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Queer Potluck

Thursday, Nov. 9 | 7-9 p.m.
Diversity & Intercultural Center

Let’s Eat! Join us and help create family, community, and memories for students to take home with them at this year’s Queer Potluck.

Queer Potluck is a time for our LGBTQ+, faculty, staff, and the LU community/families to come together, pitch in, and to help us provide for our students before they leave for winter break.

Everyone is welcome. Everyone can bring a dish. We only ask that everyone come with love and dignity toward queer people in their hearts and words and actions and that LGBTQ+ students be given pride of place.

Sign up to bring a dish to pass

Cultural Expressions Talent Call

Friday, Nov. 10 | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 11 | 1-3 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Mead Witter Room

Sign up for the Cultural Expressions Talent Call

Calling all Black and BIPOC students!

Black Student Union is already preparing and planning for a February that is jam-packed with fun and fulfilling workshops and events, including BSU’s annual Cultural Expressions Showcase! BSU’s marquee event is a talent showcase geared to provide a space and stage for Black and BIPOC to express themselves and their culture through various art forms: music, dance, poetry, film, even comedy, and so much more, in celebration and culmination of Black History Month.

Come be a part of Black Student Union’s, and one of Lawrence’s, biggest yearly events, by coming to the Cultural Expressions Talent Call! Two sessions will be held on Friday, November 10 from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 11 from 1-3 p.m. Both will be held in Mead Witter Room in Warch.

THIS IS A TALENT CALL, NOT AN AUDITION! Everyone who shows up for the talent call will be put in the show, so long as their act is not inappropriate and the act is with primarily Black/BIPOC performers and artists.

Native American Heritage Month events

Presented by the I.D.E.A.S. Division, Diversity and Intercultural Center (D&IC) and Lawrence University Native Alliance (LUNA)

Corn Husk Doll Making
Tuesday, Nov. 7 | 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Diversity & Intercultural Center

Join us in a captivating workshop where you can delve into the world of Oneida traditions. Discover the significance of the Oneida’s traditional white corn, still grown within their community today. Uncover the fascinating story behind why the corn husk doll has no face, and engage in a hands-on experience crafting your very own corn husk doll to take home as a memento of your enriching journey.

Register for the corn husk doll workshop. (Space is limited.)

Storytelling with Weeya Calif
Monday, Nov. 13 | 5-6:30 p.m.
Diversity & Intercultural Center

Come listen to traditional stories told by Weeya Calif, a member of the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama. Weeya is a professional artist, art educator, and storyteller. She comes from a long line of oral storytellers and dresses in authentic 18th century clothing. Her stories have been passed down through many generations and teach important lessons, ways of life, and how things came to be. Indigenous food will be provided after the event.

Register for the Storytelling event.

Beaded Porcupine Quill Earrings
Wednesday, Nov. 15 | 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall 105

Join us in this fun and creative workshop where you will learn about Indigenous cultures and the use of porcupine quills in various applications. While learning about the culture, you will also create your own pair of beaded quill work earrings that you can wear yourself or gift to someone.

Register for the porcupine quill earrings workshop. (Space is limited.)

Talk with Dr. L.J. Randolph Jr.

“Enacting a Justice-centered Language Curriculum”

Friday, Nov. 3 | 4:30-6 p.m.
Main Hall 201

Dr. Randolph is an assistant professor of World Language Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president-elect of ACFLT. His research and teaching focus on various critical issues in language education, including teaching Spanish to heritage and native speakers, incorporating justice-oriented/anti-racist/anti-colonial pedagogies, and centering Blackness and Indigenousness.

Latin American & Spanish Film Festival

Oct. 26-29 | Warch Campus Center Cinema
FREE Admission
Films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles

Thursday, Oct. 26

  • 4:30 p.m. | “Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Chile, 50 Years After the Coup”
    by Professor Patricia Vilches

    Followed by Chile ’76 (2022) | Chile, 2022 | Dir. Manuela Martelli
    Drama
    Three years after Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile through a coup, establishing a military dictatorship, housewife Carmen finds herself drawn out from her comfortable lifestyle into playing a more active role in the resistance.
  • 8 p.m. | Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, 2022 | Dir. Santiago Mitre.
    Biography/Crime/Drama
    The true story of how a public prosecutor, a young lawyer, and their inexperienced legal team dares to prosecute the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship.

Friday, Oct. 27

  • 5 p.m. | La Pecera (The Fishbowl) | Puerto Rico, 2023 | Dir. Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
    Drama
    As cancer spreads, Noelia’s ultimately decides to return to her native Puerto Rico to claim her freedom and decide her own fate. She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with contamination of the U.S. Navy after 60 years of military practices.
  • 7 p.m. | Noche Latina at LU | Somerset Room – Warch Campus Center
    Talk by Ariela Rosa | Dance + Live music

Saturday, Oct. 28

  • 5 p.m. | Un Lugar Llamado Música (A Place Called Music) | Mexico, 2022
    Followed by Q&A with Dir. Enrique M. Rizo.
    Documentary
    This documentary depicts the a musical journey between Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina and American composer Philip Glass. Through a friendship that lacks words but abounds in must, they demonstrate that music is also a place in which lies an understanding of the most abstract forms of human emotions.
  • 8 p.m. | Perdidos en la Noche (Lost in the Night) | Mexico, 2023 | Dir. Amat Escalante
    Drama/Thriller
    In a small mining town in Mexico, Emiliano searches for those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother. Receiving no help from the police, he finds a clue that leads him to the wealthy Aldama family. It’s not long before he has a job at their home and becomes determined to uncover the secrets beneath the surface.

Sunday, Oct. 29

  • 2 p.m. | As Bestas (The Beasts) | Spain, 2022 | Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
    Drama/Thriller
    A French couple move to a Galician town in search of a closer relationship with nature. However, a conflict with their neighbors, the Anta brothers, cause tensions to grow until the situation reaches a point of no return.

Sponsored by

  • Siekman Foundation
  • Helen Barr Rudin Fund and Foreign Language Coalition
  • Lawrence Department of Spanish
  • Friends of the Festival

Questions?

Wisconsin PRIDE Documentary Screening

Lawrence’s Pride Network partnered with Diverse + Resilient and PBS Wisconsin to host a screening of the recently released PBS documentary Wisconsin Pride.

Wisconsin Pride: Part 1
Sunday, Oct. 29 | 6-7:45 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This screening includes the first half of the documentary and a Q&A with a panel of Wisconsin LGBTQ leaders. Audience members are invited to engage with the speakers for a discussion about how our past shapes our history.

Wisconsin Pride: Part 2
Monday, Oct. 30 | 6-7:45 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This screening includes the second half of the documentary and a conversation with Brice Smith, the scholar who wrote the biography of Milwaukee’s own Lou Sullivan entitled Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be A Man Among Men. Sullivan is a trans man who shaped the trans masculine movement and created FTM International.

Both screenings are free and open to the public. Register today!

2SLGBTQ+ History Month

October is 2SLGBTQ+ History Month, and October 11 is National Coming Out Day. Both events highlight and celebrate people who identify the gender and sexuality diverse communities, including (but not limited to) those who identify as two spirit*, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning.

We hope you’ll join us for one of these incredible events.

Reading: Tristan Taormino, from A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten
Tuesday, Oct. 10 | 5-7 p.m.
Warch 204 – Cinema

Tristan Taormino will be reading from her queer memoir A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten: A Memoir.

Kink Workshop with Tristan Taormino
Wednesday, Oct. 11 | 1-2 p.m.
Diversity Center

A workshop for LGBTQ+ identified students

Flirting Workshop with Tristan Taormino
Wednesday, Oct. 11 | 2-3 p.m.
Diversity Center

A workshop for LGBTQ+ identified students

Talk: Tristan Taormino on “The Sex Ed You Never Got”
Wednesday, Oct. 11 | 5-7 p.m.
Warch 204 – Cinema

A National Coming Out Day Talk and event open to Lawrence and the larger Appleton community

About Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, sex educator, speaker, media maker, and podcast host. She is the author of nine books and editor or co-editor of 25 anthologies. She keynotes, lectures, and teaches workshops around the world. She is the host and executive producer of the long running podcast Sex Out Loud. She is the creator of Sex Educator Boot Camp, a professional training program, and she runs a coaching and consulting business for sexuality professionals. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993.

Lawrence’s Pride Network partnered with Diverse + Resilient and PBS Wisconsin to host a screening of the recently released PBS documentary Wisconsin Pride.

Wisconsin Pride: Part 1
Sunday, Oct. 29 | 6-7:45 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This screening includes the first half of the documentary and a Q&A with a panel of Wisconsin LGBTQ leaders. Audience members are invited to engage with the speakers for a discussion about how our past shapes our history.

Wisconsin Pride: Part 2
Monday, Oct. 30 | 6-7:45 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This screening includes the second half of the documentary and a conversation with Brice Smith, the scholar who wrote the biography of Milwaukee’s own Lou Sullivan entitled Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be A Man Among Men. Sullivan is a trans man who shaped the trans masculine movement and created FTM International.

Both screenings are free and open to the public. Register today!