The Performance and Visual Studies program presents Austin native Amber Havard, co-lead of the 2019 film "Bull." She will discuss the challenges faced by performers, particularly young and novice ones, in acting in professional feature films, and she will chart her own journey into the world of motion picture performing.

Musician, composer and writer Chuck Pinnell will discuss his career as an artist in music, film and fiction portraying Texas and the larger American West.

The College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts will present a Zoom featuring brief overviews of each of its graduate programs: Master of Fine Arts in Dance; Master of Arts in Performance Studies; Master of Fine Arts in Visualization; Master of Science in Visualization; and the Ph.D. in Visual Computing and Interactive Media.

Historian Alison Macor, author of "Making ‘The Best Years of Our Lives:’ The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation," will lecture on the classic film and its continuing importance in American culture.

The Theatre program presents an evening of new short plays designed, performed and produced entirely by Texas A&M students, all made from start to finish over 24 hours.

Join us for an "Inside the Actors Studio"-style Q&A session with actor Dave Maldonado, who has more than 25 years of credits in film and TV, including Ryan Coogler’s recent hit “Sinners.”

Amy Skjerseth, assistant professor of popular music at the University of California, Riverside, will discuss her research on the intersections of music, media, material culture and technology.