Students and faculty came together at Language Out Loud event on Monday, the first day on International Education Week, in celebration of languages from all over the world. Students read poems and songs out loud to an audience in a variety of foreign languages, such as French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German, Arabic, and Romanian.
Flags representing various sexual orientations lined the otherwise bare walls in 3rd Place Boone on Nov. 8, and several chairs were placed in rows for audience members, who were asked to support performers by snapping. The front of the room became a stage for poetry writers to speak their truth as members of the LGBTQ
The App State Theatre and Dance Department is putting on its annual Fall Appalachian Dance Ensemble in the Valborg Theatre Nov. 14-18. The show includes eight dances featuring the work of students, faculty and special guests, according to the department’s press release. Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for faculty and staff and $17 for
Tatianna Matthews sat in her hotel room at the Baymont, the thought of her day job as a customer service representative at Verizon Wireless the farthest thought from her mind. As she sat with only a lamp light beaming on her, she beat her face, using a purple stick of glue to lay her eyebrows
On Nov. 8, a presentation about ghost phenomena was held at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum as part of the Scholars and Scones speaker series. The speaker of this spooky presentation was App State professor, Trent Margrif. The Scholars and Scones program “invites patrons to spend a morning sipping coffee, eating locally-baked goodies
“I always have a hard time writing about myself. It’s easier to tell someone else’s story and I’m still trying to convince my shadow that it chose me for a reason,” Ebony Stewart said in her opening piece Nov. 6 in the Parkway Ballroom with an intimate crowd of around 35 people. Ebony Stewart aka
Former Footsloggers worker Jason Berry always wanted to create a successful film festival. He has now done so for the third year in a row. Along with friends Bill Ireland and Russ Hyatt, Berry created the concept for a film festival in 2016, which has since raised over $6,000 for local non-profits, such as The
Wellness and Prevention Services will host the y(OUR) Story collaborative production on March 27. The event, previously known as Mental Health Monologues, will give students a chance to anonymously submit their personal stories about struggles with mental health. Roy Dale Cox, senior double major in theatre performance and political science, said the main topic of
“Spirits float from dorm to dorm, while Boone readies for snowstorms. Salt and slush will coat our streets. Off to Sugar, App, and Beech,” sang the audience of App State’s 11th Halloween Monster Concert. The pumpkin carol, “Goblins We Have Heard on High” was sung to the tune of “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
Bright orange Nerf bullets whistled through the air, ricocheting off walls and obstacles, as the human team dispersed into the eerily vacant library. Small numbers of survivors clumped together to gain some sense of comfort in the narrow passages of Belk Library. With the exception of the fourth floor and other small areas, Belk Library
