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TONIGHT – An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

  • October 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
  • Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University
  • Hurvis Room
  • Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.

Description of event

This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.

Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.

Ross Gay Biography

Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.

 

TONIGHT – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Explore Causes of Mass Incarceration at Lawrence Talk

James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.

Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.

Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Wriston Auditorium

The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.

Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Explore Causes of Mass Incarceration at Lawrence Talk

James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.

Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.

Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Wriston Auditorium

The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.

Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

  • October 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm (please note that this time has changed from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.!)
  • Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University
  • Hurvis Room
  • Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.

Description of event

This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.

Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.

Ross Gay Biography

Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.

 

5th Annual Lawrence Giving Day – Wednesday, October 10

What is Giving Day?

Lawrence Giving Day is a one-day-only fundraising event celebrating all things Lawrence. The 5th Annual event is on Wednesday, October 10. When you give a gift that is meaningful to you, Game Changers will match it with a gift to the Lawrence Fund.

Giving Challenges

Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar thanks to our generous Game Changers, doubling the impact of your gift for current students. Any gifts from the Classes of 2002-2022  will be matched with $500. So $10, $25, $50 or $100 gifts quickly becomes $510, $525, $550 or $600. If there is a gift more than $500, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

** All matching gifts will be going to the Lawrence Fund**

New Challenges happening this year!

Keep your LU spirit high by participation in different Giving Day Challenges throughout the day on the Lawrence Facebook page.  There will be a mix of giving, sharing, trivia, and tagging challenges that will all unlock big amounts of Game Changer money!

Live shows

New primetime experience from 6 pm until 9 pm- This 3-hour live online show will be jammed packed with all of the things you know and love about Giving Day. It will feature many activities, performances, and guest appearances. Throughout the day we will also be going live on Facebook to kick off the day, featuring different areas of campus, and play some trivia.  Make sure to tune in!

Visit go.lawrence.edu/givingday for all Giving Day information.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Accreditation Visit & Open Forums Next Week

On October 1-2, 2018, this coming Monday and Tuesday, Lawrence will host a team of reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission as part of our reaccreditation process. As part of the site visit, the HLC reviewers want to hear from the Lawrence community on a number of important topics. Faculty and staff participation in these open meetings and forums is a valuable piece of the reaccreditation process.

Click here for a list of meetings and to RSVP.

An RSVP is not required to attend, but it is helpful and allows you to receive updates and reminders as meeting locations can be subject to change.

For more information about accreditation, click here.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Accreditation Visit & Open Forums Next Week

On October 1-2, 2018, this coming Monday and Tuesday, Lawrence will host a team of reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission as part of our reaccreditation process. A students-only open forum is an important part of that visit. It takes place on Monday, October 1 from 4:30-5:15 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center Cinema.

There will be a number of additional open forums and meetings that students are encouraged to attend, including a session on Diversity and Campus Climate on Monday, October 1, 2018 from 2-3 p.m. This session will now be held in the Wriston Auditorium.

Click here for a full list of meetings and to RSVP.

An RSVP is not required to attend, but it is helpful and allows you to receive updates and reminders as meeting locations can be subject to change.

For more information about accreditation, click here.

Open Movement and Music Jam // Indah Walsh Dance Company

Open Movement and Music Jam

Join us for the first Open Movement and Music Jam is this weekend!

Details

  • Date: Sunday, September 30
  • Time: 3:30-5:00pm
  • Location: Esch/Hurvis dance studio
    • One floor down from the ground floor, down the hall behind the Corner Store in the Warch Campus Center
  • The event is FREE and everyone is welcome – all ages, all communities, Lawrence University-affiliated or not, all abilities, all identities.
  • You may make sound/music, you may dance, you may bring an instrument, you may rest, watch, or listen.
  • RSVP to the Facebook Event now!

Indah Walsh Dance Company

Indah Walsh Dance Company is coming to town from NYC to share their work: homespun (please remove your shoes)

Details

  • Date: Monday, October 1
  • Time: 7:00pm
  • Location: Esch/Hurvis dance studio
    • One floor down from the ground floor, down the hall behind the Corner Store in the Warch Campus Center
  • The event is FREE and open to all ages.
  • RSVP to the Facebook Event now!

Dance has been shown to activate our brains, foster creativity, strengthen memory, relieve stress, and build community. Dance is for everyone!!

Indah Walsh Dance Company creates participatory performance gatherings entitled homespun (please remove your shoes) that invite the audience to choose how they wish to engage through participatory activity. Upon removing your shoes, you may be invited to share a joke, sing, play games, dance, and/or meditate. Through dance, games, music, and humor the work serves as a space to gather and interact, indulging our innate sense to be in connection with one another. homespun (and the Open Jam) is family-friendly so bring your kids and let them play!

Indah Walsh is a choreographer, performer, and educator with a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase College and an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. In 2017, Indah was awarded a Creative Engagement Grant from LMCC and has shown work at Danspace Project, Seattle Asian Art Museum, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Watermill Center, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center among many others. She has taught, choreographed, and performed internationally including in Italy, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, and across the US. Indah is the Artistic Director of Indah Walsh Dance Company as well as a Co-Director for NYU Tisch Future Dancers and Dancemakers.