VermiCUlture: vermicomposting in Champaign Urbana, is a YMCA program that educates students and campus members about sustainable food disposal and distributes free vermicomposting kits so that everyone can compost even in dorms or apartments. Here is a link tree to VermiCUlture's social media pages and interest/application forms: https://linktr.ee/vermiculture, and see the flyer. Please let Chancellor's Scholar Sophie Luijten know at sil2@illinois.edu if you have any questions!

McKinley Health Center BE WELL fitness class on Tuesdays and Thursdays: Classes will be at 1 pm on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and anyone is welcome to join. To register, email the instructor Felicia Fordyce at frf2@illinois.edu, and can register at any point during the 8-week class.

Thanks to the Japan House listserv for this information item.

The Career Center is hosting a UI Social Impact Info Session w/ City Year, Teach for America, and Peace Corps on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 from 4-5 p.m. (virtual event). Sign up through Handshake: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/702514

Check out the flyer for a 2nd 8-week class opportunity provided by Professor Nikki Usher. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Humanities - Lit & Arts.

Scan the QR Code to let the HSC Arts Committee know you're interested in getting art supplies! Get in touch with Matthew Haak at mjhaak2@illinois.edu if you have any questions!

The Humanities Research Institute (HRI), with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is looking for undergraduate interns to work with its Legal Humanities research group for the academic year 2021–22. Legal humanities understands the law as both reflecting and actively influencing societal values, aspirations, anxieties, biases, and notions of justice, examining how law constitutes and shapes the social world in which it is embedded. The HRI-Mellon Legal Humanities Research Group is composed of professors, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates from different disciplines who are united by their desire to understand the multiple ways the law, broadly conceived, shapes human relations to each other and the places we live.

The research group seeks three undergraduate interns who will work with the group on their seminars, workshops, and programs. Interns will also work with the research group director to develop their own research projects as well as a research symposium for undergraduates at the end of the spring semester. Complete applications must be received by 5 p.m. on March 1, 2021. Read more about the internship and how to apply at https://hri.illinois.edu/andrew-w-mellon-fellowships/hri-andrew-w-mellon-undergraduate-internships-legal-humanities.

The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures has reopened to the public! Come in from the cold to see the new exhibit, Debates, Decisions, Demands: Objects of Campaigns and Activism, and reacquaint yourselves with the collection. Warm up next to Oscar Martinez's paintings from the mural at the former La Casa Cultural Latina, and listen to audio stories about C-U social-dance culture in the 1970s, as part of ourthe Blues Dancing and Its African American Roots exhibit. [Masks are required, as is registration for groups larger than five. To ensure our guests' safety, capacity limits will be enforced. For more information about how they are constantly working to keep the Museum safe, go to the website to read about their Covid Response.]

HOURS: Tu (12-5) Wed-Fri (9-5) Sat/Sun (10-4) - FREE.

More info:   Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, 217-333-2360, https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/

Thanks to Katya Reno of Spurlock Museum for this information item.

Join world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator, Nikki Giovanni as she talks about the arts as activism. The event will be hosted by Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; African American Cultural Center, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Diversity Center, University of Illinois at Springfield.

When: February 21, 2021 @ 5pm

Zoom Webinar: https://diversity.uic.edu/nikki-giovanni-webinar/

Poetry submissions for Kevin T. Early Memorial Scholarship due 1/28/21