Are the Odds in Your Favor?
Lottery ads practically permeate many of the country’s rural and urban landscapes—all very positive and quite provocative. Winning the astronomical jackpot is a chance South Carolinians pay millions of dollars …
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Dr. LeFrancois Invites You to Stretch Your Stress Away
Converse professors are known for helping their students to stretch their minds, but Dr. Janet LeFrancois, associate professor of psychology and certified Iyengar yoga instructor, is passionate about helping students …
Edwin McCain to Headline April 13 Spring Concert
Converse College’s 2013 Spring Concert will feature headliner Edwin McCain with opening act the Blue Dogs on Saturday, April 13 at 8 PM. Gates open at 7 PM and the …
Three "Brothers" to Exhibit Furniture and Craft in Milliken Gallery
Beginning January 10th, the Milliken Art Gallery at Converse College will host an exhibition of furniture and craft from three Western North Carolina artists. The Brothers: Non-Blood Kin exhibition will …
Converse Opera Theatre Presents "Hansel and Gretel"
Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel, based on the classic Grimm fairytale, comes alive on stage at the Chapman Cultural Center Friday – Sunday, Nov. 16 – 18. Presented by …
Arts for Haiti
By Geri Hurlbut, Art Therapy Our Creative Collaboration Grant, Arts for Haiti, provided some of the funds that allowed a few art therapy students to return to Haiti in December, …
Theatre/Converse Presents "Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)"
Theatre/Converse open this year’s Studio Series with a one-man show that had its world premiere in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Will Eno’s “Thom …
Alumna Harriet Marshall Goode Exhibits Work in Milliken Gallery
Beginning Nov. 1, 2012, the Milliken Art Gallery will host a large selection of paintings by Converse College Alumna Harriet Marshall “Sister” Goode in the No Boundaries: Fictional Women exhibition. …
Peterkin Award Winner Peter Schmitt to Give Reading
The Converse College Visiting Writers Series welcomes Poet Peter Schmitt, the 2012 Julia Peterkin Award winner, for a reading on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. in the Bain Room …