Winter Break Begins
2025-12-12 | Transylvania University

Grand Kyiv Ballet — The Nutcracker
2025-12-20 14:00 (America/New_York) | Haggin Auditorium — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Grand Kyiv Ballet — The Nutcracker
2025-12-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | Transylvania University

Students return to campus
2026-01-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Transylvania University

Winter classes begin
2026-01-05 | Transylvania University

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
2026-01-19 | Transylvania University

BiGG SuGG & the JaZZ Funkers
2026-01-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Premier Scholarship Program II
2026-01-23 | Transylvania University

Business Bonus Hour - Finance
2026-01-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Rosenthal Complex — Sanders-Seibers Entrepreneurship Hub, 421 West 4th Street, Lexington, KY, 40508, United States
Our monthly networking event is back! January will focus on finance – banking, investments, capital, accounting, and more. If you want to work in this industry, or want to network with this industry, we invite you to join! This event is open to anyone who wants to network with students, faculty/staff, alumni, and others – you do not have to be interested in this field, or interested in starting a business. And you do not have to stay for the full hour. Complimentary food & drink provided. RSVP to rquery@transy.edu

On Broadway & 4th Choir Concert
2026-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Haggin Auditorium — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Taylor B&E Lecture: Junnosuke Shino
2026-02-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Cowgill Center for Business, Economics, and Education
The Business Administration and Economics programs welcome Dr. Junnosuke Shino, professor at Waseda University and a former member of the Bank of Japan, for the annual Taylor B&E Lecture.
Dr. Shino will present a talk on “Japan’s Macroeconomic Situation and Its Global Connections”—offering insight into how Japan’s economic trends influence the broader world economy.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
4–5 p.m.
Cowgill 102
Free and open to the campus community
Learn more about Dr. Shino’s work: https://sites.google.com/site/junnosukeshino/
For questions, please contact Geoffrey Williams, faculty coordinator.

Naples Alumni & Friends Gathering
2026-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Napels Yacht Club, 700 145h Avenue South, Naples, Florida, 34102

Zak Foster — SOUTHERN WHITE AMNESIA
2026-02-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
SOUTHERN WHITE AMNESIA examines the family stories white Americans pass down through generations—or allow to be forgotten—about their role in slavery and its ongoing legacy. When Foster told a family member about discovering records showing their ancestors had enslaved people, the immediate response was “no”—followed by insistence that they would “surely know” if this were true. That moment of family denial launched this entire collection.

On Broadway & 4th: Choir Concert
2026-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Haggin Auditorium — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Senior Grad Fair
2026-02-18 12:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-19 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Transylvania Bookstore — W. T. Young Campus Center

Kenan Lecture with Nikky Finney
2026-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Transylvania University
Nikky Finney is the author of “On Wings Made of Gauze”; “Rice”; “The World Is Round”; and “Head Off & Split”, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, “Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry,” was released in 2020. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center.

35th Anniversary Reading of the Affrilachian Poets
2026-02-20 18:00 (America/New_York) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Funded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund.
Followed by a book signing.

Transy Theater Presents — Metamorphoses
2026-02-24 - 2026-03-01 | Lucille C. Little Theater
Called by Time the “theater event of the year,” Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses brings Ovid’s tales to stunning visual life — juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change.

Guest Artist Piano Recital: Gregory Sioles
2026-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Spring break
2026-03-09 - 2026-03-13 | Transylvania University

Grand Kyiv Ballet — Snow White
2026-03-14 15:00 (America/New_York) | Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Hala Alyan: The Power of Storytelling in War, Memory & Healing
2026-03-24 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Hala Alyan is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor at New York University, and writer. Her work grapples heroically with themes of family, displacement, belonging, and what ‘home’ means. Of her work, author Fatimah Asghar writes, “I feel honored to be alive in a time where I can read Hala Alyan.”

Susan Chen, Guest Piano Recital
2026-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Delcamp Visiting Writer - Madeline ffitch
2026-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center

Judy Gaines Young Book Award
2026-04-07 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | W. T. Young Campus Center

Last day of Winter term
2026-04-17 | Transylvania University

Last day of classes
2026-04-19 | Transylvania University

May term begins
2026-04-22 | Transylvania University

Alumni Weekend 2026 — Connections That Count
2026-04-23 - 2026-04-26 | Transylvania University
