Multicultural Calendar
November 2009 | |
Friday, November 6 | |
| 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Women's Lunch. Hair: A Cross-Cultural Discussion. Join us for an open conversation as women of many backgrounds and identities come together to both celebrate and grapple with their hair. Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning. Web link. Contact: Ebony Williams |
Wednesday, November 11 | |
| 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Native Hand Crafts. Join us for a hands-on program about bead work and its significance in Native American culture, led by Loren Spears, executive director of the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum. Sign up in Student Life Office. Limit: 15 students. Old game room off Balfour-Hood Atrium. Contact: Raquel Ramos |
Thursday, November 12 | |
| 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. | Martin Religion Lecture. Sabina Magliocco, professor of anthropology at California State University Northridge, will speak on the topic, ''Folklore and the Reclamation of Ecstatic Experience in American Neo-Paganism.'' She is the author of Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America, among other works. Holman Room, Mary Lyon. Free and open to all. Contact: Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus |
December 2009 | |
Friday, December 4 | |
| 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Study Break. Take this opportunity to de-stress with others in the campus community before finals begin. Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning. Web link. Contact: Raquel Ramos |
Saturday, December 5 | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Boston Providence Connection: Urban Nutcracker. Following the story of E.T.A. Hoffman's 19th century fairy tale but setting it in contemporary Boston, Urban Nutcracker fuses ballet, swing, hip hop, and urban tap with the classical score of Tchaikovsky and the pulsating beat of Duke Ellington. John Hancock Hall, Boston. Tickets: $10, 1 per person. Web link. Contact: Jossie Mar Diaz |
January 2010 | |
Saturday, January 30 | |
| 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Sophomore Symposium: ''Gear Up.'' A day of workshops, facilitated conversations, a keynote alumni address and alumni roundtable conversations that will support your success at Wheaton and beyond. Open to 100 members of the Class of 2012. Registration will take place in Balfour Hood starting November 16, 2009. Meneely, Mars, Mary Lyon Hall. Contact: Alex Vasquez |