Category: Events and Recreation

The Department of Public Health Sciences is co-hosting a series of film fests for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read: Wichita alongside the Wichita Public Library and Tallgrass Film Association. The next event is a screening of “The Notebook” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16 in the Advanced Learning Library, 711 W. 2nd St. N.

Food and popcorn sponsors are the Central Plains Area Agency on Aging and the Regent Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare. After the screening, join a discussion of the film at The Monarch at 579 W. Douglas Ave. with guest moderator Damon Young from the Kansas Leadership Center. Food and beverage discounts are offered with a ticket stub.

Each week will feature a new film that, like “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast, the book chosen for this year’s NEA Big Read: Wichita, explores caregiving and the universal challenges experienced as one cares for someone with a chronic illness, injury, medical trauma or nearing end of life.

Ulrich Museum of Art Curator Ksenya Gurshtein will share her experience curating “Nature in the Floating World: Images of Nature in Japanese and Chinese Art,” currently on display in the Beren Gallery.

Join the Ulrich Museum at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 15 in the Beren Gallery. Refreshments will be provided starting at 10 a.m.

Enjoy being creative? If the answer is “yes,” enter the Edible Book Festival from WSU Libraries. Participants will get to create a culinary masterpiece based on their favorite literature.

The event will start at 11 a.m. Monday, April 3 on the first floor of the Ablah Library. The deadline to sign up is Friday, March 31.

Win prizes from Shocker Athletics, Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes, AMC Theater, Doo Dah Diner, and more.

The 10th Annual Kansas Healthcare Ethics Conference, hosted by the Wichita Medical Research and Education Foundation (WMREF), is structured to stimulate discussion of real-life ethical issues. Healthcare students as well as the general public can benefit by joining the discussion at the conference.

Physicians, nurses, patients, family members, health care workers, social workers, chaplains and adult care home administrators are faced with ethical decisions in health care. Ethical dilemmas can occur in the delivery of health care with decisions about end-of-life care, scarcity of resources, ethnic and diversity issues, honoring religious decisions of patients, and the use of technology in today’s health care delivery. The conference looks at the new and intensified ethical dilemmas encountered in the face of a pandemic.

For the first time, healthcare students are offered registration to this conference at no charge. Physical therapy, psychology and nursing students are specifically encouraged to attend.

For free registration, select “Ethics Conference Registration NO CEUS: $15.00” from the dropdown menu, use your WSU email in the contact information section, and enter the promo code “ETHICSSTUDENT.” For questions regarding registration or the conference, email conference.office@wichita.edu or call 316- 978-6493.

The Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Smriti Nandan Paul, a post-doctoral research fellow from West Virginia University, from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 14 in 209 Wallace Hall.

Paul will present “Reliable Uncertainty Characterization for Space Sustainability and Safety” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners.

As part of the Japanese Culture Association’s annual Japan Festival, it will be holding a photo haiku contest. A haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern and traditionally includes a seasonal word, known as kigo in Japanese. The contest is free to enter.

To enter, participants must write a haiku in either English or Japanese and choose, take or draw an image or photo to go along with the entry.

Entries should include the participant’s full name. The deadline to submit is Monday, April 10, and the winners will be announced at the Japan Festival on Friday, April 28. Any questions about the contest can be directed to Jennifer Musaji, lecturer in Japanese, at jennifer.musaji@wichita.edu.

Enjoy being creative? If the answer is “yes,” enter the Edible Book Festival from WSU Libraries. Participants will get to create a culinary masterpiece based on their favorite literature.

The event will start at 11 a.m. Monday, April 3 on the first floor of the Ablah Library. The deadline to sign up is Friday, March 31.

Win prizes from Shocker Athletics, Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes, AMC Theater, Doo Dah Diner, and more.

The annual Student Activities Council (SAC) drag show is back and bigger than ever. Join the SAC, Spectrum: LGBTQ & Allies, and Office of Diversity & Inclusion at 8 p.m. Friday, March 31 at the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 5015 E. 29th St. N., for a lineup of student, regional and national talent, including the headliner A’keria Davenport. 

A’keria is the 2022 Miss Epitome title holder, 2017-18 holder of the “Miss Black Universe,” and one of the season 11 contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where she placed third. 

The following are the ticket rates for the show:

• $5 for WSU students with a Shocker ID.
• $8 for WSU faculty and staff.
• $10 for the general public.

For any questions, email sac@wichita.edu or call 316-978-3022.

The World Trade Council of Wichita (WTCouncil) and Center for International Business Advancement (CIBA) will host the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) on “How to do business in and with South Korea: Korea as investor, partner and market” starting a 6 p.m. Thursday, March 23 at the Wichita Marriott Hotel, 9100 E. Corporate Hills Dr.

South Korea has successfully transformed itself from a low-income to a high-income economy and is a global leader in innovation and technology. KOTRA, South Korea’s national trade and investment-promotion organization, facilitates trade, investment between domestic and foreign companies, and industrial-technology cooperation. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet and hear from Lee Yungsun, director general at KOTRA Chicago, and Kevin SunChang Hwang, general manager at KOTRA Chicago, as well as survey the economic, political and cultural landscape.

Community members who know of a Wichita-based company or association that would like to meet with KOTRA should reach out to Usha Haley, Barton School distinguished chair in international business and WTCouncil elected chair, through wtcouncil@wichita.edu.

Prior registration is required. Attendance for the networking hour, three course dinner and KOTRA presentation is $55 for non-members and $45 for members, and WSU students get a subsidized rate (through the WTCouncil) of $25. Attendance to just the presentation is free.

Contact Sherryl Hubble, CIBA/WTCouncil, at wtcouncil@wichita.edu for more information.

LingFest is currently accepting abstracts for its upcoming event. LingFest showcases graduate and undergraduate linguistics and language research at WSU.

The event accepts multidisciplinary work, so students shouldn’t worry about applying if their project sits at the intersection of linguistics and another field of study. Senior club officers will review and accept applications on a rolling admissions basis until Friday, March 24.

Join the Linguistics Club from 9 a.m. to noon, May 2 in the Beggs Ballroom of the Rhatigan Student Center for a series of presentations and poster sessions.