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2008 Featured Events
February
- (2/1 - 4/26) The exhibitions "Potluck! Works by LCVA Members" and "Layered Meanings and Allusions: Prints by Janice Lemen and Barbara L. Bishop" will be on display at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts through April 26.
- (2/2) A free family workshop, "Art to Your Heart's Content: The Annual Valentine-Making Workshop," will be held Saturday, Feb. 2
- (2/5) Students from Anhui University will speak Tuesday, Feb. 5 (Chinese New Year Celebration Event)
- (2/5) Dr. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a University of Virginia professor of law and history, will speak Tuesday, Feb. 5
- (2/6) A Chinese cultural exhibition will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 6 (Chinese New Year Celebration Event)
- (2/13) The urban jazz band Plunky & Oneness will perform Wednesday, Feb. 13
- (2/14) Fiction writer Peter Grandbois will read from his work Thursday, Feb. 14
- (2/15) The annual Employee Service Awards and ARAMARK Banquet will be held Friday, Feb. 15
- (2/17) An opening reception for the exhibition "Start with Art, Learn for Life: The Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition" will be held Sunday, Feb. 17
- (2/18) The Semplice Duo will present a Chamber Music Series concert Monday, Feb. 18
- (2/20) The critically acclaimed film "Bamako" will be shown Wednesday, Feb. 20
- (2/21) Educator Wilma Sharp will give an Art for Lunch program on "Art Education in the Public School Curriculum" on Thursday, Feb. 21
- (2/27) Step Afrika, the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping, will present a history of stepping Wednesday, Feb. 27
March
- (3/1 - 4/26) "Festival of Lights," the final festival of the Chinese New Year, is in the Main Street Gallery through April 26
- (3/1) The ninth annual Civil War Seminar will be held Saturday, March 1
- (3/1 - 3/22) The eighth annual Area Youth Art Month Exhibition will run in the LCVA lower level through March 22
- (3/3) The documentary film "Darfur Now" will be shown March 3
- (3/3) The last film in the February French Film Festival, "Poison Friends," will be shown Monday, March 3
- (3/4) The Wind Symphony will present a concert Tuesday, March 4
- (3/4) John Prendergast, a human rights activist and former adviser to the White House and State Department, will present a lecture about Darfur on March 4
- (3/5) Melanie Goss, a senior English major, will speak Wednesday, March 5
- (3/6) "China: A Travelogue" will be presented Thursday, March 6
- (3/17) Jennifer Capaldo, assistant professor of music, will present a voice recital Monday, March 17
- (3/18) Dr. John Peale, a retired Longwood faculty member who is a longtime Sinophile, will speak Tuesday, March 18
- (3/19) Sculptor Christopher Fennell will speak on his art installation, "Monumental Trash," on March 19
- (3/19) Filmmaker Mike Shiley, who directed the documentary "Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories" will speak March 19
- (3/19) Dr. Naomi Johnson, lecturer in communication studies, will speak Wednesday, March 19
- (3/19) Book artist Maureen Cummins will present a lecture March 19
- (3/20) "An Evening of South Indian Classical Music" will be presented Thursday, March 20
- (3/21 - 3/22) The second annual Longwood University Undergraduate Research Conference in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, "Meeting in the Middle: Testing the Boundaries of the Medieval World," will be held March 21 and 22
- (3/25) Dr. Brian Heinold, assistant professor of mathematics at Mount St. Mary's University, will give a lecture March 25
- (3/25) The Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist artists, will conduct a workshop Tuesday, March 25
- (3/25) "What Do I Know about Globalization?" will be presented March 25
- (3/25) The Jazz Ensembles will present a concert March 25
- (3/25) The documentary film "Kamp Katrina" will be shown March 5
- (3/26) The science fiction/fantasy film "The Fountain" will be shown Wednesday, March 26
- (3/28 - 3/29) The Longwood Board of Visitors will meet Friday and Saturday, March 28-29
- (3/28) Children's book illustrator Cris Arbo will discuss her work March 28
April
- (4/2) Sculptor Charlie Brouwer will give an artist's talk Wednesday, April 2
- (4/2) Author and environmental activist Silas House will speak Wednesday, April 2
- (4/3) Poet Laurie Kutchins will read from her work Thursday, April 3
- (4/4) Longwood-Prince Edward Relay for Life will be held Friday, April 4
- (4/6) The David Esleck Trio will present a jazz recital Sunday, April 6
- (4/8) Spoken word artist Paul D. will perform Tuesday, April 8
- (4/8) The Amernet String Quartet will present a Chamber Music Series concert Tuesday, April 8
- (4/9) Dr. Derek Taylor, associate professor of English, will speak Wednesday, April 9
- (4/10) The Longwood Percussion Ensemble will present a concert Thursday, April 10
- (4/10) Erin Devine, lecturer in art history, will give an Art for Lunch talk Thursday, April 10
- (4/11 - 4/12) Spring Weekend will be held Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12
- (4/12) The Art Department Senior Exhibition opening reception will be held Saturday, April 12
- (4/16 - 4/20) The classic British comedy "She Stoops to Conquer" will be presented April 16-20
- (4/16) The film "A Mighty Heart" will be presented Wednesday, April 16
- (4/16) Sculptor Mike Hansel will give an artist's talk Wednesday, April 16
- (4/17) The Longwood Camerata Singers, University Choir, and Chamber Singers will present a concert on Thursday, April 17
- (4/17) Dr. Larissa Smith Fergeson, associate professor of history, will speak Thursday, April 17
- (4/17) Dr. Hasan Hamdan, associate professor of mathematics at James Madison University, will speak Thursday, April 17
- (4/19) A reception for the 13th annual Community Achievement in the Arts Awards will be held Saturday, April 19
- (4/22 - 4/23) Presentations by students in English 400: Active Citizenship will be given Tuesday and Wednesday, April 22 and 23
- (4/22) The Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensembles will present a concert Tuesday, April 22
- (4/24) The Appalachian folk opera "Yonder Mountain" will be presented Thursday, April 24
- (4/25 - 4/26) The Longwood Company of Dancers will present its spring concert Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26
- (4/26) "The Benefit is Mutual," a sale of original art by Janice Lemen and Barbara Bishop, will be held Saturday, April 26
May
- (5/9) The Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble will perform Friday, May 9
- (5/12) The annual Faculty/Staff Picnic will be held Monday, May 12
- (5/16) An opening reception for "A Critical Eye: A Selection of Paintings from the Robert B. and Margaret T. Mayo Collection" will be held Friday, May 16
- (5/17) The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts and Central Virginia Artists (CVA) are sponsoring a community workshop, "Color and the Principles of Design," on Saturday, May 17
- (5/22) Mary Prevo, who teaches art history at Hampden-Sydney College, will give an Art for Lunch talk Thursday, May 22
September
- (9/4) Kristin Yvonne Rozier of the NASA Langley Research Center will speak Thursday, Sept. 4
- (9/5) An opening reception for the exhibition "It's Giving Me the Creeps: Art in the Permanent Collection that Scares the Staff" will be held Friday, Sept. 5
- (9/9) Storyteller Obakunle Akinlala will present "African Folktales" on Tuesday, Sept. 9
- (9/10) Dr. Steven Faukner, assistant professor of English, will speak Wednesday, Sept. 10
- (9/11) L. Preston Bryant Jr., Virginia secretary of natural resources, will be the speaker for Convocation on Thursday, Sept. 11
- (9/12) The Longwood Board of Visitors will meet Friday, Sept. 12
- (9/14) An opening reception for the exhibition "A Few of My Favorite Things: Portraits Made at Camp Unity" will be held Sunday, Sept. 14
- (9/15) Dr. David W. Moore, a prominent national pollster, will speak Monday, Sept. 15
- (9/16) A program on "Trouble Online: Campus Computing & the Law" will be presented Sept. 16
- (9/16) A program on "How Longwood Dining Helps Blue and Gray Go Green" will be presented Tuesday, Sept. 16
- (9/16) Entrepreneur and former corporate executive Heyn Kjerulf will be the Executive-in-Residence speaker on Tuesday, Sept. 16
- (9/17) An Unreasonable Man, a documentary film about consumer advocate Ralph Nader, will be shown Wednesday, Sept. 17
- (9/20) The exhibition "Free Lunch," which is about poverty in this area, will open Saturday, Sept. 20
- (9/21) The Richmond-based piano duo of Joanne Kong and Paul Hanson will present a Chamber Music Series concert Sunday, Sept. 21
- (9/23) Todd A. Phillips, a math teacher at Mills Godwin High School in Richmond, will speak Tuesday, Sept. 23
- (9/24) "Widespread Impacts of Mortgage Foreclosures: From Credit Markets to Local Communities" will be discussed during a forum on Wednesday, Sept. 24
- (9/24) A program on "Romance and the Environment: What Do the Two Have in Common?" will be presented Wednesday, Sept. 24
- (9/29) A faculty composition recital of music composed by Dr. Gordon Ring will be held on Sept. 29
October
- (10/1) Joaquin Zihuatanejo, a spoken word artist, award-winning teacher and poet, will perform Wednesday, Oct. 1
- (10/2) The Jazz Ensembles will present a concert Thursday, Oct. 2
- (10/2) A program on "What is Longwood Doing to be Green?" will be presented Thursday, Oct. 2
- (10/6) Dr. John S. Mebane, an English professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH), will give a Francis Butler Simkins Lecture on Oct. 6
- (10/7) A program on "Spending Your Green: Outsmarting Ads & Fads for the Sake of the Planet (and Your Wallet)" will be presented Tuesday, Oct. 7
- (10/7) Brass 5, a brass quintet from Roanoke, will present a Chamber Music Series concert on Oct. 7
- (10/9) Dr. Paul F. Hemler, associate professor of computer science at Hampden-Sydney College, will speak Thursday, Oct. 9
- (10/9) A presentation on mountaintop coal removal will be given Thursday, Oct. 9
- (10/12) The 2008 Area Youth Art Exhibition reception will be held Sunday, Oct. 12
- (10/15) Matthew Prickett, lecturer in English, will speak Wednesday, Oct. 15
- (10/16) A panel discussion on "Faith and Sustainability" will be held Thursday, Oct. 16
- (10/16) Dr. James Thornton, superintendent of the Cumberland County schools, will give a Sankofa Lecture on Oct. 16
- (10/21) The Longwood University Chemistry Club will hold a magic show Tuesday, Oct. 21
- (10/22) Longwood's celebration of Campus Sustainability Day on Wednesday, Oct. 22
- (10/22) Poet Margaret Gibson will read from her works Wednesday, Oct. 22
- (10/22 - 10/26) Longwood Theatre will present the horror classic Dracula from Oct. 22-26
- (10/27) Harry C. Boyte, founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota, will speak Monday, Oct. 27
- (10/28) Dr. Jim Jordan, professor of anthropology, will present a program on Longwood ghost stories Tuesday, Oct. 28
- (10/29) David R. Barrett, president and CEO and Barrett Capital Management, LLC, will be the Executive-in-Residence speaker Wednesday, Oct. 29
- (10/29) Orphanage, a Spanish horror/suspense film, will be shown Wednesday, Oct. 29
- (10/30) Dr. Chirashree Bhattacharya, assistant professor of mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, will speak Thursday, Oct. 30
- (10/30) A panel discussion on "Fear No Art" will be held Thursday, Oct. 30
- (10/30) The jazz band Robert Jospe and Inner Rhythm will perform Thursday, Oct. 30
November
- (11/3) Fiction writer Peter Grandbois will read from his works Monday, Nov. 3
- (11/6) Wind Symphony will present a concert on Nov. 6
- (11/7 - 11/9) Longwood Theatre will present The Princess and the Pea, on Nov. 7-9
- (11/7) Dr. William W. Freehling, author of four books on the Civil War, will speak on Nov. 7
- (11/8) The American Youth Harp Ensemble, of Richmond, will present a free concert Saturday, Nov. 8
- (11/10) Dr. Lily Run Ren will speak Nov. 10 on "Chinese Companies Today & Tomorrow: Crouching Tiger or Hidden Dragon?"
- (11/11) A Veterans Day program, the first in Longwood's history, sponsored by the Longwood Student Veterans (LSV) group, will be held Tuesday, Nov. 11
- (11/11) Dr. Phillip Cantrell and Dr. William Holliday will speak Nov. 11 on "Energy Consumption and Conflict in the Developing World: Case Studies from Bolivia and Nigeria."
- (11/12) The Band's Visit, an Israeli film about the complex cultural divide in the Middle East, will be shown Wednesday, Nov. 12
- (11/12) Erin Devine, instructor of art and chair, will speak on "Capitalist Productions: William Pope.L & the Radicalized Body" on Wednesday, Nov. 12
- (11/12) Shihan the Poet, a spoken word artist, will perform Wednesday, Nov. 12
- (11/13) The University Choir and the Camerata Singers, conducted by Dr. Ryan Hebert, will present a concert on Nov. 13
- (11/13) Sierra Club director to discuss Virginia's response to climate change
- (11/15) Book Talk, a free literacy fair for children and parents, will be held on November 15
- (11/18) Dr. Brian Lins, assistant professor of mathematics at Gettysburg College, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 18
- (11/19 - 11/23) Longwood Theatre will present the black comedy Crimes of the Heart from Nov. 19-23
- (11/19) The annual illumination of the holiday tree will be held Wednesday, Nov. 19
- (11/19) An Oxfam Hunger Banquet will be on Nov. 19
- (11/19) Sunscreen, Video Games, and the Economy to be discussed on Nov. 19
- (11/20) A Faces of Homelessness panel discussion will be held Thursday, Nov. 20
- (11/20) Fiction writer Allen Wier will receive the 27th John Dos Passos Prize for Literature on Thursday, Nov. 20
- (11/21) Performance artist Sheryl Oring will bring her "I Wish to Say" project to the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts on Nov. 21
- (11/21) The fourth annual Cook-Cole College Student Showcase will be held Friday, Nov. 21
December
- (12/3) Sculptor Ledelle Moe will give a public lecture Wednesday, Dec. 3
- (12/5 - 12/6) The annual Holiday Dinner and Concert will be Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6
- (12/5) The Longwood University Board of Visitors will meet Friday, Dec. 5
- (12/5) An opening reception for the Art Department Faculty Exhibition and "The Inner Eye: Folk Art of India from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection" will be held Friday, Dec. 5
- (12/12) Country music superstar Roy Clark and his band will perform a benefit concert on Friday, Dec. 12
- (12/15) The annual Faculty & Staff Holiday Luncheon will be Monday, Dec. 15