Hollins University

Senior Thesis Production: The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals
2025-11-14 00:00 - 2025-11-15 23:59 (America/New_York) | Hollins Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Blim, Book by Nick & Matt Lang
Originally produced by StarKid Productions
Directed by Gwyn Lloyd ’27
Produced by Too Many Hats Theatre Company ’26

When: November 14-15 at 7:30 pm and November 15 at 2 pm

Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage

What: Everything in Hatchetfield seemed normal until people began singing… Then, they began dancing… And now, a musical pandemic is sweeping the entire city. It’s up to Paul (an average guy who doesn’t like musicals) and his friends to stop this musical apocalypse and fight for humanity’s future.

Free and open to the public. Reservations not yet available.

Reading & Workshop with Crystal Hana Kim
2025-11-13 00:00 - 2025-11-14 23:59 | Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Reading: Thursday, November 13, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Hollins Room, Library

Workshop: “Translation vs. Transliteration vs. Multilingual Texts”

Friday, November 14, 2025 • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm • CLE Classroom, Library

Crystal Hana Kim is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Stone Home (2024), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award, and If You Leave Me (2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. Kim is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and the winner of a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.

Sponsored by: The Beanstalk Fund, a collaboration between Wyndham Robertson Library and the Department of English and Creative Writing

Senior Visit Day
2025-11-09 13:30 - 15:30 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Transfer & Horizon Visit Day
2025-11-09 00:00 - 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Here’s what to look forward to:

A chance to explore campus and get a feel for our community
One-on-one admission and scholarship appointments
Conversations with current students
Plus, attending qualifies you for a Visit Grant of up to $1,000 if you enroll!

Fall Student Recital
2025-11-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Another opportunity for students to perform music learned in private lessons.

Reading Series: Heather Christle
2025-10-30 19:30 - 20:30 | Green Drawing Room, Main
Reading: Thursday, October 30, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building

Heather Christle is the author of In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf (Algonquin) and The Crying Book (Catapult), a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Indie Next selection, and national bestseller that was translated into eight languages, awarded the Georgia Book Award for memoir, and adapted for radio by the BBC. An Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, Christle is also the author of four poetry collections including The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Book Award and was adapted into a ballet by the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Her writing has been published in The Believer, Elle, Granta, London Review of Books, and The New Yorker, and she recently received a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in nonfiction.

Sponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund

Admission Open House: Discover Hollins Day
2025-10-25 13:00 - 15:30, 2025-09-20 13:00 - 15:30 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Discover all that Hollins has to offer at our upcoming Admission Open House: Discover Hollins Day. Tour our beautiful campus, meet current students, and explore student life, career pathways, and campus resources. Attend info sessions on admissions, financial aid, and support services, and get your questions answered as you envision yourself at Hollins.
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Book Discussion - High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
2025-10-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Sweet Donkey coffee House, 2108 Broadway Ave SW, Roanoke, 24014, United States
Date: October 22nd
Time: 5:30 PM-6:30 PM
Location: Sweet Donkey (Green Room)
Description: Please join us at Sweet Donkey for a discussion of the book High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out by Amanda Ripley. Hollins BLI faculty Dr. LeeRay Costa and Dr. Abrina Schnurman will serve as facilitators. Attendance requires registration and participation is capped at 20 due to space limitations. We hope you will join us!
Book Description: In High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out, author Amanda Ripley explores the contrast between us-them, high stakes conflict and healthy or good conflict. Through the stories of numerous and diverse real people who hold a range of perspectives, Ripley shows us how we can rekindle wonder and curiosity, rehumanize one another, and transform conflict in ways that lead to better relationships and communities that make space for both difference and connection.
FREE to the public. Registration is required. Register for any Leading Together Series Dates

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Opera Roanoke Young Artists’ Series Preview
2025-10-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
As part of a rewarding partnership between Hollins and Opera Roanoke’s Young Artists, these talented singers will present a preview of the upcoming season. Always a delightful performance!

Family Weekend Student Recital
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Join us as Hollins students enrolled in private lessons present a recital of their favorite music for family and friends.

Family Weekend Choir Concert
2025-10-11 14:00 - 15:00 | duPont Chapel, 7980 E Campus Dr, Roanoke,, VA, 24020, United States
Our combined choirs will perform for family and friends at our yearly Family Weekend concert.

how to host a sleepover in 10 easy steps by Mattie Tindall ‘23, directed by Wendy-Marie Martin
2025-10-10 19:30 - 2025-10-11 20:30 | Botetourt Reading Room, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
When: October 10-11 at 7:30 pm

Where: Botetourt Reading Room

What: How to Host a Sleepover in 10 Easy Steps is a comedy that centers on five young girls at the ultimate sleepover during summer break – right before they embark on their final year of middle school, capturing the joy, magic, and bittersweet moments of growing up, all set in a fantastical world where young girls hold the power to alter reality. Performed as a staged reading by Hollins first years.

Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations required.

Family Weekend 2025
2025-10-10 00:00 - 2025-10-12 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Complete the registration form to help us prepare for your arrival and ensure your time on campus is both meaningful and enjoyable!

Reading Series: Mary Favret
2025-10-09 19:30 - 20:30 | Green Drawing Room, Main
Reading: Thursday, October 9, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building

Mary Favret is Professor of English at John Hopkins University. Professor Favret has been teaching literature for over 30 years to undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students. Her research often considers how experiences that seem distant or beyond our grasp nevertheless penetrate our everyday life and shape our felt reality. A scholar of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, she has studied how the disruptions of political revolution inflect the exchange of private letters (Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters) and how distant warfare filters into the rhythms of home (War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime). This work is interdisciplinary, drawing on literature, feminist and political theory, history, and visual culture. She has written extensively on Jane Austen’s fiction, its reception history, and its translation into film and TV. Currently she is delving into an untold story within the history of reading: the circumstances that make reading hard, painful, or nearly impossible.

Sponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing, the Department of Modern Languages, the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund, and Phi Beta Kappa

C3: Career Connection Conference
2025-10-03 10:00 - 17:30 | VA
Join us on Friday Oct 3, 2025 for an afternoon designed to help you expand your network, gain career insights, and uncover opportunities you didn’t even know existed.

Kat Pascal - From Me to We: Connections That Create Impact
2025-09-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Grandin CoLab (CoLaboration Space), 1327 Grandin Rd SW, Roanoke,, VA, 24015, United States
Date: September 29th
Time: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

5:00 PM: Networking
5:30 PM-6:30PM: Speaker/Workshop

Location: Grandin CoLab (CoLaboration Space)
Description: In this presentation Kat explores how an entrepreneurial mindset can strengthen nonprofits by fostering creativity, resourcefulness, and collaboration. She shares personal experiences of turning challenges into opportunities and explores how shifting from individual goals to collective purpose can create lasting community impact.
Speaker Bio: Kat Pascal is a social entrepreneur and community advocate who brings an entrepreneurial mindset to the nonprofit world. As the founder of the Latinas Network, she leverages her experience in small business to build innovative, sustainable strategies that create meaningful impact. Kat is passionate about connecting people, resources, and opportunities to drive collective growth.
FREE to the public. Registration is required. Register for any Leading Together Series Dates

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Seraph Brass
2025-09-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
We are so excited to welcome Seraph Brass to Hollins this semester! An all-women brass ensemble, they have traveled internationally and have been praised for a “staggeringly high caliber of performance.” A reception will be held after the concert.

Reading Series: Jaquira Díaz
2025-09-25 19:30 - 20:30 | Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Reading: Thursday, September 25, 2025 – 7:30 pm – Visual Arts Center Auditorium
Jaquira Díaz was born in Puerto Rico, she was raised between Humacao, Fajardo, and Miami Beach. She is the author of the forthcoming novel This Is the Only Kingdom and Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, winner of a Whiting Award and a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, and finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the B&N Discover Prize. Ordinary Girls was optioned for television and is currently in development. In 2022, she held the Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University’s MFA program and a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.
Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund

Music Faculty Showcase
2025-09-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Come and join us as our talented faculty perform for students and friends! Expect to hear a wide range of genres and instruments in this unique recital full of master musicians.

From Paris to Romania: George Enescu
2025-09-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Featuring Kevin Matheson on violin and Tim Fuller on piano, presenting the works of Romanian composer George Enescu.

MFA Dance Performance III / Mobile Tour
2025-07-05 08:00 - 17:00 | VA
MFA Dance Performance III features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current MFA Dance candidates in alternative-site locations on and around the Hollins campus. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance work featured in this concert highlight a diverse approach to contemporary dance practices, research and making.

Various Sites – Hollins Campus

Start Time to be listed at later date: https://www.hollins.edu/programs/dance-m-f-a/

MFA Dance Performance II
2025-06-29 20:00 - 21:30 | Hollins Theatre
MFA Dance Performance I features a collection of original work in performance and/or choreography by current MFA Dance candidates. As part of the thesis capstone research project, performance and dance work featured in this concert highlight a diverse approach to contemporary dance practices, research and making.

MFA Dance Performance I
2025-06-28 20:00 - 21:30 | Hollins Theatre

Artist Talk : Devin Baker
2025-06-21 20:00 - 21:30 | VAC 120
Indianapolis, IN native Devin Baker is a dance performer and teacher with over 15 years of concert dance experience. He has performed for illustrious dance organizations, including the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, and the world-class Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC). He’s performed the works of notable choreographers, including Ray Mercer, Abby Zbikowski, Crystal Michelle Perkins, Rennie Harris, Tommie Waheed-Evans, Katherine Dunham, Ron K. Brown, Gary Abbott and Kevin “Iega” Jeff. In 2016, he was a part of the Bessie Award-winning revival of master choreographer Donald Mckayle’s Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder. Devin has shared his knowledge of dance as a visiting teaching artist with institutions such as The Ohio State University Dance Program and the Regional Dance Association’s National Choreographic Institute. He believes that dance can enhance one’s quality of life by nurturing positive human interaction through movement practices that promote self-awareness, love, and communal appreciation.

DRAFTWORKS: A Studio Salon
2025-06-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Botetourt Reading Room, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
DRAFTWORKS is a Dance Department and MFA Dance event inaugurated during fall 2005 and spring 2006. The platform was designed to provide a space for intimate, non-traditional, radical, often-times explicit performance work to be shared with the dance department community and guests. DRAFTWORKS: A Studio Salon was designed to challenge makers and witnesses to consider options for making and presenting work that do not have to subscribe to traditional/conventional forms, genre categorizations and notions of final dances (dance show). MFA Dance Year Residency graduate students, Kayla Brown, Ashley Cesiro, Fabiola Sanchez Huidobro and Caley Vancil will share their most recent and vibrant work-in-progress in this informal studio setting.

raíces de Esperanza: The Omnipresence of Female Ancestors as Guides Through Nepantla
2025-06-12 19:30 - 20:30 | Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Thesis Performance and Installation by

MFA Dance Graduate Student Fabiola Sanchez Huidobro

raíces de Esperanza: The Omnipresence of Female Ancestors as Guides Through Nepantla explores the intricate tapestry of generational rage and grief I experience as a first-generation individual navigating the emotional and spiritual landscape shaped by ancestry and migration. By examining how my female ancestors’ rage and grief intertwine with my own in a collective unconscious, I begin to address the complexities of being caught between two worlds: Mexico, the origin of my roots, and America, the land of my birth. Through personal stories and cultural reflections, this piece seeks to uncover the profound ways these generational traumas shape the intricacies of my identity. This research highlights the connection between the spiritual and physical worlds, bound together by blood and flesh, ultimately providing a deeper understanding of how echoes of the past resonate in the present.

Thursday, June 12, 2025 – Live Performance

7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 13 – June 29, 2025 – Exhibition

Tuesday – Sunday at 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Thursday at 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Reunion 2025
2025-05-30 00:00 - 2025-06-01 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Commencement 2025
2025-05-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Berglund Center, 710 Williamson Rd NE, Roanoke, 24016, United States
More information regarding the comprehensive schedule for Commencement Weekend, including the featured speaker, will be provided in early March.

Student Recital
2025-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | duPont Chapel, 7980 E Campus Dr, Roanoke,, VA, 24020, United States
Our last event of the year will feature our students performing their favorite selections from private lessons as well as the student orchestra’s end-of-semester performance.
