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September 2019
Is Soccer Art?
In this talk, Dr. Laurent Dubois will explore the links between soccer and other forms of culture, including contemporary visual art, film, and literature. Dr. Dubois will begin by offering an overview of the spread and anchoring of soccer throughout the globe, offering a few thoughts about precisely why this cultural form has become so widely shared even as it has taken a variety of different forms and expressions in different parts of the world. He will then explore how artists have engaged…
Find out more »Phoenix Reading Series Presents: Bookmarks Author TBD
Rajia Hassib’s first novel, In the Language of Miracles, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and received an honorable mention from the Arab American Book Award. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Marshall University and has written for The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker online. A Pure Heartis a powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters, their divergent fates, and the secrets of one family. This event is open to the public. No tickets required.
Find out more »2nd Annual NC Junior Piano Competition
The second annual Junior Piano Competition will be held for North Carolina students between the ages of 14 and 18. These students will compete for cash prizes funded by the Randall Thomas Johnson trust. In addition to the cash prizes the Department of Music will offer a music scholarship to the winner. This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »5th Annual HPU Piano Competition: Funded by The Randall Thomas Johnson Trust
The fifth annual High Point University Piano Competition funded by the Randall Thomas Johnson Trust will be held in the Hayworth Fine Arts Center. Three finalists chosen from Youtube first-round submissions will compete for cash prizes. The first place winner will be invited back to campus to do a recital in 2020. All events are free and open to the public.
Find out more »Dr. Burrows Voice Performance
An exciting faculty recital is coming to start off the new school year through the High Point University Music Department. Internationally acclaimed Mezzo-Soprano, Dr. Candice Burrows, will be giving a collaborating vocal recital with Professor Dr. Brian Nedvin of Old Dominion University. Dr. Nedvin is the Director and Musical Director of the Opera and Musical Theatre productions at Old Dominion University and is a busy international concert artist. The program will also feature collaborative pianist and piano professor, Dr. Stephen…
Find out more »Art Gallery Closing Reception: Sharon Hardin
The early portion of this artist's career was as a marketing consultant. While establishing herself for over two decades creating promotional materials and strategies for business, she never lost sight of the desire to create art." Fortunately, she returned to her passion and was able to devote important time to her craft, working with many notable teachers and mentors, and studying abroad and domestically in key workshops. Her transition from semi-abstract painting to full abstract has allowed her to create…
Find out more »HPUniverse Day 2019
Free Astronomy Activities for Kids and Adults of All Ages! HPUniverse Day is a free, astronomy-themed outreach event held in the Department of Physics at High Point University every fall semester. Visitors are encouraged to explore space, science, and beyond through 25 different learning stations and activities set up in and around the Wanek School of Undergraduate Sciences. Example stations include robotic space rovers, planetarium shows, water bottle rocket launches, making moon craters, hovercraft rides, discovering exoplanets, and many more.…
Find out more »October 2019
Art Gallery Opening Reception: Jonathan Brilliant
Join us on Thursday, October 3rd in the Sechrest Art Gallery at 4pm to view Jonathan Brilliant's art exhibit. Jonathan Brilliant was born in 1976 in Charleston, South Carolina. Brilliant holds a B.A. in studio art from the College of Charleston and an M.F.A. in Spatial Arts from San Jose State University. Brilliant is a recipient of an individual artist grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and is a South Carolina Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellow.He has exhibited his work in…
Find out more »These Shining Lives
These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it's true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them. Tickets are available at highpoint.edu/theatre starting on September 11, 2019. You may…
Find out more »Symphonic Band Concert
The HPU Wind Ensemble will perform its first concert of the academic year on Friday, October 4th at 7:30pm in HPU's Hayworth Fine Arts Center. The first half of the performance will feature HPU Instrumental Division faculty in varying chamber ensemble settings. Following an intermission, the Wind Ensemble will perform storied masterworks from the wind band repertoire. This concert is a rich collaboration of HPU woodwind, brass, and percussion faculty and students. An engaging performance you do not want to…
Find out more »The Sound in Picture Concert
Movie Music Extravaganza will feature a variety of musical styles used in film music from classical, to jazz, popular music and Broadway. Highlights of the program include music from Star Wars, Pink Panther, Harry Potter, and Disney films. The concert will spotlight HPU music faculty, students and small ensembles, along with guest performers. This event is open to the public. No tickets required.
Find out more »Michael Davidson Concert
HPU welcomes to campus Associate Professor of Trombone at the University of Kansas, Dr. Michael Davidson, for a 7:30pm recital on Monday, October 7th at the David Hayworth Chapel. Dr. Davidson will perform a varied program of solos works for trombone, as well as pieces for trombone with piano. This event is open to the public. No tickets required.
Find out more »African American Religiosity Lecture: Dr. William D. Hart, “Afterlives of Slavery”
On the 22nd of October 2019, HPU will join the city of High Point in commemoration of 400 Years of African American History with a lecture by religious studies professor William D. Hart. Dr. Hart currently holds the Margaret W. Harmon Chair at Macalester College and researches the intersection of religion, ethics, and politics. He is the author of Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion, Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis, and Edward Said and…
Find out more »Phoenix Reading Series Presents: Nicole Walker
NICOLE WALKER is the author of two forthcoming books Sustainability: A Love Story and A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best…
Find out more »Fall Dance Concert
The Fall Dance Concert is our annual student-produced dance showcase. Featuring choreography by students and alumni guest artists, the concert covers a variety of dance styles including tap, contemporary, hip-hop, and more. The Fall Dance Concert is also a community outreach event, and our students ask that attendees bring donations of school supplies for Fairview Elementary School in High Point. Free tickets are available at highpoint.edu/dance starting on October 10, 2019. You may sign up for an email reminder when…
Find out more »Photograph 51 Play Reading
Join us for a reading of the play Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler, which focuses on the role of the X-Ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Find out more »November 2019
Percussion Ensemble Concert
Come out and enjoy an extravagant evening of contemporary and classical percussion! On Friday, November 1st, the High Point University Music Department presents the Fall Percussion Ensemble Concert in Pauline Theatre at the Hayworth Fine Arts Center. Directed by Chris Thompson, the HPU Percussion ensemble will present a diverse range of exciting percussion literature that is sure to entertain. This is an event you do not want to miss! This event is open to the public. No tickets required.
Find out more »Recital Series Featuring: Aleks Romano and Kevin Miller
Critically acclaimed musical artists Aleks Romano, mezzo-soprano, and Kevin Miller, pianist take the stage in this special collaboration featuring music by and about women. This program centers on the feminine perspective in pursuit of a life well-lived, with an emphasis on diverse compositional voices and viewpoints. Beloved works from the vocal canon are reframed alongside new works, allowing for a parallel study of historical perspectives and experiences. Open to the public. No tickets required.
Find out more »Bright Star
By Steve Martin and Edie Brickell Show Times: November 14-16 at 7:30, 17th at 2 pm; Pauline Theatre in Hayworth Fine Arts Center Inspired by a real event and featuring the Grammy-nominated score by Steven Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1920s and ’40s. When literary editor Alice Murphy meets a young soldier just home from World War II,…
Find out more »Phoenix Literary Festival Featuring Keynote: Maaza Mengiste
Phoenix Literary Festival Dates: November 15th at 5:00pm, November 16th at 11:00am Location: Phillips Hall, Francis Auditorium Maaza Mengiste, born in Ethiopia. In the mid-’70s, there was a revolution and an authoritarian dictatorship took over. She lived in Nigeria for a while, and then Kenya. When she was seven, her family moved to Colorado. She went to college thinking she would become a doctor. That’s every Ethiopian parent’s dream for their child. But as soon as she got there, she…
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