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Saturday, February 14

10 a.m., Men’s Tennis vs. Augustana
4 p.m., Academy Street Winds, Winter Concert, Dalton Theatre. All of the pieces on the concert are inspired by dance. From the title piece, “Winter Dances, by Brian Balmages, through waltzes, a tango, a malambo and concluding with Norman Dello Joio’s celebrated “Satiric Dances,” the music captures the emotions and motions of dancing.

National Day of Racial Healing: Rescheduled from January 20. Hosted by ERACCE, YWCA Kalamazoo, Michigan Transformation Collective, ARCUS Center for Social Justice Leadership and the Kalamazoo College Center for Civic Engagement at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, 205 Monroe St. This Community Solidarity Session will challenge us to look inward for the work of social justice. We can identify the changes we hope to see, but how do we inspire that change to happen? How do we identify and mitigate our own oppressive strategies in the name of social justice? This session aims to center our own personal agency in creating a healing community. Dinner at 4:30 p.m., Solidarity Session at 5 p.m. Registration required.
7 p.m., Men’s Basketball vs. Trine
7 p.m., Men’s Lacrosse vs. Wabash

6:30 p.m., Reading Black SoulTelling, a community workshop, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. A communal reflection on Black poetry as a decolonizing practice that exposes the schemes of the oppressor, recovers the language and personhood of Black people in the face of oppression. Facilitated by poet, educator, author of A Ligature for Black Bodies and Art of Fact Director at the Institute of Public Scholarship Denise Miller. No cost to attend. Dinner served.

7 p.m., Jazz Band, Colour My World, a winter concert. Colors add visual stimulation and evoke specific emotions, which reflect our shared experience as humans.

6 p.m., Mahalia, an excerpted performance and community experience, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. Join the Face Off Theatre Company for a curated performance and dialogue experience featuring excerpts from Mahalia: A Gospel Musical, integrated with spoken word/poetry and contemporary dance. This experience invites students and community members into reflection on faith, Black resistance, and the role of art in social justice movements.

6 p.m., Women’s Lacrosse vs. Ohio Northern
7:30 p.m., Kalamazoo Choral Arts, Carmina Burana: Reimagined, Dalton Theatre. Carmina Burana is perhaps the most recognizable and frequently performed choral works ever written. KCA and guest creatives and collaborators will present one of the most thrilling, unique cultural mash-ups you’ve ever heard, including special guests the Westhuizen Duo. $7 admission.

6:30 p.m., “Movement as Liberation” with Heather Mitchell, the founder of the Justice Moves dance company, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. An embodied Black History Month experience blending somatic movement, West African drum and dance, and community. Reconnect with your body as a site of resilience and joy, connect with ancestral rhythms, and close the evening with a community dance circle and performance. No cost to attend, reception to follow.
7:30 p.m., The Most Massive Woman Wins, Festival Playhouse winter production. Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. The women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes and even schoolyard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole.

2 p.m., NCAA Diving Regionals
7:30 p.m., The Most Massive Woman Wins, Festival Playhouse winter production. Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. The women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes and even schoolyard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole.

Noon, NCAA Diving Regionals
1 p.m., Men’s Lacrosse vs. Illinois Tech
2 p.m., Men’s Tennis vs. Ohio Northern
7:30 p.m., The Most Massive Woman Wins, Festival Playhouse winter production. Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. The women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes and even schoolyard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole.

10 a.m., Women’s Tennis vs. Denison
2 p.m., Men’s Tennis vs. Oberlin
2 p.m., The Most Massive Woman Wins, Festival Playhouse winter production. Challenging, brutal and hilarious, four women of various shapes and sizes sitting in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic explore their perceptions of body image. The women reveal their experiences dealing with their weight issues through monologues, short scenes and even schoolyard rhymes. From painful childhood memories to frustrations with the opposite sex, these experiences haunt and empower these women as they imagine their way to a new vision of themselves as beautiful and whole.
4 p.m., Latin American Film Series, Dewing 103. 3 Bellezas / 3 Beauties (Venezula, 97 min), directed by Carlos Caridad-Montero. Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true.

7:30 p.m., Stetson Chapel, College Singers Winter Concert, Cocoa Concert: Choral music for comfort presented with complimentary cocoa. Cozy blankets and PJ’s are encouraged. Free to attendees under 22. $10 for the general public.

7:30 p.m., Dalton Theatre, Kalamazoo Philharmonia Winter Concert, Divergent Fates with guest soloist Eliot Heaton, violinist. Tickets are available at the door. General admission $7, students $3, K students free with College ID.