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Senior Grad Fair
Transylvania Bookstore — W. T. Young Campus CenterSenior Grad Fair
Transylvania Bookstore — W. T. Young Campus Center
Kenan Lecture with Nikky Finney
Transylvania UniversityNikky 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
35th Anniversary Reading of the Affrilachian Poets
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterFunded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund. Followed by a book signing.
Transy Theater Presents — Metamorphoses
Lucille C. Little TheaterPresented by the Transylvania Theater Program
Guest Artist Piano Recital: Gregory Sioles
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterSpring break
Transylvania University
Grand Kyiv Ballet — Snow White
Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Hala Alyan: The Power of Storytelling in War, Memory & Healing
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterHala 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 Chan, Guest Piano Recital
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts Center
Delcamp Visiting Writer – Madeline ffitch
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterJudy Gaines Young Book Award
W. T. Young Campus CenterLast day of Winter term
Transylvania UniversityLast day of classes
Transylvania UniversityMay term begins
Transylvania UniversityAlumni Weekend 2026 — Connections That Count
Transylvania UniversityIcarus in Heat — a Contemporary Ballet
Haggin Auditorium — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterIcarus | In Heat is a new mythic work that reimagines the fated tale of Icarus as a poetic collision of daddy issues, queer longing, and a lineage of guarded impulse. This all-male contemporary ballet is told through ritual repetition and intimate partnering, tracing the fragile ground between a father and son in the shadow of banishment. Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique serves as the muscular spine: soaring music
Last day of May term
Transylvania UniversitySenior Send Off
Alumni PlazaSenior Awards 2026
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterLast Lecture 2026
Carrick Theater — Mitchell Fine Arts CenterCommencement
Transylvania UniversitySummer term begins
Transylvania UniversityJuneteenth holiday
Transylvania UniversityLast day of Summer term
Transylvania University
The Swan Lake, Symphony of Lights
Haggin Auditorium — Mitchell Fine Arts Center“Swan Lake: Symphony of Lights” is the landmark new production of the upcoming season. Tchaikovsky’s iconic score opens the door to an entirely reimagined world: vivid light design, illuminated costumes, and world-class dancers from around the globe transform the classic ballet into a mesmerizing visual experience. This is more than a performance — it’s an immersion into a story of love and magic, told through