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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.

 

It’s a Sukkah

Sukkot is the Jewish time of remembrance, recalling  when the Israelites wandered through the desert.  A sukkah represents the structures that were slept in and can be constructed of almost anything for the walls. More specifically, the roof must be made of plants that are no longer in the ground, the purpose being that the stars should be able to be seen at night. This year, Sukkot will end on the evening of Sunday, Spetember 30th.

Visit the eastern green space next to Sabin House to respectfully consider the structure there.  Have questions? connect with Hillel on Friday at 5:30 at Sabin House Center for Spiritual and Religious Life to talk more.

 

Spiritually speaking-We’ve got your early week covered

  MON –  Esch Hurvis starting at 4:15p
Begin your week with balance and energy as you begin a practice of  Tai Chi. Complete your exercise there or flow right in to the yoga practice that follows in the same space.  Open to all.
Every Monday during term. 

 

  TUE – Andrew Commons 12:30p-1:30p

On Tuesday, have a seat with Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life, Linda Morgan-Clement.  Take lunch with Linda in Andrew Commons and discuss what’s on your mind, spiritual or otherwise. Connect.  You will find her at one of the tables near the ice cream machines.  Open to all.
Tuesdays of weeks 4,6,8 and 10.

 

WED – Intersections: Water  5:15p

Come and continue the connection between water and resourcefulness.  Start your experiental workshop at Sabin House and connect with fellow Lawrentians around water’s faceted presence in both vast and intricate ways.   Intersections shows us the places where faith, scholarship, work and activism all connect. “Water” will be led by Terra Winston, Associate Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life.  Open to all.
Final two sessions October 3rd and 10th. 

 

First Fall Term Office Hours with Kimberly Barrett, Oct 15th

Dr. Kimberly Barrett, Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion is hosting open office hours. The first session of open office hours for Fall Term is being held on October 15th, 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.

Cultural Competency – Smash the Binary by Using Gender Inclusive Language

Location: Mead Witter, Warch Campus Center
Date & Time: Tuesday, Oct. 16th; 11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Helen Boyd will present information on non binary (enby) genders and pronouns as well as discussing some of the terminology used by gender-queer and gender non-conforming (GNC) individuals. She’ll also discuss the variations in cultures which have traditionally recognized three or more genders and discuss the intersections between trans* and enby genders.

IMPORTANT: Drop-In Session and Open Forums Part of Upcoming Accreditation Visit

On October 1-2, 2018, 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 welcome to attend, including a session on Diversity and Campus Climate on Monday, October 1, 2018 from 2-3 p.m. in the Wriston Auditorium. Keep an eye on your email for additional information about the visit and schedule of meetings.

In advance of the visit, Lawrence is hosting a drop-in session for students next week to provide more information about the accreditation process and visit and answer any questions students may have.

Accreditation Visit Preparation Drop-In Information Session:

Tuesday, September 25, 4-5 p.m.

Warch Campus Center, Arthur Vining Davis Conference Room

More information about accreditation available here.

Won’t You be My Neighbor Film Screening at Lawrence

We invite community members, faculty, and students to the LU campus cinema next week for special showings of the documentary film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.”

The film asks audiences to consider Fred Roger’s advocacy for childhood through children’s television programming. His messages of kindness, love, and concern for children and their emotional well-being impacted generations of children and adults. How might his legacy impact our own work in our communities today?

Showings will occur at midnight Friday Sept. 28, and on Saturday Sept. 29 at 2pm and 8pm.

Immediately following the Saturday, 2pm showing, faculty from the LU Education and Psychology Departments will conduct a community conversation and Q/A on “Kindness, Childhood, and Building a Community.”  Refreshments provided.

These special showings are generously sponsored by The John and Sally Mielke Community Collaboration Program and SOUP.

Intersections – the Spirituality of Water

The Spirituality of Water will be explored on 9/26, 10/3, and 10/10.
This Fall’s Intersections  series will travel around campus and beyond to explore and discuss various water centered places and their many meanings.

Essential to the earth and to our being. Essential for healing and nourishing.  Be a part of explorations around water and the many ways that its spiritual expansiveness can be experienced.