Campus Calendar

Marcus L. Johnson, Ph.D. Professor of Educational Psychology and Educational Research & Evolution at Virginia Tech

Students considering attending graduate school, but are in the early stages of their search should attend this informational presentation. Great session for juniors, seniors, and those planning to take a gap year. Learn where to look for programs, gather tools to help with the process, and other important details to start your journey. This is a three day series that builds on one another so don't forget to come to the other sessions.

Get financial insights from a successful entrepreneur with 28 years of experience. Learn to build wealth and take control of your future! After serving as an Air Force airplane mechanic, Dave Harms discovered his passion for financial services. With 28 years of experience, he’s helped others achieve financial independence, opened 32 offices nationwide, and now manages over $250 Million in assets.

Students are admitted free and can register for transportation to the event at OAO@uvawise.edu.

Jim Veenstra will present an artist's talk discussing his art exhibit entitled "Elements". A light reception will be provided.

International Spoken Word Artist & Motivational Speaker Free coffee to UVA Wise students who join us! (Limited supplies)

The Center for Appalachian Studies at UVA Wise will host speaker, Dwayne Yancey on campus in the Science Center Lecture Hall on February 17 at 7:00 p.m. The title of his topic will be “What Taylor Swift and 8-track tapes can tell us about the changing landscape of the news media.”

Seniors graduating in May can stop by to pick up their cap and gown and finalize their ceremony information.

The Wise Guys and Papa Joe Smiddy Bluegrass Ensemble will present a concert in the Gilliam Center for the Arts Lobby. Open to the Public.

A unique concert adventure of classic favorites from Bach to Brahms, The Beatles and Bluegrass, as well as music inspired by nature's awakening from all over the world featuring seven-time Grammy nominee and Grammy award-winning cellist/pianist/composer Dave Eggar with renowned piano soloist Yifei Xu, fiddle virtuoso Dan Qiao, and classical and world percussionist/composer Brandon Williams, with special guest Grammy-nominated guitarist Phil Faconti.

Carlos Murillo leads a Writing Workshop. Open to all.

A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Vol. 1) is a celebration of live music, comedy, inter-connectedness, and America. It’s a magic ritual, a biography, a collage, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, a wild ride through the life, work and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith, best known for curating the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music. Free w/ CAVs Card / $5 Public. Opening performance of Harry Smith will be followed by a talkback with playwright Carlos Murillo. Open to all.

Carlos Murillo will deliver a Craft Lecture. Open to all.

A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Vol. 1) is a celebration of live music, comedy, inter-connectedness, and America. It’s a magic ritual, a biography, a collage, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, a wild ride through the life, work and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith, best known for curating the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music. Free w/ CAVs Card / $5 Public. Opening performance of Harry Smith will be followed by a talkback with playwright Carlos Murillo. Open to all.

A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Vol. 1) is a celebration of live music, comedy, inter-connectedness, and America. It’s a magic ritual, a biography, a collage, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, a wild ride through the life, work and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith, best known for curating the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music. Free w/ CAVs Card / $5 Public. Opening performance of Harry Smith will be followed by a talkback with playwright Carlos Murillo. Open to all.

Hailed by critics as ‘highly artistic”, “brilliant”, and “truly outstanding”, internationally-acclaimed pianist Maria Yefimova has toured throughout the US, Russia, and Europe, performing in major venues such as Carnegie Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Hall, Lisinsky Hall (Croatia), Teatro Puccini (Italy), and Slovak Philharmonic Hall. She has been featured on the Bravo TV network, Tele Monte Orlando (Italy), Paradise Radio (USVI), Slovak National Television, WCVE public radio, as well as on major TV art networks in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile.

Staged reading of "Tempestuous" by Mark Sage, with music by Blane Sage.

The 30th Annual Community Spring Swing golf tournament, hosted by UVA Wise Alumni Association with major corporate sponsor Ballad Health/Norton Community Hospital, is set for Friday, April 11, 2025, at the picturesque Lonesome Pine Country Club in Big Stone Gap.

From Virginia’s first professional contemporary circus company, comes MetaMORPHOsis, a performance that celebrates the life cycle of the Morpho butterfly. For the original production at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in 2019, Host of Sparrows Aerial Circus worked with an arborist to create a beautifully choreographed show of aerial silks artists suspended from a mighty oak tree—32 feet in the air. MetaMORPHOsis celebrates the beauty in the life cycle of the butterfly. Each performer creatively interprets the journey of the caterpillar emerging from the egg, to cocoon, and then the magnificent transformation into a beautiful butterfly.

Staged reading of "The Tale of Mother" by Katie Pridemore.

The Wise Guys, Papa Joe Smiddy Bluegrass Band, and other ensembles will perform in Cantrell Banquet Hall. Open to all.

The UVA Wise Jazz Ensemble will present its spring 2025 program of traditional jazz classics and contemporary favorites.

Readings and productions of plays by Hailey Bevins, Jess Mullins Fullen, Brantley Oakley, Rachel Stallard, and Jess Wells.

Julius Rodriguez defies context. You might find him in a packed jazz haunt behind the piano with energy surging from his fingers. You could scroll social media and catch him alternating between drums, bass, and guitar at the speed of a jump cut. You might step onto festival grounds and see him on stage jamming like his life depends on it. No matter where, the New York-born and Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer electrifies any stage—transcending perceived boundaries between genres and styles, redefining music to mirror his own fluid creative inclinations, and delivering a sound that's his alone.

Julius Rodriguez defies context. You might find him in a packed jazz haunt behind the piano with energy surging from his fingers. You could scroll social media and catch him alternating between drums, bass, and guitar at the speed of a jump cut. You might step onto festival grounds and see him on stage jamming like his life depends on it. No matter where, the New York-born and Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer electrifies any stage—transcending perceived boundaries between genres and styles, redefining music to mirror his own fluid creative inclinations, and delivering a sound that's his alone.