Join us for this exhibition at the Student Art Gallery located in Julian Hall. Free and open to the public during gallery hours. Gallery location and hours are available online: https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/student-art-gallery/. Exhibition Reception*: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 from 4-6 p.m. at the gallery.*Reception date/time may be subject to change without notice. For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office.Hosted by: Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Wonsook Kim School of ArtAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11366824

Join us for this exhibition at the Student Art Gallery located in the lobby of Central Illinois Regional Airport (CIRA). Free and open to the public during gallery hours. Gallery information and hours are available online: https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/airport-gallery/. For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office. *Exhibition Reception: Wednesday, October 22, 2025, from 5-6 p.m. at the gallery.*Reception date/time may be subject to change without notice.Hosted by: Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Wonsook Kim School of ArtAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11366864

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

Get your clothes mended! Stop by on one of our scheduled dates with an article of clothing or other textiles in need of a basic fix. We offer quick repairs such as mending a hole or sewing on a button. Our volunteers will repair it on the spot for free! We can help your favorite clothes last longer!Hosted by: Fix It Friday, Office Of SustainabilityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11377264

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/11377173

One of the hardest things about writing as a graduate student is making time for the work. This writing retreat will allow participants to spend two days prioritizing their writing in a supportive and focused environment. The Graduate School will provide lunch and snacks so that you can progress on your thesis, dissertation, capstone, coursework, or any other writing project. Dr. Hawkins will also be on hand to provide any one-on-one writing support you need.    You are welcome to attend for as many days as you like, but please register separately for each day to help us plan food counts. Hosted by: Graduate SchoolAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11538953

Dance Association hosts a weekly Friday class from 10:10 am to 11:40 am, in Centennial East 116. Completely open to all, no matter the experience! We get the opportunity to learn from weekly guest artists ranging from on-campus students to alumni and even professionals in the dance profession. If you have any questions, reach out to erreime@ilstu.edu- President   Hosted by: Dance AssociationAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11520142

The Center for Civic Engagement is partnering with the American Red Cross to host a blood donation drive! Appointments are available from 11am to 4pm and will be held in Watterson Towers - Rosa Parks Room. Walk-ins are also welcome! Click here to sign up for an appointment slot (you must click on "Refine Search" and select October 3 on the calendar to be directed to the correct time slots)!Hosted by: Center for Civic EngagementAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11363250

Conversations Café🕛 12:00 – 1:00 PM📍 OIE Lobby, 2nd Floor Fell Hall Join us every other week for Conversations Café, a cozy, coffee shop-style social hosted by the OIE I-House and Academic Teams. This relaxed event offers a welcoming space for students to connect, unwind, and recharge. Enjoy:✅ Warm coffee, tea, and snacks✅ Board games and friendly conversations✅ A craft table and stress-relief activities✅ A calm, inclusive atmosphere Whether you're looking to practice your English, meet new people, or just take a break from a busy week, Conversations Café is the perfect spot to relax and refresh. All students are welcome!Hosted by: Office of International EngagementAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11360745

The Illinois State Men's Club Volleyball B Team will be playing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA Hosted by: Men's Volleyball Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11671053

When: Every Friday from 3:30-4:30pm Where: DEG 407 Who: A qualified tutor/mentor from the Psychology DepartmentHosted by: Psyched For Success!Additional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11603475

Join the Efaw Center for Educator Excellence in this online workshop to learn more about how to use Microsoft OneDrive. You will learn what OneDrive is, how to access it, and how to organize your files by creating and managing folders.   If you need an accommodation to fully participate in this event, please contact Dr. Becky Beucher at rlbeuch@ilstu.edu. Please allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.Hosted by: Efaw Center for Educator ExcellenceOnline Location: https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/85318702802Additional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11461722

Bi-weekly practices hosted by Fencing Club at ISU. Fencing Practice at ISU.  Please wear athletic clothing, sweatpants are recommended. Hosted by: Fencing Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11528845

Spend time looking closely at artworks in University Galleries' current exhibition, Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect, and drawing at your own pace. Materials will be provided. 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/11329053

The Harnsberger/Jones Duo Live in Concert is sure to leave audiences intrigued and stunned by the beautiful and expressive yet powerful and demanding depth that the marimba evokes throughout a concert space. Each piece is tailored for The Duo and features a wide range of contemporary sounds. The Duo always begins their concerts with “In the Midst of Darkness” by Andy Harnsberger, the piece that was written for and led to the creation of the duo. This work features intensity, drama, and rhythmic interplay between the two instruments. After the listeners have a chance to breathe, we then bring in the brand-new piece, “Promises Broken” by Adam Silverman. This piece is a complete 180 from the opener, as it will bring in the subtleties of the instrument. It has been proven to be an audience favorite in recent months. Several more duo pieces will be featured, as well as powerful solos. Throughout the solos, the audiences have a chance to see each performer shine and showcase that the marimba can stand alone. Audiences are guaranteed to be exposed to new works and sounds throughout The Harnsberger/Jones Duo concert that will leave them pondering for days and weeks to come on the beauty of the marimba. Hosted by: School of Music, Wonsook Kim College of Fine ArtsAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11683193

ISU D3 Club Hockey home weekend vs MaryvilleHosted by: Men's Ice Hockey Club at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/11606884