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Mary Baldwin College Events: Jan. 20-30

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mbcNew Work by Adria Arch: Passing Strage. 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Hunt Gallery, Lyda B. Hunt Dining Hall, 218 Hunt Drive, Staunton. January 20th – January 30th.

January 22
Virginia Blood Services Blood Drive. 11:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Student Activities Center, 316 Academy Street, Staunton.

January 26
Guns, Public Health, and Mental Illness, with Joshua Horwitz. 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Francis Auditorium in the Pearce Science Center, 227 East Frederick Street, Staunton.

Josh Horwitz, JD, is the executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He has spent more than two decades working on gun violence prevention issues. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received his law degree from the George Washington University. He is a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-authored a book, “Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea,” that was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2009.

January 28
Closing Reception: Passing Strange: New Work by Adria Arch. 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Hunt Gallery, Lyda B. Hunt Dining Hall, 218 Hunt Drive, Staunton. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 540-887-7196.

A Dialogue with Douglas Blackmon. 7:00 p.m. Francis Auditorium in the Pearce Science Center, 227 East Frederick Street, Staunton.

Douglas A. Blackmon is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,” and co-executive producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary of the same name. His is also a contributing editor at The Washington Post and chair and host of Forum, a public affairs program produced by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and aired on more than 100 PBS affiliates across the U.S.

January 31
Kwanzaa festival. 7 p.m. Hunt Dining Hall. 218 Hunt Drive, Staunton.
For more details about the event, watch a student-produced advertisement on YouTube athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWaHY3VQX9A&feature=youtu.be.

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