First lecture in series to feature community organizer
Melanie Zuercher
Special to the Kansan
Bethel College’s Department of Social Work kicks off Social Work Month with the first lecture in a new series.
Je T’aime Taylor, a Bethel social work graduate and the new executive director of the Front Porch Alliance in Kansas City, Mo., will be the speaker for Bethel’s March 1 convocation, which also serves as the first-ever Ada Schmidt-Tieszen Social Work Lecture.
Schmidt-Tieszen, also a Bethel social work graduate, taught in the department for 35 years, until her retirement at the end of the last school year.
Unique exhibit opens at Bethel gallery
Melanie Zuercher
Special to the Kansan
The results of a long-distance collaboration between two artists during a time of pandemic are now on display at Bethel College.
“After the End of the End of the World” is currently in the Regier Gallery in Luyken Fine Arts Center. The collaborators are Rachel Epp Buller, Bethel associate professor of visual arts and design, and artist and writer Derek Owens, of New York.
The gallery is open weekdays, with no admission charge. Due to the pandemic, there will be no public reception for this exhibit. Face coverings must be worn and physical distancing practiced on the Bethel campus.
KIPCOR film series continues this weekend
Melanie Zuercher
Special to the Kansan
For the third date in its annual film series, KIPCOR is offering a second chance for those who missed the November film and discussion.
KIPCOR, the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Bethel College, is holding its film series virtually this school year. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code is a multiple-award-winning documentary that focuses on the deadly 1995 Chicago heatwave to illustrate how people of color and low-income citizens suffer the most negative impact from natural disasters.
The 76-minute film is an indictment of U.S. disaster preparedness and forges a link between extreme weather, extreme disparity (of income and other factors) and extreme racism.