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Wellesley College lunchtime series talk: How Teens and Families Communicate about Sex

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Lulu Wang Center, WellesleyAccording to Planned Parenthood, only half of U.S. teens talk with their parents about sex, which reflects the discomfort both parents and teens often feel regarding these conversations. To avoid the awkwardness, many teens seek advice from non-parental family members, like older sisters and brothers or aunts and uncles, who they see as easier to talk to and less judgmental than parents. However, little research has been done about these conversations and whether they can protect teens from risky sexual behaviors. During this presentation, Jennifer Grossman, Ph.D., a senior research scientist, and Anmol Nagar ’21, a Wellesley College student research intern, will share their research in progress on this topic, discuss how conversations with non-parental family can protect teens from risky sexual behavior, and how these family members talk with teens about sex and relationships.

WHEN: March 14, 2019 • 12:40 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, Wellesley College, Room 413
PRESENTERS: Jennifer M. Grossman, Ph.D., Anmol Nagar ’21

For those unable to attend in person, this program will be streamed live on Facebook and the video will be archived on our website.

This is a program of the Lunchtime Seminar Series at the Wellesley Centers for Women, which is free and open to the public. Tea and coffee will be provided. Parking for this program is available in the Davis Parking Facility. For accessibility questions, contact Disability Services at Wellesley College.

For questions or to confirm program lineup: [email protected] \ 781.283.2500

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Jazz and World Music concert at Wellesley College

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Wellesley Jazz and World MusicThe Jazz and World Music faculty of Wellesley College present Cry the Blues. Through innovative arrangements of classic blues and original blues compositions, Wellesley’s vibrant Jazz and World Music faculty celebrate the enduring relevance of the blues. Featuring Kris Adams, Tom Duprey, Mark Hamilton, Mark Henry, Russell Hoffmann, Steven Kirby, Steve Langone, Lance Martin, Cercie Miller, Kera Washington, and Paula Zeitlin. A reception will follow the performance.

Free and open to the public

For questions, please contact: [email protected] For disability services, please contact: [email protected]

DATE: Saturday, March 2

TIME: 7:30pm

WHERE: Jewett Auditorium at Wellesley College, 106 Central St.

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Wellesley Centers for Women lunchtime seminar: “Lifers”

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Cheever House, Wellesley CollegeThe Wellesley Centers for Women will kick off its biannual Lunchtime Seminar Series on Thursday, February 28 with, “Lifers: Growing Older, Staying Power, and the Out-of-School Time Field.” The program will run from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. at Cheever House, 828 Washington St, Wellesley, MA.

In all employment fields, some workers change career paths while others stay in the field for long periods of time. Researchers from the National Institute on Out-of-School Time will examine these trends in the afterschool and out-of-school time field during this presentation. They will share findings from a workforce survey focused on out-of-school time professionals and their views on the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for growth within the field. The researchers will also discuss broader employment trends and how workforce training and professional development can promote quality out-of-school time programming.

The presentation will be led by Georgia Hall, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, and her colleagues Elizabeth Starr, M.Ed., Kathryn A. Wheeler, Ed.D., Lisette DeSouza, Ph.D., and Kathy Schleyer, M.S. The National Institute on Out-of-School Time is a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. Since 1979, it has moved the afterschool field forward through its research, education, training, and consultation.

The Lunchtime Seminar Series is free and open to the public. Guests are invited to bring their lunches, and the Centers will provide tea and coffee. For more information about the series, visit wcwonline.org/calendar. For accessibility questions, contact Disability Services at Wellesley College at disabilityservice[email protected]edu or call 781.283.2434. The Lunchtime Seminar Series schedule is subject to change. For those who are unable to attend in person, the program will be streamed live on the Wellesley Centers for Women Facebook page (@wcwonline).
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Wellesley College’s Guild of Carillonneurs to hold Open Tower

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Wellesley College will open up its 32-bell carillon to the community on Saturday, February 23, 2pm – 4pm. The carillon is housed in Galen Stone Tower, which rises 182 feet from the ground in Green Hall. The bells were installed in 1931 and the college’s Guild of Carillonneurs ring them throughout the year.

Galen Tower Wellesley College
Galen Tower, Wellesley College. It’s the tall building.

The performance is open the public and will include pop and movie music in honor of the Oscars, which will be awarded on February 24th to Hollywood’s stars both on the screen and behind the scenes. We’re hoping the bells will chime out Lady Gaga’s “Shallow,” which is up for an Oscar in the Original Song category, or something from Bohemian Rhapsody, in the running for a Sound Editing award.

Carillon Open Tower, Wellesley College
Directed by Margaret Angelini

WHEN: February 23, 2019
TIME: 2pm – 4pm
WHERE: Wellesley College, 106 Central St.
Galen Stone Tower

Other Open Tower events:

Mar 13, 12:30pm
April 6, 2pm – 4pm
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Wellesley museum scores $75k grant from Andy Warhol Foundation

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The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has a full slate scheduled for the cultural institution’s big Spring 2019 re-opening on Thursday, Feb. 7, 5:30 – 9pm. There are events for everyone from the educated art lover to the casual enjoyer, to families with kids in strollers. The museum will showcase special exhibitions through June 10 of artists working in mediums from painting to video to photography.  Here’s more information on upcoming events. 

Andy Warhol Foundation kicks in big money

In more big news for the museum, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded  the Davis a $75,000 grant to fund a September 2019 exhibition, Home’s Horizons by multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar. The Nigeria-born artist, who received her MFA from Yale University, uses collage across sculpture, photomontage, video, and augmented reality. She has exhibited world-wide including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The Davis exhibit will mark her largest solo exhibition.

Fatimah Tuggar, Home’s Horizons, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and BintaZarah Studios.

Curator Amanda Gilvin says, “I am honored that The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has chosen to fund this exhibition on the path-breaking conceptual artist Fatimah Tuggar with a 2018 Exhibition Grant. Thanks to a 2017 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, students and faculty from across campus are already engaging with Tuggar’s work and preparing for the exhibition. Her ambitious intellectual and artistic projects are ideally suited for the interdisciplinary learning fostered by the Davis.”

The grant money will also go to putting together a catalogue of her work, as well as support a new artwork, Deep Blue Wells, created specifically for The Davis Museum exhibit.

Beyond Wellesley: a sneak peek at the renovated Hood Museum at Dartmouth College