March Events at MBU

Check out events and home games at MBU during the month of March below. Home games for MBU Athletics (regular season) are free to attend for all spectators.

3/4: Home baseball double header vs. Mt. Aloysius, noon and 2:30 p.m. at Moxie Field in Gypsy Hill Park.

3/5: Army National Guard Change of Command, 9 a.m. on Lower Athletic Field. 

3/5: Home baseball game vs. Mt. Aloysius, noon at Moxie Field in Gypsy Hill Park.

3/6–10: Spring Break

3/9: Home women’s tennis match vs. Penn St. Abington, noon at the MBU tennis courts.

3/9: Home men’s tennis match vs. Penn St. Abington, noon at the MBU tennis courts.

3/11: Home softball double header vs. Mary Washington, noon and 2 p.m. at the MBU softball field. 

3/13: Home men’s tennis match vs. UVA Wise, 2 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/16: MBU’s Day of Giving. Follow along at givingday.marybaldwin.edu and MBU social channels. 

3/17: Home women’s tennis match vs. N.C. Wesleyan, time TBD at the MBU tennis courts.

3/17: Home softball double header vs. Eastern Mennonite, 3 and 5 p.m. at the MBU softball field. 

3/17: “Not too slow, not too fast, but a real good time while it lasts” Renaissance Rent Party with Dr. Nikki Giovanni, 6 p.m. in the Student Activities Center. $30 general public; $15 MBU faculty/staff; $10 MBU students; children 10 and under free. Sponsored by Mary Baldwin College for Women, Black Student Alliance, Office of Inclusive Excellence, Spencer Center, History and Theatre Departments. Part of MBU’s celebration of Black History Month.  

3/18: Home women’s tennis match vs. Pfeiffer, 1 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/18: Home men’s tennis match vs. Pfeiffer, 1 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/18: Libations Literary Magazine Release Party, 7 p.m. at MBU at the Wharf, 19 West Johnson St. in downtown Staunton. Part of MBU’s celebration of Black History Month.  

3/19: Home softball double header vs.Guilford, 1 and 3 p.m. at the MBU softball field. 

3/20–24: Annual Juried Studio Art Student Exhibition, Hunt Gallery.

3/20: Home women’s tennis match vs. Randolph, 3 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/20: Home men’s tennis match vs. Randolph, 3 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/20: Opening reception for Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, 4:30-6 PM in Hunt Gallery.

3/20: Firestone Lecture in Contemporary Art: Artist/Filmmaker Kevin Everson, who has made over 200 films and had artwork widely shown at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Museum of African-American History, The Tate Modern in London, and many more. 7 p.m. in James D. Francis Auditorium.

3/20–21: The Shakespeare and Performance Program’s MFA Company, Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble, presents The Birth of Merlin by William Rowley, times and location TBA.

3/21: Home softball double header vs. Bridgewater, 3 and 5 p.m. at the MBU softball field. 

3/23–26: MBU Theatre presents Small Mouth Noises by Bess Wohl at Fletcher Collins Theater. Show times: Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. Directed by JP Scheidler, assistant professor of theatre. 

3/23: Home baseball game vs. Hampden-Sydney, 2 p.m. at Moxie Field in Gypsy Hill Park.

3/23: Smyth Business Lecture: Robin Stegman of the Ocean Conservancy, 7 p.m. in Miller Chapel.  

3/24–25: Sankofa Leadership Conference, all weekend, Student Activities Center. Part of MBU’s celebration of Black History Month.

3/24: First Annual Trailblazer Awards Ceremony,  7–11 p.m. at the Blackburn Inn and Conference Center, 301 Greenville Ave, Staunton. Part of MBU’s celebration of Black History Month.

3/25: Home softball doubleheader vs. Methodist, 2 and 4 p.m. at the MBU softball field.

3/25: Home baseball game vs. William Peace, 3 p.m. at Moxie Field in Gypsy Hill Park.

3/26: Home baseball double header vs. William Peace, noon and 3 p.m. at Moxie Field in Gypsy Hill Park.

3/27–31: MBU Senior Project Exhibitions in Studio Art in Hunt Gallery.

3/28: Opening reception for MBU Senior Project Exhibitions in Studio Art, 4:30–5:30 p.m. in Hunt Gallery.

3/29: Home women’s tennis match vs. Southern Virginia, 3 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/29: Home men’s tennis match vs. Southern Virginia, 3 p.m. at the MBU tennis courts.

3/31: Home softball double header vs. Brevard, 2 and 4 p.m. at the MBU softball field.