Events

Fall 2025 Open House

Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 in Hickory
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 in Boone

Open House is your opportunity to learn more about App State. Meet faculty and current students, tour campus, and learn more about financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, and what student life at App State is really like.

Featured events

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Fall 2025 IOHRM HR Summit
Oct. 9 - 10, 2025
The future of work is not just about policies and technology; it is about people. In a time of seemingly unprecedented complexity—characterized by shifting regulatory priorities, economic volatility, and emerging technologies—now is the time to put our people first and for HR to lead with confidence, integrity, and vision. Please join us and collaborate with industry experts as we connect with fellow HR and business leaders to explore best practices for translating complex changes and challenges into actionable strategies.
Oct
9
Mess on the Mall
Sustainability and Energy Management
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025
1 - 3 p.m.
Suit up and take a deeper look at trash, recycling, and composting on campus. Staff from Sustainability and Energy Management give tips on making our campus a zero waste environment.
Oct
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Homecoming 2025
Oct. 13 - 19, 2025
Make your plans to be in the High Country for Homecoming 2025. The fun lasts all week long and culminates with the App State football game on Saturday. Break out your black and gold — there will be events for all Mountaineers!
Oct
17
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025
Rainbow Kitten Surprise – Thanks for Coming Tour Homecoming Show. With support from Jelani Aryeh.
Oct
19
Disney’s MOANA Live-to-Film Concert
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
6 p.m.
Disney Concerts and AMP Worldwide present Disney’s MOANA Live-To-Film Concert North American tour, featuring a full-length screening of the beloved movie accompanied by live performances of a unique on-stage musical ensemble of top Hollywood studio musicians, Polynesian rhythm masters and vocalists, celebrating the music and songs from this award-winning Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated classic.
Oct
21
2025 Morgan Science Lecture: Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr.
College of Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025
7 - 8:30 p.m.
App State’s College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy are pleased to host world-renowned physicist Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr. as the 2025 Morgan Science Lecture Series speaker. Dr. Gates' lecture, titled "Adinkras-2-Adynkras," will explore a fascinating intersection of art and mathematics in the pursuit of quantum gravity.
Oct
25
Fall 2025 Open House (Hickory campus)
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025
Open House is your opportunity to learn more about App State. Meet faculty and current students, tour campus, and learn more about financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, and what student life at App State is really like.
Oct
28
“The Cigarette Surfboard” – Film Screening w/Discussion and Q and A to follow
University Forum Lecture Series
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025
5:30 p.m.
This documentary focuses on creative solutions to environmental issues and climate change, while offering hope and student empowerment through individual action toward global protection. After a young designer realizes that a surfboard – which he crafted from thousands of littered cigarette butts picked up off California beaches – could captivate the eyes of millions across the globe, he decides to use it as the impetus to do something more.
Oct
30
Christy Shi Day: Listening for the Path: How Nervous Systems Shape the Way We Lead, Learn, & Live
University Forum Lecture Series
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025
4 p.m.
Join us for an inspiring talk with Christy Shi Day, trauma-informed disaster response advocate and strategic facilitator, on how nervous system awareness shapes leadership, resilience and meaningful change. This event is free and open to all faculty, staff, students and the WNC community.
Oct
31
“Stitching Strength” ALS Documentary Film Premiere
Beaver College of Health Sciences
Friday, Oct. 31, 2025
5:30 p.m.
App State’s Beaver College of Health Sciences is sponsoring a premiere of “Stitching Strength,” a 38-minute documentary featuring Duke University Medical Center neurologist Dr. Rick Bedlack and his unconventional approach to treating and inspiring patients who have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS. Dr. Bedlack plans to attend the event and host a Q and A after the film.
Nov
8
Fall 2025 Open House (Boone campus)
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025
Open House is your opportunity to learn more about App State. Meet faculty and current students, tour campus, and learn more about financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, and what student life at App State is really like.
Nov
12
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025
6 p.m.
Kathryn Kirkpatrick is the author of eight collections of poetry, including three recipients of the NC Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell award. “The Fisher Queen: New and Selected Poems” (Salmon, 2019) received the NC Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize. She has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains for many years, where she teaches environmental literature, animal studies, Irish studies, and creative writing as Professor of English at App State.

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Image and Music: John Cohen

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
June 6 – Dec. 13, 2025

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is pleased to partner with John Cohen’s extended family and L. Parker Stephenson who represents Cohen’s musical estate, to bring an exhibition of Cohen’s Appalachian photographs to the Appalachian State University campus. The installation will be accompanied by extended programming showcasing films made by and about John Cohen as well as performances of traditional Appalachian music.