Nahuatl Language Class with Dr. Jessica Sanchez Flores
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
WES Room in the Worner Basement
Learn the Indigenous roots of Mexican Spanish through an introduction to Nahuatl and its lasting influence on the language spoken in Mexico today.
Attendees will learn about the Nahua language, culture, and knowledge preserved in an extraordinary collection of archival work.
No prior knowledge is required. All CC students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Dinner provided.
Talking Circle with an Intro to Beading
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 6:30-8 p.m.
Worner 211
Please join Elder Debbie for this block’s Talking Circle, a traditional Indigenous practice that brings people together to share perspectives, personal reflections, and experiences. An introduction to beading will also be included.
Sites, Memory, and Interpreting the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site with Professor Amy Kohout
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2-3 p.m.
Worner Fireplace
Interested in learning more about IEB’s Sense of Place field engagement? Join us for a pre-trip learning opportunity where we will explore the history and memory of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and learn more about the significance of the site. Please read After the Opening by Ari Kelman in preparation for this community discussion.
Indian Boarding School National Day of Remembrance
Wednesday, Sept. 30
Display in Worner Fireplace with NASU (Monday through Friday)
Please visit the display by Worner Fireplace, created in collaboration with NASU to learn more about the history of Indian boarding schools and honor boarding school survivors. Wear orange as a visible sign of support for remembrance, healing, and reconciliation..
Community ADEI Workshop: Leveraging Your Privilege for Good
Thursday, Oct.1, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Worner Student Event Space (Basement)
This interactive workshop aims to support CC Community members to reflect on their privileges and how these privileges show up in our everyday lives. Can privilege be used for good change in our community?
Join the Butler Center’s Peer Education team as they facilitate this workshop for ANY students, faculty, and staff who wish to attend. Lunch provided!
To learn more about the Butler Center’s Block 2 programs and events schedule, please visit our LinkTree.
Bemis Sugar Skull Making
Oct. 2 and 9, 1-3 p.m.
818 Pelham Place
Join the Bemis School of Art for a couple hours of sugar skull making for our annual FAC Día de Muertos event. With a goal of 1,000 sugar skulls to be made, all help is welcome and appreciated!
Truth About 250-150
Friday, Oct. 2, 4-8 p.m.
FAC Sculpture Garden
An Indigenous-led mobile museum that brings truth-telling, youth-created art, and community healing directly to public spaces across Colorado.
Here and Now, Then and Always
Friday, Oct. 2, 5-8 p.m.
FAC Exhibition Opening/First Friday
This exhibition draws from the permanent collection to examine artistic practices across the region now called Colorado. Curated pairings of works explore both continuities and divergences in regional artmaking: HOpeow have artists engaged with place, identity, and community across generations? What tensions emerge between celebration and critique, between natural beauty and development, between different communities’ relationships to this landscape? From 19th-century landscape photography to contemporary boundary-pushing work, these pairings reveal how artists have consistently grappled with questions of belonging, power, and transformation, while newly commissioned and selected responses from Colorado artists bring fresh perspectives to these histories.
Sense of Place: Truth and Remembrance – The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Saturday, Oct. 3, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.
Eads, Colorado
Open to students, staff, and faculty, this field engagement is intended to hold space for learning, reflection, and prayer. Transportation and meals will be provided. Participation in pre-trip learning opportunities is strongly encouraged.
Community Grief Walk for Students
Monday, Oct. 5, 4-5 p.m.
Meet in front of Shove Chapel
Part of the blockly grief support gatherings.
Spiritual and Life Journey with Professor Christine Siddoway
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 12:15 p.m.
Sacred Grounds
Join the Chaplain’s Office and Professor of Geology Christine Siddoway as she shares what has been meaningful in her spiritual and life journey. Lunch provided!
Contemplative Inquiry in Community for Faculty and Staff
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Sacred Grounds
CC’s Feminist Ancestors
Friday, Oct. 9, 1-3 p.m.
Interdisciplinary Studies (ID) House
Opening reception of the Department of Feminist & Gender Studies, “CC’s Feminist Ancestors,” an exhibit celebrating the work of three professors emeriti: Judith “Judy” Genova, Margaret “Margi” Duncombe, and Adrienne Lanier Seward. These faculty members worked for decades to establish not only the Women’s Studies Program but also to push CC to acknowledge and uplift issues of gender and sexuality for students, faculty, and the institution as a whole. We at FGS are proud to inherit their legacy and eager to honor and share their work with you!
Glass House Open House
Friday, Oct. 9, 3-5 p.m.
Lennox House, 1001 N. Nevada Ave.
Drop in for a casual open house celebrating 30 years of the “Glass House,” a multicultural living community. Drinks and refreshments will be provided. All are welcome to attend.
Commemorating 30 Years of the Glass House
Saturday, Oct. 10, 4-4:45 p.m.
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, Screening Room
Join CC alum to celebrate 30 years since The Glass House became a permanent multicultural residence at CC. Panelists include Audriana Alvarado ’18, Ryan Haygood ’97, former CC President Kathyrn Mohrman, and former Senior Vice President Mike Edmonds. All are welcome to attend.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Monday, Oct. 12, 4:30-7 p.m.
Shove Chapel
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with fry bread tacos at Shove Chapel from 4:30-6:30 p.m. A smudging ceremony will follow outside Shove Chapel from 6:30-7 p.m., hosted by Robert Williams.
