Cultural Events Calendar

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Interview with Common Book author Hyeonseo Lee

Instructions for Accessing Event: Users must log in to TechSmith Knowmia with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users may need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Film
Family Friendly: No
Description: Common Book: 'The Defector' a film about escaping from North Korea.

Instructions for Accessing Event: Users must log in to TechSmith Knowmia with their Winthrop email address (@mailbox.winthrop.edu). First-time users will need to change their password. For assistance, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Performance
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: This event will feature the renowned Ballet Inc. dance company performing various styles of dance, including ballet and contemporary in a highly interactive and engaging show.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Filmmaker Frederick Taylor will discuss his documentary “Counter Histories: Rock Hill,” the history of the Friendship Nine, and the current climate of race and social justice in the United States.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Please join Winthrop University Galleries for a virtual MFA Thesis artist talk by MFA candidate Anna Dean. Dean will be discussing her MFA Thesis Exhibition Dust & Shadow.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The world has faced seismic shifts with the proliferation of COVID-19. Our normal operating procedures have been completely disrupted. What does that mean for Winthrop students and the university?

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

To receive credit for the live virtual event, students must register in advance with their Winthrop email addresses and join the video session on time. They must also enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by fantasy illustrator Ruth Sanderson.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive CE credit, students must register for the event with their @winthrop.edu email address, join the event on time, and enable their web cameras during the event. An attendance survey will be distributed at the end of the event. For questions regarding CE credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Museum of York County presents a Carolina Piedmont Seminar Series: Exploring Our Pleistocene Past, virtually this fall. This three-part series of instructional Zoom webinars will cover the early, middle and late Ice Ages in the Carolinas.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner R. Gregory Christie.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Come help us celebrate Constitution Day by discussing The Centennial of Women's Suffrage and the Constitution with PLSC Professor Dr. Brandon Ranallo-Benavidez. This is the Constitution Day Speaker and the First Event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The presentation will use J. William Worden's Four Taks of Grieving to help participants unpack where they are at and look at what adjustments that they have made and still may need to make to be successful this semester.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A discussion on the importance of childhood cancer awareness.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here.

Program: Film & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Join us for the showing of the movie Unsane (2018) and a discussion of stalking and its warning signs.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Drawing from personal experience of life in Lebanon over the past few years and the pedagogical function of literature and cinema in the Middle East, this talk asks us to contemplate the feeling of crisis in its historical context.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Kym and Mark Hilinski, founders of the Hilinski’s Hope foundation, will share their son Tyler’s story and discuss the importance of seeking help for mental health. Dr. Gretchen Baldwin will share campus resources available to students. NOTE: This program does discuss the topic of suicide.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: The HPC members will provide a Webinar on the underlying science of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated health aspects of the disease in an effort to dispel societal misconceptions and provide information and strategies for personal wellness. In addition to short presentations, the panel will answer questions from the audience.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Join Winthrop University Galleries and artist Margaret Curtis as she discusses her current exhibition Portraits of Anxiety.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Reading
Family Friendly: Yes
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: This is a panel-style lecture that will explore the various racial and social justice issues currently being discussed in America such as police brutality, racial prejudice and discrimination that is impacting the African American community.  This event will highlight these issues and also introduce ideas for how we can collectively make an impact and enact change.

Guidelines for Credit:

To receive credit for attending in person, students must arrive on time to the event and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

To receive credit for attending virtually, students must register in advance with their Winthrop email addresses and join the video session on time. They must also enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Click here to view event flyer

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Film & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A film screening of Emanuel (2019) will be held at Clinton College as part of "Race EqualityWeek." The film is about the Charleston Church shooting, in which a white supremist opened fire, killing nine Black church members.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must check-in at the lawn for socially distanced seating, where they will be allowed to sit according to social distancing guidelines. Students must fill out an attendance slip to deposit at the end of the event.

Program: Film & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: 'Iron Jawed Angels' Film & Discussion is the second event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series. We will show the film Iron Jawed Angels and Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney will lead a discussion at the end.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Mary Jane (a.k.a. MJ) Begin teaches at RISD, and Lynda.com, and is the Chair of Illustration in the Hollins University MFA in Children's Book Writing and Illustrating program. She is best known for her work with MY LITTLE PONY and THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, along with her other book titles. Learn more at new.maryjanebegin.com. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: After the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, there were collective conversations, protests, and reflection like we haven't seen in a long time. In this Town Hall, some COE students and faculty discuss what these events mean to us individually and collectively and how we can use these crises as a healing journey.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join us to hear from Dr. Kimberly Hardy of  Fayetteville State on the importance of  voting. 

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Black Women and the Suffrage Movement with HIST Professor Dr. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight is the Third Event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description:

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by New York Times best-selling author/illustrator Brian Lies.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Join Winthrop University Galleries and artist Andrea Downs as she discusses her ongoing project Airing Out the “Dirty” Laundry. A small selection of pieces will be installed at Winthrop’s DiGiorgio Campus Center lobby and the Arts Council of York County in downtown Rock Hill.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by debuting illustrator Ashley Belote.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: Dr. Karen Kedrowski will discuss "Hard Won, Not Done: Suffrage History in the US." This is the fourth event in our 5-part series celebrating The Centennial of Women's Suffrage.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. An attendance survey will also be distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Individuals, groups and communities of people are invited to engage in Airing Out the “Dirty” Laundry project. Laundry Day Workshops are a call for women to gather together, opportunity to listen and to be heard, and to foster the love and understanding that resists hate and injustice. Laundry Day Workshops provide basic artmaking materials and brave, supportive, and safe spaces for women to create pieces of visual storytelling.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: A presentation by Caldecott and Newbery-winning author/illustrator Eugene Yelchin.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must register for and join the video session on time and enable their web cameras during the event. Digital backgrounds for Zoom (optional) can be found here. For questions about credit, please contact culturalevents@winthrop.edu.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: No
Description: Please join Winthrop University Galleries for a virtual MFA Thesis talk by MFA candidate Lauren Taylor League. League will be discussing her MFA Thesis Exhibition, Nurture.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must join the video session on time and complete a survey distributed at the end of the event.

Program: Lecture & discussion
Family Friendly: Yes
Description: 'The Divine Order' Film and Discussion is the fifth and final event in the Centennial of Women's Suffrage Event Series. Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney will lead a discussion after the film.

Guidelines for Credit: To receive credit, students must arrive on time and present their Winthrop ID cards to be scanned at the door before and after the event.