This exhibit, curated by recent WCU graduate William McDaris, tells the story of an early nineteenth century border conflict that reshaped the boundary line between north Georgia and far western North Carolina.

Black History month event. This is a deeply rich journey to where dignity stands tall. In a Mark Twain-like adventure, Mike Wiley gives an amazing portrayal of 20 characters, including Henry "Box" Brown, a black slave who mails himself to freedom in a small wooden crate labeled "THIS SIDE UP." (Best for grades 5th-8th)

Speaker

presentation lecture

Blood Drive

BYOD Prototype Classroom Open House

Ol' Dirty Bathtub band - concert at 7pm.  At 8pm there will be a jam session with the band - bring your stringed instrument if you'd like to participate - or watch and enjoy.   The First Thursday Concerts feature old-time and bluegrass music.  FREE to the public.

Women's Basketball vs. Furman

The School of Music’s Artist-in-Residence Program brings professional string musicians from the Asheville Symphony Orchestra to perform orchestral masterworks with WCU’s woodwind, brass, and percussion students. This program will be conducted by Christopher Confessore, and includes some favorite masterworks from the orchestral repertoire.

Christopher Confessore currently serves as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Brevard (FL) Symphony Orchestra and Resident Conductor and Principal Pops Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. His schedule as a guest conductor has included appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.

PROGRAM:

Sibelius - Finlandia

Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Elgar - Enigma Variations

                The second half of the program will include a special presentation by the conductor, describing the interesting origins of the Enigma Variations. Elgar composed each variation as a musical portrait of a friend or colleague. Through portraits projected on a screen, as well as musical examples, the audience will be introduced to each of these characters before the piece is performed in its entirety.

Men's Basketball @ Samford

Class combination.

Blood Drive

Review session for Math 255-03 Exam #1.

Doctor Strange
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Doctor Strange
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Women's Basketball vs. Wofford

Men's Basketball @ Chattanooga

Doctor Strange
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Doctor Strange
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Exhibit

Exhibit

ICA will present and speak with student-athletes regarding their office and what they do. Students will receive edication about diversity and what that looks like on our campus and how to celebrate it.

LIFE@Western Carolina meeting meets on Tuedsay's from 10am-12pm

Miwa Matreyek : Infinitely Yours

February 7 – May 5, 2017

Reception Thursday, March 16 from 5 – 7pm.

Animator, director, designer and performance artist, Miwa Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the cross section of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and tangible, illusionistic and physical.

Myth and Infrastructure, Miwa Matreyek, photo by Gayle Laird

PSC Guest Lecture

Extended time for the LIFE@Western Carolina meeting

A Hindu doctor with dementia and a Muslim auto rickshaw driver form an unlikely friendship as they journey a thousand miles across India in a rickshaw.

As a child, Dr. Amit Singh (Ram Gopal Bajaj) survived the British partition of India. Since then, he has been running forward his whole life, running from the nightmare of his childhood. Muslims murdered Amit’s family and he feels personally responsible for the death of his younger brother. Now, realizing that dementia is slowly eroding his mind, Amit must return to his childhood home and make peace with his past before he forgets it all. Amit's journey is stalled by the arrival of his son, Abhi (Samir Kochhar), who has come from America to commit his father to an old age home. Abhi’s plans force Amit to run away. Chance leads Amit to Salim (Pankaj Tripathi), a Muslim auto rickshaw driver who has himself been tormented by the past -- his wife raped and burned to death by Hindu rioters. Salim offers to take Amit home without knowing exactly where the journey will lead. Tensions soon surface, but a journey of a thousand miles in an auto rickshaw has a way of breaking down walls. Along the way, Amit and Salim forge an unforgettable friendship. And, by the end of the journey, Amit and Salim help each other find the peace they both have been longing for.

Exhibit

Poet Herisson Chicas

Exhibit

Panel Discussion : Africa, Cultural Exchange and Soft Diplomacy
Thursday February 9, 2017 at 3:30 – 4:30 in the WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center

This panel discussion is in addition to the in-gallery curator talk with guest curator Stephanie Beck Cohen, PhD, from 5 – 6pm and exhibit reception from 6 –7pm.

Panelists
Saheed Aderinto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History
Western Carolina University

Stephanie Beck Cohen, Ph.D.
Guest Curator, Soft Diplomacy
Arts of Africa and the South Pacific, Department of the History of Art
Indiana University

Jennifer Schiff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Director of International Studies, Department of Political Science & Public Affairs
Western Carolina University

Soft Diplomacy: Quilting Cultural Diplomacy in Liberia

January 9 – May 5, 2017

Public Reception Thursday, February 9 from 5 – 7pm

Liberian quilting is a flexible and responsive expression of Liberian women’s identities and reflections on nationhood. Soft Diplomacy examines the ways that Liberian women participate in nation-building and build cultural diplomacy across the Atlantic. Exhibition runs .

Liberian quilters, photo by Stephanie Beck Cohen

Women's Basketball @ Mercer

All-District Band

presentation lecture

Sessions for WNCBA members on Horn, Double Reeds, and Percussion

Concert

Games

Games

Men's Basketball vs. UNCG

Women's Basketball @ Samford

LA LA Land
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

LA LA Land
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

Games

Games

Movie

LA LA Land
Saturday, Feb. 11:
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater

Sunday, Feb. 12:
4:00pm & 7:00pm / UC Theater

$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

NOMINATED FOR 14 ACADEMY AWARDS!

LA LA Land

Saturday, Feb. 11:
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater

Sunday, Feb. 12:
4:00pm & 7:00pm / UC Theater

$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

NOMINATED FOR 14 ACADEMY AWARDS!

Movie

Valentine's Sale At Campus Bookstore!

Monday, February 13th & Tuesday, February 14th

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

25% Off All Jackets, Long Sleeve T-Shirts, and Sweatshirts

Additional 20% Off Clearance Items

Free Balloon with Purchase Over $100 (while supplies last)

Wear RED and Get a Bag of Kisses

Win a Water Bottle with Kisses By Guessing How Many Kisses Are In The Bottle 

Cannot be combined with any other discounts, special offers, or coupons.  Excludes software, Biltmore tickets, textbooks, and regalia.

Valentine's Sale At Campus Bookstore!

Monday, February 13th & Tuesday, February 14th

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

25% Off All Jackets, Long Sleeve T-Shirts, and Sweatshirts

Additional 20% Off Clearance Items

Free Balloon with Purchase Over $100 (while supplies last)

Wear RED and Get a Bag of Kisses

Win a Water Bottle with Kisses By Guessing How Many Kisses Are In The Bottle 

Cannot be combined with any other discounts, special offers, or coupons.  Excludes software, Biltmore tickets, textbooks, and regalia.

LIFE@Western Carolina meeting meets on Tuedsay's from 10am-12pm

Forum

Make up Lecture for Math 422

Diverisity presentation with Greek Life.

Men's Basketball vs. Furman

Renowned as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear is an electric tale of an aging monarch’s decent into madness and his personal hell forged from tested love, betrayal, and a kingdom divided. It is the ultimate political thriller where King and kingdom are scorched, human nature scrutinized, and the wise are made fools. Yet, at his lowest, Lear attains new wisdom, discovers true loyalty, and finds salvation in a banished daughter’s love. King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition and demonstrates how relevant the Bard’s great works are for our generation.

Got Talent?  Join Last Minute Productions and show off your special talent to the Catamount family.  Sign up in advance at the UC Guest Services Desk (2nd Floor of AK Hinds University Center).  

Anthropology Club is planning on setting up a table to promote and celebrate anthropology

Free Enterprise Speaker

"Jack Tales" are a southern Appalachian storytelling staple and a continuation of an English Tradition going back hundreds of years.  The most familiar and often repeated of the genre is "Jack and the Beanstalk."  This oral history and storyteling presentation will include live stories told by Ashton Woody, a junior majoring in English at WCU, and an open discussion about regional entertainment traditions and mountain dialects.  Also featured will be audio and video recordings of Ray hicks (1922-2003), considered the master of "Jack Tales."  FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  PARK ANYWHERE NEAR THE HUNTER LIBRARY BUILDING/MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER, STREET OR LOT.  

Join Last Minute Productions (LMP) for an opportunity to preview artists we are considering brining to campus for the 2017 - 2018 academic year.  We'll provide you with dinner - brisket sliders and all the fixings - and ask you to give us feedback on comedians, spoken word artists, musicians, hypnotists and more.  

C.A.S.E. Program

Women's Basketball vs. ETSU

Renowned as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear is an electric tale of an aging monarch’s decent into madness and his personal hell forged from tested love, betrayal, and a kingdom divided. It is the ultimate political thriller where King and kingdom are scorched, human nature scrutinized, and the wise are made fools. Yet, at his lowest, Lear attains new wisdom, discovers true loyalty, and finds salvation in a banished daughter’s love. King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition and demonstrates how relevant the Bard’s great works are for our generation.

Baseball vs. St. John's (@ Myrtle Beach, SC)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Renowned as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear is an electric tale of an aging monarch’s decent into madness and his personal hell forged from tested love, betrayal, and a kingdom divided. It is the ultimate political thriller where King and kingdom are scorched, human nature scrutinized, and the wise are made fools. Yet, at his lowest, Lear attains new wisdom, discovers true loyalty, and finds salvation in a banished daughter’s love. King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition and demonstrates how relevant the Bard’s great works are for our generation.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Baseball @ Coastal Carolina

Women's Basketball vs. Chattanooga

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Men's Basketball @ Wofford

Renowned as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear is an electric tale of an aging monarch’s decent into madness and his personal hell forged from tested love, betrayal, and a kingdom divided. It is the ultimate political thriller where King and kingdom are scorched, human nature scrutinized, and the wise are made fools. Yet, at his lowest, Lear attains new wisdom, discovers true loyalty, and finds salvation in a banished daughter’s love. King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition and demonstrates how relevant the Bard’s great works are for our generation.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
7:00pm & 10:00pm / UC Theater
$3 with Cat Card / $6 all others (includes popcorn and drink)

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Renowned as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear is an electric tale of an aging monarch’s decent into madness and his personal hell forged from tested love, betrayal, and a kingdom divided. It is the ultimate political thriller where King and kingdom are scorched, human nature scrutinized, and the wise are made fools. Yet, at his lowest, Lear attains new wisdom, discovers true loyalty, and finds salvation in a banished daughter’s love. King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition and demonstrates how relevant the Bard’s great works are for our generation.

Baseball vs. North Carolina A&T (@ Myrtle Beach)

Presidents' Day Sale At Campus Bookstore

Play A President Trivia Game, Win A $5 Gift Card

Select A Group Of Items For:  $5, $10, $15

Global Spotlight - Drug Trade

"Ted Talk" style speaker.

Athletics will host DSCE to present "Consent and The Code" to the freshmen student-athletes

LIFE@Western Carolina meeting meets on Tuedsay's from 10am-12pm

The faculty and the students will compete in a friendly game of Math Jeopardy. 

PAR / PSPA Alumni Vocational Talk --

Matthew Kirby, Southwestern Community College, College Liaison – Jackson; Sylva, NC (’10, Philosophy; M.A. ’12, School Counseling)

Summer Woodard, Town Manager; Franklin, NC (’08, Political Science and History)

Rehearsal

Live Informational Art Exhibit

Athletics will host DSCE to present "Consent and The Code" to female student-athletes.

Symphony Band Concert

Baseball @ Clemson

Black History Month Art Exhibit

Men's Basketball @ The Citadel

Traditional Appalachian craft using natural materials.  The cobweb broom is made to access hard to reach areas of the home, especially those pesky cobwebs in corners. Mickey Sizemore attended WCU in the 1980s and has taught cobweb broom making at the Jackson County Public Library.  He is also a soapmaker and lives in Cullowhee.   FREE.  The Mountain Heritage Center is on the first floor of WCU's Hunter Library Building, facing Central Drive, clearly marked by sign.  Free Central Drive street and lot parking nearby. 

Music

Athletics will partner with CCPD to work with senior student-athlets on interview skills.

Mid-Year Symposium Lectures/Speakers

Speaker for Mid-Year Symposium

Softball vs. Howard (USC Upstate Tournament- Spartanburg, SC)

Speaker/Presenter

Softball vs. Delaware State (USC Upstate Tournament- Spartanburg, SC)

Baseball vs. Marshall

Rhonda Vincent and The Rage: World Class Musicians, and an Award Winning Voice seamlessly set the stage for a breathtaking one-of-a-kind, must see performance; that reaches beyond the boundaries of bluegrass music!

Concert

Comedy

Softball vs. Toledo (USC Upstate Tournament- Spartanburg, SC)

Baseball vs. Marshall

Softball @ USC Upstate (USC Upstate Tournament- Spartanburg, SC)

Musical Theatre Senior Recital

Women's Basketball vs. UNCG

Musical Theatre Senior Recital

Men's Basketball vs. ETSU

February 25, 2017
10:00pm

UC Theater

FREE!

Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. While the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep.

Softball @ USC Upstate Tournament

Baseball vs. Marshall

Presentation/discussion on cultural geography concepts as manifested in the MHC's exhibits.

Presentation/discussion on cultural geography concepts as manifested in the MHC's exhibits

Talk by Dean Paulk, Student Services Specialist, Career Services and Liaison to the College of Fine & Performing Arts. 

The Meeting is a two person play about the fictional meeting of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X

Performance

Men's Basketball vs. VMI

LIFE@Western Carolina meeting meets on Tuedsay's from 10am-12pm

Baseball vs. UNC Asheville

The Mountain Winds Community Band will be giving their first concert of the season. Come enjoy wind band music from a variety of composers. The concert is free and open to the public.

Guest artist