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Spring edition of The People’s Gathering will encourage attendees to ‘Double Down on Justice’ Posted by: Zach Powers / March 17, 2023 Image: Melannie Denise Cunningham, pictured right, is PLU’s director of multicultural outreach and engagement and the founder of the People’s Gathering. (Photo by PLU/John Froschauer) March 17, 2023 Pacific Lutheran University’s Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will host the spring virtual convening of The People's Gathering: A Revolution of

Urdangarain worked together to write a grant proposal to PLU’s Wang Center with the goal of studying the role museums play in shaping the international understanding of a nation, especially in light of traumatic histories. The funding was approved, and in early 2023, four years after her first visit, Dieringer returned to Uruguay. “Coming back from that trip, I was super inspired,” she says. “The biggest thing I learned is that scholarship from the global South is underrepresented and makes our

, he’d landed a role in Next to Normal, a Broadway play that later won the Pulitzer Prize that year for theater. Hobson has been working steadily since, with parts in musicals such as Leap of Faith, Bonnie and Clyde and he co-starred in Sweeney Todd, at Oregon’s Portland Center Stage. Aside from working in the theater scene here, and Hobson also has some irons in Hollywood, including appearing in a movie in which Johnny Depp will make a cameo. He took all this experience and recently boiled it down

Student production disrupts time in new Romeo and Juliet Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016 “This is not your grandmother’s Romeo and Juliet ”  December 7, 8, 9, 10 at 7:30pm and December 11 – 2pm Studio Theater, Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Director's NoteRomeo and Juliet. Four hundred and nineteen years ago, William Shakespeare penned what would go on to be one of the most produced love stories ever written. So then why pick this show? There

students for over 20 years. You couldn’t tell because of the amazing student choreographers taking those varying levels and bringing them into one cohesive, creative, and eye-catching piece,” Cady Bigelow ’20. Dance 2019 – Collaborations runs Friday, April 12th and Saturday April 13th at 7:30 p.m. in the Eastvold Auditorium of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite. Read Previous Revenge and Pies: Theatre’s Upcoming Sweeney Todd Read Next Seeing

Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 28, 2023 Image: Image: Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger in Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. (PLU Photo/Sy Bean) February 28, 2023 By Lisa Patterson ‘98PLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterLike it did for so many, the theatre called to Associate Professor Amanda Sweger when she was in those awkward teen years. “For the first time, I felt accepted,” she said. Yet she

is Prof. Michael Halvorson (History/Innovation Studies), who will co-host the podcast. The team will read relevant historiography and primary sources, then record and edit podcasts in PLU’s Martin J. Neeb Center. Hotels and Sustainability Kristin Moniz (Business, Economics) has received funding to study the business and economic history of hotels, with an emphasis on how the hospitality industry has managed sustainability initiatives over the past 40 years. A long-time resident of Hawaii, Kristin

be really  happy, I had to feel like as I was contributing to life in general, something meaningful,” said Kennedy in an interview before the Wang Center Symposium, which will take place March 4-5 on the PLU Campus. Kennedy will speak the second day of the event, the theme of which is “Understanding the World Through Sports.” The transformation from budding bicycle repair teacher to soccer tournament organizer and life coach, came about fairly quickly after Kennedy stepped off that plane in

crowd Friday, who had gathered in the Scandinavian Center to attend the annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference. The conference concluded Saturday. The conference brought together hundreds of educators, students and many others to listen to the stories of genocide and embrace the notion to “never forget.” As a young Hungarian woman, Ban and her family were rounded up as if they were “not human, not even animals” and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Ban’s mother, grandmother

check it out, along with a discussion from a friend who was a PLU graduate, Lizbett Benge ’11. “That conversation made college seem real and attainable,” he said. He found out about PLU by literally pulling out a crumpled Act Six Scholarship brochure that was stuffed between two books in the counseling center at Foster High School. One thing led to another, and he ended up at PLU, and then quickly found out the norm was students would study away. He found scholarships through the Wang Center that