Have you ever walked past the Virginia G. Piper Writers House and wondered about its story? Join Grady Gammage Jr., community leader; Alberto Ríos, director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing; Evan Senat, associate operations coordinator; and Shannon Walker, university archivist, for a conversation offering an inside look at the history and ongoing impact of this beloved ASU landmark.
Join us at this official opening of the "What Is a Quasquicentennial?" exhibit which chronicles the history of the Department of English at ASU. All are welcome; refreshments will be served. We'll gather in the exhibit area on the first floor of Hayden Library on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 at 4 p.m.
This workshop has been canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, enjoy an afternoon of storytelling and art at our DIY Cartoneras Workshop!
Cartoneras are handmade books crafted using everyday materials like paper and cardboard. This grassroots publishing movement began in Argentina during the economic crisis of the early 2000s and continues to provide a platform for underrepresented voices in the arts.
You’re invited to the Labriola National American Indian Data Center’s National Book Award Lecture featuring Bethany Hughes. Hughes is the 17th annual recipient of the award.
The lecture will take place Thursday, Oct. 23, from noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Labriola Center in Hayden Library, room 204, on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University.
Join us for an advance book launch, reading and discussion with playwrights and ASU faculty Larissa FastHorse and Michael John Garcés. The book, “Native Nation Project,” includes three plays FastHorse and Garcés created with Indigenous communities, including “Native Nation,” which was produced by ASU Gammage in 2019.
This special event will bring together original cast members and current ASU students to perform a reading, followed by a discussion about the future of the project, moderated by Ty Defoe. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Have you ever wondered how to stitch a journal or a Zine? In this activity, Hayden Library's Book Arts Studio will be doing a simple stitch for those who want to create their own journals, zines or notebooks. Come by and learn with us!
If you can't make it, learn how you can reserve the Book Arts Studio to explore and create on your own time!
Join the Queer X Humanities Initiative for a Queer X Archives Workshop, which will highlight the heightened importance of LGBTQ+ archives, queer historical methodologies, and Queer and Transgender Studies research in our contemporary political climate.
Come join the Labriola National American Indian Data Center for a poetry workshop focused on "Heart Speak" led by Tanaya Winder. Winder is an author, singer-songwriter, poet and motivational speaker. She is an enrolled citizen of the Duckwater Shoshone Nation and comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Navajo, and Black heritages. Winder earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Stanford University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.
Kicking off the fall semester of 2025, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center is hosting our biannual Indigenous Open Mic Night with Tanaya Winder!
Join us for a conversation with Jessica Salow, Assistant Archivist of Black Collections at ASU Library and Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at ASU.