UW Calendar for June 26-July 5

Tuesday, June 26-Saturday, June 30, 7:30 p.m. -- UW Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Man in the Flying Lawn Chair,” Fine Arts Center studio theatre. Tickets cost $5 for students, $8 for senior citizens (60 and over), and $10 for others.

Art exhibitions, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. -- "African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art"; "From the Collection: Recent Landscape Photography"; "Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation"; "Bill Gollings: Cowboy Artist"; paintings from the Sherry Nicholas Collection; and "American Modernists"; Centennial Complex, 2111 Willett Drive. Free.

Call (307) 766-5000 for updates on UW events and activities or go online at www.uwyo.edu/calendar. Visit www.uwyo.edu/finearts for Department of Theatre and Dance and Department of Music event information and tickets.

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Aviation History -- Larry Walters, a truck driver from California, is shown in this 1982 AP file photo before lift-off. With the help of nearly 50 surplus weather balloons, Walters fulfilled his dream of making aviation history by launching himself nearly three miles into the air in an aluminum lawn chair. The UW Department of Theatre and Dance presents the play about his life, “Man in the Flying Lawn Chair,” June 26-30. (AP Photo)

Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007