The Week Ahead: April 18 to 23
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The Week Ahead: April 18 to 23
Catch the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs, celebrate Earth Day, or meet a National Book Award–winning author
BU Today’s weekly feature, The Week Ahead, aims to help keep you informed of what’s coming up around campus, Boston, the country, and the world, with a curated list of interesting and notable happenings.
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Tuesday, April 18
Follow the Boston Bruins, now the most successful regular-season team in NHL history with 133 points, as they battle their way through the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs. Watch on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, TNT, and TBS, or on ESPN+, and be sure to tune back in for the finals in June.
Monday, April 17, 7 pm ET.
BU Wheelock Ed Policy Seminar Series: Jim Wyckoff
Boston University’s Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and the Wheelock Educational Policy Center host guest speaker Jim Wyckoff, Curry Memorial Professor of Education and Policy at the University of Virginia, in the April installment of the Ed Policy Seminar Series. Wyckoff’s talk, “School Segregation, Teacher Sorting, and the Distribution of Teachers,” will delve into his research on teacher labor markets.
Tuesday, April 18, 12:30 to 2 pm, at the Kilachand Center, Room 101. Register here.
Book Talk with Author Evette Dionne
Join National Book Award–nominated author and Coretta Scott King Book Award honoree Evette Dionne as she discusses her latest book, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul. Weightless takes an unflinching look at how size, gender, and race influence cultural preconceptions, and what it takes to overcome them.
Tuesday, April 18, 6:30 to 8 pm, at the Howard Thurman Center. Register here.
Wednesday, April 19
It’s On Us Boston University, a group that supports survivors of sexual violence, invites the BU community to its first Survivor Vigil. The event will include a resource fair, speakers, and interactive displays. The night will end with a candlelight vigil to honor all living survivors and remember those who fell victim to sexual violence.
Wednesday, April 19, 6 to 10 pm, at Marsh Plaza. Find more information here.
BU Sustainability: Sargent Choice Nutrition Center Cooking Demonstration for Students
Celebrate Earth Day with the Sargent Choice Nutrition Center in their virtual kitchen. Learn basic cooking techniques and sustainable kitchen practices in the form of a healthy recipe suited for a full kitchen or dorm space.
Wednesday, April 19, at noon, on Zoom. Register here.
BU Regulated Community Compliance Project: Detoxifying Commerce
Students and the public are invited to convene to discuss opportunities for individuals to reduce the toxicity of our modern world. Sections include presentations from a variety of experts from across the nation, as well as breakout groups tasked with exploring novel ways to look at environmental data.
Wednesday, April 19, 2 to 5 pm, at College of Communication, Room 209, and on Zoom. Register here.
Thursday, April 20
Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series: Sigrid Nunez
National Book Award–winning author Sigrid Nunez will give a reading and then participate in an audience Q&A. A reception and book signing will follow the reading; books will be available for sale.
Thursday, April 20, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, BU Hillel, River Room. Find more information here.
Friday, April 21
Camp Liquid Fun Annual 24-Hour Comedy Marathon
Join Liquid Fun, BU’s premier improv comedy group, for 24 hours of nonstop comedy to benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank. From Friday to Saturday, Liquid Fun will perform at BU Central with the help of local university comedy groups.
Friday, April 21, 8 pm, to Saturday, April 22, 8 pm, at BU Central. Find more information here.
The BU Arab Student Organization will host their biggest event of the year, Arabian Night. Mark your calendar for a night of delicious food from Sufra Mediterranean, dabke performances, a live DJ, and dancing. Dress is semiformal, and tickets are limited.
Friday, April 21, 7 to 11:30 pm, GSU Metcalf Ballroom. Find tickets here.
Saturday, April 22
Looking for a way to give back this Earth Day? How about joining Boston University Student Government on a Charles River trash cleanup? Gloves, claw grabbers, and trash bags will be available for participants. Bring your own water bottle to fill up at the provided water coolers.
Saturday, April 22, 9:30 am to noon, The Towers green space. Find more information here.
Stage Troupe, BU’s oldest and largest extracurricular theater group, presents On the Verge, a story of three 19th-century explorers who embark on a journey to “the last ‘undiscovered’ land on the globe”: Terra Incognita. Little do they know, their journey will bring them forward in time—to the year 1955.
Thursday, April 20, to Saturday, April 22, 8 to 10:30 pm, at the Student Theatre at Agganis Arena. Buy tickets here.
Sunday, April 23
From the founders of the original Boston Comic Con, Wicked Comic Con is a weekend packed with comic books, visits from comic book creators, comic book art, anime, manga, and cosplay. Come support creators and their original art at one or both days of this weekend-long convention.
Saturday, April 22, to Sunday, April 23, 10 am to 6 pm, at Hynes Convention Center. Register here.
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