BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hollins University - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hollins University X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.hollins.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hollins University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20240607T163313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T163313Z UID:69359-1721847600-1721853000@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Lab Reading: "Our Family in the Stars" by Katie Oler DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday evening\, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab\, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading.\n\n#5: Our Family in the Stars by Katie Oler\n\nTheatre\, Upstairs Studio\n\n  URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/lab-reading-our-family-in-the-stars-by-katie-oler/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240727T003000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20240528T194625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T144816Z UID:69244-1722034800-1722040200@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:No Shame Theatre DESCRIPTION:No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers\, performers and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations)\, short (five minutes or less)\, and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you’re interested in trying in front of a live audience–plays\, monologues\, songs\, dance\, poetry\, mime\, juggling\, comedy\, tragedy\, Improvisation\, dada\, magic–we’ve even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm\, doors open at 10:30 pm\, and the show starts at 11 pm\, running on average an hour and a half. URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/no-shame-theatre-12/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Graduate Programs,Open to the Public,Playwriting,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hollins.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/theatre2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T201500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T213000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20240911T115931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T191513Z UID:69737-1726776900-1726781400@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Helen Phillips Reading and Lecture DESCRIPTION:Helen Phillips is the author of six books\, including the novel The Need (Simon & Schuster\, 2019; Chatto & Windus\, 2019)\, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Her latest novel\, HUM\, was published in August 2024 by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books. \n\nPhillips’ short story collection Some Possible Solutions (Henry Holt\, 2016) received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt\, 2015)\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015\, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her collection And Yet They Were Happy (Leapfrog Press\, 2011) was named a notable collection by The Story Prize and was re-released in 2023. She is also the author of the children’s eco-adventure book Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (Delacorte Press\, 2012). \n\nSponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund. URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/helen-phillips-reading-and-lecture/ LOCATION:Hollins Room\, Wyndham Robertson Library\, 7916 Williamson Road\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24020\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Creative Writing,Open to the Public,Readings ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@hollins.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20240911T120050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T120050Z UID:69738-1727983800-1727989200@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Sarah Juliet Lauro Reading and Lecture DESCRIPTION:Sarah Juliet Lauro\, Ph.D.\, is assistant professor of hemispheric literature at the University of Tampa. She has written widely on zombies in literature and film\, but her new work focuses on commemorations of slave rebellion in various forms. \n\nLauro’s first book\, The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery\, Rebellion\, and Living Death (2015) showcases her expertise in both postcolonial literature of the Western hemisphere and horror film. She followed this with the publication of an edited volume\, Zombie Theory: A Reader (2018)\, and the slim book Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Revolt (2020). Lauro enjoys collaborative scholarship and has edited collections both for book publication and for special issues of journals. She has also done some writing for magazines and online outlets\, most recently for Art Papers and Monument Lab Bulletin. \n\nLauro received the 2015 Tyler Rigg award for the year’s best essay in the international journal Disability Studies Quarterly. \n\nSponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund. URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/sarah-juliet-lauro-reading-and-lecture/ LOCATION:Hollins Room\, Wyndham Robertson Library\, 7916 Williamson Road\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24020\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Event,Creative Writing,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20240911T120139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T120147Z UID:69739-1729798200-1729803600@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Nathan Osorio Reading and Lecture DESCRIPTION:Nathan Xavier Osorio won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his collection Querida. Selected by poet Shara McCallum\, his debut collection will be published by The University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2024. \n\nOsorio’s chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry\, translations\, and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in BOMB\, The Offing\, Boston Review\, Public Books\, Notre Dame Review\, the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, the Kenyon Review\, and Poetry Foundation. \n\nOsorio is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California\, Irvine. He conducts critical and creative research that explores the work of contemporary Latinx poets and artists who use multimodal decolonial poetics to unsettle western forms and illuminate the complexities of life within coloniality.\n\nSponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing\, the Department of Modern Languages\, and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund. URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/nathan-osorio-reading-and-lecture/ CATEGORIES:Community Event,Creative Writing,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20240911T180833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T135811Z UID:69746-1732129200-1732134600@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Series: Ailey School Student Performance Group DESCRIPTION:THEATRE SEATING IS SOLD OUT! All Tickets will now be for a live video feed.\nThe Ailey School honors the vision of Alvin Ailey\, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre\, by providing the best professional dance education with a focus on multidisciplinary training.\n\nDancers from the Ailey School will offer a performance and a keynote address on the history of the Ailey company\, their relationship with college campuses and diversity\, and the importance of teaching and the arts. The dancers come from all corners of the world to train and perfect their craft in the Ailey style of dance which incorporates multiple techniques including ballet\, Horton\, Graham-based modern\, jazz\, West African\, Dunham technique\, and hip hop. Led by Rehearsal Director Freddie Moore\, the dancers are given the opportunity to share Mr. Ailey’s vision through valuable professional performance experience. This special event is part of the Hollins Distinguished Speaker Series.\nAdmission is free and open to the public\, but seating is limited\, and tickets are required (click here to reserve your space).  Once tickets in the theatre are sold out\, we will offer tickets to overflow seating in another location\, with a video feed from the event in the theatre. URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/distinguished-speaker-series-ailey-school-student-performance-group/ LOCATION:Hollins Theatre CATEGORIES:Community Event,Dance,Dance M.F.A.,Open to the Public ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hollins.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AileySchoolDancersSM.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Sheyonn Baker":MAILTO:bakersl@hollins.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20250307T141620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T141854Z UID:70596-1741894200-1741897800@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Author Reading: Kiki Petrosino DESCRIPTION:Hollins University\nJoin us for a special reading with acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino as part of the 2024-2025 Reading & Lecture Series hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing. \nPetrosino will present her work “Bright\,” which explores the term used to describe light-skinned people of interracial American ancestry. The book offers a meditation on the author’s upbringing in a mixed Black and Italian American family\, weaving together memoir\, archival research\, and personal reflection to examine the legacies of enslavement and racial discrimination in America. \nKiki Petrosino is the author of “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia” (2020) and three other poetry collections. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and currently teaches at the University of Virginia as a Professor of Poetry. \nA Q&A session\, book signing\, and reception will follow the reading. \nAll are welcome to attend! URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/author-reading-kiki-petrosino/ LOCATION:Green Drawing Room\, Main CATEGORIES:Creative Writing,Open to the Public,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hollins.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image001-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@hollins.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20260225T194129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T194311Z UID:73834-1772560800-1772564400@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:Pat Cummings: Writer in Residence - Keynote DESCRIPTION:Pat Cummings\, Writer in Residence\, March 3rd – 20th\, 2026 \nHosted by the Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature and Illustration \n\nKeynote: March 3\, 2026 at 6:00pm EST\nChanging Your Narrative: The prickly hike from “Who is going to let me?” to “Who is going to stop me?” \nJoin on Zoom URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/pat-cummings-writer-in-residence-keynote/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Children's Literature ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T235959 DTSTAMP:20260430T105806 CREATED:20260313T132036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T184525Z UID:74157-1783641600-1783900799@www.hollins.edu SUMMARY:3rd Biennial Children’s Literature Symposium DESCRIPTION:The Pleasures and Problems of Pooh\n\n\n\nThe 3rd Biennial Children’s Literature Symposium\n\n\n\nOn Zoom\n\n\n\nFriday–Sunday\, July 10–12\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Details\n\n\n\n\nHost: Hollins University Graduate Programs in Children’s Literature\n\n\n\nChair: Chaired by Dr. Lisa Rowe Fraustino\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year’s hundredth anniversary of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh\, published in 1926\, provides a springboard for reflection on the role of classic children’s literature. \n\n\n\n\n“Here–we–are…all–of–us\, and then\, suddenly\, we wake up one morning and\, what do we find? We find a Strange Animal among us. An animal of whom we have never heard before! An animal who carries her family about with her in her pocket!” — Rabbit\n\n\n\n\nINVITED KEYNOTERS INCLUDE:\n\n\n\n\nLara Saguisag\, Associate Professor and Georgiou Chair in Children’s Literature and Literacy at New York University and President of the Children’s Literature Association\n\n\n\nA Pooh Panel with Jennifer Harrison\, editor of Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after 100 Years; volume contributor and Millersville University professor Sarah E. Jackson; and distinguished East Carolina University emeritus professor C.W. Sullivan III\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT SUBMISSION\n\n\n\nThis online symposium seeks presentation proposals from authors\, illustrators\, librarians\, publishers\, educators\, and scholars in any field. View the Call for Papers. Submit proposals of 500 words to Symposium-Abstract-Submissions by May 1\, 2026. Submit Symposium Abstracts online (please be sure to include your contact information). \n\n\n\nART CHALLENGE\n\n\n\nIllustrators are invited to submit images of your own creations related to Pooh and Pooh adjacent or influenced subjects. The symposium will include a digital art show and panel discussion session. Please submit artwork as JPGs or PNGs\, no larger than 1000 pixels wide or no larger than 5mb. Submit online \n\n\n\nGIRLS LITERATURE DISCUSSION GROUP\n\n\n\nThe final session of the symposium will be a meeting of the Hollins Girls’ Literature Discussion Group\, for which we’ll be reading Tuck Everlasting upon its 50th anniversary of publication. \n\n\n\nQuestions?\n\n\n\nQuestions: Please contact Lisa Rowe Fraustino\, FraustinoLR@hollins.edu  \n\n\n\n\n\n Original public domain image from Wikimedia Commons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCall for Papers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year’s hundredth anniversary of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh\, published in 1926\, provides a springboard for reflection on the role of classic children’s literature. This online symposium seeks presentation proposals from authors\, illustrators\, librarians\, publishers\, educators\, and scholars in any field. Possible topics for exploration include: \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Review Possible Topics for Exploration \n \n \n \n \n\nClose readings of how the Pooh stories interpellate young readers into social structures. Who’s out\, who’s in? \n\n\nHow does imaginative play socialize children into adult behaviors? \n\n\nHow does adult nostalgia contribute to classic children’s literature? \n\n\nWhat is the role of illustrations by E. H. Shepard and/or later artists? \n\n\nWhat is the purpose of cuteness? What does it cover up? How does cuteness integrate with other aspects of storytelling and interpretation\, and toward what effect? \n\n\nComparative readings of Pooh with other classics or with contemporary pairings. \n\n\nCommercialization and/or Disnification of Pooh and other classic texts. \n\n\nExaminations of media adaptations or translations into other languages. What is kept? What is reinterpreted? How do those choices reflect ideology? \n\n\nExploration of imaginative play and/or toys in children’s literature. \n\n\nTheoretical approaches—colonialism\, whiteness\, psychoanalytical\, animal studies/anthropomorphism\, food\, boyhood\, etc. \n\n\nWhat is the purpose of literary criticism\, especially for books that are written primarily for children (not adults) to read? \n\n\nWhat do we do when books feel like they aren’t written for us (because of race\, class\, gender\, and other aspects of identity)? \n\n\nHow do our readings/experiences of a text change when we read it multiple times? \n\n\nHow does the intergenerational evolution of our engagement with classics call attention to new issues and questions over time? URL:https://www.hollins.edu/event/3rd-biennial-childrens-literature-symposium/ LOCATION:Hollins University Campus\, 7916 Williamson Road\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24020\, United States CATEGORIES:Children's Literature ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hollins.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/KidLitLogo.png ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@hollins.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR