During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.听
Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to聽.听
Re/frame: All Together Now
December 17, 12:00 – 1:00 PM and 6:30-7:30 PM |
Free |
This Is Beethoven
December 16 – 19 |
This is Beethoven is a collaboration uniting seventeen multi-disciplinary arts organizations, including the聽Department of Dance and Schools of Music and Drama, in a city-wide festival demonstrating the power of arts to articulate our society鈥檚 moment in time. Centered around the 250th birthday anniversary of the revolutionary composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, this festival symbolically pays homage to the composer while making current the same pioneering spirit he represented during his time.
#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night聽
December 17, 8:00 PM |
Join the Burke Museum for #BurkeFromHome Trivia!聽The top three winners at the end of the game will each win a pair of free tickets to the Burke Museum so you can come visit the museum when it reopens.听The first place player also wins a gift card to聽Optimism Brewing.
Free |
Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia
Fall 2020 – Winter 2021 | Henry Art Gallery Front Entrance
This installation is presented by the Henry Art Gallery聽in partnership with聽La Resistencia聽and 天美影视传媒 faculty organizers of聽Art at the Borders of the Political.
La Resistencia鈥檚 #FreeThemAll campaign shares visual and narrative portraits of people detained within the Tacoma ICE Processing Center. The Henry presents a selection of screen-printed portraits from #FreeThemAll in the museum鈥檚 front windows and along the adjacent exterior wall. The four portraits reproduced on paper represent individuals currently detained inside the Tacoma ICE Processing Center who are working with La Resistencia to highlight the urgency of their cases and the terrible conditions at the detention center.
Free |
鈥楴either Free Nor Fair鈥� Podcast
Ongoing |
Associate Professor of Political Science James Long has started a podcast聽focused on election security, 鈥淣either Free Nor Fair?鈥�, featuring experts from the UW and elsewhere, and building on the audience of the聽UW Political Economy Forum鈥檚 podcast. In the most recent episode, Sara Curran, Professor of International Studies, joins Long for this聽episode聽鈥淐ensus: Counting Folks & Counting Votes.鈥� They discuss what a census is and its importance to elections and democracy; why the Framers wrote the census into the Constitution; how censuses work in the US and other countries (including Malaysia, Kenya, and Myanmar); why censuses often become so politicized; and the importance of counting people to respond to the Covid crisis.
Free |
Looking for more?
Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for聽more digital engagement opportunities.