Campus Calendar

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.

Join us for a fun-filled Bingo Night, co-hosted by the Office of Student Engagement (OSE) and the Student Government Association (SGA). Come test your luck, enjoy great company, and win exciting prizes! Whether you’re a bingo pro or a first-time player, this event is the perfect way to relax and connect with fellow students. Don’t miss out—bring your friends and get ready to shout BINGO! For more event information make sure to follows our instagram @uvawiseose & @uvawisesga

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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.

Join us for an informational session study abroad opportunities at UVA Wise. We'll discuss semester and year-long programs. Scholarship information will also be shared!

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

International Faculty and Students Reception sponsored by Academic Affairs/Provost Office

We will be playing the movie Contact (1997). The event will be organized by the Sigma Zeta (National Science & Mathematics Honor Society).

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.

The Nest is hosting Side Hustle Market, a farmers market style event where entrepreneurs, idealists, and creatives of all kinds can sell or market a product, gather info and feedback on a future product, share or test an idea, pitch for crowdfunding or support, etc.

The Junior Art Majors will present their semester's projects. Junior Art Show will be on display April 14-18.

UVA Wise will host its Egg Hunt for the local community on Saturday, April 19 from noon through 2 p.m. on campus. Families are invited to bring their children to hunt for eggs. UVA Wise students, local businesses and Town of Wise leaders are contributing their time to host craft and activity booths. The egg hunt is for ages 12 and under. Minors on campus must be supervised by parents or guardians on college grounds during this event.

On April 23rd in the Cantrell Banquet Hall, Career Discovery and Planning and the Office for Advocacy and Opportunity will host a Values & Work-Life Balance event for students. Food will be provided by OAO.

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.

Senior Art Show will be on display April 28-May 2

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.