This week on Whee Life, we’re focusing on arts and entertainment at Western Carolina University. We’ll share details on current campus exhibits, highlight recent performances, and preview events still to come. You’ll hear from Bardo Arts Center marketing manager Rachel Hood, along with student reporters, about standout art exhibits, events at the Bardo Arts Center, […]
Whee Life: Spring arts and entertainment in review
April 24, 2026 by WCJ
Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Home, WCJ Podcast, WheeLife Tagged With: Bardo Center, Controlled Chaos Festival, opera, symphony, WCU Arts
Artist in Residence program brings Asheville Symphony to WCU
September 29, 2015 by Shelby LeQuire

Dramatic, sweet, hair-raising, emotional—all of these words can be used to describe the music in the air at Western Carolina University’s Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center (BAC) on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The Asheville Symphony again joined forces with WCU’s School of Music in a long-standing musical tradition that is Artist in Residence. The program […]
Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Home Tagged With: Artist-in-residence, Asheville Symphony, Bardo Center, WCU
“The Drowsy Chaperone” makes its way to WCU
April 7, 2013 by Jessica Chester

Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen has been working hard for several months in preparation for their next play, “The Drowsy Chaperone,” which is scheduled to open April 11 on the main stage of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets are on sale now at the box office of […]
Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Home Tagged With: Bardo Center, Drowsy Chaperone, WCU News




