Check out the work of WWU students at this weekend's Whatcom Cultural Arts Festival
Western sponsored a number of booths for WWU student artists at this weekend's Whatcom Cultural Arts Festival in the Bellingham Cruise Terminal in Fairhaven. This year’s Cultural Arts Festival will consist of a hybrid format with an exhibition and vendors at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal and online market, live interactive workshops and performances via social media. Representation of as many cultures as possible is a festival goal. Participants have been asked to create artwork, performances or food that is inspired by their cultural training and background.
BELOW: Images of some of the art being shown for sale this weekend at the Whatcom Cultural Arts Festival by WWU students Stephen Cheng and Naomi McLaughlin.
WWU supports inaugural U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network Summit
On February 16-18, WWU President Sabah Randhawa, along with faculty and staff traveled to University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), to attend the inaugural U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network Summit, themed "Centering Equity While Moving Through Wellness to Wellbeing."
Sislena Grocer Ledbetter, associate vice president for Counseling, Health, and Wellbeing (Summit Co-chair) and Brandon Joseph, director of Student Resilience, served on the planning committee. Kimberly Brown Pellum, professor of History at Florida A&M University and Sandro Galea, dean of the School of Public Health from Boston University, shared keynote addresses that centered race, equity and justice and their inextricable link to the work that we do serving Black people on college campuses.
Sabah along with presidents from UAB, Ursinus College, and University at Albany in NY served on the president’s panel and shared thoughts about being amongst the 16 college campuses to adopt the Okanagan Charter.
