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Brundibar: Ela Weissberger’s Story 1:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Fifteen thousand children passed through Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, but only a hundred survived. Among that small group was Ela Stein Weissberger, 11 years old when she was imprisoned in Terezin. She will describes her experiences, including her 55 performances in Brundibar, a children’s opera staged in the camp and exploited by Nazi propagandists. Ela Stein Weissberger, child survivor of Terezin and performer in Brundibar Convener: Mina
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the city, a nearby slum called Namuwongo, and teach life and leadership skills in the process? The director of the Global Youth Partnership stateside, Jeremy Goldberg was interested in the idea. So working with a local contact, Ocitti Joseph, Kennedy set up a tournament involving 15 teams, interspersed with leadership meetings two times a week. Kennedy knew that there was no way that he, a white man from America, could sell the idea of a tournament and leadership classes to a group of 54,000
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showed me the to ropes around the Clover Creek watershed.” Taking inspiration from Tobiason, Ojala-Barbour targeted a space behind the UC that, back in the 1970s, Tobiason saved from becoming a parking lot. The site had been inaccessible for years, thanks to dense thickets of Himalayan blackberries, an invasive species that negatively affects the Garry oak tree. He began going to conservation group meetings and learning all he could. It was at a Pierce County Conservation District meeting that he
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support they need to achieve the goals they identify for themselves. Lastly, I get to lead the Laramie County Community Partnership. This is a group of more than 65 community partners that include health and human service, governmental, nonprofit and faith-based groups that come together to identify ways we align our work and fill gaps to address the issues together that were identified in the needs assessment. What is the most rewarding part about your career? The most rewarding parts of my work
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and, along with many of her fellow Peace Corps friends, decided to stay. That’s why what happened next was so shocking to Chell. She woke up to a flurry of messages informing her that the pandemic would be changing her life in an instant. “It was probably five in the morning. I looked at my phone and I had 130 text messages. I’m not exaggerating there were a bunch,” Chell says. She was part of a Peace Corps volunteer group chat that had exploded overnight. She learned that an email had gone out
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practice to get right back to perfect. With members scattered from Seattle to Milwaukee, rehearsals were limited to solo workouts the past few months, but in August, the band converged at Sandvig’s house on Camano Island for full-group rehearsals—and maybe a distraction or two. “It’s going to be hard because the water’s right there,” Sandvig said. “We’re all going to be trying to impress each other with how much we’ve practiced.” The set list is, well, set, Sandvig said. “They’ll know it,” he promised
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when something isn’t right. “One day I was feeling upset and my French professor noticed how I was not participating the same way I always did,” he said. “My professor made me feel I was not only receiving a well- rounded education, but that my professor cared about my well-being, as well.” When Knutson was a student at PLU, it wasn’t unusual for professors to invite students into their homes for meals, celebrations and even group study sessions. She recalls a time when she and the other
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track. She assumed that she would become a religion professor, since the Lutheran church didn’t ordain LGBTQ individuals at the time. Once she enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at the Pacific School of Religion, she connected with a community of openly gay and lesbian pastors serving Lutheran communities across the country. The group inspired and empowered her to pursue ministry. “They were living as though the world had already changed,” she said, “serving in ministry despite the policies
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-plus years of being a Lute! This is the perfect opportunity to reconnect with old friends and reminisce about your days as a student. PLU on Tap Wine and dine at the third annual PLU on Tap. Connect with classmates over locally and alumni-produced wine and beer, and of course, great food. SUNDAY Golden Club Brunch Those who graduated 50-plus years ago are part of the Golden Club. This year, the class of 1967 joins the group. All graduates from the class of 1967 and earlier are invited to attend
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was deeply engaged at PLU: a President’s Scholar; co-founder of Students for Peace, a multifaceted group formed to address peace and social justice issues at a local and international level; co-founder of a Community Garden on campus to promote food security; and religious relations director for ASPLU. She spent considerable energy on advocacy work involving gender and sexuality issues. But after years of activism in college, Fontana found herself feeling empty and needing to heal internal wounds
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