Library News
Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
"Hidden and Revealed: Mixed Media Paintings by Julia Rymer" exhibit opening reception with panel discussion.
“Hidden and Revealed: Mixed Media Paintings by Julia Rymer” features a collection of original mixed media works on paper and canvas that weave together themes of historical and cultural discovery and loss, the relationship of language to cultural fluency, assimilation, Colorado history, and Jewish practices and texts.
The opening reception will include a panel discussion “Artistic Resonance: Blending History and Heritage in Art” at 6:00 P.M. Panelists include Julia Rymer, David Fasman, Deborah Howard, and Rose McCandless.
The exhibit will be on display in the Dean's Suite Gallery on the Upper Level from August 19, 2024, through January 10, 2025.
- 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
- The Loft, Room 340, on the Upper Level
Friday October 6th, 2023
The Anonymous People Documentary Screening
Event is free and open to the public, DU students, faculty, and staff.
“Deeply entrenched social stigma have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition. Just like women with breast cancer, or people with HIV/AIDS, a grass roots social justice movement is emerging. Courageous addiction recovery advocates have come out of the shadows and are organizing to end discrimination and move toward recovery-based solutions. The moving story of The Anonymous People is told through the faces and voices of the citizens, leaders, volunteers, corporate executives, and public figures who are laying it all on the line to save the lives of others just like them. This passionate new public recovery movement is fueling a changing conversation that aims to transform public opinion, and finally shift problematic policy toward lasting solutions.” —Greg Williams
This is companion programming for the INTO LIGHT Colorado Project Exhibition and was organized by the Collegiate Recovery Program and the University Libraries.
We look forward to your presence at the screening.
- 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
- Kvidstad Special Events Room on the Main Level in Room 290
Thursday October 19th, 2023
Dreamland Book Discussion Group
Event is free and open to the public, DU students, faculty, and staff.
Lunch will be provided.
Quinones weaves together two tales of American capitalism: The stories of young men in Mexico, independent of the drug cartels, in search of their own American Dream via the fast and enormous profits of trafficking cheap black-tar heroin to America's rural and suburban addicts; and that of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on pain with its new and expensive miracle drug, Oxycontin; extremely addictive in its own right. Quinones illuminates just how these two stories fit together as cause and effect: hooked on costly Oxycontin, American addicts were lured to much cheaper black tar heroin and its powerful and dangerous long-lasting high. Embroiled alongside the suppliers and buyers are DEA agents, local, small-town sheriffs, and the U.S. attorney from eastern Virginia whose case against Purdue Pharma and Oxycontin made him an enemy of the Bush-era Justice Department, ultimately stalling and destroying his career in public service.
HOW TO FIND A COPY OF DREAMLAND:
DU Faculty, Staff, and Students or community members with library cards: check out a physical or digital copy at library.du.edu
General public: please email recovery@du.edu or madison.sussmann@du.edu.
This is companion programming for the INTO LIGHT Colorado Project Exhibition and was organized by the Collegiate Recovery Program and the University Libraries.
- 12:00 P.M. to 1:30 P.M.
- The Loft on the Upper Level in Room 340