More than 400 students from 27 high schools and five colleges across Oregon came from across Oregon and beyond to the McMinnville campus on April 14 for the seventh-annual Mente Summit. Continue reading
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Inaugural YET! Business Symposium on April 12 drew hundreds of students, professionals
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 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
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
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
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
Submissions open April 3 for the 31st annual Linfield University Student Symposium
Linfield University will accept submissions for its 31st annual Student Symposium beginning April 3. The symposium, held on Friday, May 19, showcases the innovative and academic achievements of Linfield students on the McMinnville and Portland campuses. Continue reading
Linfield University and AHIVOY host first-ever BIPOC Wine Symposium April 13
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.
Linfield hosts two celebrated writers in April
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
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