<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Melissa Scheid Frantz</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mysSA@hampshire.edu">mysSA@hampshire.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:02 PM<br>Subject: CC List: Cultural Center Events for Oct-Dec.<br>To: Melissa <<a href="mailto:mscheidfrantz@hampshire.edu">mscheidfrantz@hampshire.edu</a>><br><br><br>To: Cultural Center List<br>
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Mark your calendars now for these upcoming events at the Cultural Center!<br>
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1) Oct. 17, Arts & Activism program<br>
2) Oct. 18, James Baldwin Scholars/SOURCE Brunch<br>
3) Oct. 19, Psychotherapy 101: "I'm not crazy!"<br>
4) Sign up by Oct. 19 for SOURCE Intergroup Dialogue on Skin Tone, Oct., 24-25<br>
5) Nov, 2, "Between Cultures: The psychology of multiple cultural affiliation" workshop<br>
6) Nov. 17, Dinner with multicultural faculty<br>
7) Nov. 17 and Dec. 2, Writing Help Sessions with Ellie Siegel<br>
8) Ringing of the Bells celebrating graduates and SOURCE community<br>
9) Winter closet -- are you too cold?<br>
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* DETAILS ABOUT THESE DYNAMIC PROGRAMS BELOW *<br>
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"The Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center as a SOURCE for Change: Celebrating 20 Years"<br>
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009 as part of Family & Friends Weekend<br>
1:30–3:00pm, Kahlo Gallery, Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center<br>
The underlying mission of the Cultural Center over the last twenty years has been social change. At this session, multicultural students, faculty, and alumni will discuss and share their work to effect social change through arts and activism. Additionally, an exhibit of stories about the Cultural Center from alumni, students, and faculty will be shown. The Cultural Center invites the campus to join in the celebration of its founding. Light refreshments will be provided.<br>
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Monday, 26 October, 2009<br>
3:30-4:30pm<br>
A Celebration and Commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center with the dedication of the new "dialogue" area of a new bench and tree, backyard of the center. Light refreshments served. *On October 26, 1989 the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center officially opened its doors.*<br>
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Baldwin Scholars and SOURCE Brunch (<a href="http://www.hampshire.edu/news/13620.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hampshire.edu/news/13620.htm</a>)<br>
Sunday, 18 October<br>
11 a.m.-1 p.m, Red Barn<br>
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Please join us for this wonderful chance to celebrate the talents and accomplishments of both the Baldwin Scholars and the SOURCE (students of under-represented cultures and ethnicities) community.<br>
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The Baldwin Scholars Program provides talented students of color from underserved communities an opportunity to develop and improve the skills necessary for college success through coursework and tutorial support at Hampshire. Many Baldwin Scholars are also involved in the multicultural student groups who make up the coalition of SOURCE.<br>
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RSVP required: <a href="mailto:alumni@hampshire.edu" target="_blank">alumni@hampshire.edu</a><br>
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Psychotherapy 101: "I'm not crazy!"<br>
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Monday, Oct. 19<br>
4pm-5pm @ Cultural Center<br>
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Do you sometimes wonder if talking to someone about your problems and/or feelings could help you? Does the idea of therapy make you uncomfortable? Are you curious about how you might use therapy? About what people talk about in therapy?<br>
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Please join staff from the Health Services (<a href="http://www.hampshire.edu/studentlife/10799.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hampshire.edu/studentlife/10799.htm</a>) for an information session about therapy at Hampshire College. We will describe some difficulties people face when seeking services, tell you more about what the Health Center offers, and answer any questions you have. (This program is part of the Cultural Center's continued series,"SOURCE Well-Being Programs")<br>
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What has been your experiences talking about your racial/ethnic background and your skin tone?<br>
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Participate in the SOURCE Intergroup Dialogue on Skin Tone, Oct., 24-25 (11am-4pm both days required) to engage in this topic and build your dialogue skills.<br>
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Register online by Oct. 19, midnight: <a href="https://intranet.hampshire.edu/forms/viewForm.php?id=472" target="_blank">https://intranet.hampshire.edu/forms/viewForm.php?id=472</a><br>
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"SOURCE Intergroup Dialogue on Skin Tone" (SOURCE - coalition of Students of Under-Represented Cultures & Ethnicities)<br>
Participants will reflect on how "skin tone" impacts their college experiences as well as the dynamics "skin tone" brings to the Cultural Center and beyond. This dialogue explores similarities, differences and<br>
conflicts related to the multicultural student community. This is also an opportunity for personal exploration.<br>
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“Intergroup Dialogue is a facilitated face-to-face interaction between students from difference background, with the goal of raising awareness about their differences as well as commonalities. It creates room for students to engage in honest and productive dialogues about issues of social inequalities and explore ways in which they can work together towards justice and equity.” Zúńiga, X. & Nagda, B. A., Chesler, M, & Cytron-Walker, A. (2007). Intergroup dialogue in high education: Meaningful learning about social justice. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Volume 32, Number 4. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.<br>
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*Facilitators' Bios:<br>
Patricia Cardoso was born and had lived in the Cape Verdean Islands until eight years ago when she immigrated to the United States. She is currently a first-year doctoral student at the University of<br>
Massachusetts/Amherst in the Education Policy and Leadership program. She hopes to conduct research around immigrant students’ collegiate experiences. While pursuing her master's degree in Social Justice Education she facilitated dialogue and workshops around race and ethnicity for women, ableism, and sexism.<br>
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Rani Varghese is a doctoral candidate in the Social Justice Education Program and graduate certificate student in Women's Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her training in<br>
clinical social work at Smith College School for Social Work where she now teaches as an adjunct faculty member. Her research interests include examining issues of violence in the South Asian community, expanding current conceptions of body image, and teaching about social justice issues in the social work context. Rani has over 10 years experience as a diversity and social justice trainer<br>
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This intergroup dialogue is the third dialogue in a series since last year to foster and increase dialogue within the SOURCE community on issues intersecting with race/ethnicity. Questions, contact Cultural<br>
Center, 559-5461.<br>
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"Between Cultures: The psychology of multiple cultural affiliation" workshop<br>
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Monday, Nov. 2<br>
@ 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Cultural Center<br>
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This brief workshop, facilitated by Dr. Nina Wurgaft of the Hampshire College Counseling Service, will address issues that arise when a person feels that "who they are" is too complex to fit into existing socially sanctioned cultural categories. People who are multilingual, multiracial, multiethnic or multinational often describe a feeling of "belonging both everywhere and nowhere" at the same time; their identity, sometimes even their name, is context-dependent. All who are interested in exploring the complexities of this increasingly prevalent psychological experience are welcome to attend. (This program is part of the Cultural Center's continued series,"SOURCE Well-Being Programs")<br>
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Dinner with multicultural faculty<br>
Nov. 17<br>
5:30-7pm at the Cultural Center<br>
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Writing Help Sessions with Ellie Siegel (Writing Center faculty)<br>
Nov. 17 and Dec. 2<br>
7-9pm at the Cultural Center<br>
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Ringing of the Bells celebrating graduates and SOURCE community<br>
December - date to be announced.<br>
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Unprepared for the bitter cold of the fall and soon to be winter? Stop by the Cultural Center's Winter Closet for multicultural students to check out coats, scarves, hats...Just ask a Cultural Center Staff member.<br>
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Questions can be directed to Melissa, <a href="mailto:mscheidfrantz@hampshire.edu" target="_blank">mscheidfrantz@hampshire.edu</a>, or 559-5415.<br>
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Melissa Scheid Frantz Director, Multicultural & International Student Services<br>
-- International Student Advisor<br>
-- Coordinator for Multicultural Academic Support<br>
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Student Life | Hampshire College | 893 West St.<br>
Amherst, MA 01002 USA | tel: 413.559.5415 | fax: 413.559.6668 | <a href="http://www.hampshire.edu/culturalcenter" target="_blank">http://www.hampshire.edu/culturalcenter</a><br>
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"Sustaining Community; Building the Future: The Lebron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center as a SOURCE for Change – Celebrating 20 years"<br>
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* If you are an international student with an emergency visa issue that needs immediate assistance and it's outside of regular business hours, please call the Hampshire Switchboard at 413.549.4600.<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Xiaolei Gu<br>Hampshire College<br><a href="mailto:xg07@hampshire.edu">xg07@hampshire.edu</a><br>