On Oct. 8 & 9, 2025, The Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival brings to Lexington recent works from digital genres, providing our community an exclusive front-row seat at the leading edge of international digital art and music scenes.
Reserve your pumpkin starting Oct. 1
“Invisibility and Erasure: The Vice President’s Black Wife”
American Ballet Theatre's ABT Studio Company | MFA Season
Presented by the Transylvania Theater Program
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.
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
Presented by the Transylvania Theater Program
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.”
