Washington State University
Office of the Provost
National Day of Racial Healing Schedule – WSU Everett
Offerings for WSU Everett
JANUARY 16, 2024
VIRTUAL OPENING WELCOME, FACULTY PANEL DISCUSSION:
- 9:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
- Welcome/Introduction
- Land Acknowledgement – Christel Woods, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English
- “Tell the Story, Heal the Heart” Faculty Panel
- Moderator: Dr. Clif Stratton, Vice Chancellor of Academic Engagement, WSU Pullman
- Dr. Jacqueline Wilson, School of Music
- Dr. Betty Wilson, Department of Human Development and Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Dr. Alan Malfavon, Department of History
OFFERINGS BETWEEN 10:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Macramé Activity – Braiding our Stories in Room 101, WSU Everett
- Robin Wall Kimmerer urges us to consider the many parts of ourselves that are woven together and that make us strong, resilient, and beautiful. Reflecting on her experience weaving a black ash basket, she writes, “[The baskets] are all made of the same stuff yet each is itself. That’s the way it is with . . . people , too, all made of the same thing and each their own kind of beautiful.” Come engage in a short reflective activity and create a simple macramé key chain that symbolizes for you the strands of self you honor and value. All materials and lunch provided.
- 1:45 – 2:45 p.m.: Writers Give Voice: Reading and Open-Mic Poetry in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, WSU Pullman and Livestreamed
- As part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2024, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program in response to the theme of day. Readers will include WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors of WSU creative writing publications. All students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to bring a poem to read during the open mic portion. This program takes place live in the museum’s Pavilion Gallery, and will also be livestreamed on the WSU Global Campus YouTube channel.