View the online Carthage Calendar
Listed below are some of the major events and speaker series. To see all upcoming events — including art gallery exhibits, musical performances, theatre productions, lectures, and much more — visit the main Carthage calendar.
Annual Events

Commencement 2021
Carthage will celebrate the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 in spring 2021. The Class of 2021’s Commencement is scheduled for April 24-25 2021. The Class of 2020’s Commencement ceremony is now scheduled for Saturday, May 22, 2021.
Learn more about Commencement

Homecoming and Family Weekend
We celebrated a virtual Homecoming and Family Weekend Oct. 2-4, packed with fun webinars, virtual reunions, athletics events, and more!
Visit our virtual Homecoming and Family Weekend site
Fine Arts at Carthage
Theatre
Nationally recognized for excellence in theatre, the Carthage Theatre Department stages six to eight productions every year. The College’s New Play Initiative brings playwrights of prominence from around the world to Kenosha County, where they create and premiere new works.
See Carthage’s current theatre season

Music
The Music Department offers recitals and concerts nearly every week. Enjoy recitals by Carthage faculty and students, or concerts by such ensembles as the Carthage Choir, the second oldest a cappella touring choir in the United States. The department also features the Chamber Music Series, a concert series that brings some of the world’s finest chamber musicians to Kenosha every year.
See Carthage Music events

Dance
Since the establishment of the Carthage Dance Program, students have presented their own fall dance production, known as “Away From the Mirror.” The show includes works-in-progress by emerging choreographers who share their inspirations and compositional choices with audiences.
Learn more about the Dance Program

Art
The H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art at Carthage displays work by established and emerging artists. The gallery hosts five exhibitions every year, and opening receptions that offer residents the opportunity to meet and talk with the artists. Admission is free. The building is also home to Gallery B, the spacious gallery reserved for student exhibitions and exhibitions curated by art history students. Student exhibitions are held constantly throughout the year, including an annual student show and senior exhibitions.
Visit the Gallery’s website
Speaker Series
Visiting Writers Series
Ongoing
Carthage hosts acclaimed writers from across the country in its Visiting Writers Series. Curated by Writer in Residence Richard Meier, in recent semesters the series has welcomed more than a dozen great fiction writers and poets, including Anne Waldman, Danielle Evans, David Trinidad, Kate Greenstreet, Duriel Harris, Danielle Evans, Padma Viswanathan, Geoffrey Brock, Lisa Fishman, Julie Carr, Jared Stanley and Catherine Theis.
Read more about the Visiting Writers Series
Hannibal Lectures
ONGOING
A favorite on campus, the Hannibal Lecture Series features Carthage faculty and scholars from around the country speaking about key texts from the Greek and Roman worlds through the Renaissance and into our modern era. Three to four lectures are held each semester.
Learn more about Hannibal Lectures
Natural and Social Science Research Colloquia
Ongoing
The Natural and Social Sciences Research Colloquia features guest speakers from Carthage and institutions around the world, speaking on a wide variety of topics in the natural sciences. Events are open to the public.
See the Colloquium Series schedule