Definitive
2024-03-29 19:30, 2024-03-30 14:00 (America/New_York) | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
The Department of Theatre & Dance and the Kresge Theatre Company proudly present Definite, a new play by Theatre and Dance major, Joey Del Santo ’25. Ambition, a crisis of identity, and fear plague a young couple in Washington, D.C. who are navigating career paths that may careen into their marriage and leave both of them stranded.
Tickets for this production are free via the Box Office. However if you would like to support future productions at Wheaton, you may choose to purchase tickets at the $5, $10 or $20 level. Any purchase regardless of cost will reserve you a seat for the performance and you may choose to purchase a combination of free and pay-what-you-can tickets.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Alessandra Ward, Asst. Professor of Education, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Want your child to be a strong reader? Prioritize social-emotional learning.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
The topics of elementary reading education and social-emotional learning (SEL) frequently appear in current news headlines, often as a subject of debate. However, many (if not all!) teachers and families would agree that we want our children to be confident, capable readers and writers, and that we also want them to be able to participate in classroom and community life, get along with their peers, develop their talents, and learn to make responsible decisions. This talk will lay out the theoretical and empirical support behind how teaching SEL in school can positively support children’s literacy development, and vice versa. Practical suggestions will be given for how teachers and families of elementary-aged children can leverage synergies between SEL and literacy; for example, criteria for selecting read-aloud picture books that can address goals in both content areas.
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Free MTEL Prep Sessions
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Meneely – 103
The Education Department is providing free prep sessions for the Communication & Literacy MTEL from 5-7 PM on Thursday, April 4 & Monday, April 8. This exam is required to earn your teaching license.
Location: Meneely 103
The Thursday session will be on the Reading subtest and the Monday session will be on the Writing subtest.
The instructor will focus on reviewing your questions about the practice tests (click links below). In order to be prepared and benefit from the sessions, it is important to complete and bring a copy (or have electronic access) of the Reading practice test (Thursday) or the Writing test (Monday).
Reading Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD101_Reading_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf
Writing Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD201_Writing_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf

The Mary Bloor Loser ‘42 Concert Series presents Berklee Indian Ensemble
2024-04-04 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Grammy-nominated Berklee Indian Ensemble (BIE) is a world-renowned collective known for its global Indian sound that honors regional South Asian musical traditions while boldly experimenting with a cross
pollination of genres, cultures, and multidisciplinary art forms from around the world. A diverse 8-piece ensemble that was born at the Berklee College of Music, the brilliant musicians of BIE provide an evening of
expansive, integrated musical explorations.
Free tickets via the Box Office.

Science Writing for the Public Good: Let’s Have Fun with Math & Get Serious About AI
2024-04-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The 2024 Norman W. Johnson Lecture will be delivered by award-winning science writer and mathematician Susan D’Agostino. This talk will range from the delightful fact that penguins use mathematics to huddle in Antarctica’s subzero temperatures to the dangers of unbridled technology optimism.
D’Agostino is a Spencer Education Journalism Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she is working on a book about AI in higher education. She the author of How To Free Your Inner Mathematician (Oxford University Press, 2020), which received the Mathematical Association of America’s Euler Book Prize for an exceptionally well written book with a positive impact on the public’s view of math. She is the technology correspondent at Inside Higher Ed. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Scientific American, Wired, Quanta, BBC, Nature, National Public Radio, Financial Times, and other outlets.
Her writing has been recognized with fellowships from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, National Association of Science Writers, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, and Mila–Quebec AI Institute. She earned a Ph.D. in math from Dartmouth College, an MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in anthropology from Bard College.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor of Religion, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Cuisine and Cultural Appropriation: The Case of Palestinian and Israeli Food Tourism.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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Five-Minute Play Festival
2024-04-14 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Original five-minute plays—written, directed, and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our biannual festival.
**please note, this event was originally scheduled for April 6, 2024

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-15 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Andrew Davinack, Asst. Professor of Biology, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Invisible Invaders: The Impact of Non-Indigenous Parasites on Global Shellfish Aquaculture.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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The Mary Bloor Loser ‘42 Concert Series presents Her Stories with Dr. Samantha Ege
2024-04-16 20:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Combining a mix of performance and conversation, Dr. Samantha Ege animates the soundworlds and stories of the women who inspire her research. Dr. Ege is a leading interpreter and scholar of the African-American composer Florence B. Price. Dr. Ege’s publications and performances shed an important light on composers from underrepresented backgrounds. In 2023, she won the Society for American Music’s Irving Lowens Article Award for Chicago, the ‘City We Love to Call Home!’: Intersectionality, Narrativity, and Locale in the Music of Florence Beatrice Price and Theodora Sturkow Ryder (American Music journal). Dr. Ege’s first book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene will be published with the University of Illinois Press in autumn 2024.
Free tickets via the Box Office.

The World of Design—16th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Doug Scott
2024-04-17 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us as we explore the wide wide world of graphic design and its relationship to other design disciplines.
Doug Scott’s design work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Boston Hatch Awards, New York Art Directors Club, Boston Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association and Bookbuilders of Boston. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1974 and served on its national board of directors from 1989–1992. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the RISD and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught at UMASS/Dartmouth, Northeastern, RIC and Connecticut College.

Student Recitals
2024-04-18 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Gifted student performers demonstrate mastery in voice, violin, cello, piano and other instruments.

2024 Visual Art and Design Majors' Senior Exhibition Opening Reception
2024-04-18 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors. It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles.

Gallery Opening
2024-04-18 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
2024 Visual Art and Design Majors’ Senior Exhibition

Sonder: the realization that each passerby’s life is as vivid and complex as your own
This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors. It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles. The exhibition runs April 18–May 18, 2024 (hours may vary during finals and senior week May 7–18)

The Wheaton College Dance Company
2024-04-18 19:30, 2024-04-19 19:30, 2024-04-20 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor-Blenis.
Tickets may be purchased via the Watson Box Office. $5 student, $10 faculty & staff & seniors, $15 general.

All are Welcome: Collaborative Approaches to Building Inclusive Communities
2024-04-20 10:00 - 15:00 | Mary Lyon Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Wheaton College’s Network for LBGTQ+ Inclusion, Support and Advocacy will host its first ever educational conference: All are Welcome: Collaborative Approaches to Building Inclusive Communities. The event will take place on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.
A number of community organizations will join Wheaton students, staff and faculty to engage in dialogue around diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB). Renowned social justice educator and playwright Tobias K. Davis will give the keynote address.
Agenda
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Check-In and Light Refreshments
Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Large Group Opening and Keynote
Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Session #1
Participants may choose one from the list of workshops to attend.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m | Session #2
Participants may choose one from the list of workshops to attend.
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch (provided)
Emerson Faculty Dining (lounge area)
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Large Group Debrief and Closing
Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room
Workshop options
Empowering Inclusive Collaborations and Initiatives
Explore best practices around collaboratively working on inclusion-oriented projects from start to finish. This includes how to identify needs of the intended audience, build intersectional content, and evaluate the success of shared initiatives.
Facilitated by Mike Pratt and Hartley Torrison ‘26.
Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room
Affirming Identity in the Workplace
How do DEIB themes and best practices factor into everyday life in theworkplace? Participants will better understand how to appropriately affirm colleagues within professional spaces and productively challenge systems of power therein.
Facilitated by Lyndsey Aguilar and Henley Ballou.
Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room
Auditing Existing Systems for Inclusion Gaps
How well do our organizations’ day-to-day operations reflect our ideals for inclusion? Participants will be invited to consider the “small stuff” from client intake forms and communications with students and their families, to employee orientation, training materials and more. Where can small changes in language or policy have a big impact on the welcome message you convey? When you don’t have the power to make changes—for example, if there is outdated language on a state-mandated form—what other options can you explore? This will be a participatory workshop. Participants are welcome and encouraged to bring examples from their organization to discuss.
Facilitated by Prof. Kate Mason and Prof. J Sterphone.
Mary Lyon Hall – May Room
Action Planning Through Everyday Scenarios
Looking to jump right into action? In this session, participants will apply theory to real-world scenarios and learn how to address and minimize harm within professional and academic spaces.
Facilitated by Val Leon Quintero and Mairi Travis ’26.
Emerson Faculty Dining
Register today!
Questions or accessibility concerns can be directed to pratt_mike@wheatoncollege.edu.
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Day of Giving
2024-04-22
Wheaton College’s Day of Giving is a one-day online fundraising drive. Each year, Wheaton’s Day of Giving brings Wheaties together from around the world–alumni, parents, students, faculty & staff, and friends–to give back and to celebrate what they care most about the College.
In honor of Wheaton opening its doors to it’s first fifty pupils on April 22, Wheaton’s Day of Giving celebrates the abundant lives that have manifested due to Wheaton’s tradition of providing a life-changing liberal arts education.
By supporting Wheaton students during the annual Day of Giving, you help future generations of innovators, leaders, and creators embrace our motto, “That they may have life, and may have it abundantly.”
We put together a Volunteer Toolkit for those who would like to become an advocate and help us spread the word.
Mark your calendar and dust off your Wheaton gear. April 22 will be a virtual celebration of all things Wheaton. And it simply wouldn’t be a Wheaton party without you!
Make Your Gift

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-23 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Ada McKenzie Thomas, Asst. Professor of English, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Abbey Lincoln’s Spiritual Roots.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Description: In this talk, I examine Abbey Lincoln’s rootedness in spirituality as evinced in her poetry and songwriting from the latter part of her career. Her albums, Talking to the Sun (1983), Devil’s Got Your Tongue (1992), Wholly Earth (1999), as well as poems from her unpublished collection, In a Circle, Everything is Up, reveal her lifelong identity as a fervent roots-seeker, a spiritual sojourner in search of truth and understanding.
A multifaceted artist whose career traversed the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements, and intersected with Black feminisms and Pan-Africanist discourses, Lincoln’s concerns frequently echo those of other writers and artists of the various eras through which she lived. Lincoln’s thematic eclecticism is a hallmark of her songwriting, poetry, and prose, however her work remains rooted in a deeply personal and spiritual exploration. This talk explores the motifs of this spiritual sojourn emerging from Lincoln’s latter works, as based upon the archival research that I have conducted for my manuscript on Lincoln’s life in letters, Aminata: Abbey Lincoln’s Song of Faith, to be published by Rutgers University Press.
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2024 Senior Creative Writing Majors' Reading
2024-04-23 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please note: the location for this event has been moved to the Holman Room
Seniors graduating with a degree in creative writing and literature showcase original works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writing.

A Bench for My Favorite Book
2024-04-23 17:00 | Wallace Library – Reference Reading Room
Join us to celebrate A Bench for My Favorite Book (2024), an art installation created by Finnegan Shannon in collaboration with Wheaton students. The work provides a space for users to experience the photographs of Félix Gonzàlez-Torres via poetic Alt text. Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work experiments with access and ableist assumptions. Their project this semester was made possible by Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program, in conjunction with Beard and Weil Galleries, as part of the WIIH programming Whose Normal?

Career Networking Speaker Series: Brian Smiley
2024-04-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Balfour-Hood – Media Center, Norton, 02766, United States
Interested in Apple? Come meet a former Vice President of Marketing who shares the inside scoop of product development and strategy.
Come by and learn about what it takes to work, build relationships and design at a multinational company, while also getting some personal stories and insight.
For any additional questions or accessibility concerns, contact myself, Anya O’Brien or Noe Garcia Bravo at @Noe Garcia-Bravo / @Anya O’Brien

Entrepreneurship Summit
2024-04-24 09:30 - 13:00 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us at Wheaton’s First Annual Entrepreneurship Summit, which will be held on Wednesday, April 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Discovery Center.
This is a dynamic, free, and open-to-everyone summit that aims to foster student entrepreneurship, collaboration, and skills development.
Register here.
Agenda:
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | Location: Discovery Center Lobby
Registration & Breakfast

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Location: Hindle Auditorium
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Leanna Lawter, Chair of Business Department
Welcoming Remarks:
Dr. Michaele Whelan, President of Wheaton College
Keynote Address:
Karina Holyoak Wood, Founding Executive Director of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Rhode Island program

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Location: Hindle Auditorium
Breakout Session 1: Art, Design, and Sustainable Social Impact Enterprises
Speakers:

Tania Schlatter, Professor of Practice in Design at Wheaton College
Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG) Team, A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs with a focus on social impact through our programs and services
The Nest Team, A Sustainable fashion collective on a mission to end the toxic cycle of overconsumption and textile waste (Representative Charlotte von Meister, Co-founder)

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Location: Filene Center
Breakout Session 2: Rethinking Healthcare Entrepreneurship & Biochemistry in a New World
Speakers:

Elisabeth Borno, Army Veteran, Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, and Co-founder of Born-O Uniforms
Dr. Joke Alesh, Dentist, Professor, and Owner of Marigold Dental Studio
Dr. Ida Pavlichenko, CEO, Scientist, Inventor, and Co-founder of PionEar Technologies

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Location Hindle Auditorium
Breakout Session 3: Accounting, Finance, Technology, & Resources for Startups
Speakers:

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program Team, a Goldman Sach’s national investment in the growth of small businesses initiative
Ben Holstein, Veteran Startup & Fintech Leader
Kristina Piasecki, Professor of the Practice of Business at Wheaton College & Licensed CPA
Narine Emdjian, Federal Funding Expert, Director of Grants at SEG, and Founder of IFUND Lab

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Location: Filene Center
Breakout Session 4: Business Law, Education, Community Development & Resources
Speakers:

Attorney Sean Fontes, Attorney at Partridge Snow and Hahn, LLP
Mary Steele, Town of Norton Representative & Entrepreneur
Monique Fuchs, Ph.D, Strategic Advisor, Executive Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at MITDESIGNX
Juliana Badaro Langille, President and CEO of The International Community Empowerment Center

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Location: Faculty Dining Room in Emerson Dining Hall
Lunch Reception and Networking
Sponsored by Diana Davis Spencer ’60 and John and Kendra Malloy P’22

World Music Ensemble
2024-04-24 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Professor Sheila Falls, performs music from a variety of genres from around the world.

Portland, Maine Regional Alumni Gathering
2024-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Rising Tide Brewing, 103 Fox Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
You are cordially invited to join other Portland area Wheaton alums for an evening of reconnecting and reminiscing at Rising Tide Brewing on Thursday, April 25. This is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with old friends, make new connections, and share your experiences since graduation. Whether you graduated recently or many years ago, your presence will add to the warmth and camaraderie of the event.
The night will include snacks and one drink token.
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Southeastern Massachusetts Wind Symphony presents By Request: Classical to Pops
2024-04-26 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Under the direction of Earl Raney, Associate Professor in Music Performance, Wheaton’s largest wind ensemble presents their spring concert By Request: Classical to Pops.
Suggested donation $5.

Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers: Around the World
2024-04-28 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Visiting Assistant Professor Alexandra Lutkevich, leads the ensembles, and an accompanying band, in a program of music from across the globe: South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and USA.
Suggested donation $10.

Phazed and Confused
2024-04-29 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
This student-led ensemble presents a program of music selected and arranged by the members.
