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Special Events

Diversity Book Club

Ghetto Nation; the group is sponsored by the Office of Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Campus Engagement

Boundless Sounds: The Global Pursuit of Funk, Hip-Hop and the Lute

Three Watson Fellowship winners (Ryan Takemiya, SLC '05, Adam Grode, Union College '05, and Kris Rios, Hamilton College '05) share their globally pursued projects in one performance. Family Weekend art auction

Human Rights Film Festival

Featuring the film Between Joyce and Remembrance,a hard-hitting documentary about truth and reconciliation in South Africa, focusing on the family of the tortured, poisoned and murdered student activist, Siphiwo Mtimkulu

Dead Poets Slam

Students embody and present the work of dead poets in a lively context.

El Dia de los Muertos

UNIDAD hosts the Mexican tradition mixing Aztec and Roman Catholic practices.

Potluck for Choice

All money raised will go directly to the single abortion clinic within the state of South Dakota, which passed an unconstitutional ban on all abortions in the state, even in cases of incest and rape.

Theatre Forum

With Tony award-winning choreographer and director Kathleen Marshall

Right to Write

Students who participate in Right to Write teach weekly creative writing workshops for inmates in the Westchester County Department of Corrections prison in Valhalla.

Spring Mesiba

Celebrating the great and positive qualities of Middle Eastern culture.

Sleaze Week

Sex: Its Not So Serious
Let's Get Physical
Sexual Etiquette Class
BDSM/SEX Toys Workshop
Sleaze Cabaret
Harlot's Cotillion/Sleaze Ball

Emperoro X with Cities and cataract

Serious Indie rock

Barbershop Boys: Girls who Play Songs

Original songs by Morgan Heringer, Kaila McIntyre-Bader and Alexandra Macmillan-Fiedel

Jazz Women

Performances, panels and workshops on jazz

Tasting Culture Talent Show

Student Talent Show and Dinner featuring culture and diversity among SLC student body

Poetry and Potluck

Poetry and Potluck Organized by two first-year students, this event combined donations of food from area restaurants with performances from some of the area's hottest poets. The event was organized to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and more than $7,000 was raised and donated to the NAACP Disaster Relief Fund.