5 enjoyable methods to spend time in February

Winter may not lend itself to outside campus actions, however February brings many choices for indoor leisure. Check the Emory University and Oxford College calendars for full particulars, however listed below are 5 examples of weather-friendly actions to get pleasure from this month.

1. Participate in Black History Month occasions.

Emory will observe Black History Month with quite a lot of actions all through February.

Get artistic throughout the Emory Libraries button-making workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 11 a.m. within the Robert W. Woodruff Library foyer. Participants can coloration a pre-made design or create their very own. Postcards will even be accessible for sending to a good friend or cherished one.

On Thursday, Feb. 12, Emory Libraries hosts “Be Present: Black Women’s Leadership in Building an Inclusive Movement for Social Justice.” The eight-person panel will focus on work that’s being accomplished and issues to look towards sooner or later. Join the dialog at 4 p.m. within the Jones Room, on third ground of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. 

The annual Soul Food Gospel Fest is about for Sunday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m. within the Emory Student Center Multipurpose Rooms. Hosted by Voices of Inner Strength Gospel Choir, the afternoon brings collectively a number of teams to rejoice the love of Jesus and Black History Month. Reservations are wanted.

The Emory Black Student Union’s Mardi Gras celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 17, will embody meals, video games and a take a look at Mardi Gras traditions such because the King of the Zulu Krewe. The enjoyable begins at 2 p.m. on the third ground of Cox Hall. 

Check the university’s event calendar all through February for a extra full listing of Black History Month occasions.

2. Enjoy the abilities of visitor musicians.

From Emory Jazz Fest to pupil performances, February is stuffed with musical leisure.

Don’t miss the prospect to listen to vocalist Denise Thimes throughout Emory Jazz Fest 2026, occurring Friday, Feb. 6, and Saturday, Feb. 7. Thimes sings with the Gary Motley Quartet on Friday at 8 p.m.; the Emory Big Band performs on Saturday at 8 p.m. Get all the main points and reserve tickets via the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, the place the concert events will likely be held.  

Campus welcomes Sphinx Virtuosi, featuring Sterling Elliott on cello, to the stage on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. The group’s newest program, “Visions of Peace,” is a set of latest voices that remember the human spirit’s indominable resilience and folks’s unwavering dedication to the pursuit of peace. Purchase tickets from the Schwartz Center’s web site or field workplace.

Check the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts web site and Emory Arts events calendar for extra concerning the month’s musical occasions.

3. Spend time having fun with an exhibit.

For those that choose viewing artwork to listening to it, cease by Emory Libraries or the Michael C. Carlos Museum to discover exhibit areas.

World Cup pleasure has already begun, with soccer-related packages getting underway throughout campus. “Footwork: Celebrating Soccer, Culture and Community” opens within the Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery on Thursday, Feb. 19. Drawing on Emory’s tutorial experience, wealthy collections and international partnerships, the exhibition explores Atlanta’s interconnected tales of soccer, civil rights and globalism from 1968 to right now — serving to us perceive how our regional id, our workforce and even our sneakers specific who we’re.

The Michael C. Carlos Museum can be waiting for the World Cup with “Footwork: Where We Gather.” The exhibit, opening Thursday, Feb. 26, joins conventional sports activities pictures with up to date works by photographer Sheila Pree Bright, whose new sequence celebrates Atlanta sports activities tradition and uplifts the group that sport engenders.

“Compassion: What Moves You?” is on view on the Carlos Museum till October. As a part of the university-wide Year of Compassion initiative, the exhibition invitations guests to contemplate what motivates, strikes and provides them function; how one can discover empathy and resonance in each other via shared humanity and variety; how and why we generally fail to be moved, fail to search out widespread function, and neglect to guard or assist others in want; and what we will do to deal with that. 

Access to Carlos Museum reveals is included with museum admission. Admission is at all times free for Emory University college students, college and workers.

4. Learn from an writer or artist.

Emory’s Atlanta and Oxford College campuses play host to entertaining and thought-provoking artists and authors all year long, and February isn’t any exceptioin.

An artist discuss and poetry studying on Monday, Feb. 9, options Naomi Molnar, creator of “Memory of a Larger Mind,” the forthcoming museum retrospective that can open on the Oregon Jewish Museum in 2027. Hear her focus on the challenge’s interdisciplinary work at 2:30 p.m. in Callaway Center, Room S420. Then, at 6:30 p.m., Molnar will learn from her latest e book “PROTOCOLS: An Erasure,” which was shortlisted for the 2025 National Jewish Book Awards. Both occasions are free and open to the general public.

Nonfiction writer Emily Raboteau visits Emory for 2 packages this month. She will learn from her e book “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’” on Wednesday, Feb. 11, as a part of the 2025-26 Creative Writing Program Reading Series. The studying begins at 6:30 p.m. within the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (PAIS), Room 290, and will likely be adopted by a e book signing. A colloquium featuring Raboteau will likely be held Thursday, Feb. 12, at 1 p.m. within the Kemp Malone Library of Callaway Center, Room N301. Both occasions are free and open to the general public, with no registration required.

On Thursday, Feb. 12, writer Brian Goldstone speaks about Atlanta’s working homeless, inequality in America, journalism and different matters associated to his e book “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” The free dialogue will likely be in PAIS, Room 290, at 5:30 p.m. Registration is required.

Croatian composer, sound artist and curator Davor Vincze shares views on “Interdisciplinary Performance in Immersive and Interactive Environments” throughout a midday presentation on Friday, Feb. 27, in PAIS, Conference Room 464. He will discover how up to date creative practices transfer past single disciplines to create immersive, interactive and integrative experiences. The presentation is free, however registration is required.

5. Cheer on the Emory Eagles.

Athletics choose up steam in February, as winter sports activities seasons wind down and spring motion begins.

Watch Oxford College athletes compete at house on the basketball and tennis courts. Plan for additional enjoyable on Saturday, Feb. 14, throughout the Oxford alumni men’s basketball game and sophomore day. Activities start at 2 p.m. in Williams Gymnasium.

On the Atlanta campus, the swimming and diving groups host the NCAA Region 2 Diving Championships on Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28. You may catch the boys’s and girls’s basketball and tennis groups in motion all through the month, in addition to house season openers for the baseball and softball groups. View the full calendar and make plans to help the Eagles — and do not forget that all Emory Athletics occasions are at all times free to attend.

Photos by (clockwise, from high left) Emory Athletics; ARu, Inc. (Kosuke Matsushima, Masashi Fujimoto and Ryoji Yukino), INOCHI THEATER: If Your Life Were Light; courtesy of the artists. Photo by Ryuichiro Suzuki; Oxford College Athletics; and Bill Head.