Calendar of Events

Fall 2007

August

• Mon. 27th ~ 4:30pm: Multicultural Social @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Tue. 28th: Fall Semester begins

September: Latino Awareness Month

• Tue. 4th ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Cafe @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Sun. 16th: First Year Experience / Multicultural Outdoor Trip @ Rooks Park
• Sun. 23rd ~5:00pm: Friendship Family Picnic @ Baker Faculty Center side lawn
• Wed. 27th ~ 7:30pm: Luis Alberto Urrea ("The Devil's Highway" author) @ Cordiner
• Fri. 28th ~ 4:00pm: Alumni Reception with Multicultural Students @ Prentiss Great Hall

October: Freedom from Discrimination Month

• Tue. 2nd ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Cafe @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Mon. 8-9th: Mid-semester break
• Thur. 11th ~ 7:00pm: Ethnomusicologist Brian Pertl @ Village Hall, Walla Walla University (Freedom From Discrimination Month)
• Sun. 14th ~ 4:00pm: José-Luis Orozco (Freedom from Discrimination keynote performance - bilingual folksinger) @ Cordiner
• Fri. 19-21st: Family Weekend
• Sat. 20th ~ 4:30pm: UN Day Talent Show @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Thur. 25th ~ 6:30pm: Haunted Corn Maze

November: Native American Awareness Month

• Fri. 2nd ~ 12:45pm: Visit to Tamástslikt Cultural Center
• Tue. 6th ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Cafe @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Wed. 7th ~ 7:30pm: Salman Rushdie , novelist and essayist @ Cordiner
• Tue. 13th ~ 7:00pm: Carmen Wickramagamage, Women in South East Asia @ Kimball
• Wed. 14th ~ 4:30pm: Andrew Dwonch, Country Director, Mercy Corps Gaza/Lebanon
• Fri. 16-25th: Thanksgiving break
• Wed. 28th ~ 7:00pm: Kip Fulbeck ,"Part Asian, 100% Happa" Multiracialism in America

December

• Tue. 4th ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Cafe @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Fri. 7th ~ 4:00pm: Multicultural Festival of Lights @ RCC Ballroom
• Fri. 7th: Last day of classes
• Fri. 14th: Fall Semester Ends

Spring 2008

January

• Mon. 14th: Spring Semester begins
• Mon. 21st: Martin Luther King Day Celebration / Whitman College Symposium

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  • 10:00am-12:00pm - Symposium
  • 2:00-4:00pm - Workshops/Panel discussions
  • 6:30pm - Candlelight March - from RCC to Walla Walla's downtown plaza (located between 1st & Main St.) & back to Cordiner
  • 7:30pm - Keynote speaker: Patricia Williams @ Cordiner

• Fri. 25th ~ 9:00pm: Coffeehouse: Oveous Maximus (spoken word artist, watch a performance) @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Sun. 27th ~ 6:30pm: Friendship Families Winter Dessert @ RCC Ballroom

February: Black History Month

• Sat. 2nd ~ 1-5pm: Tunnel of Oppression @ Prentiss Basement
• Tue. 5th ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Café @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Tue. 12th ~ 7:30pm: Keith Boykin : Sexuality, Human Rights & Media, @ Maxey Auditorium
• Thu. 14th ~ 4:00pm: Valentine’s Day Open House @ Intercultural Center
• Mon. 18th: President's Day – no classes
• Sat. 23rd ~ 5:30pm: International Banquet @ Jewett Dining Hall

March: Women's History Month

• Sat. 1st: Multicultural OP Trip - Snowshoeing!
• Tue. 4th ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Café @ RCC Coffeehouse 
• Fri. 7th - Sun. 23rd – Spring Break
• Thu. 27th ~ 7:00pm: Film: The Killing Fields @ Olin 130

April: Asian Awareness Month

• Tue. 1st ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Café @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Thu. 3rd ~ 7:00pm: Robert Yuong: Killing Fields of Cambodia @ Olin 130
• Tues. 15th: Undergraduate Conference (no classes)
• Sat. 19th ~ 1-5:00pm: Imagine Celebration @ RCC side lawn
• Sun. 20th ~ 5:30pm: Hui Aloha Luau @ RCC Ballroom
• Sun. 27th ~ 5pm: Friendship Families' End of Year Picnic 

May

• Fri. 2nd ~ 4:30pm: Diversity Clubs Potluck @ Wildwood Park
• Tue. 6th ~ 4:00pm: Intercultural Café @ RCC Coffeehouse
• Wed. 7th: Reading Day
• Wed. 13th: Spring Semester Ends
• Sat. 17th ~ 1:00pm: Reception for Multicultural Students & families @ Intercultural Center
• Sun. 18th ~ 11:00am: Commencement

Past Speakers

• Salman Rushdie , novelist and essayist.
• Eliot Chang , comedian
• Saul Williams , slam poet, author, actor.
• bell hooks , author
• Yolanda King, human rights worker and actress.
• Sherman Alexie , author 
• Dr. Jaiya John, speaker, author, poet, and social psychologist.
• Dr. Cornel West, scholar and public intellectual.
• Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi,  journalist and political activist.
• Herman Boone , portrayed by Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans. (Feb. 2002)
• Yaffa Eliach, creator of the "Tower of Light" at the National Holocaust Museum. (Oct. 2000)
• Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, author, actress. (Feb. 2003)
• Loung Ung, author of "First They Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers"

Past Events

In addition to bringing speakers to the Whitman campus, the Intercultural Center also sponsors events planned, created, and directed by the office and student diversity clubs. Many of these events are annual affairs:

• Imagine Festival
• Hawaiian Luau
• International Banquet
• The Tunnel of Oppression