Communications

Tuesday, Jan. 30 | 4:30 p.m.
Main Hall 201
Free

Mary Quade is the author of two poetry collections, Guide to Native Beasts and Local Extinctions, and the essay collection Zoo World, winner of the 2022 The Journal Non/Fiction Prize.

Originally from Wisconsin, she’s a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She’s received an Oregon Literary Fellowship and four Ohio Art Council Individual Excellence Awards for both poetry and creative nonfiction. Since 2002, she has lived in northeast Ohio on the last few acres of a former dairy farm with her husband, Chris Harris. She is a professor of English at Hiram College in Ohio.

LUCC is bringing back the Lawrence Shoutbox, available through Facebook!

Welcome to The Shoutbox Redux, is a place for members of the Lawrence community to make an announcement or pose a question regarding any of the following categories:

• Public events/concerts/parties
• Community announcements (LUCC or otherwise)
• Lost & found
• Clubs & organizations
• Life at Lawrence

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Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin

Thursday, Jan. 11 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz Hall 102

Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder will present excerpts and insights from their recently published book, Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin.

Both landscape architecture professors who have been working and studying the shorelines for many years, the book shares their practice of exploring and “meeting” five different bays within the basin as richly layered and complex places. Through a mix of theory, history, experiential documentation, and representational methods, the book shares their explorations of each bay; and argues for pluralistic and transcalar methods of knowledge creation in order to better design with these critical, dynamic places.

Tuesday, Jan. 16 | 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium

Artist Kayla Bauer discusses her art practice and exhibition, The End of Somewhere, on view in the galleries.

Reception with refreshments to follow.

Performance

Friday, Jan. 19 | 7-8:30 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Esch Hurvis

Workshop

Saturday, Jan. 20 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Esch Hurvis

SET GO is a Contact Improvisation Research and Performance ensemble founded in 2016 by dancers Shura Baryshnikov, Aaron Brando, Paul Singh, Bradley Teal Ellis, and Sarah Konner. Though all are interdisciplinary artists, each identifies Contact Improvisation as a primary practice and are lead researchers and educators in the field, both nationally and internationally. Collectively, setGO has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for over 60 years.

The setGO ensemble shares a love for whimsical, whole-hearted, virtuosic improvisation; they have been dance-making together since 2009. The group has performed at the Moving Arts Lab (Earthdance, MA), the RISD Museum Open Rehearsals, for the Institute for the Study of Environment and the Society at Brown University, Providence Fringe Festival, and the Everybody Moves Festival at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. They have developed pedagogy together as part of the CI Ground Research laboratory project since 2010.

In addition to directing their own companies, setGO artists have danced with other choreographers and companies including Amy Chavasse, Heidi Henderson, Chris Aiken, Faye Driscoll, Douglas Dunn, Gabriel Forestieri, and Headlong Dance Theater, and are currently on faculty, as well as artist-residents at universities across the United States. Members of the ensemble teach at acclaimed dance festivals nationally and internationally and offer regular classes in their local areas.

Lawrence University will partner with St. Joseph Food Program on a food drive at the Appleton Christmas Parade, set for Nov. 21.

A Lawrence University trailer will roll down College Avenue in downtown Appleton as part of the “pre-parade,” immediately following the Santa Scamper Run-Walk. LU volunteers will carry donations of canned goods from parade attendees on the curb to the trailer as it moves down the street. All donations will go to St. Joseph Food Program. A QR Code for monetary donations to St. Joseph also will be available if attendees don’t bring cans but still want to contribute.

The food drive will begin at about 6:30 p.m. The parade is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

“Lawrence University is proud to partner with St. Joseph to help stock their shelves as the holiday season approaches,” said Garrett Singer, special assistant to the president. “In addition to supporting our local community, it is an opportunity to model good citizenship for our students and campus community.”

For anyone wanting to volunteer, there are three opportunities (details about volunteering and registration can be found using these links):

1. Canvassing the neighborhoods north and east of Lawrence’s campus to promote the food drive (Friday, Nov. 17)
2. Picking up food donations from the neighborhoods north and east of Lawrence’s campus if they can’t make the parade (Monday, Nov. 20)
3. Walking in the parade and collecting donations (Tuesday, Nov. 21)

The Appleton Christmas Parade is held annually on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Drawing an estimated 80,000 spectators to downtown Appleton, the parade is among the largest holiday gatherings in the Midwest. The parade begins at the corner of State Street and College Avenue and travels east on College Avenue to Drew Street.

License to Cruise
Friday, September 29 | 3-9:30 p.m.

License to Cruise kicks off Appleton Octoberfest weekend. More than 400 vehicles will be on display along College Avenue.

No traffic will be allowed to enter onto College Avenue starting at noon. All vehicles parked on College Avenue will begin to be towed at the owner’s expense at this time.

Octoberfest
Saturday, September 30 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

College Avenue will be closed from State St. to Union st.

For full event details, visit octoberfestonline.org.

Family Fun Area | Ormsby Green

This area is open 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. featuring kid-friendly activities like karate demonstrations, juggling, balloon artists, face painting, and more.