Please join us for a poetry reading and informal writing discussion around nature and our connection to it, hosted by Kim Stafford.  

Food, drinks and free Earth Verse books with be provided.  Monday, April 15 at 5PM in Watzek Library Classroom 245.

Join us for First Friday, a collaboration between Arts@LC and Watzek Library, to see previews of two dances from the upcoming Dance Y showcase.

Vietnamese Portland: Memory, History, Community invites you to a rough cut work-in-progress screening of Mai American, a documentary by Kevin Truong. Join us on Thursday, April 4 at 5 PM in Miller 102 for a screening of the 90-minute cut and a Q&A with Kevin.

Join us to discuss Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, this year’s Everybody Reads selection from Multnomah County Library.

Tuesday, March 19 at 3:30 in Watzek Library Classroom 245.  Refreshments will be served! RSVP requested. 

Please join Michael Mirabile as he discusses his latest book, “Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s” with Jerry Harp. 

Michael Mirabile is Assistant Professor with Term in the English department, specializing in Radical Film, Films Adapting Fictions, American Crime and Suspense Fiction, and Postmodernist and Contemporary American Fiction.

You + 1 Library + 4 channels + 100 headphones + 1000s of books! ARTS@LC & the EAR Forest present Radio Waves in Watzek, live broadcasting through the books on Friday March 8th at 3 p.m. Bring your ID to borrow a pair of headphones.

Join us today at 3 p.m. in the library atrium for tea and coffee in honor of three students who have won this year’s Himes & Duniway Society Book Collecting Prize.

LC English welcomes Claire Vaye Watkins as the fourth of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

LC English welcomes Ama Codjoe, the third of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

The Himes & Duniway Society, a rare and antiquarian bibliographic society in Portland, is bringing their book collection competition to Lewis & Clark again this year! Current undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for the $500 prize, to be awarded to two students with the most compelling personal book collections and accompanying essays.

This Friday afternoon, stop by the atrium to experience a new incarnation of I Think of You: Illuminating Mass Incarceration from the Inside-Out, a 2023 performance that grew out of the Inside-Out program. In addition to an art exhibition, you’ll have a chance to see a premiere of the show, recorded in August.

Stop by the atrium on Monday afternoon to see senior thesis posters from Professor Elliot Young’s seminar on Americas & The World.

Please join us on Tuesday, December 5th at 6pm for the ENG 400 Fiction Capstone Reading and help us celebrate the accomplishments of these student writers! Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.

Students in SPAN 375 will share the libros cartoneros (cardboard books) created as part of their final project. Stop by the Watzek Library atrium at 3 on Friday to admire their work and learn about the global cartonera phenomenon!

Join us for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist classic The Holy Mountain on Monday, November 6th at 7:00 pm, Miller 102. Read more at the blog.

LC English welcomes Charif Shanahan as the second of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

Please join us for 2023 Dixon Award winner Kit Graf’s presentation, “W.B. Yeats as Father Figure.”

Through examination of papers housed at the National Library in Dublin, Kit Graf explores a fuller picture of Yeats as a father and how his work was shaped by his domestic space and the raising of his two children.

LC English welcomes Lisa Wells as the first of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

Join us in the Watzek Library atrium on Friday at 3 PM for a taste of music!

Join Sara Stoudt, PhD (she/her) - an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Bucknell University - for “A Data Stories Tell-All” as she goes behind the scenes of a few data-driven stories she has been a part of to learn what decisions are made by data journalists!

Please join us for the 23rd annual Sherrer Lecture in Library Service,  Un-Librarying: Artificial Intelligence, Learning, and Student Success Today.  Dr. Raymond Pun from the Alder Graduate School of Education will present this hybrid event, and a reception will follow the lecture on campus.   

Roger Wendlick, a man who went to extraordinary lengths to assemble the world’s most complete private collection of literature on the Lewis & Clark Expedition, passed away in his home in Portland this March. In 1998, Roger’s collection became a central part of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library’s holdings on Western exploration and the Corps of Discovery. We will be celebrating Roger’s life and accomplishments with some words from those who knew Roger and time for fellowship on Saturday, May 20th, 2023 from 3-5pm in the Gregg Pavillion on the Lewis & Clark College campus.

Take a study break with furry friends. Visit with therapy dogs in the Watzek Library TV Studio on Sunday, April 30, 3:00-5:00 PM.

Stop by the atrium this afternoon to see the senior thesis posters from Professor Bernstein’s Environmental History seminar.

Join us on Thursday night in Miller 105 at 7:00pm for Chameleon Street, by Wendell Harris Jr., a film based on the life of notorious 70s/80s conman Douglas Street. Read more about it on our blog posting. FREE!

Join us in Smith Hall at 10:30 a.m. during the Festival of Scholars and Artists to listen to the work of last year’s James J. Kopp Library Research Award honorees! Coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided.

Cleo Lockhart ’25 will give a reading from their newly published book. Join us in the library atrium on March 21 at 3:30 p.m.!

Join us to welcome spring and celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, at exactly 2:24pm in the library atrium.  Persian sweets will be served.  A haft-sin display, curated by Marzieh Ghaderi ’24, will remain up throughout the week. 

On March 3, Arts@LC & Watzek Library present a spectacular visual presentation unlike any other First Friday you have previously experienced! RHMS students in two classes will screen short videos in different parts of the library.

Do you love graphic novels and graphic nonfiction books?  Where and how do you find them in a college library? Join others interested in these works for a short library workshop on February 14 at 3:30 in Watzek Library Classroom 245.  Snacks will be provided!

Curated by bryologist extraordinaire John Christy of Portland State University. Featuring stickers with original artwork by Kincaid Debell ’25, Alex Nash ’25, Mateo Kaiser ’23, and Rowan Moreno ’23 and bookmarks with original poetry by Claire Champommier ’23, Cleo Lockhart ’25, and Nora Cesaro-Dense ’25.  

Kick off Moss Appreciation Week by taking a close look a clump of campus moss. Natural History Club leaders Jemma Montgomery ’23, Rowan Moreno ’23 and Brandon Mead ’23 will guide the way. There will be a special prize for the first person to find a tardigrade. 

Please join us for a screening of DOG GONE, a Netflix Original #1 film based on the book by LC English Professor Pauls Toutonghi on Thursday, February 9 at 6pm in Miller 105! This feel-good film is based on a true story about one family’s quest to find their son’s lost dog, and stars Johnny Berchtold, Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Nick Peine. We will follow the film with Q&A with the author and a celebratory reception.

Hosted by the LC English Department and the Office of the President.

Arts@LC & Watzek Library present First Friday: An Arts Series, featuring a reading by (Pause.)

Students in Ben Westervelt’s history thesis seminar will present their research on Tuesday, December 6 4:30–6:00 in the Watzek Library atrium. Come tour the posters and speak with the authors in person! Donut holes will be provided.

Join Arts@LC and Watzek for a poetry reading from students in English 301, the final event of the fall for First Fridays: An Arts Series.

Arts@LC and Watzek Library present a poetry reading by students in English 301, part of First Fridays: An Arts Series. The reading will take place in the atrium.

Want to learn best practices for creating data visualizations? Do you like pizza? Watzek Library is hosting a Data Visualization workshop on Thursday, December 1st, from 4-6pm in the Library Classroom. Stop by anytime for help with a visualization you are working on. Pizza will be provided.

Would you like to navigate the library with the kind of confidence you might feel in a bookstore? If you’ve ever wanted to have a better handle on how to browse in the library, our first Watzek How-To workshop of the year may be for you.

https://library.lclark.edu/events/sherrer-lecture

Arts@LC and Watzek Library Present: First Fridays: An Arts Series. A cross-departmental arts experience showcasing the best of what LC has to offer.

November 5th event will feature monologues and a fish puppet parade from the theatre departments current Main Stage production of Passion Play.

Please join us April 7 at 3:30 pm for a virtual bookwarming featuring Professor Elliott Young and his new book Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.

The Chemistry and History Departments have teamed with Watzek Library to host a special seminar with speaker Carolyn Cobbold, a research fellow at Cambridge University. Her most recent book, A Rainbow Palate, details the history of the use of chemical dyes as food coloring. Watzek owns an electronic copy of the book, which you can access here.

Join us at 2:10 pm for some food color trivia as a warmup (hint: review your Wizard of Oz trivia), followed by the seminar presentation beginning at 2:15 p

Please join the History Department and Watzek Library on Wednesday, December 9 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. for a virtual presentation of the 2020 History Thesis Poster Session.