Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts

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The center offers 3 performance venues, an art gallery and private meeting spaces.

10/27/2026

A Woodwind Showcase Recital will be held at the Windgate center on October 28 at 7:30 p.m. This recital is FREE and open to anyone interested!

10/26/2026

A UCA Faculty Chamber Recital will be held at the Windgate center on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. Reminder that UCA students, faculty, and staff can be admitted free of charge, but otherwise tickets can be found and purchased using the ticket link in our bio!

10/20/2026

University of Central Arkansas Public Appearances
names Sarah Stanley Henry, Director of Marketing & Finance

CONWAY, Ark. (UCA) — The University of Central Arkansas Public Appearances has named Sarah Stanley Henry as its new Director of Marketing & Finance. Henry brings to UCA Public Appearances a career built at the intersection of the arts, education and community — a foundation that has shaped both her professional path and her personal conviction that the arts are essential to a thriving community.

Most recently, Henry served as Director of Community & Special Events for the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce, where she worked to connect local businesses with the community, building relationships and creating events that brought people together around shared purpose. Before that, her career carried a strong thread through music education. In addition to nonprofit work in arts and education and conducting student choirs in Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas, she served as a music specialist for Fort Worth Independent School District and, more recently, as a middle school choral music educator for Conway Public Schools.

Henry’s deep love for fine arts and a passion to facilitate meaningful encounters with live performances for audiences of all ages is what she hopes to bring to her new role at UCA.

“Fine arts opportunities and experiences essentially raised me and paved the way to create connections within my community,” Henry said. “The arts shaped my career path, and ultimately my interactions with the world around me.”

For Henry, the arts are more than entertainment — they are a common language and shared experience.

“Promoting fine arts opportunities in a shared space where our community connects not only with the performance, but also with one another, gives us all a seat at the same table,” Henry said. “Perspectives are broadened, imaginations are ignited.

“And, for just a moment in time, we are given permission to escape into a different story.”

In her new role, Henry will oversee marketing and finance for UCA Public Appearances, helping guide the initiatives that bring world-class performances, speakers, and cultural experiences to the university and the greater Central Arkansas community. Her experience connecting businesses, educators and audiences positions her to expand the reach and impact of the program for years to come.

UCA Public Appearances welcomes Henry and looks forward to the vision, heart and community spirit she brings to the team.

UCA Public Appearances has continued to grow each year and now offers five unique series: Broadway, POPS, Night Out, An Evening With, and the Windgate Collection. Reynolds Performance Hall has also welcomed over 70,000 pre-K-12th grade students from across the state of Arkansas to experience live performing arts through the Main Stage Education Series. This series educates while entertaining and provides arts accessibility to all students.

10/20/2026

A Wind Ensemble Chamber Winds concert will be held at the Windgate center on October 22 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to this concert can be found and purchased using the ticket link in our bio!

10/14/2026

Guest artist Kwan Yi will be performing a recital at the Windgate center on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to this recital can be purchased at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36631/production/1283219?performanceId=11840457.

Photo: Ohio University

10/12/2026

The next Keystone Conversation, presented by Dr. Margo Kolenda-Mason and MA students from the English Program of the School of Language and Literature, "Reading the Body of the Book", will be held at the Windgate center on October 22 from 1:40 - 2:30 p.m. This event is FREE and open to anyone interested!

10/09/2026

A Tapestry Treble & Bear Tones Tenor/Bass concert will be held at the Windgate center on October 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to this performance can be purchased at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36631/production/1283214?performanceId=11840440.

10/06/2026

Come out and see UCA Theatre’s productions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which will be held in the Windgate center James M. Bridges black box theatre. Performances are October 9 & 10 at 7:00 p.m. and October 11 at 2:00 p.m. These performances are FREE and open to anyone interested!

10/04/2026

Tylar Bullion will be having a faculty recital at the Windgate center on October 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to this recital can be purchased at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36631/production/1283157?performanceId=11863627.

10/02/2026

The UCA Brass Day opening concert will be held at the Windgate center on October 9 at 7:30 p.m. The FINAL concert for UCA Brass Day will be held at the Windgate center on October 10 at 4:00 p.m. These concerts are FREE and open to anyone interested!

Address

2150 Bruce Street
Conway, AR
72035

Telephone

+15014707573

Website

http://uca.edu/windgate, https://ci.ovationtix.com/36631

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