
The Dulcimer 55th Edition Release Party
Get a free copy of the Mercer literary magazine, The Dulcimer, at the 55th edition release party at the McEachern Center for the Arts! The event will be catered.
View EventMercer Jazz Ensemble Presents “Milestones”
Dr. Monty Cole, conductor Closing the season with a concert featuring works by Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, and Chick Corea. This performance will take place in Neva Langley Fickling Hall in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon Campus. If unable to attend this performance it will be live streamed on Facebook.
View EventEarth Day Green Initiative
Go green with MerServe in honor of Earth Day! Volunteer to clean up the local area. Register on BearPulse. Follow us on Instagram @mercermerserve for updates.
View EventSpencer B. King, Jr. Creative Writing Scholarship Competition
Open to high school juniors selected as finalists of the Spencer B. King, Jr. Creative Writing Scholarship Competition, this special day will feature an opportunity to tour campus, learn more about Mercer and the creative writing program, and participate in a reading from the Robinson Prize winner.
View EventSaturday Visit
Mercer's Saturday Visit features a student-led campus tour, current Mercer student Q&A, an opportunity to connect with admissions counselors, and more.
View EventNikky Finney: Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature
Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2022 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to renowned poet, professor and author Nikky Finney. The prize will be presented April 23 at 1 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room inside the University Center on the Macon campus. “Words come and go. But the word that remains the great shark in the Atlantic Ocean, that is my life, is the word ‘Southerner.’ This word that fits and…
View EventField Day
Students will team up and compete in elementary school-style field games like Tug of War, Water balloon toss, sack races, and more!
View Event“One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.” Guise and disguise in the character piece
I believe that identity is a fluid that flows between diversity and uniqueness. It changes and adapts depending on the events and context. For its unpredictable and changing nature, the “character piece” is one of the composers' favorite devices for finding, embracing, transforming, or hiding their identity through music. This program proposes some of these examples. It starts with a set of preludes by Louis Ballard, a 20th-century Quapaw-Cherokee composer. He embedded his Native idiom in the atonal Western language,…
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