oin the Office of Diversity & Inclusion for informal conversations with Police Chief Todd Thomas and Campus Liaison Captain Polly Olson on April 19th, 2018. Discuss current issues, concerns, and community policing in Appleton.
Location: Memorial Hall – Room 114
Time: 5 – 7 PM
bkSOUL is the final guest company in the Lawrence University Dance Series this year. Don’t miss this multi-disciplinary performance collective.
There are FOUR ways to interact with bkSOUL:
1. “ILLEGIBLE” performance – Friday, April 13th 7:00pm in Esch/Hurvis, WCC
FB event link and LU Dance Series link here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/205185860238173/
https://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/performance_series/dance_series
Read below for more details.
2. Open community Dance class – Thursday, April 12th 9:00-10:50am in Esch studio, WCC (contact Margaret Paek for more details)
3. Open community Musicians in Movement creative class – Thursday April 12th 2:30-4:20pm in Esch studio, WCC (contact Margaret Paek for more details)
4. Open Music & Movement Family Jam – Saturday, April 14th, 10:30am-12:00pm, in Esch studio, WCC.
FB event link here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1703525266392934/
bkSOUL was founded in 2001 by Dr. grace shinhae jun as a space to explore the relationship between Hip Hop culture and modern dance, debuting with the evening length work Women Warriors in Love & Hip Hop. The company began as a bi-coastal company (San Diego – Brooklyn), teaching and performing at various venues in Southern California, Brooklyn, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Indiana, San Francisco, and Mexico. In 2006, bkSOUL deepened its roots in San Diego and began collaborating with Collective Purpose (Ant Black, Kendrick Dial and Rudy Francisco), blending together movement, poetry, and live music to center on issues of social justice and communities of color through a Hip Hop framework. This award-winning performance company has created six evening length works: The Movement (2007), Hip Hop Saved My Life (2009), Love H.E.R. (2013), Illegible (2015), Still Moving (2016), The Lioness (2017), and received “Best Musical Performance” (2016) and “Outstanding Performance” (2017) for their work at the San Diego International Fringe Festival. In 2016, celebrating the 10 years of working together the dancers, the poets, and musicians fully merged to perform solely as the conscious performance group bkSOUL. As educators, mothers, fathers, activists, and artists, bkSOUL is committed to education through the arts, to courageous insight and truth, and to helping strengthen our justice movement today.
Directors: Ant Black, grace shinhae jun, Jesse Mills, Christopher Rice-Wilson
Poets: Ant Black, Kendrick Dial, Miesha Rice-Wilson
Musicians: Shivon Carreño, Loren Dempster, Jesse Mills
Dancers: Lauren Dockweiler, Jessica Gilmore, grace shinhae jun, Ian Isles
Description of their performance work – “ILLEGIBLE”
Legibility – Having a quality that is clear to read.
To be legible is to be easily understood. Black bodies are most legible when they are policed, incarcerated, and subject to surveillance. The alternative to this presentation is through comedic, grotesque, or outrageous caricatures. These legible images of Black men and women reflect the longstanding racial prejudices and the way in which these bodies are dealt with in every institution in the United States.
To be illegible is to have qualities that make it difficult to be read, comprehended, and understood by others. Black bodies are illegible when they are not complicit in their role of the public imagination. To be illegible is to fully embrace the complexity of Blackness in a country that does more forgetting than remembering what we have done to Black bodies.
Illegible is a collaborative project that addresses the acrimony and injustice around the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Through the culture of hip-hop, the scholarship of Mark Anthony Neal, and the narratives of each performer, bkSOUL explores the meaning of illegibility with poetry, music, and dance.
There will be a post-performance talk.
Heavy topic, but family-friendly (meaning that there is no foul language, and children are welcome.)
Free!
Supported by the LU Dance Series and
the following Lawrence University student-run clubs/LUCC:
As I Am
Alianza
Black Student Union
Dance Team
Deep Listening Club
LUNA
Melee Modern Dance Club
Always wanted to learn yoga poses before taking a full class? Need some individual attention to improve your yoga. Come to beginning yoga Wednesdays from 4:30-5pm or Thursdays from 12-12:30 in the campus center. Wear comfortable clothes and mats are provided. Sponsored by WELLU
Dr. Kimberly Barrett, Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion is hosting open office hours. The first session of open office hours for Spring Term is being held on April 12th, 2018. Drop by Sampson House, 2nd floor and share ideas, concerns, comments, etc. Appointments are not required, people will be accommodated on a first come-first serve basis.
Join the Office of Diversity & Inclusion for informal conversations with Police Chief Todd Thomas and Campus Liaison Captain Polly Olson on April 19th, 2018. Discuss current issues, concerns, and community policing in Appleton.
Location: Memorial Hall – Room 114
Time: 5 – 7 PM
The biracial/multiethnic affinity group would like to invite those interested in learning more about the biracial and multiethnic experience to a social in the Diversity Center, Thursday April 5 from 4:30-6:30 pm. Come enjoy refreshments, meet new people and hear about (as well as inform) the group’s plans for the term.
Join Career Services on April 19 for a networking and dinner reception with members of the Lawrence University Alumni Association at 5 p.m., followed by mock interviews with LUAA members and professionals in different fields between 6 and 8 p.m. The event will take place in Alice G. Chapman, Second Floor.
Student mock interviews must be preregistered by calling Career Services at 920-832-6561 or by emailing careerservices@lawrence.edu. Interviews will be 15 minutes in length with 5 minutes allowed for feedback. Interview spots will fill, so please plan to register as soon as possible.
Areas of concentration include:
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Conservatory (Music Performance)
Non-Profit/Mission Driven
Education
Health Professions
Law
STEM
Business and Finance
Government and Social Science
Arts, Media and Communication
How to market your Greek Life Experience
Interviewers will be posted a week in advance of the event.
Drop-In hours with Career Services staff will also be available from 4 – 8 p.m. that evening. Students can get their resume polished or LinkedIn profile reviewed, in addition to signing up for a mock interview!
Are you interested in pursuing careers related to the field of public health? The Sara A. Quandt and Thomas A. Arcury Endowment for Experiential Learning and Research in Public Health will provide Lawrence students with unique and valuable opportunities to conduct research and immerse themselves in the field of public health. The fund will support a wide range of research and academic opportunities to include travel expenses, stipends for work or summer research, independent study or Senior Experience projects, books, supplies, or any other aspects that would broaden and provide in-depth understanding of public health. Students selected shall exhibit the highest standards in their scholarly endeavors and plan to embark on serious work in close consultation and collaboration with faculty members who have expertise in topics related to important public health issues.
Individual awards can range from $500 to $4000.
The application can be found on the Pre-Professional Advising & Major Fellowship site. Completed applications must be received by Friday, April 20th. Send/e-mail all materials to: Kia Thao at kia.thao@lawrence.edu, Memorial Hall, 109.
Questions? contact Kia Thao at kia.thao@lawrence.edu
Support and learn from the Lawrence Hillel student community by being a part of the Seder that is planned for Friday. Passover continues through the weekend, and breaking bread with your community is a great way to honor the spirituality you possess. All are welcome.
Friday, April 6th
5pm Esch Hurvis Room
Taize’ is a service, a movement, and a spiritual feeling that fills the senses. It surrounds the participants in the warmth of candlelight, the sound of joy, the peace of silence, and the comfort of community.
Select Sundays
April 8th – at All Saints Episcopal Church
April 29th – at Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
May 6th – at All Saints Episcopal Church
May 20th – at Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
