Frontline Farming Launch Party

Photo Source// Amy Reglin

On Thursday the non-profit Frontline Farming had their launch party at The Denver Bicycle Cafe. Members of the Regis community and the Denver community were there to support them. Frontline Farming works with the community to provide affordable produce and educate people and farmers. They work to support the community through education, farm stands, and serve days. Check out their website to learn more about them and see when the next serve day is. https://www.frontlinefarming.org

Celebrating Earth Day at Regis!

By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Reporter

At the beach here at Regis University, people were making tie-dye shirts, taking care of succulents, eating snacks and much more! Specifically, all of these activities took place during the Earth Day event on April 3rd, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Earth Day, a day that is celebrated internationally on April 22nd, is meant to give recognition to environmental issues that impact our planet and how to protect our environment. Founded in 1970 to originally teach people about these environmental issues, it has now become a staple holiday around the world.

While our Earth Day event at Regis was not one that helped resolve any environmental issues in our community, it allowed students to enjoy being outside in the sunny environment and to participate in multiple activities of their choice. The two main attractions were the tie-dye shirts and the succulents.

For making their own personal tie-dye shirts, the participants were given a white shirt and many materials to help aid their creative process. Firstly, students clumped up their shirts into a spherical shape, and used rubber bands to keep that shape formed. Then, the students were appropriately able to start tie-dying their shirts with the large variety of colored inks to choose from. When they were satisfied with their tie-dye shirt, they were given a Ziploc bag to safely store and keep their new personalized shirt.

While many participants made tie-dye shirts, the succulents also were high in popularity; as there was a limited amount of succulents, only the earlier guests were able to participate in this activity. With each individual having their own succulent, they had the opportunity to paint their pot for the succulent that they are going to plant in that pot. Like the tie-dye shirts, there was a large variety of paints that the artist could use, but no paint brushes in the vicinity. To solve the lack of paint brushes, finger painting was used and allowed great fun for this activity.

The Earth Day event at Regis was a great way to enjoy the sunny spring weather outside that was somewhat lacking by the recent weather we were having, and was also a fun way to express our artistic sense within us.

Regis Welcomes Poet Andrea Gibson

Photo Source // Amy Reglin

By Emily Lovell, Associate Editor

The Women’s and Gender Studies Department invited Andrea Gibson, a renowned queer poet that calls Boulder, CO home, to perform on campus on April 4, 2019. Their performance started at 8:00 pm in the Calver Recital Hall. Tickets were free for members of the Regis community.

Professor Alyse Knorr and junior Sam Yarnell provided the introduction and opening remarks for the event. They are both excellent poets themselves. Together, they welcomed Andrea Gibson to the stage for a powerful evening of vulnerability and beauty.

Gibson’s poems tackled issues such as the struggles that the LGBTQ community faces in today’s society, misogyny, and gun violence. Their poems especially focused on self-love regardless of who you love or what your identity is. A few of the poems that the audience was privileged to hear were “Your Life,” “First Love,” “Boomerang Valentine,” and “Living Proof.” Many of their poems were performed with musical accompaniment.

In between poems, Gibson revealed that one of their contemporaries once performed only poems focused on social justice issues even though the audience requested love poems. The other poet inspired Gibson, but then Gibson realized that their love poems are making a political statement. They then proceeded to perform a poem about one of their past loves and it was a heartbreakingly powerful moment.

At another point in the evening, Gibson said that they had once been told that “Self-hate is a way of trying to see the world as a safe, beautiful place.” They explained that when we experience awful things that are out of our control, we tend to blame ourselves in order to regain a sense of control. Gibson also told the audience that “the only thing you can control is where you put your attention.” Their overall message seemed to be to put your attention on making the world a safer, more beautiful place and on embracing who you are.   
Gibson’s openness and passionate performance created an atmosphere of acceptance. Regis was lucky to have them come to campus to share their story. If you would like to read some of their poetry, check out their latest book called The Lord of the Butterflies.

Making Mosaics!

Photo Source // Kamil Wojciak

By: Kamil Wojciak, Staff Writer

On March 23rd, students had the chance to craft their own personal mosaics that they were allowed to keep. The students had many options to craft mosaics, with different types of canvases, and a great amount of tiles to choose from.

Now for a small lesson on mosaics, mosaics are art that consist of assembling tiles to create an image; these tiles have limitless options, factoring from material, size, shape, color, and more. Surprisingly enough, the earliest evidence of mosaics can be traced back to the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia.

Now, back to the event that took place, students had a great range of options on crafting their mosaics. For the tiles, some tiles they had were shaped as squares and triangles, with different sizes. The remaining tiles were actually all asymmetrical, as they were all personally cracked at the event. Even with the great options for the tiles, the event also had different canvases that were available. Two types of the canvases available were standard, white, flat canvases that just deviated in dimensions and size. However, greatly stemming from the linear canvases available, students were able to use jars as their personal canvas.

The mosaic event was a great way to spend the weekend and stimulate our artistic sense within us. Hopefully, there will be more events like this in the near future giving students opportunities to be satisfied, creating and building their own personal art.