Events / Diversity and Inclusion at Appalachian / Appalachian State University

Jul 7
Weicholz Global Film Series: Quo Vidis, Aida? (2020)
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
7:00pm
On July 11, 1995, the Serbian Army, under the command of Gen. Ratko Mladic, overran the town of Srebrenica, which had been declared a safe haven by the United Nations. Along with thousands of other helpless Muslim civilians, Aida, a local teacher and translator for the UN seeks refuge for her family at a UN camp led by Dutch soldiers.
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Jul 13
Meet the Artist: Jackie Alexander
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
7:00pm
In advance of NC Black Repertory Company’s (NCBRC) production of Freedom Summer, as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival, NCBRC Artistic Director Jackie Alexander sits down with playwright Cynthia Grace Robinson and the leads of her powerful Civil Rights-era drama, Nikyla Boxley and Mariah Guillmette.
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Jul 14
Weicholz Global Film Series: The Road to Mandalay (2016)
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
7:00pm
Two young Burmese immigrants flee their country’s civil war and desperate poverty to work illegally in Thailand. During their journey from Myanmar to Thailand, Guo falls in love with Lianqing. In Bangkok, they both find different ways to make enough money to realize their dreams.
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Jul 15
NC Black Repertory Company presents “Freedom Summer”
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Thursday, July 15, 2021
8:00pm
“Freedom Summer” tells the story of two sisters — Nora, who has started a new life “passing” as a white woman in Boston, and Carrie, who is preparing to travel to the deep South to register Blacks to vote. The bodies of three civil rights workers have just been found in Mississippi, leading the sisters to question the price of civil rights, Black identity, and what it means to be free.
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Jul 19
TCVA Lunch & Learn: Dulatown: Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Monday, July 19, 2021
12:00pm-1:00pm
Dulatown, located in Lenoir, N.C., is a community settled in 1855 and populated mostly by African Americans who share a kinship and the last name of Dula. Dulatown embraces its history at a bi-annual reunion where in recent years both Black and white Dula relatives come together around their shared history and genealogy to publicly acknowledge they share more than just a surname.
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Jul 21
Weicholz Global Film Series: Transit (2014)
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
7:00pm
Janet, Moishe and Tina have left their homeland in search of a better life in Israel. Siblings, Janet and Moishe, are among the 40,000 legal foreign guest workers from the Philippines who serve as health care workers, housemaids, construction laborers, and farm hands.
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Jul 28
Weicholz Global Film Series: Complicity (2018)
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
7:00pm
Cheng Liang is a young Chinese immigrant living illegally in Japan who gets caught up in a theft ring, stealing water heaters and the like from homes and businesses in order to survive. Desperate for legitimate work, he buys and assumes a false identity at a considerable cost.
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Jul 31
Ranky Tanky
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Saturday, July 31, 2021
8:00pm
Grammy Award-winning Ranky Tanky released their eponymous debut on Oct. 20, 2017. By December of that year, the group had been profiled on NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” and their album soared to the #1 position on the Billboard, iTunes, and Amazon jazz charts.
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Virtual 6th Annual Women in Educational Leadership Symposium (WIELS)
October 1-2, 2021
WIELS is a partnership between faculty members in the Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University and practicing educators. Our mandate is the development of an 'armoring process' that will equip women with pragmatic knowledge, skills, and dispositions that prepare them for success as educational leaders.
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Notable events

The Diversity Celebration features a wide array of music, eclectic dancing, delectable food, international films and festivals. Appalachian students, faculty, staff, K-12 schools and members of the local community are all invited to join in this celebration of cultures through art and entertainment.

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Chancellor’s Awards for Inclusive Excellence

In January 2020, Appalachian presented its inaugural Chancellor’s Awards for Inclusive Excellence. These awards — which will be given annually — are designed to shine a light on individuals at Appalachian and in the community whose work demonstrates their active, intentional and ongoing commitment to transformative change.

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INTERSECT Social Justice Retreat

INTERSECT is a three-day immersion retreat aimed at empowering students to take positive action on our campus. The retreat is designed to help educate participants about the concepts of social justice and leadership through exploration of their own stories, the stories of others, and issues of oppression and privilege.

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ASCEND Orientation — formerly L.E.A.D. (Linking Education and Diversity) program

The ASCEND Program is an engaging, intentional, high-impact supplemental orientation program targeting first-year Appalachian State University students from marginalized and historically underrepresented backgrounds. The ASCEND Program is based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and establishes a solid foundation for new students to feel a sense of belonging and community, be empowered to succeed with knowledge, connections and resources, and to explore and give back to their new home-away-from-home.

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Martin & Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on Remembering the Holocaust

Since 2002, the Center has organized and held the annual Martin & Doris Rosen Summer Symposium “Remembering the Holocaust.” Named for symposium benefactors, the late Doris and Martin Rosen, the symposium endeavors to provide teachers with the most current research on the Holocaust, racism, and anti-Semitism in tandem with teaching strategies and plans needed by every educator to tackle this urgent topic in an informed and successful manner in a classroom setting.

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International Education Week

International Education Week (IEW) at Appalachian State University is a celebration of transformational global experiences at home and abroad. Everyone is encouraged to participate in these free events, which take place throughout the week!

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