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Spring 2024 Events

January 10 - Asian Language Conversation Program, Asian Heritage Cultural Center, FUU 

January 12 - Dia de Bienvenida, 9 - 11AM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

January 12 - Juegos de Mesa (with HLSU), 4 - 6PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049 

January 15 - MLK Day of Service, DREAMS Center, 1:30 - 5PM, 901 Fanning Street, Wilmington, NC 28401

January 25 - Safezone Training: LGBTQ 101, 10 - noon, Register here

January 26 - Cuentos de la Facultdad, 12 - 1PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

January 26 - UNCW Student Adoptee Conference, 2 - 5PM, Education Building, Rm 162

January 26 - Karaoke Night (with HLSU), 5 - 7PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

 

February 1 - Safezone Training: LGBTQ 101, 10 - noon, Register here

February 7 - Black HIV/AIDS awareness day testing (FREE), 1 - 2PM, Mohin-Scholz Center, FUU 1037

February 7 - MLK Celebration, Dr. Jessica B. Harris lecture, 7PM, Kenan Auditorium, 

February 9 - Asian Lunar New Year Celebration, All day, Asian Heritage Cultural Center, FUU

February 13 - Self-Care Event (with Tania Smith), 5 - 6PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

February 14 - Community Love VDAY Event, 2 - 4PM, Mohin-Scholz Center, FUU 1037

February 16 - La Table Centro (Alumni, CARE & Counseling Center), 12 - 1PM, Centro Hispano FUU 1049

February 16 - Homecoming Baile (Jaripeo), 7:30 - 10:30PM, Warwick Center Ballroom, $10

February 17 - "A Cry for Community: Improving Ourselves", 3 - 5PM, 318 S 7th St, presented by Burnett-Eaton Museum Foundation & Gregory Congregational United Church of Christ, rsvp for seating: spellerislah@yahoo.com

February 21 - AfroLatinx Dance & Drummer (with Ritmo Latino), 5 - 8PM, TBD, 

February 22 - Safezone Workshop: Understanding Gender, 10 - noon, Register here

February 23 - Cuentos de la Facultdad, 12 - 1PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

February 26 - Lecture/Exhibition on Genealogical Records of the Princely House of the Mongols, 3 - 5PM, Carolina Beach Room, FUU

February 26 - "The Walk to Freedom", 5 - 7PM, 606 Grace St, presented by Burnett-Eaton Museum Foundation, rsvp for seating: spellerislah@yahoo.com

February 28 - The Black American Military Experience, 5PM, presented by UNCW Student Veteran Organization and UNCW NAACP, Lumina Theater

March 1 - Conversation - Daring to Care: Diverse Perspectives on End-of-Life Planning and Decision Making, 1 - 2PM, McNeill Hall, Room 1005, presented by Seahawks Advancing Interdisciplinary Learning (SAIL)

March 4 - Exhibition: Mongolian Writing Systems Tradition, All month, Asian Heritage Cultural Center, FUU

March 14 - Safezone Training: Active Ally, 10 - 12PM, Register here

March 14 - Sip N' Paint (with Amaru Ulloa), 4 - 6PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

March 15 - La Table Centro (w. CARE & Counseling Center), 12 - 1PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

March 19 - National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness day testing (FREE), 10:30 - 11:30AM, Mohin-Scholz Center

March 25 -  Africana Studies Research Symposium: Meditations on Global Blackness

 

April 4 - Lecture- The Indigenous Taiwanese Diaspora: Ancient Roots, 5 - 6PM, Randall Library Room, 2047

April 5 - Cuentos de la Facultdad, 12 - 1PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

April 5 - Drag Show Pool Party, 4 - 6PM, Recreation Center Outdoor Pool

April 11 - Play, Ashes to Ashes, directed by internationally recognized Pinter scholar, Dr. Charles Grimes, free, 7:30PM, UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building

April 12 - Play, Ashes to Ashes, directed by internationally recognized Pinter scholar, Dr. Charles Grimes, free, 7:30PM, UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building

April 15 - Opening of MMIW Red Dress Exhibit

April 18 - National Trans HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Testing (FREE), 4 - 5PM, Mohin-Scholz Center, FUU

April 18 - Mental Health: Habla Conmigo (with Tania Smith), 5 - 6PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

April 19 - La Table Centro (w. CARE & Counseling Center), 12 - 1PM, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

April 25 - Safezone Training: Using Our History to Heal, 10 - 12PM, Register here

April 25 - Yo <3 Yoga (with Veronica Tapia), 5 - 5:45PM, Student Recreation Center Room 129

April 26 - Asian Heritage Cultural Center, 5 - 7PM. TBD

April 30 - Alimenta Tu Mente, All day, Centro Hispano, FUU 1049

May 3 - Centro's Spring 2024 Graduation Reception:Excelencia Latina, 6 - 8PM, Burney Center

May 3 - MMIW Opening Event, inclusive of afternoon drumming and dancing ceremony

May 4 - MMIW Activities, including panel discussion, parade, and closing event 

 

MI CASA RECEIVES NH COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT GRANT

UNCW's MI CASA Receives New Hanover Community Endowment Grant   The UNCW Mentors Initiating Community Action, Support and Advocacy (MI CASA) program will receive $87,000 in support from the New Hanover Community Endowment, the university announced. The NHCE funding will help the long-standing and successful program provide high school students opportunities to tour Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the state. It will also provide laptops to program mentees to close technology gaps, fund participation in the Young Writers Camp and organize a Transition Orientation Day.   

students in randall library learn how to use a 3-d printer.

Queer Connections Directory

The Queer Connections Directory lists openly LGBTQIA+ identifying faculty and professional staff at UNCW outside of the Mohin-Scholz LGBTQIA+ Resource Center. This list provides LGBTQ+ students a list of professional folks who share similar identities in hopes that they will feel more welcome in those different spaces all around campus.

Group of rainbow striped Mohin-Scholz pins

Sean Palmer - NAACP's Minister of the Year

Sean Palmer was selected as Minister of the Year for the Wilmington, NC Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast.

Sean Palmer accepting an award

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