The musical duo Black Violin played for a sold out show in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Friday night, as part of the APPlause! series, which is dedicated to K-12 education through high-energy experience, according to the Schaefer Center website. Black Violin featured violinists Wilner Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester, who have known each
Shakey Graves performed a sold out show at Legends Thursday night as part of his Sleepwalker Tour and played new songs from his unreleased album. Alejandro Rose-Garcia is the man behind the name Shakey Graves, according to NPR Music. “I really loved how Shakey came out and had a lot of energy and he maintained
The Pagan Student Association held their annual Faerie Festival Saturday. Held on Sanford Mall, the festival included several events such as inflatable jousting, maypole dancing and tarot or divination card readings for participants. Cotton candy and flower crowns were also available to buy at the festival. The Pagan Student Association is the only pagan club
The Appalachian State University Solar Energy Society is hosting its seventh annual Earth Tones on Friday. Designed to educate about sustainability, Earth Tones invites students and the public to enjoy live music and get to know some of the sustainable organizations around campus and in the community. The event is traditionally held in April because
Holi, an Indian festival known for celebrating the coming of spring, was held on Sanford Mall on Wednesday. This was the first Holi festival that App State has put on for the campus-wide Diversity Celebration week. Holi was originally scheduled for March 22 to celebrate the first day of spring, but was canceled due to
Raven Moffett, a senior art and visual culture major, calls themselves overt and upfront and said the same can be said of their installation, “Decolonizing the Self,” the newest exhibition featured in the Looking Glass Gallery. Raven Moffett describes in their artist statement that their history is “split on opposite sides of Manifest Destiny” by
On April 13, 14 and 15, audiences in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts will experience the story of “Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” presented by the Theatre and Dance and Music departments. The cast of the show features students from both departments, with 20 students making up the ensemble and
For its second season, Project Condom brought sex education to Appalachian’s campus by merging art and fashion with the theme “the great outdoors.” For some, sexual health may not be the easiest topic to bring up, but Project Condom aims to make the conversation about protection and sexual education less taboo with the help of
The Japanese Culture Club hosted its fourth annual Cherry Blossom Festival on March 22, celebrating the arrival of spring with music, food, a fashion show and more. The Cherry Blossom Festival, known as hanami, is a Japanese event that began in the 700s during the Nara period when ume blossoms were celebrated. Now every spring
Story by Rachel Greenland, News Reporter. Photo by Hayley Canal, Staff Photographer Photo Caption: Nicholas Kristof talking at the Schaefer Center on Monday night. He is a Pulitzer Prize-columnist winner for the New York Times. Nicholas Kristof, also known as “the reporter’s reporter,” delivered a speech entitled “Why Students Should Care About the World & Change
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