Hollins University

Lab Reading: "Back Porch Play" by Adrian Lee Bush
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading. July 24

#4: Back Porch Play by Adrian Lee Bush

Theatre, Upstairs Studio

2024 Playwrights Festival
2024-07-19 00:00 - 2024-07-21 23:59 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, 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 for the general public and close to a dozen guest professional responders from all over the globe. As part of the festival, there will be a panel discussion when our guest respondents will introduce themselves, talk briefly about their own background, and then give a moderated response to the festival as a whole. Get acquainted with these plays and playwrights before they are famous and engage in a conversation about theatre with our students, faculty, and some established theatre professionals.

Friday, July 19

8 pm; The Greenhouse by J. Harvey Stone

Saturday, July 20

11 am; Astroturf by Kolin Lawler

2 pm; Lil’ Troopers by Richie Cannaday

4 pm; The Caregiver by Stephanie Goldman

8 pm; The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the [GUILTY] by Ami Trowell

Sunday, July 21

11 am; Hamlet’s Ghost by Emily Fleischhuer

2 pm; Freida by ArLynn Parker

4 pm; Nuptial Mass by Ben Abbott

8 pm; Festival Guest Respondent Panel

Seating is limited. To reserve tickets, email Gwyneth Strope at stropegm1@hollins.edu.

"Illustration Faculty Exhibition" Lecture and Book Signing
2024-07-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Faculty Exhibition Opening: Illustration Faculty Exhibition Lecture and Book Signing

In conjunction with Illustration Faculty Exhibition, on view July 11 – September 22, 2024, at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, please join us for a lecture and reception with book signing by faculty in the Hollins University M.F.A. Program in Children’s Book Writing and Illustration.

Friday, July 19, 6:30 pm, Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center; Reception and book signing to follow in the first-floor lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

No Shame Theatre
2024-07-19 23:00 - 2024-07-20 00:30, 2024-07-26 23:00 - 2024-07-27 00:30 | 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 (five minutes or less), and not break anything (including the law). Inside those rules you can do pretty much anything you’re interested in trying in front of a live audience–plays, monologues, songs, dance, poetry, mime, juggling, comedy, tragedy, Improvisation, dada, magic–we’ve even seen people do floral arrangements! Pieces are accepted starting at 10 pm, doors open at 10:30 pm, and the show starts at 11 pm, running on average an hour and a half.

Francelia Butler Conference: Keynote Speaker Chip Sullivan
2024-07-20 09:00 - 16:00 | Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
The Francelia Butler Conference is hosted every summer by the Graduate Program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. Since 1995, this entirely student-run conference has honored critical and creative works by that summer’s graduate students with awards in the following categories: poetry, logo design, critical writing, visual art, narrative art, long form creative writing, and short form creative writing. The keynote speakers are renowned authors and scholars of children’s literature who have authored esteemed books for all ages. The conference culminates with lectures by the current Margaret Wise Brown Book Award winners. This year’s recipients are Lucy Ruth Cummins for the winning title, Our Pool, and Ævar ﬁór Benediktsson for this year’s Honor Title, Stranded! A Mostly True Story from Iceland.

Chip Sullivan, Francelia Butler Conference Keynote Speaker

C.W. Sullivan III, Ph.D., is emeritus distinguished professor of arts and sciences, retired from East Carolina University, and a full member of the Welsh Academy for his contributions to the study of medieval Welsh Celtic myth and legend. He is the author of several books, including Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy, The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays, and is a past president of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. His articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in various anthologies and journals, and he was a Fulbright scholar at Debrecen University in Hungary.

Lectures and silent auction, Saturday, July 20, 9 am, Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Auction in first floor lobby. Sponsored by the graduate programs in children’s literature. Online: https://hollins.zoom.us/j/9154582283?omn=84139553380

Hollins University Volleyball Camp (Ages 8-13)
2024-07-22 00:00 - 2024-07-25 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
7/22/24 – 7/25/24; 9 am – 12 pm

Registration ends on 7/18/24 at 11:59 PM

Fees

Athletics Summer Camp $99

About this Course

Do you have a daughter who is interested in playing volleyball yet has no idea where to begin? If so, this camp is perfect for them. Each camper will be schooled on the basics of volleyball including passing, serving, setting, spiking, digging, blocking, and court positioning from Hollins university coaches. The camp is designed specifically to give beginner or intermediate level players the skills needed to try out for middle school and junior varsity volleyball.

https://www.roanokecountyparks.com/293/Summer-Camps

Playwright’s Lab Monday Night Guest Speaker: Addae Moon
2024-07-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Mill Mountain Theatre, 1 Market Square SE, Roanoke, VA, 24011, United States
Each Monday night on the Waldron Stage of Mill Mountain Theatre, the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins presents a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This week’s guest is:

ADDAE MOON – GUEST SPEAKER

Moon is an Atlanta based playwright, dramaturg, director, and cultural worker. He is the associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit and the cofounder of the play development and performance collective Hush Harbor Lab.

Moon has served as a resident dramaturg with Working Title Playwright’s Ethel Woolson Lab. He was the recipient of the 2015 International Ibsen Award for his dramaturgical work on the project Master Comic and the 2014 John Lipsky Award from the International Museum Theatre Alliance (IMTAL) for his immersive play Four Days of Fury: Atlanta 1906. Moon was also a member of Alliance Theatre’s 2015-16 Reiser Artists’ Lab as cowriter on the immersive project Third Council of Lyons with Found Stages. As the former literary manager at Horizon Theatre Company, he served as the development dramaturg on the early projects of many nationally renowned playwrights including Marcus Gardley, Lauren Gunderson, Tanya Barfield, and Janece Shaffer.

His recent immersive co-collaborations include Frankenstein’s Ball (2019/2020), Frankenstein’s Funeral (2019) and Cassie’s Ballad (2022) with Found Stages. Moon received his B.A. in theatre arts from Clark Atlanta University and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Professional Playwright’s Program at Ohio University. He is also a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA,) Dramatist Guild, and The Fence Network.

Mill Mountain Theatre, Waldron Stage

Lab Reading: "Our Family in the Stars" by Katie Oler
2024-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
Each Wednesday evening, as part of the course Playwright’s Lab, an early draft of a student written play is presented in an orchestra style reading.

#5: Our Family in the Stars by Katie Oler

Theatre, Upstairs Studio

Summer Term Ends
2024-07-26 00:00 - 23:59

Opening Convocation
2024-09-03 16:30 - 17:30 | duPont Chapel
Hollins officially launches the 2024-25 academic year with Opening Convocation on Tuesday, September 3, 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 steps onto Front Quad.

Fall Classes Begin
2024-09-04 00:00 - 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Hollins Music Faculty Showcase
2024-09-08 15:00 - 16:00 | duPont Chapel
Hollins music faculty will present a showcase concert featuring classical, popular, and theatrical selections. Come and see what our excellent musicians are capable of!

Eboo Patel: "Building Bridges Across Difference"
2024-09-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Building and maintaining a participatory, democratic society involves developing strategies for talking with and listening to people who don’t always share our perspectives and life experiences. Dr. Eboo Patel, author, speaker, educator, and founder of the organization Interfaith America will offer his insights about democracy, pluralism, and faith, and discuss our shared responsibility of building bridges across difference.

“Building Bridges Across Difference” is part of the Hollins Distinguished Speaker Series. A reception and book signing will follow in the Botetourt Reading Room (relocated from the Green Drawing Room in Main). The event is free and open to the public. Seating will be limited.

Helen Phillips Reading and Lecture
2024-09-19 20:15 - 21:30 | Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel The Need (Simon & Schuster, 2019; Chatto & Windus, 2019), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Her latest novel, HUM, was published in August 2024 by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books.

Phillips’ short story collection Some Possible Solutions (Henry Holt, 2016) received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt, 2015), a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her collection And Yet They Were Happy (Leapfrog Press, 2011) was named a notable collection by The Story Prize and was re-released in 2023. She is also the author of the children’s eco-adventure book Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (Delacorte Press, 2012).

Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund.

Admission Open House
2024-09-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2024-10-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Hollins invites current high school students to attend this one-day open house to learn more about our academic programs, unparalleled leadership training, extensive internship program, and study away. You’ll tour our beautiful campus, meet current students, and discover what your future could look like at Hollins.

Register to attend here: https://shorturl.at/9Sv4y.

Sarah Juliet Lauro Reading and Lecture
2024-10-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States
Sarah Juliet Lauro, Ph.D., is assistant professor of hemispheric literature at the University of Tampa. She has written widely on zombies in literature and film, but her new work focuses on commemorations of slave rebellion in various forms.

Lauro’s first book, The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (2015) showcases her expertise in both postcolonial literature of the Western hemisphere and horror film. She followed this with the publication of an edited volume, Zombie Theory: A Reader (2018), and the slim book Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Revolt (2020). Lauro enjoys collaborative scholarship and has edited collections both for book publication and for special issues of journals. She has also done some writing for magazines and online outlets, most recently for Art Papers and Monument Lab Bulletin.

Lauro received the 2015 Tyler Rigg award for the year’s best essay in the international journal Disability Studies Quarterly.

Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund.

Opera Roanoke Young Artists Preview
2024-10-06 15:00 - 16:30 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
The talented young artists of Opera Roanoke will present works from the upcoming season.

Violin Concerti of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky
2024-10-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Kevin Matheson on violin and Melia Garber on piano will present two violin concerti in full. Don’t miss this chance to hear these works from great masters beautifully performed!

Fall Break
2024-10-17 00:00 - 2024-10-18 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Nathan Osorio Reading and Lecture
2024-10-24 19:30 - 21:00
Nathan Xavier Osorio won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his collection Querida. Selected by poet Shara McCallum, his debut collection will be published by The University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2024.

Osorio’s chapbook, The Last Town Before the Mojave, was selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, Notre Dame Review, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation.

Osorio is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts critical and creative research that explores the work of contemporary Latinx poets and artists who use multimodal decolonial poetics to unsettle western forms and illuminate the complexities of life within coloniality.

Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund.

Family Weekend 2024
2024-11-01 00:00 - 2024-11-03 23:59
Parents and family members are invited to join our Hollins student body for a weekend filled with organized activities running from Friday afternoon through Sunday morning! We hope to have you join us! Schedule coming soon.

Hollins Family Weekend 2024 Schedule (PDF)

Fall VCO Concert
2024-11-17 15:00 - 17:00 | duPont Chapel
The Valley Chamber Orchestra will offer their fall concert, featuring Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” and a movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with Mackenzie Alderson ’25.

Event flyer: 111724_VCO Concert

Distinguished Speaker Series: Ailey School Student Performance Group
2024-11-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Hollins Theatre
THEATRE SEATING IS SOLD OUT! All Tickets will now be for a live video feed.
The Ailey School honors the vision of Alvin Ailey, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, by providing the best professional dance education with a focus on multidisciplinary training.

Dancers from the Ailey School will offer a performance and a keynote address on the history of the Ailey company, their relationship with college campuses and diversity, and the importance of teaching and the arts. The dancers come from all corners of the world to train and perfect their craft in the Ailey style of dance which incorporates multiple techniques including ballet, Horton, Graham-based modern, jazz, West African, Dunham technique, and hip hop. Led by Rehearsal Director Freddie Moore, the dancers are given the opportunity to share Mr. Ailey’s vision through valuable professional performance experience. This special event is part of the Hollins Distinguished Speaker Series.
Admission is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, and tickets are required (click here to reserve your space). Once tickets in the theatre are sold out, we will offer tickets to overflow seating in another location, with a video feed from the event in the theatre.

Thanksgiving Recess
2024-11-25 00:00 - 2024-11-29 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Winter Concert
2024-12-08 18:30 - 19:30 | duPont Chapel
The Hollins Choirs will present their holiday concert, accompanied by the student orchestra, guest musicians, and local children in choir. Featuring a multi-lingual performance of “Silent Night” by candlelight. Please join us and let’s celebrate the holidays together!

Winter Break Begins
2024-12-19 00:00 - 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Short Term Begins
2025-01-06 00:00 - 23:59 | Hollins University Campus, 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, 24020, United States

Trivia Night
2025-01-13 00:00 - 23:59 | Goodwin PDR
Join us for an exciting evening of trivia action! This dynamic competition features three engaging rounds where your knowledge will be put to the test. Whether you’re a trivia enthusiast or just looking for some fun, you can participate solo or team up with friends to tackle challenging questions across various categories.
Current Hollins undergraduate students are welcome to participate, and the best part? There’s no need to register in advance – just show up ready to play! For those interested in forming teams, you can organize your group beforehand or find teammates when you arrive. This is a perfect opportunity to showcase your knowledge, meet fellow students, and enjoy some friendly competition.
