in the Shade, which opens June 28, may be one of the biggest events to ever happen at the Hale Center Theatre in Orem. The show is being headlined by big stars and features a phenomenal local supporting cast. 110 in the Shade is the musical version of The Rainmaker, which is set during […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Touchstones, UVU’s student-run literary journal, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2010 volume. The journal, which is published at the end of both fall and winter semesters, features the fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, drama and art of UVU students. While each issue is supervised by a creative writing faculty member, the journal is designed, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes A variety of works from the Utah Watercolor Society are now on display in the UVU library. This exhibition includes a selection from the Annual Juried Exhibition of the Watercolor Society. Each piece on display is characteristic of the artist, which makes for diverse subject matter —some works are of flowers and wildlife, some of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes One doesn’t have to agree with Arizona’s recent controversial immigration bill to recognize that with the tightening of border security in Texas and California, Arizona has become a much more common avenue of illegal entry into the country. If nothing else, the bill has succeeded in pushing immigration reform debate more to the front of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes If UTA carries through with their decision to raise the price of their student pass, students without a car or who prefer to save the cost of gas may need to find another means of transportation. The Utah Transit Authority recently released a statement about reviewing the Ed Pass program, a discounted pass available to […]