Saturday, May 13 | 4-7 p.m.
Main Hall Green
Are you interested in giving back to your community? Join the CCE for Spring Into Service!
The CCE is here to show you that volunteering can take on many forms and can be easy and accessible. Spring Into Service is an on-campus volunteering session with campus partners, fun activities, raffles, and a picnic/cookout, so you can volunteer at your own comfort level.
Stop by, grab food, do some volunteer work with friends, and have fun!
with GADI LEHAVI, piano, PABLO MENARES, bass and KUSH ABADEY, drums
Friday, May 12, | 8:00 p.m.
GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana has garnered international recognition for her visionary work as a band leader, as well as her deeply meditative interpretation of language and vocabulary.
She was recently signed with Blue Note Records and releases her debut album with the historic label titled 12 Stars in March 2022. “Melissa Aldana is one of the foremost musician/composers of her generation,” says Blue Note President Don Was.
Aldana was one of the founding members of ARTEMIS, the all-star collective that released their debut album ARTEMIS on Blue Note this past Fall. The album featured Aldana’s simmering composition “Frida,” which was dedicated to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who inspired the musician through “her own process of finding self-identity through art.” Kahlo was also the subject of Aldana’s celebrated 2019 album Visions (Motéma), which earned the saxophonist her first-ever GRAMMY nomination for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, an acknowledgement of her impressive tenor solo on her composition “Elsewhere.” In naming Visions among the best albums of 2019 for NPR Music, critic Nate Chinen wrote that Aldana “has the elusive ability to balance technical achievement against a rich emotional palette.”
Tuesday, May 9 | 8:45-10 a.m.
Warch Campus Center – Mead Witter
Enjoy coffee and conversation with the Senior Members of the President’s Cabinet:
Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 Off-Campus Programs Photo Contest!
To check out these – our winning photos – as well as the rest of the amazing entries in this year’s contest, go to the OCP Photo Contest Gallery on our SharePoint site.
Congratulations to our winners, as well as our runners-up, and, thank you, LU Community, for voting!
MMIWG2S is a movement to bring awareness to the staggering numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit peoples whose cases have been continuously mistreated by law enforcement and media.
Join us on Friday, May 5 in the Diversity and Intercultural Center (D&IC) at 6 p.m. for the opening of LUNA’s MMIW gallery and take part in the Red Dress Project here on campus to bring these people to light.
Then come back to the D&IC again on Thursday, May 11 for guest Navajo healer Kristina Nez Begay for a guided drum meditation and healing ceremony!
Free and open to the public. #MMIWG2S
Sponsored by Lawrence University Native Alliance (LUNA)
Want a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card or LU Gear?
Click on the link in your LU email from the Health and Wellness Survey. The survey is anonymous and gives LU a chance to assess the health and well-being of our students to increase support.
Programs that have come out of this survey are the LU dietician, massage program, Healthy Vikings, and more. Thank you in advance for your time.
Off-Campus Programs is excited to announce its newest program collaboration in Seoul, South Korea! Through our partnership with IES Abroad, students will now be able to participate in a semester-length or academic-year program in one of East Asia’s most exciting capitals.
On the Seoul, South Korea, program students will directly enroll at Yonsei University, one the country’s leading institutions. There they can choose from a large selection of English-taught courses in the Liberal Arts, as well as business, science, and more. In addition to these options, interested students will also have the chance to learn Korean language, take area studies classes, and immerse themselves in the Korean culture.
If you are interested in learning more about this exciting opportunity, email Director of Off-Campus Programs Lezlie Weber at lezlie.r.weber@lawrence.edu. If you would like to apply to Spring Semester 2024, we will be accepting applications until June 15, 2023.
For more information on Off-Campus Programs, visit our website.
Dr. Kenny E. Yarbrough Office Hours
When: Wednesday May 10, 2:30-5 p.m.
Where: Diversity & Intercultural Center
Connect with Dr. Kenny E. Yarbrough, Vice President of the IDEAS Division, May 10 from 2:30-5 p.m. We invite our students to the Diversity & Intercultural Center to have a casual conversation with Dr. Yarbrough about your experience at Lawrence and what we could do to support our diverse student body on campus.
A Scholar-Activist Conversation with Dr. Sami Schalk & T.S. Banks
Tuesday, May 2 | 6:30 p.m.
Warch Cinema
Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Department and the Lawrence University Disability Working Group. This talk is free and open to the public.
Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). Dr. Schalk’s academic work focuses on race, disability, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She also writes for mainstream outlets, including a monthly column called “Pleasure Practices” in TONE Madison. Dr. Schalk identifies as a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme and a pleasure activist.
T.S. Banks (he/him) is a Black & QTDisabled, non-binary teaching artist, poet, and playwright from Madison, WI. He is the Founder of Loud ‘N UnChained Theater Co and LNU Publishing House, which is home to Black mad-Krip, neurodivergent, and chronically ill authors and teaching-artists. His work addresses visioning for Black Liberation, a critique of the medical system, radical care + access, madness, QT Mad-Krip Liberation, disability justice, & abolition. T’s chapbooks “Call Me ill,” “Left,” & “SPLIT” can all be found at LnuTheaterCo.com.
Sunday, April 30 | 4 p.m.
First Congregational Church | 724 E South River St, Appleton, WI
Presented by Lawrence University Piano Students of Catherine Kautsky
Join us for a free concert featuring piano music by Bach/Brahms, Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Blind Tom Wiggins, as well as music on the Native American flute.
All donations will go to the Menominee Food Distribution Center.
