Interested in an artistic showcase? Together25 is an annual community exhibit that celebrates creativity, resilience, and recovery, providing a platform for artists to share their experiences with addiction, trauma, and healing through art.

 Participants are encouraged to use all forms of creative expression, which may include poetry, spoken word, visual arts, sculpture, or other media forms.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day and enjoy the vibes of Juan Fonseca. We’ll offer a Valentine’s bites and menu and homemade sangria.

Arne Olson, a senior partner of Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3). will discuss strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Pacific Northwest, and poterntial power replacement of the Lower Snake River Dams.

Join us!

We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at the Walla Walla Public Schools board room and newcomers are always welcome!

Register in advance to attend via Zoom

Whitman's annual drag show: Dragtastica! Open to the community! All ages welcome! No tickets required. All bags will be checked at the door. Learn more at whitman.presence.io/event/dragtastica-2024

Please bring a dozen store-bought eggs to the office. No farm-fresh eggs. They will be donated to the BMAC food distribution center. BMAC has storage capacity and is grateful for all we can contribute.

Any questions? Call Martha Anderson at 509 386 3326. 

Native American First Foods will be served at one station in the dining hall.

Lunch: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Dinner: 5:00 pm -7:00 pm   

A workshop on poetry as form of philosophical communication.

Sofia Ortiz Hinojosa
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Vassar College

Did the indigenous groups influence the colonizers? We often acknowledge the devastating impact of settler-colonialism on the indigenous groups of the Americas. However, as anthropologists have been arguing for several decades, culture contact is at least bi-directional. So how did indigenous peoples influence their colonizers?

This talk by Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College, will focus on the interaction between Spanish missionaries and the Nahua ethnic group (a subset of whom are often called "Aztec"), and argue that, instead of annihilating Nahua culture, the missionaries themselves, and by extension, the Spanish empire, were heavily influenced by Nahua beliefs and practices. We will consider whether this influence may have actually been far more significant and impactful to the development of Early Modern philosophy than is usually acknowledged.

Sofia Ortiz Hinojosa
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Vassar College

John Paull’s wedding in Peru via Zoom

Dan Osborn and Sarah Keyeski of the Rural Bridge Initiative