Campus Events Newsletter
February 18th - February 24th
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Weekly Events
A number of individuals, organizations, and offices host weekly events! If you would like to learn more, please check out www.knox.edu/calendar.
- Spanish Table / Mesa Española: Tuesdays
- Zen Buddhist Meditation Practice & Dharma Dialogue: Tuesdays
- Blessing in a Backpack Evening Packing: Tuesdays
- Film Club: Tuesdays
- M.E.Ch.A. Meeting: Tuesdays
- ABLE Study Sessions: Tuesdays
- Red Room Tutoring: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Red Room SMC: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Music Red Room: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Harambee Meeting: Wednesdays
- French Table / Table Française: Thursdays
- Deutscher Tisch: Thursdays
- Student Senate General Assembly: Thursdays
- Smash Club Weekly Tournament: Wednesdays
- Harambee Meeting: Wednesdays
- Study Sessions @ ABLE: Tuesdays
- Water Polo practice: Daily
- Writer's Workshop: Daily
Knox Alumni Ambassador Applications Due
Knox Alumni Ambassadors is a volunteer student organization sponsored by the Office of Advancement. The main purpose is to assist Knox College and the Office of Advancement in interaction with students, parents, alumni and friends.
Events and commitments include: serving as student representatives at campus events, including Homecoming,
Founders Day, Commencement, KNect events, and other events and receptions on and off campus; helping to educate students
about Knox traditions, special events, and student philanthropy activities.
Here is the link to the Google Form Application. Please know that all applications MUST be in by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19, 2019.
We will be reading and considering applications after that date.
If you have questions, please contact Jennifer Gallas, Associate Director of Alumni and Constituent Programs at jgallas@knox.edu.
"Understanding Poetry": An exhibition by John Dilg
10 am - 5 pm
CFA, Borzello Gallery
The exhibition by John Dilg titled "Understanding Poetry" will run from February 12-March 15 in the Borzello Gallery of the Ford Center for Fine Arts.
John Dilg received a B.F.A. in Painting and Filmmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to India, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and three Residency Fellowships at the Yaddo Foundation.
Dilg has been a visiting artist at more than 40 institutions, including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Chicago and Stanford University. His work is in the collections of the Arkansas Art Center, the Figge Museum of Art, Illinois State University, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and several other public institutions. Reviews include Art in America, New York Times, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, and New Art Examiner.
Monday
Depression Coping Skills Workshop
4 - 5 pm
Wilson House
This workshop is meant as an opportunity to learn coping skills to decrease depressive symptoms. The majority of this time will be spent sharing, practicing, and discussing coping techniques. This is not group counseling, but rather is set up as a classroom-like learning environment.
This is an open workshop, meaning that this event is open to the campus. Students interested in attending do not have to contact Counseling Services in advance
Tuesday
Thursday
Make Your Own Tea with Tea Club
Feb. 21st
8 - 10 pm
Post Lobby
Friday
Caxton Club Presents: Francesca Abbate
February 22nd
4 - 5:30 pm
Old Main, Alumni Room
Her long-poem Troy, Unincorporated (University of Chicago Press, 2012) retells and refracts Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, uprooting and relocating its characters and themes to rural Wisconsin late in the 20th century.
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, Field, The Journal, and Iowa Review. She is an associate professor at Beloit College.
Saturday
Matzoh Ball Soup by Hillel!
10 pm - 2 am
Wilson House
Come to Wilson House for some tasty homemade Matzoh Ball soup from Hillel!
3$ for one bowl, or 5$ for unlimited soup.
Sunday
Knox College Choir Send-Off Concert
Feb. 24th
3 - 4 pm
Kresge Recital Hall
Please join us to say "bon voyage" to the Knox College Choir, as they start their Midwestern tour!
The KCC will be touring in the Twin Cities, Iowa City, and Chicago. They will be performing a stunning arrangment of music, directed by Dr. Laura Lane. Come and see the program that the whole Midwest will be talking about!
Off Campus Events
Knox College Live-Lit Storytelling Performance
Friday, Feb. 22nd
7:30 - 9 pm
Cherry Street Pub & Restaurant
Come out and see students, faculty and staff tell/perform wildly entertaining and true stories (like those at The Moth) at Cherry Street Pub.
Cost: $1 tickets sold at Seymour Union this week or reserve a ticket by emailing Prof. Jim Dyer (all profits go to Bridgeway).
Knox-Galesburg Symphony presents "Stars Over Paris"
7:30 - 9 pm
Orpheum Theatre
Masterworks 2: "STARS OVER PARIS"
Alexander Platt, guest conductor
Honegger: Pacific 2-3-1
Duparc: Aux Etoiles (Toward the Stars)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218
Melissa White, violin
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Call 341-7268 for tickets or www.knoxgalesburgsymphony.org