Mark your calendar and save the date for the third annual City for Champions Cup! CC Women’s Soccer will take on our Mountain West rival, the Air Force Falcons on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 6 p.m. at Weidner Field (home of the Switchbacks). This is a signature community event for women’s sports in Colorado Springs. Free admission for CC students, faculty, staff, and their families with your Gold Card. Go Tigers, beat the Falcons!

Are you tired of polarized politics? Want to learn how to have healthier discussions about complicated issues, especially so close to a consequential election?

Join Rocky Mountain PBS, CC’s Journalism Institute, the Center for Public Deliberation, and CC student media in Cornerstone on Monday, Oct. 21 at 5:30 p.m. for a screening of the film “Undivide Us” followed by small-group discussions focused on how to foster healthier conversations about tough topics that can sometimes lead to tune-out or toxicity. Free food and drinks provided.

Seating is limited so register today! Add this event to your calendar.

Talia Cardin ’26, joined the CC Darkroom Club last year as a beginner, and now uses the darkroom to work on class assignments and personal projects. They especially like using techniques such as double exposure and pinhole photography. Photo provided by Cardin. 

By Julia Fennel ’21

Taking pictures is not new to this generation of CC students; in fact, many of them have grown up being able to snap a picture in an instant. What they may not have had much exposure to is non-digital media. The CC Darkroom Club is working to change that. Twice a week, a handful of students meet in a darkroom inside the Bemis School of Art and learn how to take photos and develop film.

“Craft-based art practices like film keep us in touch with older techniques that can be refreshing in such a fast-paced, technologically advanced world,” says Talia Cardin ’26, who joined Darkroom Club in 2023 and became a co-chair this year. “The darkroom is a liminal space where time slows down, where you can get lost in developing and making prints. It also depends on generational learning and peer-based community learning. This is a rich practice that you can’t just learn online. Craft counterculture in the art world is so important for slowing down and being intentional in your artmaking practice. The photography canon is deeply intermixed with the colonial project, and I appreciate how intentional photography practice can support decolonial counter-narratives and unsettle the hegemonic canon.”

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1000+ CC faculty, staff, alumni, and students are coming together for the 150th Extravaganza on November 2. The night will feature Funkiphino, the most requested band in the region, (get ready to dance!), plus casino games and a jaw-dropping drone show at the end of the night over Tava Quad. 

Exclusive Deal for Faculty & Staff: Register by this Sunday, Oct. 20! Tickets are just $25, which includes access to the entire weekend’s events and two drink tickets for the big night.

Want to attend for FREE? Volunteer for two shifts, and your Extravaganza ticket is on us. Email Kristie Damgaard to sign up!

Join us Friday, Oct. 25, 7-9 p.m. for the first event of the Spotlight Series, an acclaimed multi-sensory, multidisciplinary performance art showcase produced by the nonprofit Muslim arts and culture collective MIPSTERZ. The collective has been home to authentic voices and creativity for the past decade, spotlighting local talent, artists, academics, singers, activists, and folks who fit many of those labels at once.

The Spotlight Series events are best described as a live performance variety show, where TED-style talks are interspersed with musical and theatrical performances. This presentation of the Spotlight Series is curated by Samir Zamundu and coincides with ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM, on view in the FAC’s museum through Jan. 11, 2025.

Our goal is to keep this event accessible and free, with a suggested donation of $10. RSVPs are requested!

Students in the Bonner Fellowship program working with Citizen’s Project help orchestrate Beats and Ballots, a local civic engagement event at Acacia Park. Video by Galy Berthon ’26