Michael Vila's calendar for event attendance planning.
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“We are each other’s harvest” : Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon
RecurringAll Day 9/26/2024 - 5/23/2025Main Library Room 346RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.
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8:30 am 10/9/2024 - 9/24/2025O’Leary Learning Center, College of Education -
All Day 2/11/2025 - 3/25/2025Grainger Engineering Library, Room 233/235 -
All Day 2/25/2025 - 3/1/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignDon’t miss the final week of the "Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams" exhibition! On view through March 1. kam.illinois.edu/MillieWilson
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2:00 pm 4:00 pm 3/1/2025Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801Join us for a performance by La Escuelita Bombera De Corazón to celebrate our spring exhibit, Caribbean Indigenous Resistance: Taíno Live On! / Resistencia indígena del Caribe: ¡Taíno Vive! The performance will be followed by a reception catered by El Paraiso.
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2:00 - 4:00 pm 3/1/2025Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana -
3:00 pm 3/3/2025Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801) -
9:00 - 10:55 am Tue morning 3/4/2025330 Armory or onlineDuring this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 3/4/2025Turner Student Services Building, Room 44MIC is a safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns and questions while evaluating your cannabis habits, and learning strategies for low-risk use.
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11:00 - 11:45 am 3/5/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W IllinoisJoin us for a talk by recent CAS Associate David Wright Faladé on his new work, a non-fiction treatment of his novel The New Internationals, based on his parents.
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12:00 pm 3/5/2025Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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12:00 pm 3/5/20253057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL -
12:00 pm 3/5/2025306 Coble Hall and on Zoom -
4:00 - 5:45 pm 3/5/2025Murphy Lounge, University YMCA -
5:15 - 6:15 pm 3/5/20252000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802Chado, or the Way of Tea, is one of the most ancient and revered arts of Japan and is at the very heart of Japan House. It is a ceremonial way of preparing and serving matcha (powdered green tea) that benefits both the host and the guest through mutual respect, non-verbal communication, and a calmness, or sense of peace, away from everyday life.
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All Day 3/6/2025 - 3/7/2025Siebel Center for Design; Education Building -
11:00 am - 2:00 pm 3/6/2025Lincoln Hall (Quad Entrance)The Counseling Center will host two events for students to learn more about safer substance use as we approach Unofficial St. Patrick's Day and Spring Break.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/6/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801 -
4:00 pm 3/6/2025Architecture Building 210ARIO is a two-part program that teaches students techniques for recognizing and moving past situations that cause stress, frustration, and anxiety.
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6:00 - 7:30 pm 3/6/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignSPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
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All Day 3/7/2025 - 3/8/2025Levis Faculty Center 210 -
9:00 am 3/7/2025Beckman Institute, Room 4269 (4th floor tower room) -
3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/7/2025Main Library Room 346Concluding the first annual Global Book History at Illinois workshop, distinguished professors Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Agamemnon Tselikas, and George Xenis will touch on their work championing the study of classical and medieval Greek letters and literatures and reflect briefly on this groundbreaking new program.
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4:30 - 6:00 pm 3/7/2025Colwell Playhouse Lobby (Krannert Center for Performing Arts) - 500 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61801Japan House depends on the generosity of our friends and community to keep sharing traditional Japanese arts and culture, with the goal of fostering a deeper appreciation for diverse cultures and practices. We are delighted that Nick Offerman is returning to campus for this special book signing in which proceeds will go towards supporting Japan House programming.
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11:00 am - 1:45 pm 3/8/2025University of Illinois Philanthropy Center (303 St Marys Rd Champaign, IL 61820)This exclusive fundraising event featuring Nick Offerman offers a special opportunity to support Japan House while enjoying an afternoon of entertainment, engaging conversation, delicious food, and cultural appreciation.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/8/2025Megan's Reading Room, The Urbana Free Library (210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801) -
2:00 - 3:30 pm 3/8/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignExperience a performance in the galleries by video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas, as part of their national tour. The Sudden Sound Concert Series presented by Krannert Art Museum and Improvisers Exchange features leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation.
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10:00 - 10:30 am 3/10/2025Beckman Institute Center AtriumAll are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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3:00 pm 3/10/2025Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801) -
10:00 - 10:30 am 3/11/2025Beckman Institute Center AtriumAll are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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1:00 - 2:55 pm Tues afternoon 3/11/2025330 Armory or onlineLearn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking. Pre-registration required.
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4:30 pm 3/11/2025Coble Hall, Room 308. 801 S. Wright St, Champaign -
5:00 - 6:00 pm 3/11/2025DGS 514A workshop that provides strategies that can help with test anxiety.
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10:00 - 11:55 am W morning 3/12/2025330 Armory or onlineIn this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
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12:00 pm 3/12/2025Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/12/2025LLS Building (1207 W. Oregon St., Urbana), Room 103 -
5:30 - 7:00 pm 3/12/2025Turner Student Services Building, located at 610 E. John Street in Champaign.CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.
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7:30 pm 3/12/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Learn about the collaboration between Urbana’s organic farm, Sola Gratia, and Bhakti Verma, the College of Education-HRI Fellow and their work linking wellness and education in Urbana public schools.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/13/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801 -
All Day 3/18/2025 - 3/22/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignOn view: “Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture,” featuring homes in Champaign-Urbana designed by Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10–5; Saturday 10–4; and Thursday until 8 pm, when class is in session. Admission is always free. Parking access is easy during school br
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9:00 am - 4:15 pm Tuesday 3/18/2025330 Armory or onlineThis program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.
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10:00 - 10:30 am 3/18/2025Beckman Institute Center AtriumAll are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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12:00 pm 3/19/2025Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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9:00 - 10:55 am Thur morning 3/20/2025330 Armory or onlineJoin us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/20/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801 -
1:00 - 2:55 pm Thur afternoon 3/20/2025330 Armory or onlineIn this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
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3:00 pm 3/24/2025Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801) -
6:00 pm 3/24/2025RIO is a two-part program that teaches students techniques for recognizing and moving past situations that cause stress, frustration, and anxiety.
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10:00 - 10:30 am 3/25/2025Beckman Institute Center AtriumAll are welcome to join our weekly 10-10:30 a.m. Tuesday gather in the atrium sessions. Please feel free to bring your own favorite beverage and enjoy the company!
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10:00 - 11:55 am Tues morning 3/25/2025330 Armory or onlineIn this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.
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1:00 - 2:55 pm Tue afternoon 3/25/2025330 Armory Building or onlineCollaboration is working together on a shared project or goal. Teams collaboration tools can keep projects organized and help get work done. Share files, co-author and edit content simultaneously, and work together in channels.
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6:30 - 7:00 pm 3/25/2025Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820 -
7:00 pm 3/25/2025Engineering Hall 106B3Backpack Backpack: Tools for Coping with Stress & Anxiety
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10:00 - 11:55 am Wed morning 3/26/2025330 Armory or onlineCreating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3/26/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W IllinoisJoin us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates and Fellows: Fahad Mahmood on unlocking quantum emergence and Peter Fritzsche on the fragile nature of human solidarity.
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12:00 pm 3/26/2025Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor TowerJoin us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
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12:00 pm 3/26/2025Coble Hall Room 108 -
10:00 - 11:55 am Thur morning 3/27/2025330 Armory or onlineIn this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Offered in-person or online. Pre-registration required
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/27/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801 -
1:00 - 2:55 pm Thur afternoon 3/27/2025330 Armory Building or onlineIn this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.
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3:00 pm 3/27/2025AtriumJoin other members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 3/27/2025Turner Student Services Building, located at 610 E. John Street in Champaign.CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.
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8:30 am - 5:30 pm 3/28/2025Coble Hall (801 S Wright St., Champaign 61820) -
9:00 am 3/28/2025Director's officeBeckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying! Please contact Stacy for details on meeting Steve
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2:00 pm 3/28/2025Beckman Institute Room 3269 (3rd floor tower room)The STC for Quantitative Cell Biology Seminar Series continues with Anthony Bae, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, QCB Postdoc, will lecture on "Integration of nonlinear optical microscopy with computational models for analysis of the morphological and metabolic dynamics of live mitochondria"
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/31/2025Engineering Hall 212A workshop that provides strategies that can help with test anxiety
