Intercultural Learning Events

African HEAT (Healthy Energetic Authentic Transformation)

African dancer and Zumba Instructor Rita Addico Cohen presents African HEAT, a one-hour dance fitness class that includes cultural details with every step. The session also includes a cool down and stretching.

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This event is open to TCC students only.

Three professional artists address racial equity in the performing arts. Panelists will include Anthony Stockard, Producing Artistic Director of the Norfolk State University Theatre Company; Theresa Ruth Howard, former company member of Dance Theater of Harlem and an activist hailed by the New York Times as a “force of change in Ballet;” and Ismar Gomes, an internationally acclaimed cellist, recording artist, and member of both the Richmond and Virginia Symphony Orchestras.

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This event is part of Tidewater Community College’s “My Thoughts My Voice My Art” series of music, visual arts, literary, and theatrical programming developed by the Arts & Humanities Pathway. Free and open to the public, all are invited to join us for these compelling events featuring themes of diversity, adversity, inequality, social justice, and empowerment.

Events will include art exhibits, music and theatrical performances, lectures and panel discussions, and more. For more information, visit roper.tcc.edu.

This event is open to TCC students only.

Visiting Artist Ronald Jackson uses unique portraiture and relative speculation to imagine the personal experiences and stories of African Americans from the early 20th century. Influenced by both his childhood upbringing and time spent in the U.S. Army, Jackson has been on a journey of self-discipline and personal discovery to realize his goal of becoming a self-taught artist.

This event is part of Tidewater Community College’s “My Thoughts My Voice My Art” series of music, visual arts, literary, and theatrical programming developed by the Arts & Humanities Pathway.

Free and open to the public, all are invited to join us for these compelling events featuring themes of diversity, adversity, inequality, social justice, and empowerment. Events will include art exhibits, music and theatrical performances, lectures and panel discussions, and more.

For more information, visit roper.tcc.edu.

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This event is open to the public.

This artists’ showcase features dynamic performances by Tidewater Community College students and local performing artists, including original works. Hosted by Tory Slade, the event is sponsored by the Virtual Student Center in collaboration with the Music and Theater Departments.

This event is part of Tidewater Community College’s “My Thoughts My Voice My Art” series of music, visual arts, literary, and theatrical programming developed by the Arts & Humanities Pathway.

Free and open to the public, all are invited to join us for these compelling events featuring themes of diversity, adversity, inequality, social justice, and empowerment. Events will include art exhibits, music and theatrical performances, lectures and panel discussions, and more. For more information, visit roper.tcc.edu.

This event is open to the public.

Visiting Graphic Designer Benjamin Gaydos is a designer, educator, co-founder of goodgood, and Chair & Professor of Design at the University of Michigan–Flint where he directs the Community Design Studio. He co-authored The First Things First Manifesto 2020, a call for a regenerative and co-creative approach to design. Gaydos finds beauty in the details, humanity through collaboration, joy in the act of creating, and wholeheartedly believes that design can sustain, heal, and empower.

This event is part of Tidewater Community College’s “My Thoughts My Voice My Art” series of music, visual arts, literary, and theatrical programming developed by the Arts & Humanities Pathway.

Free and open to the public, all are invited to join us for these compelling events featuring themes of diversity, adversity, inequality, social justice, and empowerment. Events will include art exhibits, music and theatrical performances, lectures and panel discussions, and more. For more information, visit roper.tcc.edu.

Register here.
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This event is open to the public.

CORE Theatre Ensemble and the TCC Roper Performing Arts Center team up for a fabulous evening of live streamed monologues exploring topics and issues that are especially relevant to humankind today. The live performances will be selected from the “Breaking Through” collection, a trove of taped monologues from both students and the community that will be permanently available online. Monologues are are accepted from anyone high-school age or older. For more information, please email roper@tcc.edu.

This event is part of Tidewater Community College’s “My Thoughts My Voice My Art” series of music, visual arts, literary, and theatrical programming developed by the Arts & Humanities Pathway.

Free and open to the public, all are invited to join us for these compelling events featuring themes of diversity, adversity, inequality, social justice, and empowerment. Events will include art exhibits, music and theatrical performances, lectures and panel discussions, and more.

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This event is open to the public.