As part of our Spring 2026 Japanese Film Series, we invite you to a screening of Hayao Miyazaki's film Porco Rosso! Set in fascist Italy in the late 1920s, the story is about a cursed WWI Italian fighter pilot named Porco Rosso who is doomed to live out his life as a pig.
Events only open to the campus community
Taiko Club Performace and Bon Dance
Taiko drumming is a powerful, high-energy tradition that is moving through its loud sound. Bon dancing is used to honor, welcome, and comfort the spirit of deceased ancestors. Performances of both are included.
Japanese Tea Tasting
We will be trying three to four different types of high-class Japanese-style teas. You are invited to taste, learn, and explore through this demonstration hosted by Professor Mikiko Ludden.
My Life After Puget Sound: Alumni Talk
Let's hear from graduates who majored/minored in Japanese about the lives they are leading after graduation, their work, and whether they are using Japanese! Japanese refreshments will be served.
Senior Theatre Festival - Every Sound I've Ever Made
Every Sound I’ve Ever Made
Written and performed by Isa Fitzgibbons ‘26
Every Sound I’ve Ever Made is a devised theatre piece which interrogates the distance women’s voices fill when memory and identity divulge. The revision of a previous piece by the same name, Every Sound I’ve Ever Made is an intimate portrait of one woman’s journey to reconcile a familial legacy of silence and resistance.
Content Warnings: Discussions of domestic abuse
Senior Theatre Festival - Notes to Future Self
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
Directed by Jay Milliken
Featuring Hannah Erikson
Notes to Future Self is an explorative work into how people faced with tragedy continue forward. Sophie, a 13-year-old terminal cancer patient, and her family have been upended by her illness, a sudden move back home, and an adversarial family bond. Through the, often silly, worldview of Sophie we travel through the process of grief for a disrupted family and the ugly face of mortality.
Senior Theatre Festival - Notes to Future Self
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
Directed by Jay Milliken
Featuring Hannah Erikson
Notes to Future Self is an explorative work into how people faced with tragedy continue forward. Sophie, a 13-year-old terminal cancer patient, and her family have been upended by her illness, a sudden move back home, and an adversarial family bond. Through the, often silly, worldview of Sophie we travel through the process of grief for a disrupted family and the ugly face of mortality.
Senior Theatre Festival - Notes to Future Self
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
Directed by Jay Milliken
Featuring Hannah Erikson
Notes to Future Self is an explorative work into how people faced with tragedy continue forward. Sophie, a 13-year-old terminal cancer patient, and her family have been upended by her illness, a sudden move back home, and an adversarial family bond. Through the, often silly, worldview of Sophie we travel through the process of grief for a disrupted family and the ugly face of mortality.