This community calendar is provided as a place for community members, businesses, and organizations to submit their diversity-related events. Event information is accurate to the best of our knowledge. However, changes can occur. We strongly encourage you to confirm details directly with the event host, or venue, before you travel to any event promoted on our Community Calendar.
Complete this form to submit your event. We will review your event, usually within 2-3 business days, and will decide whether it fits adequately with our mission. We encourage you to include information about disability accommodation on all your event announcements.
Repeating Events
First Thursdays 1pm—3pm
In the Pride Center with Pastor Kathryn, LuMin
Card Making, Beaded Identity Bracelets, Mandalas, Rock Painting and more.
Drop in, chat, and find support in both queer and spiritual identities!
Second Wednesdays 12pm—2pm
In the Pride Center with Planned Parenthood
Stop by for support, resources, and good conversations!!
Events
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Make Change Film Series and Community Conversations: Miss Representation
Share a meal, watch the documentary Miss Representation, and engage in community driven conversation. The event is free, but optional donations of spare change will be collected for the Community Change Fund. nDoors open at 5:30, film starts at 6:00.
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Awareness through Performance – Privilege Unplugged XII (Encore)
The mission of Awareness through Performance is to promote greater consciousness around social justice, diversity, and climate issues on the UWL campus and beyond. Using the stage as our forum, we creatively challenge systems of privilege and oppression and strive to plant seeds of social responsibility, inspire critical thought, and spark a campus-wide conversation.nPrivilege Unplugged […]
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UWL Hate-Bias Response Symposium
Join us for a one-day symposium on hate/bias incidents and crimes in a collective effort to build teams, responsive cultures, and inclusive campuses.
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Hoops 4 Hope
The Hoops 4 Hope Fundraising Basketball tournament is presented by Coulee Region Moving Services and hosted by the Aquinas Boys Basketball Program. The event aims to bring awareness to the presence of domestic violence in our community, and raise much needed funds for our local New Horizons Shelter and Outreach Center. Come support the move […]
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The Remedy Event
Fundraiser for care and treatment programs of the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW). Raffle, silent auction, samples from vendors, and live auction to raise money for these services.
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Queer Cinema Presents: “I Am Not Your Negro”
I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and […]
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GLADC Lunch and Learn: Intercultural Communication in the Workplace
We live in times that are changing rapidly. This rate of change, and the fact that La Crosse is home to many diverse people, creates the imperative for intercultural competencies in the workplace. Join us for a presentation on intercultural communication by Ayesha Patniak, of the UWL Communication Studies Department.nThe presentation will explore questions such […]
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Cultural Coffee Hour – Education
Cultural Coffee Hour is an event that helps create awareness of international topics and issues while generating respect and appreciation of different cultures. Cultural Coffee Hour is held in the Hall of Nations at 5:00 PM and on the following dates:nMarch 6 – EducationnMarch 27 – FolktalesnApril 10 – Wellbeing – In collaboration with Counseling […]
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Shop Talk: The Paradox of Being a Black Police Officer in Today’s Society
Let’s Talk About Work. Come to this ShopTalk event to hear ideas and stories about work, and share your own. ShopTalk conversations are about the past, present, and future of work in Wisconsin. On Tuesday, March 6 the La Crosse Public Library will be hosting Office Corey Saffold of the Madison Police Department for a […]
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International Women’s Day Celebration and Panel
Please join us for this FREE event that will consist of a panel of women from around the world. This program will consist of a panel of women from Colombia, Ghana, India and Romania. They will share what they have learned and discuss both advances and continuing challenges in achieving gender equity in their native […]
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Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Parenthood in China: Individual Agency, Economic Privilege, and Reproductive Justice
Event Description:nQueer families raising children represents a recent development of increasing LGBT visibility in urban China. This presentation will examine how Chinese lesbian and gay couples pursue and achieve parenthood in a new social context.nAcknowledging the lack of social recognition and institutional supports in participants’ negotiation of queer parenthood, this research focuses on the formation […]