Inaugural YET! Business Symposium on April 12 drew hundreds of students, professionals

YET! Business Symposium attendees inside Portland's Sentinel Hotel ballroom

Nearly 250 attendees, including 111 Linfield students, gathered in Portland’s Sentinel Hotel for the first ever YET! Business Symposium.

The Linfield University School of Business hosted the YET! Business Symposium April 12 at the Sentinel Hotel in the heart of Portland. Nearly 250 attendees, including 111 Linfield students, participated in tracks focused on the future of business, wine business and Linfield’s School of Business. Continue reading

Pyxis Quartet joins Linfield’s Lacroute Music Mentorship Program with performances on May 9

The Pyxis Quartet sits back-to-back with their instruments.The Linfield University Department of Music and the Lacroute Composer Readings and Chamber Music Mentorship Program is partnering with Pyxis Quartet for a series of performances this semester. The string ensemble is part of the 45th Parallel Universe, which is a constellation of the Oregon Symphony.  Continue reading

“Hurricane Diane” runs April 27 to May 6 in Linfield University’s Marshall Theatre

The set of Hurricane Diane, lit in blue and pink light.Mythology meets New Jersey in this divine comedy when Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, reincarnates as a queer, butch permaculturist and turns a quiet New Jersey neighborhood upside down!

Hurricane Diane”, an Obie Award-winning comedy by renowned playwright Madeleine George and directed by Portland’s Cassie Greer, opens on April 27 at Linfield University’s Marshall Theatre in Ford Hall.  

“Hurricane Diane” brings classic Greek mythology to suburban New Jersey, where four housewives debate how best to landscape their yards. The Greek god Dionysus is reincarnated as Diane, a permaculture gardener who radiates butch charm, and the play asks what it will take to get through to Americans more concerned with social status and trappings of wealth than their impact on the environment. Continue reading

Second-annual Camas Festival will be held at Linfield University Friday, May 5

A camas flower, with six delicate purple petals.Linfield University, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Greater Yamhill Watershed Council invite you to learn about the cultural, biological and artistic significance of the purple camas flower at the second-annual Camas Festival.

For generations, purple camas lilies have been cultivated, traded and consumed by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest including the Kalapuya, who were removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation in 1855. Though much sparser now than in the days it turned the Willamette Valley purple each spring, it remains a central piece of Kalapuyan lifeways.

The Camas Festival honors their enduring significance and is a chance to engage not only with camas flowers but learn more about the habitats — wet prairie, oak savannah and oak stand — of Linfield’s McMinnville campus. Continue reading

Walidah Imarisha speaks on Oregon’s Black history and science fiction on April 18

A portrait of Walida Imarisha

Photo by Pete Shaw.

On Tuesday, April 18, Walidah Imarisha will give two presentations on Linfield University’s McMinnville campus.

At 3 p.m. in Jonasson Hall, she will lead participants through an interactive timeline of Black history in Oregon that speaks to the history of race, identity and power in this state and the nation. Though Oregon has a history of Black exclusion and discrimination, there also exists a vibrant Black culture that helped sustain many communities throughout the state— a history that is not taught in schools. Continue reading

Linfield University and AHIVOY host first-ever BIPOC Wine Symposium April 13

Students during a wine tasting hosted by Marcus Johnson.Linfield University’s Evenstad Center for Wine Education, in partnership with Asociación Hispana de la Industria del Vino en Oregon y Comunidad (AHIVOY), is proud to present their first-ever BIPOC Wine Symposium Thursday, April 13 on Linfield’s McMinnville campus. 

The daylong event, designed both for Evenstad students and those who already work in the wine industry, features panel and roundtable discussions, workshops on how to create a more inclusive industry and a tasting featuring wines from Black and Latinx winemakers.

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Linfield hosts two celebrated writers in April

We look over the shoulder of someone with shoulder-length brown hair who is reading a book of poetry.Linfield University will host lectures from two celebrated writers in April as part of the “Readings at the Nick” series. Memoirist Apricot Irving speaks on April 4, then creative writer Claire O’Connor speaks on April 11. Both events are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library’s Austin Reading Room. Readings at the Nick are free and open to the public. Continue reading

Inclusion advocate and strategist Amanda Wittstrom Higgins to speak at Wine Lecture Series March 1

Amanda Wittstrom Higgins leans over a bar cart with wine bottles on top.Linfield University’s Wine Lecture Series will continue Wednesday, March 1 with a talk from Amanda Wittstrom Higgins, who has spent decades making wine’s tent larger. A complimentary wine reception begins at 5:30 p.m., with the lecture to follow at 6 p.m in Nicholson Library (location) on Linfield’s McMinnville campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Wittstrom Higgins is the founder of Dream Big Darling, a 501(c)3 dedicated to mentoring, educating and retaining women in the wine industry, as well as the owner of Full Cup Solutions, “a full-service consulting firm for agriculture and beverage industry businesses eager to build impactful and unconventional strategies for the future.” Continue reading