Category: A Landscape for Learning
Girls on the Run returns once again
Sweet Briar College will host the Girls on the Run of Central Virginia Spring 2013 Celebration 5K at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 4.
Sweet Briar displays plantation artifacts
Sweet Briar College’s agrarian past is the focus of the upcoming exhibition “ ‘I have lately bought me a Plantation’: A Brief Survey of Farming and Land Use at Sweet Briar,” which opens at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in Whitley Gallery at Sweet Briar Museum.
Y:1 students get high-tech exposure
Students in Janet Stevens’ “Economic Botany” class use iPads and high-tech photographic technology to study plant communities on Sweet Briar’s campus.
Sweet Briar opens 19th-century cabin to visitors
Sweet Briar’s historic 19th-century cabin will be open to visitors for self-guided tours in November and December.
Girls on the Run returns to Sweet Briar
Sweet Briar College will host the Girls on the Run of Central Virginia Fall 2012 Celebration 5K at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17.
Slave Dwelling Project comes to Sweet Briar
Joseph McGill, creator of the Slave Dwelling Project, will make an overnight stop at Sweet Briar College on Sunday, Oct. 7 and Monday, Oct 8. He will present a public lecture on the project at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Sweet Briar Museum and again at 12:15 p.m. Monday in the Johnson Dining Room at Prothro.
Cochran Library plan honors past, serves future
Construction crews have broken ground on a new wing on the west side of Sweet Briar College’s Mary Helen Cochran Library. The work is the first of three phases that will include removal and replacement of the Dana Wing, a 1964 addition to the north side of the historic 1929 building.
UVa writers find new muse at Sweet Briar
It’s a Thursday morning in July, and the second session of UVa’s Young Writers Workshop is in full swing. For 30 years, high school kids from across the country and abroad have been gathering to immerse themselves in their art. But one thing is different in 2012: It’s the first time the workshop is taking place on the campus of Sweet Briar College.
Endstation Says ‘Come Play’ in Central Virginia
From June 1 to July 22, the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival, produced annually by Endstation Theatre Company and held at Sweet Briar College near Amherst, Va., is inviting visitors from around the region to “come play” in Central Virginia. Festival audience members will be offered discounts at various local restaurants, wineries, breweries and hotels [...]
2012 Fringe Festival Celebrates Arts and Landscapes
Initiated in 2008, Sweet Briar’s Fringe Festival is all about bringing people together to appreciate the arts, from the traditional and serious to the offbeat and funny. This year’s lineup boasts a colorful mix of art exhibits and performances centered on the College’s unique “landscape for learning.” The Fringe Festival will be held Thursday, Feb. [...]
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