WE BROUGHT THE CROWD
WE BROUGHT THE CROWD
Click through the slideshow to view our programs and events.
WE BROUGHT THE CROWD
Click through the slideshow to view our programs and events.
Click through the slideshow to view this year's programs and events.
HUMBLE FEAST
The ASUW Student Food Cooperative hosted two large community dinners this year. Humble Feast focuses on connecting students with sustainably sourced, ethical, and affordable food. This year, we engaged our efforts in intersectional food justice. Our food systems interact with all systems of life. We wanted Humble Feast to reflect this complexity and connectedness. Between the two Humble Feast's, we partnered with UW Sustainability, Huskies for Food Justice, the Collective Improv Troupe, UW Farm, UW Mindfulness, UW Campus Animal Rights Advocates, UW Food Pantry, and Campus Sustainability Fund. The ASUW Student Food Cooperative continues to work towards creating access, equity, and inclusivity within our food systems.
THE ______ MONOLOGUES
The ASUW Womxn’s Action Commission hosted their flagship event, The ______ Monologues. As a challenge to the widely-known Vagina Monologues, The ______ Monologues asserts that people can tell their own stories in their own voices. The ______ is more than a replacement for genitalia, but a space for reclamation of all our unique identities. This year, the WAC aimed to center the experiences of not just women but gender nonconforming and gender queer individuals. We focused to empower said individuals and the ~300 people that attended the event over the course of two evenings through storytelling, resistance, and celebration.
BOBBY HUNDREDS
ASUW Arts & Entertainment was proud to host Bobby Hundreds, a streetwear icon. Leading the march on no longer disassociating art and artist, Bobby packed Kane Hall. Over 300 attendees were able to hear Bobby's emphasis on living a life full of quality relationships and putting yourself in your stretch zone. The entire event was curated by the A&E Team, prepared for by over thirty volunteers, and happily partnered with by Possi, a marketing and curation agency in Seattle. Arts & Entertainment hopes to continue bringing an event each year that touches on passion in the arts industry, social justice, and following your dreams.
PACIFIK VOICES
Pasifik Voices is a quarterly open-mic night hosted by the ASUW Pacific Islander Student Commission that showcases the talents of those in the Pacific Islander community at the UW. In the winter, Pasifik Voices was attended by over 200 students, featured over 10 performers, and was hosted by members of two legacy groups, the Polynesian Student Alliance and the Micronesian Islands Club. Held in the Ethnic Cultural Theatre, this installment was the first time the event had an ASL interpreter present to expand the accessibility of the event to a larger audience, and we hope to expand accessibility of the event in future years. Pasifik Voices provides a space for Pacific Islander students at the UW to showcase their talents in a variety of fields, including but not limited to dance, song, and spoken word. It also serves as a space to share and express the vast Pacific Islander culture with the greater UW community.
DRAG SHOW
The ASUW Queer Student Commission hosted its 16th Annual Drag Competition in the spring, an annual celebration of drag in all its forms. As the QSC’s biggest event of the year, the show gathered many student performers to dance and lip-sync to everyone from Rihanna to the Backstreet Boys. Aleksa Manila, the show’s venerated host, also brought a few of her fellow professional drag queens and kings to choose the yearly winners. The show emphasized empowerment through art and a reclamation of gender against the norms imposed on all of us. A celebration thoroughly social and political in nature, the event was a culmination of a year of QSC programming that aimed to provide an affirming space for the queer and trans community on campus.
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