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Saturday, September 28, 2024
- All dayVisiting Artist Ruby QueVisiting Artist Ruby Que will be on campus from September 2 – October 16, 2024.Ruby Que will give an artist talk on Wednesday, September 25 from noon–1 p.m. at University Galleries. The talk is free and open to the public.
- All dayIllinois State University Men's Tennis at ITA All AmericansIllinois State University Men's Tennis at ITA All Americans
- 12:00 AM12:00 PMHomecoming 2024: Relive the MomentsRelive all your favorite moments and create new ones at one of the most celebrated traditions at Illinois State University. Visit the Homecoming website for an updated list of events, deadlines, and ways to get involved.
- All dayPop-Up ScreeningsIndividuals can engage in quick, confidential alcohol and/or cannabis screening to learn about and explore their level of risk(s). The opportunity to participate in screening is invaluable. Being more informed allows individuals to prevent the development of risky or harmful behaviors, and being able to identify concerns early puts individuals in control to make decisions that can help them align more closely with their goals and priorities.Tuesday, September 26, 12-2, Watterson by Reflection Room Tuesday, October 15, 12-2 Schroeder Hall, 1st Floor Lobby Table Tuesday, October 29, 12-2, Tri-Towers, Outside of Linkins Dining Center Thursday, November 14, 12-2, State Farm Hall of Business, Auditorium LobbyHosted by: Health Promotion and WellnessAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10178852
- All dayIllinois State University Men's Tennis at 67th Annual Men's College InviteIllinois State University Men's Tennis at 67th Annual Men's College Invite
- All dayIllinois State University Women's Tennis vs Redbird InvitationalIllinois State University Women's Tennis vs Redbird Invitational
- 6:30 AM12h 30mCanoe Trip!!2nd Annual LCMS College Ministry Canoeing Trip!Saturday, September 28th PLEASE READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IF YOU ARE ATTENDING!!! Meet at Wittenberg at 6:30am (201 South Main Street) Estimated 7pm return. $15 commitment fee due by September 22nd (this is a soft deadline, please talk to Pastor or Kaitlyn if you need financial assistance or missed the deadline). To reserve your spot or ask questions, contact Kaitlyn Koenigstein at kakoen1@ilstu.edu or 618-340-6436 for call or text. Timeline: 6:30am CST: meet at Wittenberg for carpooling (201 S. Main Street) 6:45am CST: Leave fore canoeing to Turkey Run State Park, Indiana (park is in Eastern Standard Time) 10:15am EST: Arrive and Check In (liability waivers) 11:00am EST: Float starts, bus leaves Dinner afterwards (Wittenberg Lutheran Center pays) 7:00pm CST: Estimated return to Wittenberg What to bring: Signed Liability waiver (copy is at Wittenberg church, bring it for the group) SACK LUNCH in watertight container for picnic on river Wear swimsuit, water shoes, shorts and t-shirt for on river Change of clothes and towel for after (do not take extra clothes on canoe) Sunscreen, hat, sunglasses. No alcohol, please. River rules: No glass, Styrofoam, inflatable coolers, or large coolers allowed. Please check the weather the day before and plan accordingly. Sugar Valley Canoes, Jackson Bridge 10 mile trip. Parking address: 1313 IN-47, Marshall, IN 47859Hosted by: Wittenberg Lutheran Student OrganizationAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10408511
- 8:00 AM2h2024 Town and Gown 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run/WalkJoin us in the morning of the 2024 Homecoming for our annual Town and Gown Hybrid 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk. This year’s registration cost is $20 for all ages in-person and for virtual participants wanting a 5K shirt. Online registration is available until 4:30 p.m. Thursday, September 26. Once online registration closes, participants may register in person at the Alumni Center through Friday, September 27 from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. The cost for those interested in the 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk is $20 as well. 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run participants (in-person and virtual) who register by September 10 are guaranteed an exclusive race shirt and a race packet. Shirts are unisex sizing. Virtual race participants will receive shirts via mail. Questions? Email TownandGown@IllinoisState.edu Additional InformationThere will be one water stop during the 5K run and refreshments available afterward for all run/walk participants, courtesy of the Town of Normal. Office of Sustainability will be onsite with reusable water bottles and Zero Waste crew to make this a zero-waste event. The 5K will be chip timed, courtesy of It’s Race time, Inc. No pets, please. Strollers welcomed. Parking is available in the School Street Parking Garage off of Beaufort. Virtual participants are encouraged to run and submit times on September 28 or prior.Hosted by: Alumni Association, Campus RecreationAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10220968
- 8:00 AM4hHomecoming 5KCross Country Club will once again be participating in the annual Homecoming 5K race. We are representing our club and just having some fun. Competitive and non-competitive members can run this event so long as they are eligible members of the club.Hosted by: Cross Country Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10495833
- 10:00 AM1h 30mHomecoming Parade PerformanceCome see PDT perform at the homecoming parade!Hosted by: Poise Dance TeamAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10427550
- 10:00 AM2hIllinois State 2024 Homecoming ParadeRegistered student organizations, get ready to show off that Redbird spirit! Our contest encourages RSO walking and mobile units to submit a spirited video (that incorporates the Homecoming theme, Redbirds Reign) with their parade entry on September 28. This can be a choreographed cheer, singing the ISU Fight Song, performing a song connected to the RSO, etc. A link will be sent closer to the parade to submit the video. Judging will take place Homecoming weekend with winners announced Monday, September 30, and monetary prizes awarded to first, second and third place. Submit parade entries online by September 16 and select "Yes" for RSOs wanting to participate.Submit band entries online by September 17. Review parade resource guide prior to September 28.All floats must schedule an inspection with Environmental Health and Safety the week of or prior to Saturday, September 28. Call (309) 438-8325.View Parade Map Questions? Email homecomingparade@IllinoisState.eduHosted by: Alumni AssociationAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10257450
- 12:00 PM1hRedbird Wargaming Weekly Meeetings!Come out and play some games! OR, swing by and learn a new game and hang out with good people!Hosted by: Redbird Wargaming ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10298832
- 12:00 PM1h 10mCancelled: Home Game: ILSTU vs TBDHome league gameHosted by: Women’s Ice Hockey ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10318029
- 1:00 PM1h 30mText-Based Artmaking WorkshopJoin University Galleries education staff for an artmaking workshop inspired by Rafael Soldi's exhibition A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory. Participants will create text-based artworks inspired by Soldi's Shards. Registration is required. A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory features photographs, a handwritten text installation, and an EKG made from 2009 through 2023. Informed by the artist’s queer, Peruvian identity, the selected works reflect on the possibilities of language, memory, and imagining. In Soldi’s words, he “probes states of in-betweenness—especially as it occurs across tongues—providing nuanced insight into immigrant identity while also offering a rich metaphor for queer experience.” The exhibition title is excerpted from one of Soldi’s own texts, which appeared on the cover of his Imagined Futures book. In the text, the artist addresses The Sun Will Set in the Same Place, a photograph featured in this exhibition. Soldi grew up in Peru and moved to the United States as a teenager, first to the east coast and then to the west coast. When he saw the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean in Seattle, 15 years after regularly seeing the same sight as a child in Peru, he was struck by a wave of nostalgia and a desire to reconcile his feelings about his home country. He then made the black-and-white photograph of what appears to be a brilliant, radiating orb. He writes, “I liked the ambiguity of this image too… it’s like being blinded by the sun, or it could be an eclipse or a black hole or a camera shutter or a moon or an explosion or a flashing memory or a peephole.” Special Collections at Milner Library recently acquired Soldi’s Imagined Futures book, and it will be on view in the exhibition. Imagined Futures comprises 36 tiny, black-and-white self-portraits made in photo booths. Rather than making silly faces with friends or posing for an identification photo, Soldi was repeatedly photographed alone and with his eyes closed. In his words, the project marks his “persistent attempt at acknowledging the grief surrounding the futures abandoned after immigrating from his homeland and the social violence enacted on queer bodies.” Soldi extended the project to other queer, male-identifying, Latinx immigrants for Entre Hermanos. He collaborated with social worker Joel Aguirre to facilitate a conversation about how the participants “perceived their future as young people in their countries of origin,” how that perception may have changed, and how they could “reimagine their futures and pasts today.” Following the discussion, each participant could make their own self-portrait in a photo booth while being guided through a meditation exercise. The resulting photographs are presented in color and at a significantly larger scale than Soldi’s self-portraits. For mouth to mouth, Soldi explores fluidity between two languages, Spanish and English, one that was slipping away and one that he was learning. The installation features dozens of handwritten words presented in individual frames: poema, problema, home, body, historia, histeria, memoria. Soldi said that the errors and mistranslations “yielded a directory of invented terms, a collection of tiny unintended poems.” Meanwhile Shards—which brings together poetry, astronomy, history, and language—is titled after one of Jay Hopler’s poems. Soldi etched four glass panels with a single word each: mother, boy, soft, and tongue. The words can form a variety of combinations and evoke a range of feelings depending on the background of the viewer. Behind each word is a black-and-white photograph depicting the stars over his mother on the night Soldi was born. The artist visited the observatory in Lima, Peru, to create the images. Marcapasos, an EKG displayed as an artist’s book, demonstrates another form of language. The EKG recorded the electrical activities in Soldi’s heart when he was eleven years old. The artist writes, “I was moved by finding this ‘written record of my own heart as a child, at a time when I was aware of my queerness and my difference but had no language for it.”Hosted by: University GalleriesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10252185
- 2:00 PM5hIllinois State University Football vs North Dakota State - HOMECOMINGIllinois State University Football vs North Dakota State - HOMECOMING TV: ESPN+ Radio: WJBC AM 1230 / FM 93.7 / The Varsity Network Streaming Audio: https://thevarsitynetwork.com/audioapplink/source/illinois-state-university:oas-945/content/ilstu:allaccess-Live-8906 Tickets: https://goredbirds.evenue.net/list/FB
- 4:00 PM4hLearn To Be a Game MasterCome learn how to be a Game Master, or how to improve the games you're already running. This is a workshop primarily focused around Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, but many of the topics are applicable to a variety of game systems. We'll have experienced GMs to talk about the best tips and tricks for running games, and give new GMs the chance to ask questions about how best to get started with their own games. Some of the topics covered will include managing group dynamics, learning which rules are important, and developing improvisation and acting skills. This is a great opportunity for players to see what it would be like to run a game and sit on the other side of the table.Hosted by: Redbird Dungeons and Dragons ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10483890
- 7:30 PM2hIllinois State University Volleyball vs BelmontIllinois State University Volleyball vs Belmont TV: ESPN+ Streaming Video: https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/a1a1ce68-8989-4f3e-8a03-135ee9927b7f