The Maury River Senior Center will celebrate its 15th anniversary on March 10, 2020. A celebration will be held on March 27 at 1:15 pm after the monthly concert. The concert theme this month is “Songs of the Irish and America” and is at noon. The public is invited to the anniversary celebration and the concert.
Niall Atkinson, associate professor of art history at the University of Chicago, will deliver the Pamela H. Simpson Lecture in Art History next Wednesday, March 11, at 5 p.m. in Northen Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Rockbridge Regional Library invites new members and guests to a book discussion with Books & Brews Book Club on Tuesday, March 10, at 3:30 p.m. at Brew Ridge Taps, located at 11 E Nelson Street.
Kevin Quashie, professor of English at Brown University, will give the Shannon-Clark lecture at Washington and Lee University on March 12, at 7 p.m. in Hillel Multipurpose Room 101. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Heather Mac Donald will discuss her new book, “The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine our Culture” on March 12 at 7 p.m. at the Lee Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
“We Are America: Honoring the Lives and Experiences of Immigrants” will feature a staged reading of the play “Crossings,” as well as music, food and discussion to celebrate local immigrants and raise awareness about the realities of immigration. The event will take place at Sweet Treats (18 W. Washington St), March 28 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and proceeds will go to the Immigration Legal Fund of 50 Ways Rockbridge and to Project Horizon of Lexington.
Director Stephanie Sandberg and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Film Studies at Washington and Lee University, bring to the Johnson stage “EVERYBODY,” a comedy about life’s greatest mystery —the meaning of living. “EV- ERYBODY” opens Thursday, March 12, showing through Saturday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 15.
Washington and Lee University will host poet and memoirist Bob Rosenthal for a public reading from his recent book, “Straight Around Allen: On the Business of Being Allen Ginsberg,” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 in Hillel. The event is free and open to the public, and books will be available to purchase following the reading.
