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  • Wednesday Night Lab Readings

    Hollins Theatre

    July 19: Mag the Gobo by Richie Cannaday These readings, which are early drafts of student-written plays, are presented as part of the Playwright’s Lab course. The reading is followed by a two-tier feedback session. The first tier is based on the Liz Lerman Critical Response, with the playwright taking notes on audience reactions to […]

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  • Hollins Playwrights Festival of New Works

    Mill Mountain Theatre 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, United States

    Each summer at the end of July, we present a three-day event showcasing readings of student work from the Playwright’s Lab. Normally, these eight readings are minimally staged at Mill Mountain Theatre’s Waldron Stage for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. As part of the […]

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  • No Shame Theatre

    Ursula’s Cafe 511 S Jefferson St., Roanoke, VA, United States

    No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers, performers, and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late-night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations), short […]

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  • Francelia Butler Conference Keynote Speaker

    Julia L. Mickenberg, Ph.D., is professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, winner of the ChLA Book Award. She also coedited Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature (2008) and The […]

  • Author and Editor Frances Gilbert (with Rebekah Lowell)

    After earning her M.A. in English, Frances Gilbert’s first job in publishing was as a book club editor at Scholastic Canada in Toronto. She moved to New York in 2000 to set up a children’s editorial division at Sterling Publishing, where she stayed until 2012. Gilbert then moved to Random House Children’s Books, where she […]

  • Alumna Author-Illustrator Rebekah Lowell (with Frances Gilbert)

    Rebekah Lowell is an author-illustrator and surface pattern designer with a passion for the natural world. As a survivor of domestic abuse, she’s found the natural world to be a peaceful healing ground. Her debut novel in verse, The Road to After, offers a story of healing from trauma, and her debut picture book, Catching Flight, provides hope […]

  • Wednesday Night Lab Readings

    Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

    July 26: I Am a Black Woman by Allana Pommier New location: Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley These readings, which are early drafts of student-written plays, are presented as part of the Playwright’s Lab course. The reading is followed by a two-tier feedback session. The first tier is based on the Liz Lerman Critical Response, with […]

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  • Agent Chad W. Beckerman

    Chad W. Beckerman brings over 20 years of illustration and design experience to the CAT Agency. After studying illustration as an undergrad at RISD, Beckerman went on to be a designer at Scholastic, a senior designer at Greenwillow Books, and then became the creative director at ABRAMS Kids and Comic Arts, where he spent 13 years […]

  • No Shame Theatre

    Hollins Theatre

    No Shame Theatre is an experiential performance lab where writers, performers, and audience are constantly changing roles. Anything can happen and usually does in this late-night venue for original work. We take the first 15 pieces to walk in the door and there are only three rules: pieces must be original (no copyright violations), short […]

  • Opening Convocation and First Step

    duPont Chapel

    Hollins officially launches the 2023-24 academic year with Opening Convocation on Tuesday, August 29, at 4:30 p.m. in duPont Chapel. We will welcome new students into the campus community and seniors will process in their robes for the first time. Immediately following Opening Convocation, seniors will participate in the annual tradition of taking their first official […]

  • Artist Talk: Maggie Perrin-Key

    Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    Maggie Perrin-Key: Foreseeable Past Exhibit through September 3, 2023 Artist talk: Thursday, August 31, 6 pm with reception to follow Maggie Perrin-Key is an artist and muralist based in Roanoke, VA. She earned her B.A. in studio art from Hollins University in 2017 and has shown her work regionally since then. This site-specific installation features […]

  • Art Exhibition Opening: “Gina Louthian-Stanley”

    August 31 – December 10, 2023 Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00 is a multimedia artist, writer, and workshop instructor born and living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Louthian-Stanley has worked primarily as a printmaker since the late 1970s. In 2006, she began experimenting with encaustic techniques in which she juxtaposes transparent and opaque layers coupled […]

  • Reading by Authors Kelley Shinn ’04, M.F.A. ’06 and Jennifer A Sutherland M.F.A. ’20

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Kelley Shinn’s new book, The Wounds That Bind Us (West Virginia University Press, 2023), tells her own true story: an orphan at birth who loses her legs at the age of 16 to a rare bacterial pathogen. She becomes an avid off-road racer and, as a single mother, attempts to drive around the globe in […]

  • Roosevelt Montás

    Lecture by Roosevelt Montás

    Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

    Roosevelt Montás is senior lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. He holds an A.B. (1995), an M.A. (1996), and a Ph.D. (2004) in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. He was director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. Montás specializes in Antebellum American […]

  • Charleston Reception with President Mary Dana Hinton

    Charleston, SC Tuesday, September 12, 2023 5-6:30 p.m. Hosted by Leslie Allgood Smith ’00 at the Country Club of Charleston Register at: https://alumnae.hollins.edu/24Charleston (RSVP by September 5)

  • Art Exhibition Opening-“CUBA: Beyond Mambo and Rock ‘n Roll”

    CUBA: Beyond Mambo and Rock ‘n Roll Artist talk with reception to follow. September 14 – December 10, 2023 Since the embargo, Cubans have used their creativity, imagination, and ingenuity in daily life. This attitude and quest for freedom for themselves and their country is apparent in each of the artists’ works whether they examine […]

  • Louisville Reception with President Mary Dana Hinton

    Louisville, KY Thursday, September 21, 2023 6-7:30 p.m. Hosted by Sandra Frazier ’94 (private home in Louisville, KY) Register at: https://alumnae.hollins.edu/24Louisville (RSVP by September 14)

  • Raquel Salas Rivera

    Reading by the Author of “lo terciario/ the tertiary” Raquel Salas Rivera

    Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet and translator of trans experience born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Among his six poetry books are lo terciario/ the tertiary (Noemi Press, 2019), longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the Lambda Literary Award, and while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds […]

  • Opera Roanoke-Young Artist Performance

    Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

    Opera Roanoke’s Young Artists will present a special preview of the Opera’s upcoming 2023-24 season, featuring selections from Opera Roanoke performances and the Metropolitan Opera’s MET Live in HD season.

  • Roanoke Reception with President Mary Dana Hinton

    Roanoke, VA Tuesday, September 26, 5:50-7 p.m. Hosted by President Mary Dana Hinton and the Tinker Mountain Chapter of the Hollins Alumnae/I Association at Lorimer House, Hollins University Register at: https://alumnae.hollins.edu/24Roanoke (RSVP by September 19)

  • Artist Talk: Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00

    Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    Art Exhibition: “Humanistic Geography-Uncovering a Sense of Place Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00 is a multimedia artist, writer, and workshop instructor born and living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Louthian-Stanley has worked primarily as a printmaker since the late 1970s. In 2006, she began experimenting with encaustic techniques in which she juxtaposes transparent and opaque […]

  • Machado Vento

    “What Cuban Literature? An Approach to Mediatization in the 21st Century”

    Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

    In this presentation, Dainerys Machado Vento will discuss the mediatic circulation of Cuban literature outside the island as a case study to understand a process like mediatization. She will focus on analyzing the general characteristics of international mediatization of Cuban literature from 2006 to 2018. Questions that will be posed during her talk include which […]

  • Goodnight Moon the Magic Musical

    Theatre Production: “Goodnight Moon-The Magical Musical”

    Hollins Theatre

    Written by Margaret Wise Brown ’32, Adapted for the stage by Chad Henry When: October 6 at 7:30 pm, October 7 at 10 am and 7:30 pm, and October 8 at 2 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage What: This magical musical stage version of Margaret Wise Brown’s bedtime classic takes us into the imagination […]

  • Tinker Day Party, Suwanee, GA

    6645 Club Valley Court Suwanee, GA 30024 reg link: https://alumnae.hollins.edu/SuwaneeTinkerDay2023

  • Tinker Day Party, NC Triangle

    8720 Union Grove Church Chapel Hill, NC reg link: https://alumnae.hollins.edu/TriangleTinkerDay2023

  • Tinker Day Party, Richmond, VA

    6:30-8:30 pm (“happy hour”) CASA DEL BARCO (CANAL WALK LOCATION) 320 S. 12TH ST. RICHMOND, VA 23219 reg. link: https://alumnae.hollins.edu/s/1916/20/interior.aspx?sid=1916&gid=2&pgid=851&content_id=621

  • Fall Break

    No classes

  • Tinker Day Party, Capital Region (DC)

    Fort Hunt Park Site: C-003, Loop: Group Picnic Areas Look for the Hollins banner and balloons! register to email: HollinsCapitalRegion@gmail.com

  • Celeste Mohammed

    Reading by the Author of “Pleasantview” Celeste Mohammed

    Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

    Lawyer-turned-author Celeste Mohammed penned the novel Pleasantview (Ig Publishing, 2021), which won the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction and the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Author Tony Eprile called Pleasantview “a formidable debut” and added that the book’s “razor-sharp observations of misogyny and the abuse of power are leavened by humor and […]

  • Discover Hollins Open House

    Hollins invites current high school juniors and seniors to attend this one-day open house to learn more about our academic programs, unparalleled leadership training, extensive internship program, and study away opportunities. You’ll tour our beautiful campus, meet current students, and discover what your future could look like at Hollins.

    Website: https://admissions.hollins.edu/portal/adm_events

  • Virtual Town Hall with President Mary Dana Hinton

    Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7-8 p.m. Join us to hear the latest updates from University President Mary Dana Hinton and several Hollins students as we embark on a new school year! Have a question you’d like to ask? Email us at alumnae@hollins.edu with subject line: Hollins Virtual Town Hall question.

  • First-year reading

    Theatre Production: “First-Year Reading-Celebrate Our New Students”

    Botetourt Reading Room 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

      When: October 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm Where: Botetourt Reading Room What: A staged reading of The Seven Loves of Audrey Munson: A Mostly True Story, Except for the Parts We Made Up, written by J. Harvey Stone. This one-act play imagines the career of America’s first supermodel, Audrey Munson. It was selected […]