Register by today to learn the ins and outs of sound production at the Green Street Arts Center! From Director Sara MacSorley: Green Street Sound Production Class “Shaping Sounds” Instructor: John Bergeron Location: Green Street Arts Center, 51 Green Street, Middletown CT Thursdays from 1:30-4:30pm for 10 weeks Start date: September 25, 2014 Class fee: $550…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
New “Wild Walls” for WestCo
Wesleyan’s Environmental Organizers Network (E.O.N.) is bringing some much-needed color to campus with “Wild Walls,” a series of vertical pallet gardens that will beautify campus, bring attention to the cause of green walling, and provide students and passers-by with free herbs and flowers. The exterior of WestCo 1 currently boasts the first three panels, which…
A letter home from IDEX Fellow Francesca Moree ’14
Last spring, Francesca Moree ’14 was selected for an IDEX Fellowship working with VOICE 4 Girls in Hyderabad, India. VOICE’s mission is to enable marginalized adolescent girls in India to take charge of their futures by imparting critical knowledge, spoken English, and life skills through activity-based camps and mentorship programs. IDEX Fellows are required to…
Enrichment Grant Report: Chelsea Tweneboah ’15
Chelsea Tweneboah ’15 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship to help support her community development work in Brazil. One of multiple international impact opportunities that Chelsea has pursued during her time at Wesleyan, this experience continued to shape her aspirations for a career in the health field. You can…
Introducing the 2014-2015 PCSE Peer Advisors
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE) supports students and alumni interested in creating and sustaining programs, businesses, and organizations that advance the public good. We believe that Wesleyan graduates are practical idealists uniquely equipped to tackle the world’s pressing problems, and we support their work through our advising, grant, and workshop programs. The PCSE…
n=+w@rk!ng is not a dirty word
Many practical idealists that I meet have a negative view of networking. They think it’s inherently sleazy, that it suggests dishonesty, that it’s all business. I disagree. I see networking as an honest and personal way to build your circle of fellow humans, to open yourself to connecting genuinely, and to fuel one another’s meaningful…
Request for Proposals: Student Community Engagement and Leadership Conference
Connecticut Campus Compact is looking for people committed to social change to lead workshops at the Student Community Engagement and Leadership Conference on Friday, November 14 at UConn’s Storrs campus. The conference – titled “Beyond the Selfie: Linking Identity, Community and Social Change” – aims to expand students’ understanding of social issues and their capacity to…
Tutoring Programs Info Session (9/11)
There are so many groups at Wesleyan working with children that it can be hard to choose just one. Aspiring tutors sometimes join the first program they hear about rather than selecting an organization based on the target age group, time commitment, academic subject, and program structure. To help you pick the group that’s right for you, the Office…
Commemorate Freedom Summer 1964
In the summer of 1964, over 1,000 volunteers from across the United States – many of them college students – traveled to the Deep South as a part of Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, to assist local civil rights workers in getting black Mississippians to the voting polls. Despite intimidation and violence from the…
Colony Collapse: 3d Printed Bees and More at the Green Street Arts Center
Photo courtesy of Joseph Smolinski and Mixed Greens, New York Middletown’s monthly Gallery Walk invites community members to the North End to celebrate local artists and support local businesses in the city’s Downtown Arts District. This Thursday’s walk will include the opening reception for Colony Collapse, an exhibition by Joseph Smolinski, visiting scholar in the…