Upcoming Events
Arts in Academia
Visual Arts Faculty Talk & Tour
Tuesday,
October 6,
2026
| 11:30 a.m.
- 1:30 p.m.
Location: Lower Level Art Gallery
Join the Visual Arts Faculty for a talk and tour of their work in the Arts in Academia
exhibit.
Fannie Lou Hamer Human and Civil Rights Symposium
Tuesday,
October 6,
2026
| 2:30
- 5 p.m.
Location: Performing Arts Center
Please join Stockton University, the Africana Studies program, and the Unified Black
Students Society for the 23rd Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Human and Civil Rights Symposium.
Fannie Lou Hamer was among the most significant participants in the struggle launched
in the latter half of the twentieth century to achieve freedom and social justice
for African Americans.
This year's program will feature a musical performance by Arnetta Johnson and Keynote
Speaker Freedom Smitty.
Dance Company Residence
featuring ODC/Dance Company
Friday,
October 9,
2026
| 7:30
- 9:30 p.m.
Location: Performing Arts Center
ODC/Dance Company of ten world-class dancers performs its imaginative repertory for
more than l 50,000 people annually. In addition to two annual home seasons in San
Francisco (Dance Downtown and its holiday production, The Velveteen Rabbit), recent
highlights include appearances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival
in New York, MODAFE Festival in Seoul Korea, Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, and past
standing-room-only engagements in Europe, Russia, and Asia. Way’s work was selected
by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for the Inaugural Dancemotion Tour in 2010. For
this return performance, the company plans to bring a pair of masterworks by Founding
Artistic Director Brenda Way. The company classic "Investigating Grace", named an
American Masterpiece by the NEA in 2010. The company will also be performing Way's
more recent "Collision, Collapse and a Coda" also named a "mini-masterpiece" by the
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Dance Company Residency, now in its twelfth year, engages Stockton students and the surrounding community. Through classes for dance students, general studies students, and the public, the artists-in-residence teach movement and share their experiences as working artists. The residency culminates in a performance by ODC at Stockton's Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 9, at 7:30 pm.
The Dance Company Residency, now in its twelfth year, engages Stockton students and the surrounding community. Through classes for dance students, general studies students, and the public, the artists-in-residence teach movement and share their experiences as working artists. The residency culminates in a performance by ODC at Stockton's Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 9, at 7:30 pm.
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Monday,
October 12,
2026
| 11:30 a.m.
- 8 p.m.
Location: Lower Level Art Gallery
Join the School of Arts and Humanities and the Stockton University Art Gallery for
a full day of programming for Indigenous Peoples' Day. For more information, visit
the event website.
The System
Thursday,
October 22,
2026
| 4:30
- 5:45 p.m.
Location: AC Campus, Room 313
View the political thriller The System, presented by Communication Studies, Political Science, William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy, and Office of Government Relations, followed by a faculty-student panel discussion.
Africana Studies and the Law
A Conversation with Retired Judge Susan Maven
Thursday,
October 22,
2026
| 4:30
- 5:45 p.m.
Location: Multicultural Center
Please join the Africana Studies program for this special program where members of the Stockton community will have a chance
to speak with Retired Judge Susan Maven, who majored in Black Studies in college and
later went on to a career in law.
Read-In: America 250
Tuesday,
November 3,
2026
| 10:30 a.m.
- 2:30 p.m.
Location: Independence Plaza
Join the Africana Studies program for poetry and readings by Black authors in front of the “Declaration of Independence.”
Stockton Theatre Project
November 12
- 15, 2026
Location: Experimental Theater
See the next great musical before anyone else! We invite audiences to experience a
brand-new work developed throughout the semester by Stockton University Theatre students
and faculty. Witness the results of the excitement, challenges, and discoveries that
brought this original musical to life as it moves from page to stage.
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies: A Semiquincentennial Conversation with Sarah Clunis and
Wendel A. White.
African American Artifacts in the Archives
Tuesday,
November 17,
2026
| 4:30
- 6 p.m.
Location: Campus Center Theater
Wendel White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies (Photography), and
Sarah Anita Clunis from Yale University, will discuss the intersection of the semiquincentennial
occasion and White's publication of Manifest.
Reception to follow.
Reception to follow.
The Working Artist Series
Lunch & Artist Talk
Thursday,
November 19,
2026
| 11:30 a.m.
- 12:30 p.m.
Location: Lower Level Art Gallery
In collaboration with Career Education and Development, join the Visual Arts program
and the Stockton University Art Gallery for a lunch and artist talk as part of The
Working Artist Series.
Fall Choreography Project
December 3
- 5, 2026
| 7:30 p.m.
Location: Performing Arts Center
Fall Choreography Project brings together new works from the most promising student
choreographers in the Stockton dance community. It continues a Stockton tradition
of presenting exciting and thought-provoking work from choreographers at all stages
of their artistic development. These dance makers are forging new paths in contemporary
choreography, and the Fall Choreography Project is an opportunity to witness the early
work of the next generation of New Jersey dance artists.
$15 general | $12 student/senior
$15 general | $12 student/senior
Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
Friday,
December 4,
2026
| 5
- 8 p.m.
Location: Campus Center Event Room
Join the Africana Studies program for the annual Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration!
BFA Senior Exhibition
Meet the Artists Reception
Sunday,
December 6,
2026
| 1
- 3 p.m.
Location: Lower Level Art Gallery
Join the Visual Arts program for the BFA Senior Exhibition reception.
Stockton Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday,
December 8,
2026
| 6:30
- 8 p.m.
Location: Alton Auditorium
Enjoy the Stockton Jazz Orchestra's end-of-term performance!
Stockton Classical Ensemble
Thursday,
December 10,
2026
| 6:30
- 8 p.m.
Location: Alton Auditorium
Enjoy the Stockton Classical Ensemble's end-of-term performance!
Spring Dance Concert
February 25
- 27, 2027
| 7:30 p.m.
Location: Performing Arts Center
Spring Dance Concert highlights the gifted artists of the Stockton dance community,
presenting works from notable guest choreographers that challenge these maturing performers.
Internationally recognized and up-and-coming artists join resident choreographers
Beau Hancock, Caitlin Quinn Pittenger, Rain Ross, and Lauren Putty White, whose eclectic
and imaginative choreography dependably delights. This diverse program promises to
be a moving evening.
Emerging Choreographers Showcase
April 29
- May 1,
2027
| 7:30 p.m.
Location: Experimental Theater
The Emerging Choreographers Showcase is filled with moments of striking physicality,
unusual grace, and the unexpected. This juried showcase for dance makers at the start
of their careers is a laboratory for choreographic experimentation and innovation.
The Experimental Theatre's intimacy offers audiences a personal experience with forward-looking
choreography and gives these developing artists the chance to cultivate their artistic
voices. Witness the variety and vibrancy of the Stockton community's finest emerging
choreographers.
$15 general | $12 student/senior
$15 general | $12 student/senior
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