A co-sponsored event in honor of May 5, Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, join the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity and Collins Library for a documentary film screening of Sisters Rising. Please R

Tacoma Film Festival's Audience Award winner, "Buffalo Soldiers," will have a free screening followed by a post-film talk with creator/director Dru Holley. This program packed two theaters at The Grand Cinema, and its post-film discussion, as well.

This Native Daily Network's documentary Ancestral Waters 2022 chronicles the Puyallup Tribe's fight to protect its waters from a fracked gas refinery at the Port of Tacoma.  The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Benita and Darren Moore and a representative from the local environmental group 350 Tacoma.

The event is sponsored by the Department of English and the Native Indigenous Student Alliance

Northwest Artists Against Extinction and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition will present Honor: People and Salmon, an exhibit of works by artists and advocates who create to evoke support in the fight against the extinction of keystone species, specifically wild salmon and resident orcas, and of all people who rely on these species.

Abby Williams Hill in Place explores Hill’s sense of home through paintings, drawings, writing, and geography. Hill’s physician husband lived and practiced in Tacoma, and their family traveled widely, but Abby Hill was not particularly interested in city life. Instead, she created a series of adventurous camps, homes, and travels where she felt her children (and a few others) could play and learn in nature. Hill’s artwork from that time gives a view into the idealized world that Hill saw and wanted to see, and deeply informed her art practice throughout her life.

Closing reception for the Honor: People and Salmon exhibit in the gallery.

Explore the contributions of women to the railroad industry with hands-on activities, re-enactors, speakers, and special art on display. This open house, hosted in collaboration with the Tacoma Historical Society and Collins Memorial Library is part of THS' series of events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Northern Pacific Railway's arrival in Tacoma, its effect on the people whose paths it crossed, and the city it made. Admission is free and all are welcome!

This panel explores salmon issues through the lens of art, environmental policy, and ecology.

All are welcome to our Spring '23 Swope Endowed Lecture, featuring the artists of Nefesh Mountain.  Nefesh Mountain is a New Jersey-based band that has worked for nearly a decade to weave together Jewish culture and spirituality with bluegrass music (as well as folk, Americana, and other styles).  A long-time collaborator with Puget Sound, the Swope lecture will present Nefesh Mountain in a new format - blending interview, storytelling, and performance.   

Celebrate and explore transcultural musical collaboration in a conversation with Indian-American composer Reena Esmail and renowned Mumbai-native Hindustani vocalist Saili Oak. These artists are being hosted by the School of Music and Asian Studies program as part of the 2023 Society of Composers, Inc. Region VIII Conference. 

Guest artists are sponsored by the Catharine Gould Chism Fund for the Humanities.