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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”

Hollins Theatre

Play to be determined by Season Selection Committee When: October 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage 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 […]

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

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 […]

“The Fragile Elegance of Truth: The Trials Against Genocides in Argentina”

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

The military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 left the country with evidence of more than 30,000 disappeared citizens. In 1985, Julio César Strassera was chosen as public prosecutor to make the new democratic government’s case against the military junta for alleged crimes against humanity. Claudia Bernardi’s presentation, using Argentina, 1985 as a […]

“Simetría-Dos”

Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

Simetría-Dos is a digital humanities project developed by sisters Patricia and Claudia Bernardi. Patricia, a forensic anthropologist, works as a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAAF, investigating violations of human rights committed against civilians in Argentina and beyond. Claudia is an artist who works with survivors of political violence. The project evinces how […]

Writers’ Harvest Reading

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Hollins faculty writers read from their work to raise money for the hungry. 100% of the proceeds will be donated directly to Feeding Southwest Virginia. Students: $5 or a nonperishable food item; general admission: $10. $10 donated helps them provide 50 meals in our service region. Come hear exciting new work by our Hollins writers […]

Theatre Production: “Constellations” by Nick Payne

Hollins Theatre

A Student Thesis Production Directed by Elizabeth McDonald When: December 1 at 7:30 pm, December 2 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage What: A student-directed production of Constellations by Nick Payne. This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next […]