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Sing and Swing – A Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS Production – APPlause! performance

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

About     Events    Registration     Educator Resources     FAQsHear excerpts from the Schaefer Center Presents series’ evening performance, Sing and Swing – A Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS Production, featuring songs by Gershwin, Ellington, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many more. Joined by a who’s who of New York all-stars, this “unforgettable” program of […]

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Sing & Swing: Our American Songbook

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

This celebration of the Great American Songbook and iconic partnerships in jazz features trumpeters, vocalists, and composers Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack III. The North American tour of SING AND SWING: Our American Songbook will reach 45 cities across the United States and Canada. Each armed with prodigious trumpet talent and vocal charm, Skonberg and Benack […]

Kayla E.

Plemmons Student Union 201-B Plemmons Student Union

photo credit: Sara MulveyThis event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian JournalKayla E. is a Texas-born artist and designer of Mexican-American descent. Her comics practice centers around her childhood and functions as a map-making exercise. Leaning heavily on the fixed compositional structure and aesthetic codes of post-war American comics, she imposes […]

Event Series Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

Stand on the highest peaks, ski the steepest slopes, and be a part of the gripping adventures waiting for you in this year’s Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. From exploring remote landscapes to adrenaline-fueled action sports, films selected for the 2023/2024 World Tour are sure to captivate and amaze you. Be moved. Be […]

Documentary Filmmakers on Interpreting Rural Life: From Appalachia to the World

Appalachian Theatre

  Presented by Appalachian State University's High Country Humanities, with support from North Carolina Humanities. Join Appalachian State documentary filmmakers for screenings of their work, a panel discussion, and an audience Q&A moderated by documentary film scholar Dr. Maria Pramaggiore, chair of Appalachian State's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. The speakers will address how visual narratives portray […]

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

Stand on the highest peaks, ski the steepest slopes, and be a part of the gripping adventures waiting for you in this year’s Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. From exploring remote landscapes to adrenaline-fueled action sports, films selected for the 2023/2024 World Tour are sure to captivate and amaze you. Be moved. Be […]

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

Stand on the highest peaks, ski the steepest slopes, and be a part of the gripping adventures waiting for you in this year’s Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. From exploring remote landscapes to adrenaline-fueled action sports, films selected for the 2023/2024 World Tour are sure to captivate and amaze you. Be moved. Be […]

M. Soledad Caballero

Plemmons Student Union 201-B Plemmons Student Union

This event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian JournalThe Juanita Tobin Memorial Reading Soledad Caballero, professor of English and co-chair of the Women's Gender and Sexuality Program at Allegheny College, is a Macondo and CantoMundo fellow. Her poem “Some Day I Will Visit Hawk Mountain" was featured in May 2022 in […]

Event Series Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

I.G. Greer Studio Theatre

Appalachian Young People’s Theatre (AYPT) Directed by Gordon Hensley For nearly a century, the timeless tales of Winnie-the-Pooh and his beloved companions, Piglet, Owl, Tigger, Rabbit, and the melancholic Eeyore, have captivated hearts worldwide. Originally written by A.A. Milne as a gift for his son, Christopher Robin, these endearing characters come to life once more […]

Indigo Girls

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

Photo by Jeremy CowartReleased in 1989, Indigo Girls' eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and turned Indigo Girls into one of the most successful folk duos in history. Over a 35-year career that began in clubs around their native Atlanta, Georgia, […]

Event Series Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

I.G. Greer Studio Theatre

Appalachian Young People’s Theatre (AYPT) Directed by Gordon Hensley For nearly a century, the timeless tales of Winnie-the-Pooh and his beloved companions, Piglet, Owl, Tigger, Rabbit, and the melancholic Eeyore, have captivated hearts worldwide. Originally written by A.A. Milne as a gift for his son, Christopher Robin, these endearing characters come to life once more […]

Event Series Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

I.G. Greer Studio Theatre

Appalachian Young People’s Theatre (AYPT) Directed by Gordon Hensley For nearly a century, the timeless tales of Winnie-the-Pooh and his beloved companions, Piglet, Owl, Tigger, Rabbit, and the melancholic Eeyore, have captivated hearts worldwide. Originally written by A.A. Milne as a gift for his son, Christopher Robin, these endearing characters come to life once more […]

Show Way The Musical

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St, Boone, NC

About     Events    Registration     Educator Resources     FAQsIllustration by Hudson Talbott © 2005A World Premiere Kennedy Center Commission|By Jacqueline WoodsonAdapted from her book Show Way, illustrated by Hudson TalbottMusic and Lyrics by Tyrone L. RobinsonChoreographed by Tiffany QuinnMusic Directed by Tiffany Underwood HolmesDirected by Schele Williams Created by Kennedy Center Theater for Young […]

Roger Day — From First Idea to Finished Song: a Songwriting Workshop for Rockstar Teachers

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

About     Events    Registration     Educator Resources     FAQsYou’re a rockstar teacher right?! Of course you are! All you need to make it official is a brand-new, never-before-heard rockstar song of your own. Join four-time Parents’ Choice© Gold Award-winning singer songwriter Roger Day for his First Idea to Finished Song workshop. Together, you and […]

Jason Mott

Plemmons Student Union 201-B Plemmons Student Union

photo credit: Michael BeckerThis event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian JournalNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jason Mott lives in southeastern North Carolina. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various […]