Events

Highlights from the Most Comprehensive Science Expedition to Mt. Everest in History
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 / 6 p.m.
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

As part of a robust effort to improve our understanding and resilience to the impacts of climate change on mountain systems, from April to June 2019, National Geographic and Tribhuvan University conducted the most comprehensive single scientific expedition to Mount Everest in history. Featuring speakers and expedition members from National Geographic & Rolex’s 2019 Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest: Dr. Baker Perry, Aurora Elmore and Alex Tait.

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“Five Mile Lake” by Rachel Bonds
Department of Theatre and Dance
Feb. 26 - March 1, 2020
A fog settles over a small town nestled on the banks of a pristine lake in Western Pennsylvania. As the play begins, the fog lifts over the lives of troubled 20-somethings, scrambling to escape the stifling weight of the past and leave naïve adolescent daydreaming for the hard work of creating lives that are meaningful.
Feb
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Film: Just Mercy (2019)
IG Greer SuperCinema Popular Film Series
Feb. 27 - 29, 2020
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Mar
4
ARTtalk: MARIA: Lesia Maruschak
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
6 p.m.
Artist Lesia Maruschak will discuss her work as an artist creating mobile memorial spaces and the global conversations generated by human rights and social justice in a museum environment.
Mar
4
La Lucha Sigue - The Struggle Continues
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
This bilingual presentation with Elodia Castillo Vasquez (Ch'orti' Maya Indigenous Authority and President of COMUNDICH, Guatemala) and Roderico Y. Díaz (Kaqchikel Maya Photojournalist, North Carolina) will focus on the indigenous struggle to recover ancestral rights and territory in Guatemala in the face of forced migration. Presented by the Appalachian State University Ethnography Lab and the Department of Anthropology.
Mar
6
Spring Exhibition Celebration
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Friday, March 6, 2020
6 - 10 p.m.
Several times a year, to celebrate new exhibitions, the Turchin Center invites the public inside after hours, to “engage, discover and connect through the arts.” It’s an opportunity for art lovers to meet the artists, have some food and enjoy a cocktail while wandering one of the most exciting venues in town: a collection of seven galleries filled with a diverse mix of contemporary art from local, regional, national and international artists.
Mar
16
Sophie Mullinax: The Blue Horizons Project: Community Energy Planning in Action
Sustainable Energy Speaker Series
Monday, March 16, 2020
4 - 5 p.m.
The Blue Horizons Project was developed by the Energy Innovation Task Force (EITF) in the Asheville area to achieve two primary goals: 1) transition the Duke Energy Progress West Region to a cleaner, more affordable, and smarter energy future and 2) avoid or delay the construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant planned for 2023. Sophie Mullinax, project coordinator, will discuss how the coalition formed and its efforts to date.
Mar
19
Artist Talk with Oliver Kelhammer
Climate Stories Collaborative
Thursday, March 19, 2020
6 - 7 p.m.
Dear Climate artist Oliver Kelhammer will discuss his personal practice as an ecological artist, and the way that this work connects to the projects that he creates as part of the Dear Climate collective.
Mar
25
Alex Tait: Mapping Everest by Foot, Drone, Helicopter and Satellite
Inaugural Mountain Studies Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
12 p.m.
Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest team member Alex Tait will present a technical talk about multi-scale geographic data collection and compositing for science and storytelling. Tait holds the position of The Geographer at the National Geographic Society where he leads geographic information system and locational data collection mapping initiatives and resources for National Geographic Labs.
Mar
25
Reaching New Heights: Highlights from the Most Comprehensive Science Expedition to Mt. Everest in History
Inaugural Mountain Studies Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
6 p.m.
As part of a robust effort to improve our understanding and resilience to the impacts of climate change on mountain systems, from April to June 2019, National Geographic and Tribhuvan University conducted the most comprehensive single scientific expedition to Mount Everest in history. Featuring speakers and expedition members from National Geographic & Rolex’s 2019 Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest: Dr. Baker Perry, Aurora Elmore and Alex Tait.
Mar
28
Children’s Literature Symposium
Exploring Empathy, Imagination and Agency in Children's Literature
Saturday, March 28, 2020
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
The symposium is designed to raise awareness of the importance of children’s and young adult literature. Author Meg Medina and author/illustrator Lauren Castillo will present keynote addresses. Medina and Castillo will lead break-out sessions that introduce approaches for using children’s literature to facilitate the language arts in educational settings. Lauren Castillo will lead participants in a foam printing illustration workshop.
Mar
31
Jonathan Scales and his Fourchestra perform with Steely Pan Steel Band
Hayes School of Music
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
8 p.m.
Congratulations to Hayes School of Music Alum Jonathan Scales! Come hear him and his Fourchestra perform with the Steely Pan Steel Band in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts.
Apr
18
Spring Open House
Saturday, April 18, 2020
9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Join us for an informative day designed just for high school students and prospective transfer students. Meet our faculty, tour campus, and learn more about majors and programs, scholarships, financial aid, the admissions process and what it’s like to be a member of the Appalachian community.

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Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything

Saturday, Apr. 4, 2020 / 7 p.m.
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

Rosanne Cash comes to Boone on tour with She Remembers Everything, a poetic, lush and soulful collection of songs that reckon with a flawed and intricate world. She Remembers Everything follows Rosanne’s triple-Grammy winning 2014 album, The River & the Thread, and marks a return to more personal songwriting after a trio of albums that explored her Southern roots and family heritage.

Exhibitions

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Faculty Biennial
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Jan
24
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Jun
6
Lian 連 Lian 鏈 – An installation by Hui Chi Lee
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Jan
1
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May
31
Signs, Wonders, Blunders
Climate Stories Collaborative
Various campus locations
May
20
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May
15
Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition
Mar
6
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Jun
6
Expressive Arts 35th Anniversary Celebration
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Mar
17
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Apr
17
Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?
Yad Vashem; the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies; and Belk Library and Information Commons
Belk Library and Information Commons

Ongoing events

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Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Feb
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8
Neurodiversity Film Series
Feb
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Apr
15
Free Tax Help Lab
Department of Accounting
Sep
27
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Mar
24
The Schaefer Center Presents
Mar
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GuitarFest
Hayes School of Music
Apr
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Diversity Celebration

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Spring 2020 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series brings acclaimed authors to App State campus

Feb. 20, 2020

The lineup for the spring series includes notable authors Kayla Rae Whitaker, Nickole Brown, Jacinta White and Graham Hoppe, who will read from and discuss their work, as well as give talks on the craft of writing.

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ASU Box 32153
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-6156
ucomm@appstate.edu

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