Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts, Brevard College

"Travel as a Political Act" Tickets for this event are SOLD OUT. Best-selling guidebook author and public television host, Rick Steves will be the Fall 2024 J.R. McDowell speaker.  The speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics.  Steves’ talk, “Travel as a Political Act,” will be […]

Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference faculty, Pam Houston and Rebecca Gayle Howell, will give public readings of their work at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus on Friday, May 17 at 7:30 pm. Pam Houston is the author of two collections of short stories “Cowboys Are My Weakness,” which was the winner of […]

Birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist, Drew Lanham, will be the Spring 2024 J.R. McDowell speaker.  Free, general admission tickets will be available at the Transylvania County Library beginning Monday, March 11. Sponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College, the speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on […]

American Historian and Law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed will be the Fall 2023 J. R. McDowell speaker.  Free general admission tickets will be available at the Library beginning Monday, August 21st. Sponsored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation in partnership with Brevard College, the speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on […]

Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference faculty, Camille Dungy and Jaime Ford, will give public readings of their work at the Porter Center on the Brevard College campus on May 19 at 7:30 pm. Camille T. Dungy’s debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. […]

Kelly Corrigan, host of the PBS series Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan, will be the Transylvania County Library Foundation’s Spring 2023 J.R. McDowell Speaker. The speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics. Her talk, Glitter & Glue: The Family Ties That Bind Us Together, will […]

Admiral James Stavridis, bestselling author and former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, will be the Transylvania County Library Foundation’s Fall 2022 J.R. McDowell Speaker. The annual speaker series is designed to present a wide array of viewpoints on challenging and thought-provoking topics. His timely talk, Global Geopolitics and the Ukraine War, will be held on […]