All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, September 21
National Museum of African American History and Culture and Beyond: Cultural Expression in the Built Environment
7:00 p.m. at Broyhill Chapel
Lecture by Zena Howard. Howard was the senior architect for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and is an architect and principal at Perkins+Will architectural firm. She has over 20 years of experience as an architect and project leader. Her experience includes specialized and unique design goals such as environmentally sensitive artifact exhibit areas, historically and culturally significant buildings and locations, and sustainable design. The lecture is part of the Presidential Lecture and Performance Series.
Friday, September 22
Flute Duo Recital
7:30 p.m. at Broyhill Chapel
Recital featuring Tammy Evans Yonce and Professor Misty Theisen.
Saturday, September 23
Service Project at Manna Food Bank
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. at Manna Food Bank, Asheville
Students from the Christian Student Movement organization will work at Manna Food Bank for a service project.
Monday, September 25
Peace & Justice Coffeehouse
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Timberline (Wren Student Union)
Dr. Bill Lowrey, native of Danville, VA, will speak about his peacemaking efforts in Sudan during the 1990s. Lowrey was director of peacebuilding at World Vision International and organized a series of peace conferences in Sudan. More information about his work is at https://tanenbaum.org/peacemakers-in-action-network/meet-the-peacemakers/reverend-william-lowrey-sudan/
Tuesday, September 26
Crossroads Chapel Service
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Broyhill Chapel
Seminary Day. Speaker: Danny West from Gardner-Webb Divinity School.
“Talking Feet” Film Screening
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Ramsey Center for Regional Studies
Join renowned clogger, flatfooter, and dance-caller Rodney Sutton to watch “Talking Feet” (Smithsonian Folkways 2007), the first documentary of flatfoot, buck, hoedown, and rural tap dancing. Sutton, who appears in the film, will introduce the film and lead a Q&A afterwards.
Citizens United and the Problems of Money in Politics
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Belk Auditorium (Wren Student Union)
A series of US Supreme Court decisions, including the 2010 “Citizens United” decision, based on the premise that ‘corporations are people’ and ‘money is speech,’ has opened the floodgates for a huge influx of money into politics from powerful special interests and threatened the foundation of our one person-one-vote democratic system of government. The NC We the People Campaign addresses this central issue and what we can do as citizens to take back our democracy. The discussion will be led by Avram Friedman, Executive Director of The Canary Coalition, 1st Vice-President of the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP, and co-founder the NC We the People Campaign.
This event is open to the public and is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, Mars Hill College Republicans, and Mars Hill College Democrats.
Wednesday, September 27
Opening Reception for Artists Kehren Barbour & Leslie Rowland
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Weizenblatt Gallery (Moore Fine Arts Building)
Their exhibit runs September 27 through October 27. Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday.
Friday, September 29
Criminal Justice Roundtable Discussion
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: MHU Asheville Center for Adult & Graduate Studies, 303 Airport Rd., Arden, N.C.
Mars Hill University Adult and Graduate Studies and the department of criminal justice will hold a roundtable discussion exploring collaborations between criminal justice scholars and social service agencies. This community conversation will include MHU criminal justice faculty and feature the SPARC Foundation’s Changing Together Program Director, Missy Reed. Changing Together provides services to reduce violent crime and domestic violence in Western North Carolina.
Ongoing:
Daniel Nevins: “Fluent: 25 Years of Painting, Drawings, and Album Covers”
Exhibit runs through September 22 at Weizenblatt Gallery
“Fluent” features a range of Nevins’s work, from large abstracts to intimate stylized figures to funky album covers. He describes the exhibit as the most comprehensive exhibition to showcase his unique and diverse body of work.
Weizenblatt Gallery is in Moore Fine Arts Building. Hours are 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday.
The Civil War In the Southern Highlands: A Human Perspective
Exhibit runs through March 4, 2018
Rural Heritage Museum
This exhibition presents an account, using rare original letters and newly-discovered documents, of the personal struggles of the people living in Madison County and the Southern Appalachian Mountains during the middle of the 19th century.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment.
Upcoming
Exhibit Opening: Minstrel of Appalachia
October 2
This event begins the week-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Lunsford Festival with the opening of a brand new exhibition, “Minstrel of Appalachia: The Life and Legacy of Bascom Lamar Lunsford,” a selection of artifacts and photographs curated from the Ramsey Center’s Southern Appalachian Archives. Folk musician Betty Smith will be presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine during this event.
Fiddlers Among the Rhododendron
October 3
Noted Appalachia scholar Dr. David Whisnant will speak about the life of Bascom Lamar Lunsford and the cultural, historical, and political context in which the Rhododendron Festival and Lunsford’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival were begun.
Festivals on Vinyl: Listening Party at Stackhouse
October 4
Join us for a night out at Stackhouse Restaurant, 37 S Main Street in Mars Hill. We’ll be digging deep into the Southern Appalachian Archives and spinning records from the past 50 years of the Lunsford Festival! Musician extraordinaire Laura Boosinger will be on-hand to talk through the music on the records.
Swing Your Partner: Old-Time Dance Calls
October 5
The Bailey Mountain Cloggers will bring to life some of the dance formations and calls Bascom Lamar Lunsford collected and wrote about.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival Concert
October 6
50th anniversary of the second oldest folk festival in Western North Carolina. Ticketed concert.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival Daytime Stage
October 7
50th anniversary of the second oldest folk festival in Western North Carolina. Free to the public.
Mars Hill Heritage Festival
October 7
Mountain arts and crafts for sale, craft demonstrations, food, and traditional music in downtown Mars Hill and the upper Quad of the university.
Go, Granny D!
October 24, 7 p.m.
Currently touring nationwide, actress Barbara Bates Smith and musician Jeff Sebens will present the story of Doris “Granny D” Haddock, who in 2000 at age 90 blazed a 3200-mile trail across America for campaign finance reform, precipitating the passage of the McCain-Feingold Act. She continued her bipartisan reform efforts in nationwide voter registration drives, issuing her final challenge in 2010 at age 100: “Democracy is a running game. You huddle and you go back in. You keep going.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Forest Lecture/Presentation
November 15
Smoke on the Mountain: Sanders Family Christmas
December 14-23
Benefit Christmas show for the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (SART)
MHU Lions Home Athletics
Tuesday, September 19
Men’s and Women’s Tennis vs. Milligan, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, September 20
Women’s Soccer vs. Wingate, 5 p.m.
Men’s Soccer vs. Wingate, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, September 22
Volleyball vs. Queens, 7 p.m.
Saturday, September 23
Men’s and Women’s Tennis vs. Limestone, 1 p.m.
Volleyball vs. Wingate, 2 p.m.
Women’s Lacrosse SCRIMMAGES: Tusculum vs. MHU, 1 p.m., Lees-McRae vs. Tusculum, 2 p.m., Lees-McRae vs. MHU, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, September 27
Women’s Soccer vs. Coker, 5 p.m.
Men’s Soccer vs. Coker, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, September 29
Volleyball vs. Coker, 7 p.m.
Saturday, September 30
Men’s and Women’s Tennis vs. Union, 1 p.m.
Football vs. Limestone, 1 p.m.
Volleyball vs. Newberry, 5 p.m.
