Category: Literature
Hutchins Lecture: Robert Gipe, Thurs, March 9 at 4:30 pm
“Storytellers and Sociopaths: Thoughts on How We Define Reality from Post-Obama Appalachia” This lecture will explore connections between the rich storytelling tradition, grinding economic challenges, hard political choices, despair, and hope experienced by people in the southeast Kentucky coalfields. Gipe … Read more
Monique Truong on Food, Literature, and Immigration, Fri, Oct 28 at 12:00 pm
Join us in the Hitchcock Room at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center as we welcome Monique Truong back to the Old North State. Her lecture is titled “Writing Plenty / Writing Hunger / Writing North Carolina.” The talk will begin with … Read more
Co-sponsored event: “One Noble Journey: A Box Marked Freedom,” Sun, Feb 14 at 3:00 pm
In celebration of Black History Month, the Friday Center proudly presents a free theatrical performance presented by dramatic artist Mike Wiley on Sunday, February 14 at 3:00 pm. His one-man play, One Noble Journey, tells the story of Henry “Box” … Read more
Italy and the American South: Seba Pezzani, Friday, October 9 at 2:00 pm
Join us at the Love House & Hutchins Forum for the next installment of “What’s Up Down South?” hosted by William R. Ferris. Ferris will be joined by translator and blues musician Seba Pezzani for an afternoon concert. Pezanni translated … Read more