These days, it can be hard to have meaningful conversations about challenging topics with people we disagree with. This week is BC’s first ever Voices United – A Week of Campus-Wide and Civic Conversation. Click here for Tuesday’s events.
More Information:
What: Voices United – A Week of Campus-Wide and Civic Conversation
When: May 22-26
Where: In-Person and Virtual
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Join us for these free events, open to all students, faculty, staff, and community. No registration needed. Most are both in-person and online. Below are Tuesday’s events:
Equipping Nursing Students to Unpack Health Disparities through Relational Dialogue, with April Ambalina (Nursing) – Faculty only
When: Tuesday, May 23, 10-10:50 a.m.
Where: D106 & Zoom
In this session, participants will learn how April Ambalina successfully incorporated dialogue and storytelling into a medical-surgical nursing classroom to begin to unpack health inequities. She will talk about how she promoted discussions on systemic racism and bias, as well as utilize storytelling to illustrate how health inequities impact real people and their experiences. Lastly, April will talk through how she would encourage students to share their own personal experiences, and how she would create a safe and supportive environment for all voices to be heard.
Songs of Revolution – Art, Youth Activism, and the Fight for Our Planet, with Miriam Oommen
When: Tuesday, May 23, 12:30pm-1:20 p.m.
Where: H Building 2nd Floor Balcony & Zoom
Miriam (of queer/punk string band Foraging and the Rattling Bones) will share songs and stories from the front lines of her ongoing efforts to foster social revolution in this changing world. A plaintiff on the federal climate change lawsuit Juliana v. US, as well as a long time climate justice activist, Miriam has spent the last 10 years exploring the art of conversation in the context of climate catastrophe.
Breaking Through the Polarization: Homelessness, Climate Justice … and Challenging Conversations for Change
When: Tuesday, May 23, 2-3:30 p.m.
Where: B204 & Zoom
Nico Quijano and Miriam Oommen will talk about their efforts to build bridges around the issues of local homelessness and climate justice, respectively. Join the discussion of their challenges, successes, and lessons learned along the way for how conversation can help break through our polarized world and move us all towards solutions.
Student Conversations – Students Only
When: Tuesday, May 23, 3-4:00 p.m.
Where: Residence Halls, 2nd Floor
Join one (or more) of three student-focused conversations about how to make campus a safe, welcoming, and judgment-free environment for BC students to discuss campus, state, and even international issues that are important to them. These are nonpartisan, open-to-different-perspectives conversations about how we have conversations at BC and across our communities.
Contact rise@bellevuecollege.edu with any questions.
Last Updated May 22, 2023