• Hispanic Heritage Month continues in Bloomington with the
opening tomorrow (Oct. 4) of HablARTE: Talking Through Art
at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The project began as
a way to engage Latino immigrant adolescents and to begin a
dialogue between students and the local schools related to students’
migration experiences. Miracles on the Border also opens.
Cultural activities for the family are planned.
http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/
• A student chapter of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union
has been founded at IUPUI, just in time for the campus to
host the first-ever statewide student conference at the University
Place Conference Center Oct. 10-11. TV journalist Bill Kurtis,
host of A&E’s Investigative Reports, will be talking
about his views on the death penalty at a public event. The
chapter is open to students, faculty and staff who wish to
participate.
http://www.iclu.org
• Two experts on the Lewis and Clark Expedition will lecture
at IU Southeast this month as part of the commemoration of
the historic journey that paved the way to the American West
200 years ago. Stephanie Ambrose Tubbs, the daughter of American
historian Stephen Ambrose, is co-author of The Lewis and
Clark Companion: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery.
She will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Ogle Center.
Hal Stearns will portray Capt. William Clark in a presentation
Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Ogle Center.
http://www.lewisandclark1803.com
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