WKU Events
Thursday, February 27th
- Location: Housing Portal
- Time: All Day
If you are a current resident planning to live on campus for the 2020-2021 academic year, you need to renew your housing through the online Housing Portal. Phase 1 is February 24-March 6.
During Phase 1 you can choose to stay in the same room, add a roommate, and update your housing application.
- Location: Richardson Quilt Gallery
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Kentuckians have practiced the art of weaving for more than 200 years.
Techniques represented in Even Coverlets Get the Blues range from overshot, double weave, and tied-biederwand to hooked rug making.
- Location: Kentucky Museum - Grand Gallery
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
This exhibit tells the stories of freshmen year from participants in a student success intiative, WKU Freshmen Guided Pathway (FGP). This cohort of first-time, full-time students who graduated from one of five high schools in Warren County represent the typical WKU freshman in terms of academic achievement prior to admission and their demographic makeup.
- Location: Kentucky Museum
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Gazing Deeply showcases how WKU’s backyard—the unique landscape of Mammoth Cave—is being studied, interpreted, and inspiring action on environmental change.
- Location: Kentucky Museum Courtyard
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Anel Lepić and Muhamed “Hamo” Bešlagic, two HAD Collective artists from Bosnia, carved murals in the Kentucky Museum courtyard.
- Location: Museum Front Lawn
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
WKU’s Cultural Enhancement Series and the Kentucky Museum host award winning artist Patrick Dougherty in October 2018 on WKU’s campus in Bowling Green, Ky. Dougherty created Highbrow, a sculpture made from intertwined tree saplings, on the Museum's front lawn.
- Location: Richardson Quilt Gallery
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Jacqui Lubbers is a part-time weaving and art appreciation instructor in the WKU Art Department.
- Location: Community Gallery
- Time: All Day
In 2019, the Kentucky Building celebrates 80 years of showcasing South Central Kentucky’s unique culture and heritage. In honor of this milestone, the Kentucky Museum presents Out of the Box, an exhibition focused on fostering multidisciplinary discussions about our collective heritage while shining new light on the relevance of our museum in the 21st century.
Using local historical artifacts, photos, and records, we invite you to discover how every object tells multiple stories. Themes and stories are curated in partnership with faculty from 9 WKU departments
- Location: CH 125
- Time: 4:00pm
Presenting Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice, presented by Dr. Dorothea Browder. This film documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activst, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period.
- Location: WKU Glasgow Campus Room 162A
- Time: 5:00pm - 7:45pm
DLI Phase I is designed to enhance your basic leadership skills and abilities. You represent diverse ages, interests, and levels of leadership abilities. The Institute's program includes leadership seminars designed to address a wide array of topics such as problem solving, diversity, leadership and management, personality and visual explorer.
- Location: WKU Owensboro Campus Room 114
- Time: 5:00pm - 7:45pm
DLI Phase I is designed to enhance your basic leadership skills and abilities. You represent diverse ages, interests, and levels of leadership abilities. The Institute's program includes leadership seminars designed to address a wide array of topics such as problem solving, diversity, leadership and management, personality and visual explorer.
- Location: WKU Elizabethtown Campus EC3 Room 109
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:45am
DLI Phase I is designed to enhance your basic leadership skills and abilities. You represent diverse ages, interests, and levels of leadership abilities. The Institute's program includes leadership seminars designed to address a wide array of topics such as problem solving, diversity, leadership and management, personality and visual explorer.
- Location: Jody Richards Hall Auditorium
- Time: 7:00pm
WKU Film Screening Series
- Location: Diddle Arena
- Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
WKU will play its final home game of the season against Louisiana Tech at 7 p.m. CT in E.A. Diddle Arena. Senior Night festivities will take place before the game, which will air on CBS Sports Network.
- Location: JRH Auditorium (166)
- Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
• Lady Bird Feb. 13th
• Bend It Like Beckham Feb. 27
• Hush March 19
• The Edge of Seventeen April 2
• The Fits April 9
• The Virgin Suicides April 16
• The Babadook April 30
• Booksmart May 7
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