Storyteller Sarah Brady will present at Geneva College on Wednesday, September 16 at 7 p.m. in the West Reading Room of the McCartney Library as the first Geneva Visiting Artist & Lecture Series (GVALS) event of the 2026-27 academic year.

Sarah Brady is an actress, storyteller, teaching artist, and writer whose backgrounds in theatre and education influence her storytelling. She taught communication and theatre at multiple universities before making her way toward solo performance and then into the storytelling world.

She will present The White Rose: Hans and Sophie Scholl’s Thoughts of Freedom. Munich, Germany, 1943. Two siblings who came of age in the Third Reich walk a well-known path toward an uncertain future, carrying hidden words of resistance and hope. Buoyed by faith, stories, and songs, they are confident that, in the midst of the darkest of times, their thoughts can still be free.

Geneva Visiting Artist & Lecture Series

Geneva College invites prominent guests to campus each semester to support the educational endeavor in which students, faculty, and staff are engaged. Visitors include distinguished lecturers, well-known artists and musicians, best-selling authors, and leading religious figures.

Members of the campus and community are invited to attend lectures and presentations free of charge, unless otherwise announced. View the list of upcoming speakers online.

While Skye Lounge in the Student Center and the McCartney Library are accessible, we apologize that our historic Old Main, home to the John White Chapel, is not.

While the content of guests’ lectures and presentations may or may not be congruent with Geneva College’s stance on any given issue, the GVALS series seeks to fulfill the Foundational Concepts principle that “[Students] should not be sheltered from non-Christian viewpoints, but must become able to evaluate all knowledge critically, to gain from that which is true and to discard error.” The series also supports the College’s mission to “...provide a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to God and neighbor.”

For more information, contact cfl@geneva.edu.