Events

Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 / 7 p.m.
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

Under the direction of Grant Llewellyn, the North Carolina Symphony returns to the Schaefer Center to present a program featuring the Cherokee Chamber Singers, soprano Eliza Bagg and the Hayes School of Music’s Appalachian Symphony Orchestra. The program includes works by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and William Brittelle.

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500 for the 50th Goods Drive
Appalachian's Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts and Education honor their 50th anniversaries by giving back to the Appalachian Community
Oct. 1 - 31, 2018
In honor of their 50th anniversaries, Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts and Reich College of Education will collect donated goods for the university’s food pantry and free store.
Oct
19
Film: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
7 p.m.
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Oct
19
North Carolina Symphony
The Schaefer Center Presents
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
7 p.m.
Under the direction of Grant Llewellyn, the North Carolina Symphony returns to the Schaefer Center to present a program featuring the Cherokee Chamber Singers, soprano Eliza Bagg and the Hayes School of Music’s Appalachian Symphony Orchestra. The program includes works by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and William Brittelle.
Oct
19
Film: Frankenstein (1931)
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
7 p.m.
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Oct
19
Film: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
9:30 p.m.
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Oct
23
Stories of Caring, Health, and Community: Fall 2018 Humanities Council Symposium
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Presentations include “Elder Care Journey: A View From the Front Lines,” “Using Influential Relationships and Architecture to Heal a Community,” “Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories,” “Why Story-telling is the Heart of Great Healthcare” and “Stories from the Caring Professions at Appalachian.” Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council, the Beaver College of Health Sciences and the Honors College.
Oct
24
ArtTALKS Panel Presentation: Bringing the World to Boone!
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018
6 p.m.
In conjunction with the international exhibition, Art from Down Under: Australia to New Zealand, Dr. Vincent Alessi, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and Julie Humby, Artist, Art Curator and Assistant Librarian at Ara Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand will discuss contemporary practices in their respective countries.
Oct
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Nov
3
The Wolves
Department of Theatre and Dance
Oct. 25 - Nov. 3, 2018
AstroTurf, orange slices, acceptance and anxiety. Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize nominated play offers a glimpse into the complex inner lives of nine teenage girls on an elite girls' soccer team. Each has a unique story, but they share a common history. Will their community hold through crisis?
Oct
27
2018 Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018
8 a.m.
The Spooky Duke is a USA Track & Field (USATF) certified 5k and 10k race, and includes a free costume march for children, adults and dogs. Costumes are encouraged for everyone! The event benefits Parent to Parent Family Support Network™-High Country.
Oct
30
Film: Hillbilly (2018)
Screening with filmmaker Ashley York
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018
6 p.m.
“Hillbilly” is a timely and urgent exploration of how we see and think about poverty, southern and rural identity in contemporary America. Filmmaker Ashley York will present the film she co-directed with Sally Rubin as part of the opening night of the Boone Film Festival. This screening is a special opening night event for the festival and is free and open to the public.
Nov
8
Stephen Stills & Judy Collins
The Schaefer Center Presents
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
7 p.m.
Over 50 years ago, Stephen Stills met Judy Collins and their tumultuous love affair was immortalized by Stills with his composition “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash on their landmark debut. These music icons will pull from their rich catalogs and share warm and intimate stories from their journeys and the 1960s folk and Laurel Canyon scenes they helped build.
Nov
8
Toi Derricotte
Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
7:30 p.m.
Toi Derricotte is well known for her books of poetry and the power behind her writing. Her books of poetry are “The Undertaker’s Daughter” (2011), “Tender” (1997), which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, “Captivity” (1989), “Natural Birth” (1983), and “The Empress of the Death House” (1978). Derricotte’s “The Black Notebooks” is a literary memoir that won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

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Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest

Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018

The Spooky Duke is a USA Track & Field (USATF) certified 5k and 10k race, and includes a free costume march for children, adults and dogs. Costumes are encouraged for everyone! The event benefits Parent to Parent Family Support Network™-High Country.

Exhibitions

Oct
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Dec
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Revolutionary Grain: Celebrating the Spirit of the Black Panther Party in Portraits and Stories
Belk Library and Information Commons
Sep
7
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Feb
2
The Broken Fragments of My Heart: Rachel Stevens
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Jul
6
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Dec
8
Art from Down Under: Australia to New Zealand
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Jul
6
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Jan
12
The Elephantine in the Anthropocene: Kelsey Merreck Wagner
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Jul
6
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Jan
12
The Persistence of Weeds: Hannah Cole
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Jun
1
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Nov
3
Sustained Ingrain: Contemporary Woodcuts from East to West
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

Ongoing events

Oct
17
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Nov
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Frankenstein’s 200th at Appalachian
Oct
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National Transfer Student Week
Oct
5
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Apr
5
The Schaefer Center Presents
Oct
1
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31
500 for the 50th Goods Drive
Appalachian's Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts and Education honor their 50th anniversaries by giving back to the Appalachian Community
Sep
20
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Nov
26
Michael R. Patricelli Craft Enrichment Program
Sep
17
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Nov
8
Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series

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ArtTALKS Panel Presentation: Bringing the World to Boone!

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 / 6 p.m.
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

In conjunction with the international exhibition, Art from Down Under: Australia to New Zealand, Dr. Vincent Alessi, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and Julie Humby, Artist, Art Curator and Assistant Librarian at Ara Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand will discuss contemporary practices in their respective countries.

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