Artist, hip-hop performer and global ambassador for Moral Courage® Genesis Be, a prominent voice for social change through the past decade, will discuss her unique and wide-ranging efforts to encourage conversations across differences during a special September appearance at Hanover College. Widely known for her efforts to remove the Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state
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Hanover College’s Duggan Library has added much-needed space for studying, student collaboration, classes and even social events after the removal of multiple shelves of periodicals from the north side of the first floor. The expansive area is now bordered by “Trajectory,” a 500-square-foot, multi-panel mural designed, painted and installed this fall by students in Art
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Pete Corrao ’76, John Stanley ’72, Cassi Binkley Friday ’11 and Jenn Williams ‘10 have been selected to receive Hanover College’s highest alumni honors this fall. Corrao and Stanley will each receive the Alumni Achievement Award. Friday and Williams will be presented with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. The honorees will be saluted Saturday, Oct.
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Silas House, award-winning novelist, Kentucky poet laureate, educator and environmental activist, will deliver a special address during a mid-September appearance on Hanover College’s campus. Since 2010, House has served as associate professor and National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, where he teaches Appalachian literature and a writing workshop. He
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Shadow puppetry, an art form more than 2,000 years old, will be celebrated during two March events on the Hanover College campus. Esther Fernández, renowned early modern scholar and co-founder of the acclaimed Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe, will present “Puppets in the Spanish Golden Age” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, in Science Center, room 137.
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The Hanover College Theatre Department will present “Little Women: The Broadway Musical” during a special six-show run in mid-March. This musical adaptation of an iconic American novel is just the second musical performed at Hanover in the past two decades. “Little Women: The Broadway Musical” is based on the beloved 19th-century work by American novelist
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The Hanover College Theatre Department’s staging of “classics with a twist” continues Nov. 17-19 with a three-show presentation of “Everybody.” “Everybody” is a modern take on one of the first recorded plays in the English language, “Everyman.” Written by award-winning American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, “Everybody” was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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An exhibition featuring award-winning student and faculty artwork spanning more than 50 years will be on display Oct. 13-29 in Hanover College’s Lynn Center for Fine Arts. “Legacy” highlights more than 30 pieces from Hanover’s Greiner Collection, which includes winners of the College’s annual Greiner Art Purchase Award. The retrospective features award-winning pieces ranging from
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During the 2010s, the small Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar (formerly Burma) was immersed in a complex political transition that had deep impact on all aspects of life. In that decade, the agrarian nation transitioned after five decades of military rule to a civilian-based, citizen-elected government. The change ushered in a new age of priorities
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Harlan Hubbard’s property secured by not-for-profit group A legacy can often point to business success or a singular contribution. Seldom do legacies bring together such unique aspects as that of Harlan Hubbard. Art and architecture, carpentry and community, ecology and education, history and preservation all fuse to reflect the life and influence of the celebrated
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