Urban Plunge: First year Student Service Project
BIG RED WELCOME EVENT
Aug
21
Activity
Time:
End Rape on Campus
Date:
2:00 pm –
4:00 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Green Space
march with PREVENT to raise awareness about sexual assault on college campuses. Featuring guest speakers from The Voiceless documentary, and Vanessa McNeal (Director and Producer. Take a stand with us!
Film - Documentary
Time:
“The Voiceless” Screening and Panel
Date:
7:00 pm
Location:
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
The internationally recognized film features the stories of five men and their experiences with sexual violence. The documentary discusses the intersectionality between culture, masculinity, taboos and the impact that sexual violence has on men. …
Reading - Fiction/poetry
Time:
Solmaz Sharif—Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Date:
7:00 pm
Location:
Great Plains Art Center
Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s “Poetry for the People,” and New York University. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review …