A spinoff of last year’s Swamp Symphony, Gators Jazz & Blues Fest will be hosted from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday on Flavet Field.
This music event features performances from UF students, faculty and local musicians. Funk Yard, Buttertones and the UF jazz band, among others, are set to swing.
The theme changed to Gators Jazz & Blues Fest this year because “the jazz scene in Gainesville has really been coming along,” said Natalie Morrison, a coordinator of alumni affairs for the College of Fine Arts.
Ben Kahn, director of the event, said the festival is a celebration of all UF has accomplished.
–Steven Katona, Alligator Staff Writer
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The Hippodrome Cinema’s four nights of horror will add some chilling cheer to the spookiest holiday.
Until Saturday, the Hippodrome Cinema is presenting “the most terrifying cinematic event of the season” with nine horror flicks. Cinema director Alisha Kinman said she thinks this is the first time the Hippodrome is putting on a Halloween event like this.
Each night is a double feature screening with a theme. Admission is $5 a night and includes both movies. Saturday’s “Bloodsuckers!” will close the Halloween movie fest with “The Last Man on Earth” at 8 p.m. and “Lost Boys” at 10 p.m.
If this event goes well, Kinman, 23, hopes to have a mini film festival for every holiday.
“Growing up, movies were an event that all families went to and then had a conversation about after,” Kinman said. “I want to give families a chance to have that experience.”
–Alyssa Fisher, Alligator Contributing Writer
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The International Tour of Historical Buddha Relics is presenting a public exhibit of ancient artifacts.
The event will be held at the A Nan Buddhist Temple, at 2120 SE 15th St., and will begin with a ceremony at 6 p.m. The exhibit will remain on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
At the exhibit, people have the ability to be personally blessed by the sacred relics, which would be placed against the person’s head while monks give a blessing. People are also encouraged to bring their pets to be blessed.
In 2001, Buddhist master Lama Zopa Rinpoche began touring with the relics from Tibet. Michael Fouts, the marketing representative for the tour, said the Dalai Lama felt this tour was a must-see in the United States.
“Relics don’t normally tour,” he said. “We have a hard time seeing them because usually they are enshrined in stupas in the East.”
–Brooke Austill, Alligator Contributing Writer
