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Deanna Kolell

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LU PRISM Pride Fortnight

Monday, May 13-Thursday, May 23

Celebrate Pride Month with us early for two weeks while we are all on campus before the school year ends!

Monday, May 13 | 5-6:30 p.m.
Memorial 105

Make your own Pride Flag!

Thursday, May 16 | 6:15-8:15 p.m.
Warch 226 – Mead Witter

Pride Dinner (Formal)
Sign-up required: Email Ella Dorsey at dorseye@lawrence.edu.

Saturday, May 18 | 12-4 p.m.
Main Hall Green

Zoo Days: Make your own Pride buttons!

Saturday, May 18 | 9 p.m.-Midnight
Warch 325 – Pusey Room

Pride Prom w/DJ Smellie
Get ready for our biggest event of the year! Join us for a night of celebrating queer pride with dancing and free mocktails.

Tuesday, May 21 | TBD
Marcus Valley Grand Cinema

Pride Night at the movies
Shuttles provided to and from campus
Sign-up required: Email Ella Dorsey at dorseye@lawrence.edu.

Thursday, May 23 | 1-4 p.m.
Diversity and Intercultural Center

Pick up a free Pride goody bag!

First-Gen Senior Celebration

Sunday, May 12 | 7-8 p.m.
Warch 325 – Pusey Room

Let’s get together and CELEBRATE our First-Gen seniors! Join us for desserts and drinks, hear a short celebratory address from a First-Gen campus partner, and connect with other First-Gen faculty, staff, and students. Hope to see you there!

Thrift for Ukraine

Saturday, May 11-Sunday, May 12 | 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Warch 324 – Somerset Room

LUCC will be hosting a fundraiser for the non-profit organization Wisconsin Ukrainians. All of the funds collected will go to Wisconsin Ukrainians, and all monetary contributions to the organization will be used to buy necessary medical supplies for Ukrainian defenders and citizens near the front lines.

This fundraiser will be a “pop-up” thrift store, offering clothing, books, accessories, dorm decor, art, and more for students to buy at student-friendly prices. The goal of the event is first and foremost to share the beauty of Ukrainian culture and geography, raise awareness about Ukraine’s struggle in the Russia-Ukraine war, and allow students the opportunity to engage in a philanthropic effort for a present-day conflict.

Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Sports

Tuesday, May 7 | 7-8:30 p.m.
Warch 325 – Pusey Room

This empowering event celebrates the achievements and highlights the resilience of women in sports. “Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Sports” is a unique gathering that aims to shine a spotlight on the incredible accomplishments of female athletes, coaches, and leaders who have overcome challenges to make a lasting impact in the world of sports, while simultaneously providing a safe space for attendees to ask questions and network.

Recent Advances in Biology Lecture Series: Dr. Amina Pollard ’95

Lakes in our landscape: perspectives from a large-scale sampling program 

Monday, May 6 | 3:10 p.m.
Warch Cinema

While there are many local and regional sampling efforts in lakes across the U.S., it is often difficult to compile this information into a cohesive framework to make national-scale conclusions. To address this gap, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency partners with States and Tribes to implement the National Lakes Assessment, which is a national-scale, coordinated lake sampling program. The resulting data include colocated biological, chemical, habitat, and human use measures that are available to the scientific community.

Dr. Amina Pollard, Lawrence class of 1995, will provide a brief overview of the project and discuss some of the ways the results have been used to better understand lakes.

The Show Is Over

Thursday, May 9 | 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 10 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 11 | 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

  • Director: Mauriah Donegan Kraker
  • Stage Manager: David Ciotti Hernandez


THE SHOW IS OVER is a devised work created in collaboration with student composers, musicians, actors, and dancers. Over the course of the evening, tap dance boards become set pieces, pop and punk sounds instigate obsessively danced phrases, real and virtual worlds collide. A murky manifesto for disorientating patterns of physicality and language.

Tickets

  • Adults: $15
  • Seniors: $8
  • ALL high school and college students (with valid ID): FREE*
  • Lawrence faculty and staff (with valid ID): FREE*

*only available in-person at the Box Office

Purchase your tickets:

  • In-person! The Box Office is open 1-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and one hour prior to performances. The Box Office accepts cash, check, or credit card ($1 credit card fee).
  • Online! Visit lawrence.edu to make your purchase (+$4 handling fee).
  • Over the phone! Call the Box Office at 920-832-6749 (+$4 handling fee).

LinkedIn 101!

Monday, April 29 | 5-6 p.m.
Hiett 401

Join CA Ava and Ty Collins from the Career Center to perfect your LinkedIn profile and skills. In this workshop, you will learn how to create and complete your profile, make connections, and find job/internship opportunities, as well as tips to catch employers’ eyes.

Bring your laptop and also be entered in a raffle for $20 Lawlss gift card!

Artist Talk with Jan Serr

Wednesday, May 1 | 12-1 p.m.
Wriston Art Galleries

Artist Jan Serr will discuss her exhibition, Face It, which explores her substantial body of work in self-portraiture in painting, drawing, and print mediums from different moments in her prolific career. In addition to demonstrating Serr’s deft touch and command of visual forms, the self-portraits reveal her ability to convey multiple aspects of her own personality and a wide range of emotional responses.

George Abraham Poetry Reading

Saturday, May 4 | 5-7 p.m.
Memorial 113 – Diversity Center

PAO is hosting Chicago-based Palestinian-American poet George Abraham for a poetry reading and workshop session. The purpose of this event is to create a space where participants can learn about Palestine through poetry and reading. Especially with current world happenings, and because Arabian identities are often left out of Pan-Asian rhetoric, we feel like this is an especially important event to program.

This event will be taking place as part of PAO’s month-long event series for AAPI heritage month (which takes place every May). The event is one that we have programmed once two years prior that we are looking to bring back for this year’s AAPI heritage month celebration.

15th Annual Wisconsin Grassroots Network Festival

Saturday, May 4 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Warch 324 – Somerset Room

The Wisconsin Grassroots Festival is the signature event put on annually by the Wisconsin Grassroots Network bringing together activists and leaders from grassroots groups around the state representing many issues and constituencies who have organized to improve their communities. This year The LU YDSA and LU Dems will be sponsoring the event to host it here at Lawrence University!