Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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The outstanding musicians of the Augsburg University Jazz Ensemble will perform an exciting evening of music tomorrow! The concert will feature the music of Clifford Brown, Michele Fernández, Yoko Kanno, Reggie Pace, and Booker T. Jones.

Date: Thursday, April 30
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Sateren Auditorium
Cost: Free

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Join us for an insightful evening featuring award-winning director and producer Laurens Grant, Co-Executive Producer of the powerful new docuseries Hollywood Black. Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People), this series provides a definitive look at over a century of the African American struggle for representation, both in front of and behind the camera.

This special screening of featured episodes from the series will be followed by a conversation with Grant. She will discuss her unique perspectives on the making of the series and her own work as a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of the industry’s most compelling voices as we explore the past, present, and future of Black Hollywood.

Event Information

Date: Wednesday, April 29th Time: 6pm CST, Snacks and Social Time at 5:30pm

Location: Sateren Auditorium

Parking is available in Lot L.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIlQeQ6Ke4M

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Join us for the StepUP Program Graduation & Celebration!
Wednesday, May 8th at 3:30pm in the Augsburg University Chapel and Foss Atrium. Come cheer on our graduates as they mark this incredible milestone.

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All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!

“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.

In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.

The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.

During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.

The working language of this workshop will be in English.

Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.

This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.

More information about the conference and pre-conference events

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The 29th Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed conference will be here at Augsburg this summer! Join us July 23-26 for a deeply participatory conference where we lean into inquiry, dialogue, and creative expression as ways to challenge the forces of domination, share learning and knowledge, and to create change! Artists, activists, organizers, educators and anyone working to dismantle oppression, this is for you!

“My voice is in tune with a different language, another kind of music. It speaks of resistance, indignation, the just anger of those who are deceived and betrayed. It speaks, too, of their right to rebel against the ethical transgressions of which they are the long-suffering victims.” –Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

In a time when public education, democracy, community organizing, the arts, and critical pedagogy face extraordinary threats, this year’s conference invites educators, activists, artists, and community members to gather in solidarity. We recognize the ashes of programs dismantled, communities marginalized, and voices silenced. Yet, in these ashes, we also see the seeds of resistance and the songs of transformation. Across the world, oppressions continue to intensify on many fronts, but people continue to build mass struggles to survive and even (when at all possible) thrive.

This gathering provides opportunities for people to share and expand on their methods to create participatory justice in spite of our current material, economic, and political conditions. And we will sing songs that ask us to transform our current moments of despair, anger, and fear into practices of radical hope, love, and joy–joy is resistance! Join us if you can!

Find out more or register for the conference here!

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The Augsburg Biology Department’s rooftop greenhouse grows an appreciation for and deeper understanding of the plants of our planet. The greenhouse is open to the Augsburg campus community on the first Friday of every month this semester, from noon to 3pm. The Augsburg community is invited to come see what we’ve got growing on, enjoy the tropical atmosphere and marvel at hundreds of plant species from all over the world.

The final First Friday of the academic year is this week, May 1, 12pm—3pm. The greenhouse is located on the 4th floor of the Hagfors Center.

Stay updated on greenhouse activities by following us on Instagram!

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Join us today (Wednesday) for Chris Dixon’s How We Thrive talk.

Chris Dixon is Augsburg University men’s and women’s track and field head coach as well as the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. Chris has also been a DI college athlete, an entrepreneur, a health and fitness education and wellness consultant, and a dad. Come and hear what Chris has to share about how he thrives in our world.

HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Chris Dixon
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel

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Students can return rental textbooks and sell used books for cash or buyback credit during the on-campus buyback and rental return event. This in-person option allows students to complete both tasks quickly without shipping materials.

Event Information:
• Location: Augsburg University Campus Store
• Date: 5/4 – 5/8
• Time: 9AM – 4PM

All returns are due by May 15, 2026. If you can’t make it in-person before then, you can always sell and return books online at augsburg.ecampus.com.