Our chapter is growing fast, and we’d love for you to be part of it. At our next meeting, you’ll get a chance to meet new people, hear what we've got planned this semester, and see how you can get involved. Whether you’re looking to make friends, share ideas, or just learn more, this is the place to start! Come check us out!We meet in State Farm Hall 132, 7-8 pm, September 30thHosted by: Turning Point USA at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11678856

Symphonic Band will perform works by Fillmore, LaPlante, Markowski, Piunno, and De Meij in a joint concert with the Symphonic Winds. Symphonic Winds will perform works by Gibson, Whitacre, Holst, Iannaccone, and Day. This will be a concert you won’t want to miss!!! To purchase tickets  Hosted by: School of Music, Wonsook Kim College of Fine ArtsAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11561324

Grab what you need at the Share Shop! The ISU Share Shop is a free resource-sharing store located in the Office of Sustainability at 305 N. School Street. Students can shop for a variety of FREE items such as clothing, shoes, accessories, small household items, textbooks, and more.Hosted by: Office Of SustainabilityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11377172

There will be an Impact Life bus parked on the quad where people can donate blood on an appointment or walk-in basis. Donors will receive a gift card for donating and the pride of saving lives!     Schedule an appointment here!Hosted by: Her Campus, Redbirds ImpactLifeAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11520667

What we need: New and in-packaging socks (newborn through adult sizes). Each child receives about 4-6 pairs of socks. Collection is from October 1-31.   How to help:Adopt a Holiday Helper community partner and collect socks specifically for them! Email CCE staff at atete@ilstu.edu to participate and what community partner you would like to adopt. Also, let us know if your department would like a box in your office to collect donations. Pick-up a box if you need one to collect socks in Bring donations to 308 Kingsley St, Normal, IL (email CCE staff to reserve a time so staff can meet to take the donations) or CCE Of course you are not limited to a specific number of donations, we can always take more socks for the community youthThis year’s Holiday Helper partners:Boys and Girls Club100 participating youth (Each child receives about 4-6 pairs of socks)Center for Youth and Family Solutions (CYFS)15 participating youth (Each child receives about 4-6 pairs of socks)YWCA85 participating youth (Each child receives about 4-6 pairs of socks)Lifelong Access75 participating youth (Each child receives about 4-6 pairs of socks)  Questions? Email CCE staff at atete@ilstu.edu Hosted by: Center for Civic EngagementAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11649134

Join us online for this CrossPlatform Graphic Design Lecture on Zoom. Free and open to the public. For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office. Zoom Link: https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/99440542664Hosted by: Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Wonsook Kim School of ArtOnline Location: https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/99440542664Additional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11474188

Join us for a powerful and informative session with The Immigration Project, where we’ll explore what it means to be an effective ally to immigrant communities. Learn about the challenges immigrants face, how you can offer meaningful support, and discover local resources that make a difference. This is a great opportunity to grow your awareness, ask questions, and become a more compassionate advocate in your community.Hosted by: Student Wellness Ambassador TeamAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11710774

Exhibiting artist Jen Bervin will present a lecture about her practice in conjunction with her exhibition Shift Rotate Reflect. The lecture will be immediately followed by a reception. Shift Rotate Reflect is a re-imagining of poet and artist Jen Bervin’s first survey exhibition. Originally on view at University Galleries in Fall 2020 during COVID-19 restrictions and closures, the exhibition featured 23 solo and collaborative works created from 1997 through 2020. Opening five years after the first exhibition, this experiment—re-presenting the anchor projects differently alongside new works—is a direct response to the limitations imposed by the pandemic. Audiences will be able to engage with the material complexities of Bervin’s work, explore the expanded connections among them, and participate in robust public programming. The exhibition title, Shift Rotate Reflect, was excerpted from Su Hui’s Picture of the Turning Sphere, a five-channel video installation that Bervin collaboratively created with filmmaker Charlotte Lagarde. The words “shift,” “rotate,” and “reflect” have been guideposts for Bervin and exhibition curator Kendra Paitz while envisioning the 2025 exhibition. This iteration of Shift Rotate Reflect features installations, embroideries, prints, artist’s books, and videos created through 2025. The selected works demonstrate the interdisciplinary range of Bervin’s long-term research on topics including legacies of women artists and writers, relationships between text and textiles, and abstractions of language and landscape. Core projects from the first exhibition include Su Hui’s Picture of the Turning Sphere (2016–2020), a video and textile installation addressing Chinese poet Su Hui and her 4th-century reversible poem, “Xuanji tu”; River (2006–2018), a scale model of the Mississippi River from the geocentric point of view, hand-stitched in silver sequins and spanning 230 curvilinear feet; Silk Poems (2010–2017), which centers around Bervin’s poem for a biosensor written from the perspective of a silkworm and composed in a six-character chain corresponding to the DNA structure of silk; and The Dickinson Composites (2004–ongoing), a series of large-scale embroideries comprising stitched composites of the variant marks American poet Emily Dickinson used in her manuscripts to link alternate words and phrases. New works featured in Shift Rotate Reflect include eight new quilts in The Dickinson Composites series, a 10-foot silk print of the silkworm cocoon, the video Faire et défaire with an original score by Catherine McRae, and two recent artist’s books The Sea and On Weaving—a video, typed prints, and an annotated copy of Anni Albers’ 1965 book of the same name—which, in Bervin’s words, “references the grid that the typewriter and weaving have in common, as well as the direct relationship between looms and computing.” This exhibition is the center point of multiple programs and engagements. Jen Bervin will give a public lecture and meet with students on campus. Bervin’s exhibition is a central focus of a Text and Textile seminar in the Wonsook Kim School of Art. Normal Community High School’s Experimental Ensemble is composing original scores inspired by Bervin’s work and performing them within the exhibition. University Galleries is collaborating with Illinois State University’s Milner Library on a reading list and book display and partnering with Bloomington Public Library on a poetry workshop that will result in a zine. University Galleries’ staff is also leading art-making workshops for ISU students, K-12 students, and community members, as well as organizing pop-up exhibitions. Sensory-friendly times, independent drawing hours, drop-in writing hours, and scavenger hunts are available. Curator-led tours are available by appointment. Field trip reimbursements for tours and workshops are available for K-12 schools and community organizations. A 192-page monograph accompanies the exhibition. Published in 2022, between both exhibitions, the book features poet and playwright Claudia Rankine’s conversation with Bervin, Jennifer Yee’s interview with Bervin and Lagarde, essays by scholar Jayme Collins and curator Kendra Paitz, a facsimile chapter from Bervin’s hand-stitched artist’s book The Desert, a visual index of Bervin’s book projects, and an illustrated biography. Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect is curated by Kendra Paitz, University Galleries’ director and chief curator. This exhibition and programming are supported by University Galleries’ grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust. Workshops and field trip reimbursements are supported by the Lori Baum and Aaron Henkelman University Galleries Community Fund. This exhibition would not have been possible without previous support. The 2020 iteration of Shift Rotate Reflect was supported by University Galleries’ grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Harold K. Sage Foundation, and the Illinois State University Foundation Fund. Artist biographies Jen Bervin’s projects have been exhibited at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; The Power Plant, Toronto; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, Massachusetts; and Morgan Library and Museum, New York, among others. Bervin has authored numerous books and artist’s books including Silk Poems, a New Museum Book of the Year and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems (with Marta Werner and Susan Howe), a Book of the Year selection by The New Yorker.  Bervin has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Asian Cultural Council, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Art, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Banff Centre, Northwestern University, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. Her work is featured in 60 collections, including Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Yale University, Brooklyn Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Bervin’s work is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery, San Franscisco. She is a 2025–2026 Fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and lives in Connecticut and Marseille, Bouches-de-Rhône in France. Charlotte Lagarde has made more than 20 films, which have been aired on PBS, HBO, and the Sundance Channel, and exhibited at MASS MoCA. Her many awards include an Academy Award, the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award, and the Ashland Independent Film Festival’s Best Documentary award, as well as fellowships from Sundance, BAVC, and Camargo Foundation. Her project Colonial White was included in the exhibitions The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness at The Kitchen, New York City, and Great Force at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University as a city-wide participatory project in Richmond, Virginia. Lagarde is the executive director of the Swell Foundation and the COO & co-founder of B.Public. She lives in Connecticut and France.Hosted by: University GalleriesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11329067

You’ve studied for the exams, you know your materials, you even tutored your roommates but you got to the exam hall and you just blanked out. You could not remember anything!! Test Anxiety is common to many students. While everyone feels some degree of anxiety during tests or exams, it becomes an issue when anxiety makes you feel anxious, ill, or develop brain freeze during an exam or test. This interactive workshop will explore the issue of anxiety from the students’ perspectives, what it is, and how to overcome it. Call 309-438-7100 or stop by the Visor Center to sign up!   If you need an accommodation to fully participate in any Julia N. Visor Academic Center program, session or event, please contact Visor Center, University College at (309) 438-7100 or VisorCenter@IllinoisState.edu. Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.  Hosted by: University CollegeAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11664808

Get great tips from actual employers that will help you prepare for and be confident when participating in the fall career fairs. Employer representatives will be from a variety of industries and will discuss the following topics:Preparation – Learn the basics for how to: dress for a career fair and/or interview, create a great first impression, research employers, and follow up after a fair. Practice – Create a 30 second elevator speech to use at a career fair or to answer the question: “tell me about yourself.” Pitch – Practice your handshake and pitch (elevator speech) to employers.Expect to spend 35-40 minutes in this program. Special accommodations For special accommodations, contact Career Services at (309) 438-2200. Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.Hosted by: Career ServicesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11554192

Interested in challenging yourself? Then this club might be for you! We hold tryouts each semester, build the training schedule around our current members, and then compete in 24hr international coding competitions like IEEExtreme! Worried about whether you're "good enough?" Come try anyways, and feel free to come to our practices to grow your skills!Hosted by: Redbird Competitive Coding ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11705876

Women's Self Defense Seminar| RSO collab with P-Power Hosted by: P Power, Redbird MMAAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11604375

Club Cross Country Practice 6-7pm at the redbird track and field. Open to all skill levelsHosted by: Cross Country Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11683832

Internship Info Panel: "How I Found My IT Internship" Date: October 1, 2025  Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Location: Julian Hall, Rooms 26, 28, and 30The IT Internship Fair is approaching quickly! Attend this internship info session to hear valuable tips and testimonials from IT students who have previously interned in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Networking, and more. Do you want a competitive edge when applying for internships? Don't miss out!  Save the date!! RSVP now!!!Hosted by: Association for Computing Machinery, Information Technology Students of America, School of Information Technology, Women in Technology, Women in Cybersecurity - Illinois State University Student ChapterAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11670726

Join the Student Government Association for our General Assembly meeting to discuss current initiatives, review upcoming events, and address student concernsHosted by: Student Government AssociationAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11421424

Campus Recreation League, Required for Competitive Membership.Hosted by: Bowling Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11691760

Women's water polo practice Hosted by: Women's Water Polo Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11701912

Get ready to launch your career with two back-to-back programs hosted by Career Services, Enterprise Mobility, and Registered Student Organization S.C.E.N.E (Social Connections Elevating New Experiences). 12:30-1 p.m. Career Readiness with Enterprise Mobility Connect with Enterprise Mobility as they share about their internships, full-time opportunities, and other helpful career readiness tips. 1-2:30 p.m. Headshot photos Get a free headshot photo for your LinkedIn profile. Students are required to reserve a time slot in order to ensure your photo will be taken. If you do not sign-up in advance you will not be guaranteed a photo. Reserve a time for your headshot photo at: https://illinoisstate-csm.symplicity.com/students/?s=event&ss=ws&mode=form&id=6060221d8dceb5e74263fc2a7d5e94b7 While you’re waiting for your reserved scheduled photo, continue the conversation with Enterprise. Even if you were unable to attend their presentation at 12:30 p.m., you are still invited and encouraged to connect! Special accommodations If you need a special accommodation to participate, contact Career Services in advance at (309) 438-2200.Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.Hosted by: Career ServicesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11698381

Get ready to launch your career with two back-to-back programs hosted by Career Services, Enterprise Mobility, and Registered Student Organization S.C.E.N.E (Social Connections Elevating New Experiences). 12:30-1 p.m. Career Readiness with Enterprise Mobility Connect with Enterprise Mobility as they share about their internships, full-time opportunities, and other helpful career readiness tips. 1-2:30 p.m. Headshot photos Get a free headshot photo for your LinkedIn profile. Students are required to reserve a time slot in order to ensure your photo will be taken. If you do not sign-up in advance you will not be guaranteed a photo. Reserve a time for your headshot photo at: https://illinoisstate-csm.symplicity.com/students/?s=event&ss=ws&mode=form&id=6060221d8dceb5e74263fc2a7d5e94b7 While you’re waiting for your reserved scheduled photo, continue the conversation with Enterprise. Even if you were unable to attend their presentation at 12:30 p.m., you are still invited and encouraged to connect! Special accommodations If you need a special accommodation to participate, contact Career Services in advance at (309) 438-2200.Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.  Hosted by: Career Services, Social Connections Elevating New ExperiencesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11702099

You’ve passed the proposal stage, done your research, and compiled it into a draft of your thesis/dissertation. You’re now ready to hold your oral defense! You can go into this milestone without fear, as the Graduate School’s Erin Hastings and Milner Library's Colby Cilento are here to guide you through defense planning, procedures, and wrapping up your thesis or dissertation as you prepare to complete this chapter of your academic journey.     Key Workshop Takeaways:  - Overview of the Right to Defend requirements and filing procedures  - Learn how to plan your defense - Find out about post-defense steps and graduation prepHosted by: Graduate SchoolOnline Location: https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/87471874878Additional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11411049