The 57th season of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, with an orchestra concert performed by the Festival Orchestra, an ensemble composed of SSMF faculty artists, guest artists and students.
Sewanee Writers' Conference faculty member Dan O’Brien has been named one of two inaugural winners of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama.
The Sewanee Review has announced that for the first time the Aiken Taylor Award is being given to two worthy poets in the same year. The 26th and 27th recipients of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry are Debora Greger and William Logan. This year’s Aiken Taylor lectures, readings, receptions, and book-signings will take place March 19–21.
The University Art Gallery, the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building and the Jessie Ball duPont Library present "David Henderson: A Brief History of Aviation" (in duPont Library and the Carlos Gallery) and "Brandon Morse: Dark Matter" (in the University Art Gallery). The exhibitions open Feb. 22.
SSMF director Katherine Lehman visited Chattanooga last week to work with the Honors Orchestra, Senior Orchestra, and Middle School Advanced Orchestra at Girls Preparatory School.