Week of November 29, 2021 - Office of Communications

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Diana Vicezar ’24 joins other youth activists at global climate summit
Pitzer College welcomes three new members to the Office of College Advancement and Communications Leadership Team
Catch up on all the latest Sagehen Athletics news and schedules

This Week’s Events

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GivingTuesday 2021
Tuesday, November 30

GivingTuesday is the international day of giving and one of Pitzer’s biggest giving days of the year. Please support Pitzer students and the programming necessary for their continued success in this unique academic year and beyond.

Pay It Forward for Pitzer
Tuesday, November 30, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Scott Courtyard

In honor of GivingTuesday 2021, please join the Office of Annual Giving and the Pitzer campus community in Pay It Forward for Pitzer!, a bouquet and bracelet-making event.

Pitzer in Vietnam Summer Program Information Session
Tuesday, November 30, 4-5 p.m.
https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/82708957637

Learn about Pitzer’s six-week program in Hue, Vietnam. The program includes an intensive course in Vietnamese, a core course that allows students to explore a variety of topics in Vietnam, including the legacy of colonialism, war and conflict, health care, minority communities, political structures, women’s issues, environmental issues, and more.

Novelist Tiphanie Yanique Book Reading and Signing of “Monster in the Middle”
Tuesday, November 30, 6-8 p.m.
Founders Room, McConnell Center

Please join us for a book reading and signing by author Tiphanie Yanique of newly-released book Monster in the Middle. Stories from the book have already won many accolades.

National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates Survey
Wednesday, December 1, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Scott Courtyard

Calling All Pitzer Students!
The National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates Survey is being administered on campus and will assess students’ feelings about mattering, inclusion, and racial climate on campus. Students: check your Pitzer email for the unique invite link and join us in the Scott Courtyard to learn more about the survey and to collect your gift.

Wellness Wednesday: Winter Break and Finals Wellness
Wednesday, December 1, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
McConnell Apron

Join us for the last Wellness Wednesday of the semester! Join us during lunch outside of McConnell for tips, tools, and resources for your wellness. Instagram: @PZStrive2Thrive

Intuitive Eating with Beyond Measure: How to Honor Your Body and Make Peace with Food
Wednesday, December 1, 7-8 p.m.
Register for the Zoom event

Join the experts at Beyond Measure to explore the connection between food, nutrition, and mental health and discover a healthy middle ground in a society obsessed with extremes.

Pitzer Alumni & Family Book Club Talk with Eli Hastings ’00
Thursday, December 2, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Register for this event

Join us for an intimate discussion between Jackie Levering Sullivan, emerita assistant professor of writing and author, and alumnus and author Eli Hastings ’00, about his memoir Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir about Love and Other Trips.

Pitzer College Art Galleries

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend
Tuesdays-Saturdays; reservations required.
Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Atherton Hall
Showing through December 18

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend, a partnership between the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College and Pitzer College Art Galleries, is the artist’s most ambitious exhibition to date. The Benton is exhibiting a major new body of work that expands upon themes the artist has explored in an earlier project, Dear 1968,… (2017), and Pitzer is showing an installation featuring Barnette’s signature reimagining of domestic spaces as futuristic, other-worldly locations of liberation and restoration.

Jenny Perlin: Maelstrom
Tuesdays-Saturdays; reservations required.
Nichols Gallery, Broad Center
Showing through December 17

Artist Jenny Perlin works in 16mm hand-drawn animated films, videos, installations, and drawings. Her projects draw on interdisciplinary interests in history, cultural studies, literature, and linguistics. Her films incorporate innovative techniques to investigate history as it relates to the present.

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