The Nikki Giovanni Immersive Experience
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free
Description:
The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech presents The Nikki Giovanni Immersive Experience on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 inside The Cube at The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech.

The Nikki Giovanni Immersive Experience invites audiences to encounter poetry in a new way. The Nikki Giovanni Immersive Experience combines her poetry (as recorded by Giovanni at different times in her life) with audio soundscapes and motion graphic projections. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a composer, designers, literary experts, embodied performance artists, and creative technologists, converging to create a multi-sensory experience.

Each projection will be crafted to capture the essence of Giovanni's poetry, drawing inspiration from its themes, imagery, and rhythmic cadence. Additionally, we utilized the library's motion capture studios in collaboration with faculty and students from the School of Performing Arts to develop visual avatars featured in select final motion graphic works. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the art on a deeper level, allowing themselves to be enveloped by the interplay of sight and sound, word and image.

Last June, we displayed the poems "Ego Tripping" and "Nikki Rosa" as part of the Black Love is Black Wealth remembrance event. This December will include revised versions of this work as well as additional poems.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech is located at 330 Turner Street NW in Blacksburg, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://icat.vt.edu/content/icat_vt_edu/en/events/2025/12/the-nikki-giovanni-immersive-experience/jcr:content/article-image.transform/xl-medium/image.jpg.

For more information, visit: https://icat.vt.edu/events/2025/12/the-nikki-giovanni-immersive-experience.html or https://www.facebook.com/vt.icat or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.