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Ole Miss Softball vs. South Alabama
2025-02-28 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Ole Miss Softball Complex, University, MS, 38677, United States

Ole Miss Baseball vs. Wright State Series
2025-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States

Ole Miss Softball vs. Nicholls
2025-02-28 15:30 - 17:00 | Ole Miss Softball Complex, University, MS, 38677, United States

Oxford Film Festival
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-01 | Malco Oxford Commons, 206 Commonwealth Blvd., Oxford, MS, 38655
On Friday evening, festival-goers will have the opportunity to watch “Designed by Preeti” written and produced by Rashmi Rustagi. Inspired by true events, this romantic drama follows an Indian woman’s journey from spouse abuse to personal and professional empowerment as she experiences real love for the first time with someone outside her rigid community and race.
Rustagi, who also stars in the film, has been in “The Avengers” and TV shows like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Atypical,” and “Never Have I Ever.” Rustagi and Director Gayatri Everitt Bajpai will be available after the film screening for a Q&A.
Also, attending the festival on Friday is David Fortune, director of “Color Book.” Fortune is a writer/director based in Atlanta who was named Variety’s 2025 Directors to Watch and is a recipient of the AT&T Untold Stories Award, which provided a $1 million grant to direct his feature film, “Color Book.” Fortune also was nominated for the 2025 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative.
“Color Book” is the story of single father Lucky who, after his wife’s passing, finds himself navigating the challenges of raising his son Mason, who has Down syndrome. Seeking solace, Lucky and Mason embark on a journey across Metro Atlanta to attend their first baseball game together.
Part of Friday’s lineup is “LARRY (they/them),” created by award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor Catherine Legault. Young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène has emerged as one of the most original and inspiring voices of their generation and an LGBTQ+ community icon. “LARRY (they/them)” paints an engaging portrait of the complex, often misunderstood multiplicity of trans and non-binary identities and experiences.

Music Major Advantage Day
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-01 | UM Music Building
The Music Major Advantage (MMA) is an initiative to give incoming music majors the largest scholarship package possible. Through MMA, the department aggregates scholarships and financial awards from across campus and adds funding from all areas of the Department of Music, including ensembles, to make one competitive package offer: the Music Major Advantage.
Since 2020, we have been awarding a record number of packages representing full tuition with smaller scholarships also available. Exact funding amounts vary from student to student as each MMA scholarship package is individually tailored. MMA scholarships are available to both undergraduate and graduate music students.
All students must be admitted to the University of Mississippi to be considered for scholarships.

Heavy Drunk and Watermelon Slim
2025-02-27 20:00 | Proud Larry’s, Oxford, MS, MS, United States
Blues

OLE MISS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL VS. SOUTH CAROLINA
2025-02-27 20:00 | The Pavilion at Ole Miss, Ole Miss Campus, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

St. Jude Taste of Oxford
2025-02-27 18:30 | The Jeffereson, 365 Highway 6 East, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
stjude.org/tasteofoxford

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: David Wright Faladé for The New Internationals
2025-02-27 18:00 | The Powerhouse, Oxford, MS, 38655
About the book
A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history
Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population, American GIs and young people from France’s colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything, meets Minette Traor , a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxom , an aspiring architecture student from West Africa, and romance blooms.
Back in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafe’s and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack Gray, a charming African-American GI, sets his sights on Cecile, her complicated relationship with Sebastien, as well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies, are pushed to the brink.
Nuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationalschronicles the post-war awakening and the young women and men who rose up – and came together – in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment, trying to imagine a better world.
About the author
David Wright Faladé is a professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of the novel Black Cloud Rising, and coauthor of the young adult novel Away Running and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. The recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, he has written for the New Yorker, Village Voice, Southern Review, Newsday, and more.

Courage, Hope, and Legacy by M.B. Mayfield
2025-02-27 17:30 - 19:00 | University Museum, Intersection of South 5th and University Ave. , Oxford , MS, 38655, United States

Oxford Film Festival
2025-02-27 - 2025-03-03 | Various Venues
Thursday’s opening night highlights include screenings of “Chasing Rabbits” and “A House for My Mother,” followed by Q&A sessions with the directors and producers.
“A House for My Mother” is directed by Dr. Benjamin Nero, who grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Pilar Timpane, a filmmaker and producer based in Durham, North Carolina. Nero was the first Black graduate of the dentistry school at the University of Kentucky. He remains close with childhood friend and award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.
Nero and Timpane along with Producer Ana Hoppert Flores will participate in a panel discussion following the film’s screening.
“Chasing Rabbits” – the directorial debut of novelist Michael Farris Smith – is the story of a truck stop waitress who finds her life changed after having her home vandalized in the middle of the night. Smith along with Producer Anthony Thaxton, cast member McGhee Monteith, and composer Cory Chisel will participate in a panel discussion following the film’s screening.
Chisel was also the composer for films “House,” “Desperation Road,” and “I Saw the Light.” Born and raised in Mississippi, Monteith appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Walk the Line” where she played Johnny Cash’s sister Reba Cash. Thaxton is the co-founder of the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College.

Kindred Valley
2025-02-26 19:30 | Proud Larry’s, Oxford, MS, MS, United States

Ole Miss Softball vs. McNeese
2025-02-26 18:00 | Ole Miss Softball Complex, University, MS, 38677, United States

Adam Gussow for My Family and I
2025-02-26 17:30 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
Author and University of Mississippi professor Adam Gussow for My Family and I, an inspiring memoir about the author’s lifelong quest for racial reconciliation, the love that sustains his interracial family in contemporary Mississippi, and the “Yes we can!” hope for American renewal that fades after the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the despair-driven rise of Black Lives Matter.
About the book
What has happened to the dream of beloved community embraced by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement of the early 1960s—the vision of a just, humane, and colorblind America, a nation of “black and white together” animated by the spirit of mutual respect and strengthened by the bonds of brotherly love? As Adam Gussow shows in this urgently needed new book, the dream, although pressured on every front, remains alive.
At the heart of My Family and I is Gussow’s determination, in King’s terms, to live out the true meaning of America’s creed—a quest for transracial brotherhood that takes him from a blues partnership forged on the streets of 1980s Harlem through graduate training at Princeton and, decades later, a transformative course on the blues literary tradition that he shares with inmates at Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Farm.
Anchoring Gussow’s quest is a story of enduring love: a playful, soulful interracial romance between the newly hired professor at Ole Miss and his soon-to-be-wife Sherrie that blossoms with the birth of a musically gifted son, Shaun. As America explodes with protest and riots in the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd, as social justice fundamentalists insist on stigmatizing whiteness and hardening the color line rather than healing the divisions that plague us, Gussow is forced to fight for what he loves—not just the sanctity of his family circle, but King’s dream of beloved community.
My Family and I gifts the reader with hope for a future beyond America’s seemingly insoluble racial dilemmas.
About the author
Adam Gussow is a professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and a blues harmonica player and teacher. His many books on the blues include Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition. Gussow’s longtime musical partnership with Sterling “Mr Satan” Magee was the subject of an award-winning documentary, Satan & Adam (2018), which screened on Netflix for several years.

2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTH CONCERT
2025-02-25 19:30 | Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 351 University Ave., Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Ole Miss Baseball vs. Southern Miss
2025-02-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States

OLE MISS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL VS. MISSOURI
2025-02-23 14:00 | The Pavilion at Ole Miss, Ole Miss Campus, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States

Ole Miss Baseball vs. Eastern Kentucky
2025-02-23 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-22 13:30 - 17:00, 2025-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Swayze Field, University, MS, 38655, United States

Circle & Square Bock Party
2025-02-22 - 2025-02-23 | Circle and Square Brewing Company, Depot Street, Oxford, Mississippi, 38655, United States

Grand Concert featuring the Mid-South Honor Band
2025-02-22 11:00 | Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 351 University Ave., Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
Grand Concert featuring the Mid-South Honor Band Saturday, February 22nd at 11:00am in the Gertrude C. Ford center.
This event is free of admission.

The Great Dying
2025-02-21 21:00 | Proud Larry’s, Oxford, MS, MS, United States
With Taylor Hollingsworth

UM Wind Ensemble Concert
2025-02-21 19:30 | Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 351 University Ave., Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
UM Wind Ensemble Concert Friday, February 21st at 7:30pm in the Gertrude C. Ford Center.
This event is free of admission.

The Mississippians (Ole Miss Jazz) and The UM Symphonic Band
2025-02-20 19:00, 2025-02-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 351 University Ave., Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
The Mississippians and the UM Symphonic Band concert will be held on Thursday, February 20th at 7:00pm in the Gertrude C. Ford Center.
This event is free of Admission.

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO HOUR: Callan Wink for Beartooth
2025-02-20 18:00 | Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
Callan Wink for Beartooth, a bracing, masterful novel about survival, revenge, and the bond between brothers
About the book
“One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you’ve been looking for.”–Junot Diaz
Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Peter Heller and Donald Ray Pollock.
In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid, on the fringe of Yellowstone, surviving off the wild after the death of their father. Thad, the elder, is more capable of engaging with things like the truck registration, or the medical bills they can’t afford from their father’s fatal illness, or the tax lien on the cabin their grandfather built, while Hazen is . . . different, more instinctual, deeply in tune with the natural world. Desperate for money, they are approached by a shadowy out-of-towner with a dangerous proposition that will change both of their lives forever.
Beartooth is a fast-paced tale with moments of surprising poignancy set in the grandeur of the American West. Evoking the timeless voices of American pastoral storytelling, this is a bracing, masterful novel about survival, revenge, and the bond between brothers.
About the author
Callan Wink has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men’s Journal, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of a novel, August, and a collection of short stories, Dog Run Moon. He lives in Livingston, Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River.

Mid-South Honor Band
2025-02-20 - 2025-02-23 | MS
Nomination Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOBJbpHXE05PGPMYZsDc6UjrLPGErijfnQjlWzvSKbr29gNQ/viewform

The 46th Annual Mid-South Honor Band Clinic will be held February 20-22, 2025 on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. The Mid-South Honor Band clinic is sponsored by the Ole Miss Bands and the UM Department of Music. The clinic will consist of two honor bands (Symphonic and Concert Band) directed by Dr. Mark Walker, Director of Bands at Troy University, and DeeDee Pitts, Assistant Director of Bands at Gulfport High School.

Empty Bowls Fundraiser Luncheon
2025-02-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Oxford Conference Center, 102 Ed Perry Blvd, Oxford, MS, 38655, United States
Save the Date for the Oxford Pantry’s upcoming Empty Bowls Fundraiser luncheon. Approximately two-dozen restaurants will be providing their specialty soups and over twenty potters will be donating beautiful hand-crafted bowls for guests to choose their favorite to take home.

Five Faculty Recital- Yoojung Kim
2025-02-19 19:30 | David H. Nutt Auditorium, Oxford, MS, 38655
