Main Campus Events

Join the Center for Global Engagement every Friday when classes are in session from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at The Globe for refreshments from a featured country and interaction with students, scholars and faculty from around the world. This event is open to all current FSU students, faculty and staff. View on site | Email this event

Join the Center for Global Engagement (CGE) and the Congress of Graduate Students (COGS) for refreshments, jazz and socialization with your peers at the second International Coffee Hour: Graduate Lounge! This event is open to all FSU graduate students, faculty and staff and will feature the International Coffee Hour snack of the week, additional hors d'oeuvres and refreshments, and live jazz performances. The International Coffee Hour: Graduate Lounge will take place on Friday, October 24th, from 5-6:30pm in the Globe Auditorium. Mark your calendars for Spring Grad Lounges on January 23rd and March 6th! View on site | Email this event

This event will provide a dark, moody, and scholarly atmosphere for studying during midterm season. Dim lighting, classical music, and Red Eye catered coffee and hot chocolate will be provided for students. Pins will also be provided. View on site | Email this event

The FSU Flying High Circus is back with the 15th Annual Halloween Show Series, their first shows under the brand-new Big Top! Entry is free for FSU students. Performance Schedule: Friday, Oct. 17 Saturday, Oct. 18 Friday, Oct. 24 Saturday, Oct. 25 Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm Entry is free for FSU students! On the day of show, simply present your FSU ID at the door! Visit http://circus.fsu.edu for details. View on site | Email this event

Its Halloween season which means the ghouls, gremlins, goblins, and other monsters have infiltrated the ASLC. Join Game Committee and HvZ as we fight back by playing Castlevania, Dead by Daylight, FNAF Help Wanted, and many other games before having a round of Humans vs Zombies in the courtyard. View on site | Email this event

Catch this certified lesbian classic right here at the ASLC! Wil is a lesbian, but she not dare tell her widowed mother, Hwei-lan, or her very traditional grandparents. She's shocked, however, to find out she's not the only one in her family with romantic secrets when she learns that her 48-year-old mother is pregnant. Unwilling to reveal who the father is, Hwei-lan is kicked out of her parents' home and must move in with Wil, which puts a strain on Wil's budding relationship with openly gay Vivian. View on site | Email this event

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Kaleidoscope: Innovation in the Arts and Humanities: ​FSU’s arts and humanities faculty and students celebrate an evening of interdisciplinary scholarship and exploration. View on site | Email this event

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Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd! In the foggy streets of nineteenth century London something dark is being concocted. Sweeney Todd, back from a 15-year exile and hungry for revenge, opens his razor-sharp barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's floundering pie shop. But when Todd's thirst for vengeance takes a deliciously dark turn, Mrs. Lovett finds a new "secret ingredient" that'll have Fleet Street dying for more. This devilish duo is about to give London a taste of something truly hair-raising! Originally produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards in Association with Dean and Judy Manos. SWEENEY TODD is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Book by Hugh Wheeler | From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond | Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince | Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick View on site | Email this event

Ash Williams, a shotgun-wielding, chainsaw-armed department store Clerk is transported back in time to 1300 A.D. — the Dark Ages of England. Now, he must battle an army of the undead and retrieve the Necronomicon in order to return home. Groovy! Friday, Oct 24 -- Doors: 11:00PM, Show: 12:AM | Sunday, Oct 26 -- Doors: 9:00 PM, Show: 10:00PM View on site | Email this event

FSU’s Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic is proud to present the Elder Law Moot Court Competition! The event will draw teams from across the country to compete in Tallahassee, FL at the FSU College of Law on October 24-25, 2025. Schedule The 2025 competition will be held live, in Tallahassee, on Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, with an awards dinner and ceremony to follow. The rounds will be held in the Advocacy Center, which was previously home to Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. The final round will even be live-streamed. AARP Foundation This year, we're thrilled to team up with the incredible AARP Foundation! AARP Foundation, a charitable affiliate of AARP, creates and advances effective solutions to reduce poverty for and with older adults. AARP Foundation advocates for systemic change in federal and state courts nationwide to advance the legal rights and interests of people 50 and older, particularly vulnerable individuals and those living with low income. We are so excited to work with this wonderful organization to raise awareness about issues affecting older adults and career opportunities for future lawyers focused on social justice advocacy. Thanks to the AARP Foundation, prize money will be awarded to the top teams and participants in the competition. Topic Our topic this year will address financial exploitation and liability issues surrounding retirement communities. Timeline of Events for the 2025 Competition Preliminary Rounds of Competition: October 24 Final Rounds of Competition & Dinner: October 25 Contact For questions, contact Rima Nathan at rnathan@law.fsu.edu. View on site | Email this event

Homecoming Oct. 25–Nov. 1 2025 No Classes after 12:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31st. View on site | Email this event

Blast Off! Saturday Morning Physics + Art: ​Join us for an action-packed day of creativity and curiosity as art and physics collide! FSU's Department of Physics and College of Fine Arts invite K–12 students to explore the physics of rockets through hands-on art projects, interactive experiments, and thrilling demonstrations. This event will ignite imaginations and fuel a love for both science and the arts. Get ready to discover, design, and defy gravity! View on site | Email this event

The Museum of Fine Arts is proud to present Akimbo, the first solo exhibition by Florida State University alumna, Zoë Charlton, in her hometown, Tallahassee. Bringing together personal history and collective memory, the exhibition reflects on the ways in which identity is shaped through place. In Akimbo, Charlton reveals how memories and experiences accumulate across time, layering themselves within the Tallahassee landscape. At the heart of the exhibition is Paul Russell Road, a reimagined and meticulously crafted half-scale model of Charlton’s family home in Tallahassee. This upended house functions as a record of memory, an architectural tool that follows a blueprint informed by lived experience and historical recollection within this Southern landscape. In dialogue with the sculpture is Smokey Hallow, an animated film that evokes the vibrancy and loss of one of Tallahassee’s historic Black American neighborhoods during mid-20th-century urban renewal. Through evocative motion referencing the construction of homes, accompanied by natural and industrial sounds, Charlton develops a parallel record across different media. Together, these works operate as material and immaterial archives, mapping the intertwined histories of people, the built environment, and the landscapes that hold them. View on site | Email this event

Join MoFA and experience our newest exhibition, "Conversaciones: Latin American Indigenous Art," highlighting contemporary Latin American art alongside rarely exhibited treasures from FSU’s collections and include Mayan textiles, ancient Andean ceramics, metalwork and other artifacts. This exhibit is free and open to the public, with paid parking available in the Call Street parking garage. This exhibition invites visitors to explore the dialogue between ancient and contemporary Latin American art. Conversaciones: Latin American Indigenous Art features newly acquired works by Ana De Orbegoso, a New York-based Peruvian-American interdisciplinary artist, and Nadín Ospina, an acclaimed Colombian painter and sculptor. Their innovative pieces are presented alongside rarely exhibited treasures from FSU’s collections, including Maya textiles, ancient Andean ceramics, metalwork, and other artifacts. Drawing on FSU faculty expertise in ancient Latin American art history and archaeology, the exhibition offers enriched discussions of the contexts in which ancient Moche and Nasca objects were deployed, enriching the conversations about their meanings across time. Through this interplay, the exhibition explores Indigenous concepts of animacy, materiality, and sacrality, the connections between bodies and landscapes, and evolving notions of identity. By bridging the ancient and the contemporary, Conversaciones celebrates the enduring vitality of Latin American Indigenous art and thought. Additional featured artists include Christian Bendayán, Lastenia Canayo García (Pecón Quena), Hoesy Corona, Francisca Rojas Pohlhammer, Rufino Tamayo, the De La Torre Brothers, and Kukuli Velarde. View on site | Email this event

The FSU Museum of Fine Arts will have several exhibitions on display during Discovery Days. These include: Conversaciones: Latin American Indigenous ArtWater Ways: Indigenous Ecologies and Florida Heritage Akimbo: Zoë Charlton on Memory, Place and Resilience in the Tallahassee Landscape Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 AM–5 PM Wednesday: 10 AM–5 PM Thursday: 10 AM–8 PM Friday: 10 AM–5 PM Saturday: 10 AM–4 PM Sunday: Closed View on site | Email this event

Water Ways: Indigenous Ecologies and Florida Heritage, opening in September 2025, uses “way” to explore how routes and paths shaped by water have influenced cultural geographies, and the methods, manners, and styles—“ways” through which Indigenous communities have expressed their relationships with water. The exhibition aims to cultivate a deeper awareness of Indigenous material cultures and ecologies in Florida, in conversation with global perspectives from the Americas and Asia. Water Ways also invites reflection on pressing environmental issues—including water access, ecological change, and climate resilience—by highlighting how communities have long understood and responded to the challenges of living with water. It will feature historical objects from regional collections and MoFA’s permanent holdings, alongside works by three contemporary artists—Wilson Bowers, Harold Garcia V (El Quinto), and Samboleap Tol—whose practices engage with themes of Indigeneity, hydrology, and heritage in Florida and beyond. View on site | Email this event

The amicus brief, or “friend of the court,” can influence how judges and justices approach major legal cases. The FSU Institute for Governance and Civics Guest Speaker Series will host Ryan Owens, a leading scholar of judicial behavior, who will discuss the role and impact of amicus briefs in the U.S. legal system, including how interest groups, states and individuals use them to advance arguments before the courts. This event, appropriately held at Amicus Brewery, will combine rigorous discussion with an accessible look at how these briefs affect constitutional law and Supreme Court decision-making. View on site | Email this event

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