Events

Founders Day 2024

Celebrating 125 years
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024

A tradition celebrated each fall to honor App State’s founders and the first day of classes in 1899.

Featured events

Nov
18
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International Education Week
Office of International Programs
Nov. 18 - 22, 2024
International Education Week (IEW) at Appalachian State University is a celebration of the global engagement that happens throughout the year through our clubs, courses and conversations. Students, staff, faculty, and community members are encouraged to participate in programming throughout the week. IEW on the national level is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education and part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.
Nov
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Homecoming 2024
Nov. 18 - 24, 2024
Make your plans to be in the High Country for Homecoming 2024. The fun lasts all week long and culminates with the App State football game on Saturday, October 26. Break out your black and gold — there will be events for all Mountaineers!
Nov
20
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Fall Appalachian Dance Ensemble
Department of Theatre and Dance
Nov. 20 - 24, 2024
The Fall Appalachian Dance Ensemble (FADE) is a popular semi-annual concert featuring Appalachian faculty and students showcasing their talents in choreography and performance. The 2024 FADE includes original choreography by Dance Studies faculty members Emily Daughtridge, Sherone Price, and Chris Yon. Student choreographers creating new works for this program are Madeline Cefalu, Lauren Martin, Sarahann McIntyre, Avery Smith, and Maggie Talton with eight different pieces being performed each night of the concert.
Nov
21
Founders Day 2024
Celebrating 125 years
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
A tradition celebrated each fall to honor App State’s founders and the first day of classes in 1899.
Nov
21
Maria Dahvana Headley: Craft Talk
Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia, Aerie and Queen of Kings, and she has also written a memoir, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard, she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written.
Nov
21
Film: Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Colombian Film Festival
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
5 p.m.
Shot almost entirely in black and white, the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures.
Nov
21
Maria Dahvana Headley
Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
6 - 7:30 p.m.
Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and editor. Her novels include Magonia, Aerie and Queen of Kings, and she has also written a memoir, The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard, she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of The Mere Wife was written.
Nov
21
TCVA Workshop: Open Studio for App State Students
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
6:30 - 8 p.m.
Join us on Thursday evenings throughout the semester to unleash your creative spirit in a community of App State student peers in the studio space at the Turchin Center. These art-making workshops are led by Appalachian State University student instructors and are open to all skill levels. All supplies are provided. Open Studio will be a time to create and explore new art making materials in a casual and welcoming setting.
Dec
2
Hickory Leadership Forum: Leading with Compassion
Monday, Dec. 2, 2024
6 - 7:30 p.m.
Join us for the second installment of the Hickory Leadership Forum: Leading with Compassion. A panel discussion convening local leaders in education will be held in the App State Hickory atrium, with a networking reception to follow. Attendance is free but registration is encouraged.
Dec
8
Girls on the Run High Country 5K
Appalachian Institute for Health and Wellness
Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024
2 p.m.
Run, walk, skip, hop... Just move forward! The Girls on the Run of the High Country 5K is celebrated twice each year as the culminating event in our 10-week GOTR curriculum. The 5k is open to the general public and of course current and past GOTR participants, coaches and families.
Dec
10
Free Store Road Show
University Sustainability
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
The Office of Sustainability’s Free Store hits the road! Come learn about the Office of Sustainability’s Food Pantry and Free Store. Help divert landfill waste by getting free clothes and learn about how you can donate your old clothes to help the environment and your community. If there is rainy weather, we will move inside the Plemmons Student Unions in the International Hallway!
Dec
12
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Creole Christmas
The Schaefer Center Presents
Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the season as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band returns with the Creole Christmas concert series. Join as the band performs New Orleans classics as well as some of our best-loved holiday selections with a twist. Preservation Hall Jazz Band has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Creole Christmas

Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024 / 7:30 p.m.
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

Celebrate the season as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band returns with the Creole Christmas concert series. Join as the band performs New Orleans classics as well as some of our best-loved holiday selections with a twist. Preservation Hall Jazz Band has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.