PCAL Calendar

WKU’s Cultural Enhancement Series and the Kentucky Museum are proud to host award winning artist Patrick Dougherty in October 2018 on WKU’s campus in Bowling Green, Ky. Dougherty creates large scale environmental sculptures made from intertwined tree saplings.

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Folk Studies graduate students Delainey Bowers, Joel Chapman, and Eleanor Miller will be practicing their presentations for the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, which takes place October 17-20 in Buffalo, NY. All Folk Studies graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend to support these three! This is an important opportunity for the presenters as well as an opportunity for first years to get a glimpse of a conference panel.

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, we present a public screening and discussion of "Eagle and Condor," a documentary by director Paulette Moore. The film features stories of how and why Indigenous people are rising to powerfully stand against an extractive overculture that threatens to ruin their physical, spiritual, economic and cultural lives. The film is set in the historic unification of Indigenous nations at Standing Rock protection actions in 2016-2017, when the Lakota people reignited their Seven-Council-Fire and where Central and South American nations, represented by the condor, joined forces with their North American brothers and sisters, symbolized by the eagle.

The film will begin at 7:00 and run for approximately one hour. Before and after the screening (technology permitting), we will be able to connect to other viewing parties across the country and to the filmmaker for a short discussion.