Talk with professional football player
TUESDAY
Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas talks about his life and experience in the NFL in the SUB Ballrooms at 7 p.m. He’s taking photos and signing autographs at the end of the talk, so audience members can document the experience. You might even be able to make some money off the autograph, depending on how famous he really is.
HAH! Happy Arte Hour
THURSDAY
The first Thursday of every month, the National Hispanic Cultural Center hosts a creative event with socializing and free food. Shelle Sanchez, NHCC Education Director, leads this month’s session in which attendees learn to make art with repurposed materials. For example, pasting macaroni on paper would repurpose the food as an art material. Of course, the work can be more sophisticated. The workshop is in the Domenici Education Building at the center, 1701 Fourth Street S.W., from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., but the creativity comes home with you.
Lecture on early U.S. culture
FRIDAY
Some people have difficulty understanding poetry and drawing meaning from novels and other cultural documents. Apply political and postcolonial theory, and you’ve got a challenge worthy of the most swollen of eggheads. Dr. Andy Doolen, associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Kentucky, delivers his lecture on U.S. exploration from a cultural perspective at 2 p.m. in the Acoma A room on the third floor of the SUB.
Stage Reading
SATURDAY
Thespians across the country are performing stage readings of “The Way of the Water,” a play by Caridad Svich about the BP oil spill and its effect on people’s lives, according to KUNM.org. It is not a memorized work — the cast members act out the play with script in hand. The play is at the Vortex Theatre, 2004 1/2 Central Avenue S.E., from 2 to 4 p.m.
