Every First Friday is a celebration in downtown South Bend. Ride the free shuttle, enjoy free music and activities, and take advantage of deals and discounts from local shops and restaurants. https://www.downtownsouthbend.com/first-fridays

Join us on Friday afternoons for Encounter: Conversations on Catholic Social Tradition, lectures by distinguished scholars in the field of Catholic social teaching, who will share their insights and provide critical conversation on matters of justice and the common good. Reception to follow. Anna Rowlands is the St. Hilda Chair in Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University, England. She is a political theologian who works at the interface of political and social theory and Christian theology. Her original training was in the social and political sciences, followed by postgraduate degrees in theology. She has worked for two decades on the political philosophy of Gillian Rose, with additional interests in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. These interests coincided with research over the last 15 years in two other areas: the study of forced migration and the ethics of migration, and the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching. She has published in all these areas. Her key publications include: Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology, edited with Elizabeth Phillips and Amy Daughton (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration (forthcoming 2024) edited with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. She is currently working on a new book on Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Gillian Rose. https://socialconcerns.nd.edu/event/encounter-series-simone-weil-catholic-social-thought-and-contemporary-society/

MOMIX propels you down the rabbit hole in Artistic Director Moses Pendleton's Lewis Carroll-inspired creation, Alice. The company enchanted DPAC audiences in 2013 and 2016 with the incredible physicality of its dancers, who seamlessly blend illusion, acrobatics, magic, and mystery. "I don't intend to retell the whole Alice story," Pendleton says, "but use it as a taking off point for invention." Unfolding as an exhilarating 90-minute fable, Alice encounters a rippling Caterpillar, jovial Mad Hatters, a herd of excitable White Rabbits, mad Queens, and other surprises. Filled with visual wonder and startling creative movement, Alice reveals that in MOMIX's world, very little is what it appears to be. Made possible by the Teddy Ebersol Endowment for Excellence in the Performing Arts. https://performingarts.nd.edu/event/17119/momix-alice/

MOMIX propels you down the rabbit hole in Artistic Director Moses Pendleton's Lewis Carroll-inspired creation, Alice. The company enchanted DPAC audiences in 2013 and 2016 with the incredible physicality of its dancers, who seamlessly blend illusion, acrobatics, magic, and mystery. "I don't intend to retell the whole Alice story," Pendleton says, "but use it as a taking off point for invention." Unfolding as an exhilarating 90-minute fable, Alice encounters a rippling Caterpillar, jovial Mad Hatters, a herd of excitable White Rabbits, mad Queens, and other surprises. Filled with visual wonder and startling creative movement, Alice reveals that in MOMIX's world, very little is what it appears to be. Made possible by the Teddy Ebersol Endowment for Excellence in the Performing Arts. https://performingarts.nd.edu/event/17119/momix-alice/

MOMIX propels you down the rabbit hole in Artistic Director Moses Pendleton's Lewis Carroll-inspired creation, Alice. The company enchanted DPAC audiences in 2013 and 2016 with the incredible physicality of its dancers, who seamlessly blend illusion, acrobatics, magic, and mystery. "I don't intend to retell the whole Alice story," Pendleton says, "but use it as a taking off point for invention." Unfolding as an exhilarating 90-minute fable, Alice encounters a rippling Caterpillar, jovial Mad Hatters, a herd of excitable White Rabbits, mad Queens, and other surprises. Filled with visual wonder and startling creative movement, Alice reveals that in MOMIX's world, very little is what it appears to be. Made possible by the Teddy Ebersol Endowment for Excellence in the Performing Arts. https://performingarts.nd.edu/event/17119/momix-alice/

Join us on Sunday, February 9th to celebrate Chinese New Year. There will be exciting performances, delicious Chinese food and more. We hope to see you there! Sponsored by: the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Originally published at eastasian.nd.edu. https://cslc.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/2025/02/09/chinese-new-year-gathering-1/