Dance Fest 2023: Beyond All Limits
2023-02-19 15:00 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Wheaton’s Dance Collaborative presents Dance Fest 2023, featuring hip hop, salsa, tap, k-pop, step, and multi-cultural dance traditions, performed by TRYBE, Paraíso Latino, Tap Out Loud, KAOS and special guests, S.O.L.E. This annual performance showcases the talent of our student-run dance group.
Please note: This performance includes strobe effects
Tickets: $5 general, $3 students, can be purchased via the Watson Box Office.

Eileen de Rosas—Into the Woods
2023-02-20 15:30 | Diana Davis Spencer Cafe
Artist Eileen de Rosas (MassArt MFA ’22) presents an artist talk discussing her recent Public Art at Wheaton (PAAW) project Into the Woods, sited in the Beard Courtyard of the Mars Science Center. De Rosas will also share work from her artistic practice more broadly.

Compassionate Flexibility: An Open Conversation About Syllabi Design
2023-02-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – May Room, Norton, MA, 02766
Mental and physical health, for both students and faculty, are connected to the workload and intellectual labors we carry as a learning community. Syllabi are ideally designed to provide faculty and students with a roadmap and a clear set of guidelines to foster a productive, transparent working relationship. As we begin a new semester, student leaders and WIIH Fellows invite you to an open conversation reflecting on what is fair and equitable when it comes to expectations surrounding coursework. Are there ways we can think past the “either-or” fallacy of compassionate flexibility vs. intellectual rigor? Or of respect for difference vs. respect for the time and labor of others? Can we find more space in our demanding lives to calmly articulate the individual priorities and values that inform all faculty-student conversations throughout the semester?
All are welcome.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Embodied Labor: Care and Control
2023-02-21 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-25 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-28 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-04 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-07 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-21 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-25 13:00 - 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Embodied Labor: Care and Control uses archival, collection, and loan objects to explore myriad forms of human labor.
Please note: the galleries will be closed December 11, 2022–January 30, 2023 for winter break; and March 11–20, 2023 for spring break.

STEP AFRiKA!
2023-02-22 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This professional dance company based in DC, focuses on the polyrhythmic art of stepping. Steeped in African and African American tradition, step has deep roots in the emergence of HBCUs in the south. Complex percussive sequences demand energy, precision, and teamwork; the intricacies of the movements can be heard as well as seen. Step Afrika! is committed to performance and outreach, their visit to Wheaton will surely expand our understanding of collective movement—and have everyone on the edge of their seats.
Free tickets may be reserved online via the Watson Box Office.

Embodied Labor: Care and Control
2023-02-23 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-02 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-09 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-23 13:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Embodied Labor: Care and Control uses archival, collection, and loan objects to explore myriad forms of human labor.
Please note: the galleries will be closed December 11, 2022–January 31, 2023 for winter break; and March 11–20 for spring break.

New Plays Festival
2023-02-25 14:00, 2023-02-25 17:00, 2023-02-26 14:00, 2023-02-26 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Longer form plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—will be showcased in our annual festival. This festival includes four performances over 2 days, different works will be featured at each seating. 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. daily.

Cyborg Arms and Robot Caregivers: Design For an Interdependent Future
2023-03-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us as we kick off the WIIIH’s Designing for Difference series, by welcoming our keynote speaker Sara Hendren. Sara is a humanist in tech—an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering.
Most people think about prosthetics in a posthuman future: novel tools and materials to augment the body and overcome its limitations. Or we think of inclusive or barrier-free design, efforts to make the built world accessible to people whose bodies fall outside the range of normal. But what if there’s a deeper invitation hidden in the built environment, clues that lie in all its shapes and sizes? Sara Hendren walks us through products, furniture, buildings, and city streets to locate the desirable forms of assistance that beckon all of us.
Sara’s book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World explores the places where disability shows up in design at all scales: assistive technology, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR and won the 2021 Science in Society Journalism book prize. Her art and design works have been exhibited in museums worldwide and are held in the permanent collections at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt. In 2021-22, she was Lecturer in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a fellow in Education Policy at the New America think tank, where she was researching the future of work for adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities.

Designing for Difference brings innovative design leaders, thinkers and humanists to campus, to celebrate the inauguration of Wheaton’s new Design program. Anchored in the History and Theory of Design course, this spring the WIIH asks students, staff, and faculty to challenge the concept of “normal” and reconsider what makes design inclusive. All events are open to the public.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Readings by the Writer: Diana Khoi Nguyen
2023-03-07 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – May Room, Norton, MA, 02766
Diana Khoi Nguyen is a first-generation Vietnamese-American poet whose book, Ghost Of, is an elegy for her brother, and she explores the difficulties felt by parents from this culture. A brief Q&A will follow this evening event.

I Had No Idea You Were Black: Navigating Race on the Road to Leadership
2023-03-09 17:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Dr. Ronald Crutcher, President Emeritus returns to Wheaton to celebrate the release of his recently published memoir I Had No Idea You Were Black: Navigating Race on the Road to Leadership. A leader in higher education, distinguished classical musician and accomplished administrator, Dr. Crutcher shares his talents on the cello before sitting down for an interview discussing his life as a Black leader successfully bridging America’s cultural divides and sharing his compelling story which offers many important lessons on life and leadership.

An Evening of Musical Theatre and Jazz
2023-03-23 19:30 | Emerson Dining Room
The Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers under the direction of Visiting Assistant Professor Alexandra Lutkevich, present an evening of musical theater and jazz, featuring group numbers as well as student soloists.

Designing Motherhood: Curating Inside and Outside of Institutions
2023-03-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join Michelle Millar Fisher, co-founder of Designing Motherhood, to learn about a unique constellation of contemporary artists and designers whose work helps us ponder the political, economic, and social implications of how we all relate to reproduction. The project juxtaposes photography with product design, portraiture with maternity fashion, and much more, to create a rich consideration of activism and policy change, as well as reclaimed joy, body literacy, and reproductive agency.
The Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births project explores the arc of human reproduction through the lens of art and design. The exhibition, book, and associated programs demonstrate the evolution of rights and societal norms pertaining to con(tra)ception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences over the last 150 years, highlighting that birth—and the material culture that surrounds it—impacts every living person

Designing for Difference brings innovative design leaders, thinkers and humanists to campus, to celebrate the inauguration of Wheaton’s new Design program. Anchored in the History and Theory of Design course, this spring the WIIH asks students, staff, and faculty to challenge the concept of “normal” and reconsider what makes design inclusive. All events are open to the public.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Nicholas Kitchen, violin with Ann Sears, piano
2023-03-29 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Nicholas Kitchen, internationally recognized violinist, founder of the Borromeo String Quartet, and faculty member of New England Conservatory, presents a concert with Professor of Music, Ann Sears, piano. This performance includes sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart, as well as works by Clarence Cameron White and Amy Beach.

Hamlet
2023-03-31 19:30, 2023-04-01 19:30, 2023-04-02 14:00 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
written by William Shakespeare, directed by Sven Stenroos
Set in Elsinore Castle, Denmark, the melancholy Hamlet learns of the tragedy behind his father’s death, as his father’s ghost tells the tale, and charges him to avenge him. Enlisting in the help of his true friend Horatio, he sets out to lay a trap for his Uncle Claudius, to expose his guilt and slay him. Does the burden weigh too heavily on young Hamlet? Is he truly feigning madness? Presented by Cafe Theatre and the Department of Theatre & Dance.
Free tickets via the Box Office. Donations are welcome at the Box Office on performance days.

Wheaton College Brown Bag Lunch Concerts
2023-04-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Come, enjoy your lunch, and listen to some wonderful music provided by the

Wheaton College Music Faculty

Tuesday, April 4, 12:30-1:30 (concert from 12:45-1:15)
Woolley Room (Mary Lyon Hall)

Radical Visibility: A Queercrip Dress Reform Movement
2023-04-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join multidisciplinary artist Sky Cubacub, who created Rebirth Garments in 2014. Rebirth Garment’s mission is to create gender non-conforming wearables and accessories for people on the full spectrum of gender, size and ability. The line creates a community where all people can confidently express their individuality and identity. Trans and disabled communities have clothing needs not adequately served by mainstream clothing designers. Instead of being centered on cisgender, heterosexual, white, thin people, Rebirth Garments focuses on the needs of disabled queer lives, with an emphasis on radical visibility and joy.
Sky is a non-binary xenogender and disabled Filipinx queer from Chicago. They were named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist, and Disability Futures Fellow. Sky has recently shared their work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Utah, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Rebirth Garments has been featured in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Playboy, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Wussy Mag, and the New York Times.

Designing for Difference brings innovative design leaders, thinkers and humanists to campus, to celebrate the inauguration of Wheaton’s new Design program. Anchored in the History and Theory of Design course, this spring the WIIH asks students, staff, and faculty to challenge the concept of “normal” and reconsider what makes design inclusive. All events are open to the public.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.
