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Opera Roanoke-Young Artist Performance

Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

Opera Roanoke’s Young Artists will present a special preview of the Opera’s upcoming 2023-24 season, featuring selections from Opera Roanoke performances and the Metropolitan Opera’s MET Live in HD season.

Artist Talk: Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Art Exhibition: “Humanistic Geography-Uncovering a Sense of Place Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00 is a multimedia artist, writer, and workshop instructor born and living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Louthian-Stanley has worked primarily as a printmaker since the late 1970s. In 2006, she began experimenting with encaustic techniques in which she juxtaposes transparent and opaque […]

“What Cuban Literature? An Approach to Mediatization in the 21st Century”

Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

In this presentation, Dainerys Machado Vento will discuss the mediatic circulation of Cuban literature outside the island as a case study to understand a process like mediatization. She will focus on analyzing the general characteristics of international mediatization of Cuban literature from 2006 to 2018. Questions that will be posed during her talk include which […]

Theatre Production: “Goodnight Moon-The Magical Musical”

Hollins Theatre

Written by Margaret Wise Brown ’32, Adapted for the stage by Chad Henry When: October 6 at 7:30 pm, October 7 at 10 am and 7:30 pm, and October 8 at 2 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage What: This magical musical stage version of Margaret Wise Brown’s bedtime classic takes us into the imagination […]

Reading by the Author of “Pleasantview” Celeste Mohammed

Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

Lawyer-turned-author Celeste Mohammed penned the novel Pleasantview (Ig Publishing, 2021), which won the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction and the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Author Tony Eprile called Pleasantview “a formidable debut” and added that the book’s “razor-sharp observations of misogyny and the abuse of power are leavened by humor and […]

Theatre Production: “First-Year Reading-Celebrate Our New Students”

Botetourt Reading Room 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

  When: October 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm Where: Botetourt Reading Room What: A staged reading of The Seven Loves of Audrey Munson: A Mostly True Story, Except for the Parts We Made Up, written by J. Harvey Stone. This one-act play imagines the career of America’s first supermodel, Audrey Munson. It was selected […]

Valley Chamber Orchestra Concert

duPont Chapel

Valley Chamber Orchestra provides amateur, professional, and student musicians of Southwest Virginia the opportunity to rehearse and perform orchestral music on a recreational basis for the pure enjoyment of music.

Author Julian Talamantez Brolaski’s book “Of Mongrelitude”

Green Drawing Room, Main

Julian Talamantez Brolaski is a two-spirit and transgender poet and musician of mixed Mescalero and Lipan Apache, Latin@, and European heritages. Its most recent book is Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. It is also the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012), gowanus atropolis […]

Fall Dance Performance

Hollins Theatre

Evening of dance performances featuring creative work by students, faculty, and guest artists. 8 pm each evening

Graduate Fall Dance Artist Talks

Botetourt Reading Room 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

Year Residency graduate students, Paris Gray, Sarah Lunceford, and Katy Womack, present Artist Talk conversations about their new dance and performance work featured in the 2023 Fall Dance Performance at Hollins.

Screening of “Argentina, 1985”

Jackson Screening Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA

“A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.” IMDb. Nominated for an Academy Award and winner of a Golden Globe and Goya Award, 2023. Argentina, 1985 is also available for viewing on Amazon Prime. This movie is […]