Underneath a crisp blue sky, hundreds of students and members of the Gainesville community gathered on Hume Field to fling brightly colored powder at each other for Holi, an Indian holiday that celebrates the commencement of spring. The event was hosted by UF’s Indian Student Association and Student Government.
Active Streets Gainesville took place Sunday afternoon, shutting down part of West University Avenue.
Sunday, Santa Fe College hosted its Spring Arts Festival in downtown Gainesville - an event that featured music, art, photography and more.
Multicultural groups delivered a variety of performances in the VISA Talent Show.
Gainesville Raceway hosted the 47th annual Amalie Motor Oil National Hot Rod Association Gatornationals drag racing weekend. On Saturday, qualifying sessions were held for the Nitro- and Pro Stock-class cars and motorcycles. More than 300 vehicles entered across the 13 racing classes during the four-day event.
During a Harn Museum of Dance event Saturday, 70 dancers and choreographers from the UF School of Theatre + Dance had their work showcased.
Across Gainesville, residents and students gathered to watch the results of both the local election and the presidential primaries.
Know Where Coffee celebrated its one-year anniversary with its first-ever latte art competition, attended by about 40 people.
The Arab Student Association hosted its largest event of the year, the ninth annual Arabic Ball, Saturday at the Reitz Union.
On any given night, you’ll find a room full of Gator Motorsports team members working with all sorts of machines: lathes, saws and welders. In one corner of the workshop sits the object of their labor, the skeleton of a miniature Formula-1 car: the F16. In May, the students of Gator Motorsports will wheel out the completed race car in the Formula SAE Michigan competition, an event in which 120 teams from around the world pit their car designs against each other to see who can build the fastest, most efficient and most economical car.
Gainesville residents browse vendors’ wares on Wednesday afternoon at the first Union Street Farmers Market after the Bo Diddley Plaza renovation. Previously, the farmers market was being held on Lot 10 in downtown Gainesville.
The Vietnamese Student Organization hosted Tet, its 43rd annual Lunar New Year celebration, on Sunday. The theme of the event, which took place in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, was “A New Age.” It included games and chances to win raffle tickets before the show and during intermission, as well as performances by singers, dancers and martial artists.
A crowd gathered to watch a variety of musical performances at Bo Diddley Community Plaza’s grand reopening event, featuring The Savants of Soul and Little Jake & the Soul Searchers and headlined by Charles Bradley.
A pair of friends and parkour veterans explore and vault across campus.
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