BELLINGHAM -- Western Washington University’s College of Fine and Performing Arts and Department of Theatre and Dance will host a public reading of plays workshopped at Strait Plays, a new playwright retreat at Sculpture Woods on Lummi Island.
The reading is free and open to the public on Sunday, Aug. 18 at 3:30 p.m.
Two construction projects related to Western’s new residence hall are scheduled to begin next week, Aug. 5.
The new residence hall will be sited where Highland Hall and Highland Lounge currently are located, and will extend north toward College Hall. The Highland buildings will be demolished, with that work starting next week.
In addition, the new residence hall construction project will take the adjacent parking lot 14G offline through most of the project duration.
Spring 2019 graduates Miranda Ward (Art Studio) and Nicole Sievers (Design/Art Studio) and fall 2018 graduate Kaitlyn Kelm (Art Studio) were selected as three of the six winners whose art will be featured on traffic boxes in Bellingham’s Arts District. Installation of the art is slated for October 2019.
Western fielded a strong and vibrant contingent in this year's Bellingham Pride parade last Sunday. Well done, parade marchers!
See a full Flickr album of the event and Western's participation in it here.
Western Washington University Assistant Professor of Chemistry Tim Kowalczyk has been awarded a prestigious five-year, $496,000 Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research into porous organic frameworks for energy conversion and storage.
“I’m grateful for this early-career award from the NSF which reflects outstanding contributions from our entire team of student researchers, as well as technical and moral support from colleagues across the College of Science and Engineering and the Institute for Energy Studies,” Kowalczyk said.
Western Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Commedia in the Park” directed by Rich Brown, at 6 p.m. on July 18-20 in Maritime Heritage Park located at 500 W. Holly Street in Bellingham.
The show is free and open to the public.
Commedia was born in the streets and markets of the 16th Century as theatre for the people. The absurd characters and their low comedy still enchant and delight humans of the 21st century. Quacks, cowardly captains, and tricky servants in delightfully bizarre masks dissect current events with broad physical comedy.
Two upcoming construction projects related to Western’s new residence hall are scheduled to begin soon. The new residence hall will be sited where Highland Hall and Highland Lounge currently are located, and will extend north toward College Hall.
Office of Communications and Marketing Visual Journalism Intern Joely Johnson will post her daily images of the student experience at Western here each weekday. Check back often!
For the past couple of weeks, I had the opportunity to shadow Chad Baloy. Chad works not only at Western Washington University (WWU) in Bellingham, Washington, but he works on the university.
Blanca Granados de Cruz says the most difficult challenge she faces today is learning English grammar. Remarkably, this comes from a woman who was confronted with some far more serious challenges in her homeland of El Salvador, where grammar was the least of her worries.
Blanca and her husband, Enio, made a life-changing decision – as challenging as it was courageous – 13 years ago to escape and immigrate to the United States.
