The Power of Creative Thinking: Lessons from Blue Man Group and Beyond
2025-11-18 16:00 - 17:15 (America/New_York) | Clark University, Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center – 2nd Floor, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
A Conversation with Matt Goldman ’83, MBA ’84, L.H.D. ’15, and Laura Camien

Join us for a conversation with Matt Goldman ’83, MBA ’84, L.H.D. ’15, co-founder of the international phenomenon Blue Man Group, owner/operator/promotoer of the Astor Palace Theatre in New York, and executive director of The Town Hall — a national historic landmark venue created by suffragists in 1921 and home to countless musical and cultural milestones — and Laura Camien, former EVP of marketing and communications for Blue Man Group, acclaimed creativity coach, writer, speaker, Broadway producer, and co-founder of The Spark File and The Spark File Podcast.

preregistration recommended

Together, Goldman and Camien bring a wealth of experience in building and growing creative communities, inspiring innovation, and communicating with authenticity and impact. They will share insights from their groundbreaking work in entertainment, education, and storytelling, and explore how creativity can transform the way we live, work, and connect.

The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A. Whether you are a student, artist, entrepreneur, or lifelong learner, this is a rare opportunity to engage with two remarkable thinkers who have redefined what it means to create with purpose.

If you have any questions please email Advancement Events Director Megan Horvitz.

Clark to Career: Creativity, Leadership & Making Ideas Real
2025-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | ASEC 202
What does it take to transform a bold idea into a thriving business, movement, or mission? How do leaders turn purpose and creativity into meaningful, lasting impact? Join us for a powerful conversation with two Clark alumni and a longtime creative partner as they share lessons from decades spent building iconic brands, scaling mission-driven ventures, and leading at the intersection of business, storytelling, and innovation. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, creative thinker, strategist, or builder, this panel will leave you with real-world insight into how ideas become reality — and how Clark grads are doing just that across industries.

International Poetry Night
2025-11-18 17:00 - 18:00 | The Grind, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester, 01610, United States
Join us for International Poetry Night, an evening of poetry readings that showcase the diverse languages and cultures of our global community. There will be free snacks for attendees.

Community Restock! Filling the Menstrual Product Dispensers with MEA
2025-11-18 18:15 - 19:15 | G104
Help the Menstrual Equity Alliance restock the menstrual product dispensers across campus! We will meet as a group to discuss last week’s meeting, and then use the rest of our meeting time to get to know how to support our menstruating peers by refilling and publicizing our awesome menstrual product dispensers!

Karate Club Practice
2025-11-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Kneller Multipurpose Room
Come join Karate club for our normal practice!Wear comfortable clothes that you can work out in. No previous experience necessary.We hope to see you there!

Pre-Health Society General Interest Meetings!
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | CMACD Buliding- 103, 104, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Join us for our GIM 🙂

Reproductive Access Weekly Meeting
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Jonas Clark 120
Our weekly meeting!

BRASA General Meeting
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | McCann Resource Room (Dana Commons)
Come join BRASA’s General Meeting and enjoy good music and snacks!

Bad Old Days Posse
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Lurie Conference Room
Women who lived in a pre-Roe world share their stories; the limited choices available and the risks they took to make the decisions that was right for them.

DCU: Weekly Meeting
2025-11-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Jonas Clark 204
Join us for our weekly meeting!

LASO General Members Meeting
2025-11-18 20:00 - 21:00 | McCann Resource Room (Dana Commons)
Come join LASO at our general members meetings with different activities and themes bi-weekly!

GIS Proclamation Day
2025-11-19 00:00 - 23:59
Join the Graduate School of Geography in celebrating GIS Proclamation Day.

Beauty as Resistance: Art and Story as Healing Forces in Displacement
2025-11-19 09:00 - 10:00 | via Zoom
Creativity as Survival and Power

This webinar explores how storytelling, music, and art in displacement serve as acts of resistance, healing, and collective empowerment. From Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi, to colored neighborhoods in Colombia, this conversation highlights artistic practices reshaping individual well-being, community narratives, and policy discourse.

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Speakers

Michael Spicher, Ph.D., is a philosopher and strategic aesthetics consultant who helps people and organizations integrate beauty into culture, design, and decision-making. With over 20 years of experience, he brings deep insight into how aesthetic values shape flourishing, having spoken at global events on design, fashion, and intentional space. Based in Boston, he teaches at several area universities and also directs the Aesthetics Research Lab.

Francisco Alcala Torreslanda is Co-Founder and Executive Director of HOME Storytellers. He has a background in corporate leadership and documentary storytelling. HOME Storytellers partners with refugees and marginalized communities to create hope-driven films and campaigns. Their new film, “We Name Ourselves,” explores how art becomes survival, restoring dignity, connection, and hope in the harshest conditions.

Juan Pablo Franco Jiménez, Blumont’s Country Director in Colombia, leads programs improving humanitarian assistance, self-reliance, durable solutions, and integration for migrants and internally displaced persons. Previously with Colombia’s government for seven years, he is an Industrial Engineer, Political Scientist, and holds a Summa Cum Laude master’s in Public Affairs from Sciences Po.

Facilitator

Stephanie Acker, co-founder of Home Ground Lab, is a policy and communications practitioner whose work has centered on ‘home’ and has held roles with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, UNICEF, and the European University Institute. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

About the series: Beauty, Art, Belonging, and the Neuroscience of Place

Co-hosted by Home Ground Lab and Clark University’s Integration and Belonging Hub

Can beauty help people heal? Rebuild? Belong?

This three-part webinar series explores how beauty, art, and design intersect with neuroscience, dignity, and resilience—especially in contexts of displacement, housing insecurity, and humanitarian response. From refugee camps and post-disaster neighborhoods to communities painting their way back to belonging, this series reveals a radical truth: Beauty is not a luxury. Beauty is infrastructure. Each session brings together global experts in neuroaesthetics, refugee leaders, urban designers, and humanitarian practitioners.

Wellness Wednesday
2025-11-19 10:00 - 16:00 | UC Concourse Table #6
Stop by the UC to say hi to the friendly folks from the Office of Wellness Education, and participate in a fun and informational wellness-related activity! Each week is something new!

QPR Training
2025-11-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Lurie Conference Room
QPR Training is a suicide prevention training to prepare participants to recognize warning signs and encourage help-seeking. To participate in QPR training, you can use the following link to sign up for any of the above trainings, request a more convenient time, or plan a training for your group: https://clarku.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9HObtZUBA9Z9cyyPlease get in touch with Mary Xatse (mxatse@clarku.edu) with any questions regarding QPR training. If you are interested in attending, please complete the form in advance.

Where in The World Guessing Game
2025-11-19 14:00 - 15:30 | CMACD 002
Join the Where in the World Guessing Game! You will be able to use your phone to scan the QR code, view photos from around the globe, and guess the locations. Explore the world and learn about Study Abroad in a fun, interactive way!

Student Leader Info Session - Become an ACE Mentor, RA, or PM!
2025-11-19 14:30 - 15:30 | McCann Resource Room (Dana Commons)
Interested in being an undergraduate student leader!? We are looking for ACE Mentors, Resident Advisers, and Peer Mentors for the 2026-27 academic year. These roles offer the opportunity to support peers and build community either in the residence halls or with new incoming students through orientation programs. To learn more about the positions and the application process, attend an information session! The application is available from November 12, 2025, through January 28, 2026. In order to apply you will need an updated resume and cover letter. The Career Connections Center is a great resource to use when writing your cover letter and resume! Students who attend an information session and get their application in by the priority deadline (Wednesday, January 28, 2026) will be given preference when reviewing applications. Info sessions will be offered on multiple dates and will cover the same content – students are welcome to attend multiple sessions if they choose, but only need to attend one session for priority review.

KnowWhere: The Geography Bee Game
2025-11-19 16:00 - 17:30 | G104
Think you know your world capitals and landmarks? Join the Geography Bee, a fun, quiz-style competition where students go head-to-head answering geography questions for bragging rights (and maybe a prize)!

GIS and Practicing Geography Week is filled with events centered around geography, global environmental studies, Earth system science, and geographic information science.

The Bee will be moderated by Professors Siobhan McGrath and Robert “Gil” Pontius.

Hidden Forces: The Military-Industrial Complex in Massachusetts and The Production of Climate Apartheid
2025-11-19 16:00 - 18:00 | Dana Commons – Fireside Lounge
The US military – with its empire of bases and trillion-dollar budget – is the single largest polluter on the planet, prompting calls for demilitarization from climate justice movements. This talk grounds global analyses of US imperialism and military carbon emissions in the political economy of the military-industrial complex in Massachusetts (MA-MIC). Briefly exploring histories of the MA-MIC, the focus turns to active MA military installations and the ways they both produce climate apartheid (climate-driven exacerbation of global inequality) and provide material US support for Israel’s (climatically disastrous) genocide in Gaza. Examining these everyday, often hidden processes of militarization reveals myriad connections to policing and prisons, enabling interwoven linkages between climate apartheid, demilitarization, and abolitionist climate justice.

Harrington Public Affairs Lecture: Marital Privilege
2025-11-19 16:30 - 17:30 | Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law

Professor Serena Mayeri will deliver a talk on her new book, Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law. The book examines the history of challenges to marriage’s primacy as a legal institution and a source of public and private benefits.

Professor Mayeri is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and, by courtesy appointment, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania Cary Law School. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of History, and is a Core Faculty member in the Program on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS). In 2016, Mayeri was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. In 2019, she received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Mayeri also writes about reproductive rights and justice, equality and democracy, and history’s role in constitutional discourse and litigation. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and has co-authored amicus briefs in cases involving abortion rights, employment discrimination, immigration and family law.

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This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Political Science Department through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund.

Queer & Trans Students of Color (QTSOC) Affinity Space Meeting
2025-11-19 17:00 - 18:00 | McCann Resource Room (Dana Commons)
Join QTSOC, an affinity space that centers BIPOC students who are LGBTQIA+ to build community, share experiences, and explore the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality.

November Photo Critique
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | CMACD, Room 310, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Want to get feedback on some of your photos? Just want to show them off? Bring in your photos, or submit them in our form to receive feedback from other photographers!! All levels of experience are welcome and encouraged, you don’t need to submit any photos to attend either.

FIRM Club General Meeting
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:00 | McCann Resource Room (Dana Commons)
Come join FIRM at our general meeting this week! Learn about community work in Main South, volunteer opportunities, and enjoy dinner with your friends. If you can’t make it but still want to get involved, follow us @firmpantry on Instagram to get updates and other general meeting times!

Mapathon
2025-11-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Jefferson 131, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Harness Clark’s powerful GIS technology!

GIS and Practicing Geography Week is filled with events centered around geography, global environmental studies, Earth system science, and geographic information science.

Crochet w. Abbi
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Craft Studio
Get hooked on a new hobby 🧶! We are offering learn to crochet or knit workshops weekly! Come to the craft studio on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm to meet with our proctor Abbi who can help with any fiber arts questions you have! No experience or supplies necessary! Come learn the foundational skills of knitting or crochet and create some wearable pieces of art!

CSVLM Regular Meeting
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Jonas Clark 217
This is the Clark Student Voices Literary Magazine general members meeting that happens every other week. Possible events at these meetings including writing workshops, crafts activities, and of course planning for this semester’s issue!

ASU General Meeting
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:00 | McCann Resource Room (Dana Commons)
This will be ASU’s new bi-weekly General Meeting date.

Weekly Game Night
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 | The Grind, UC
Join us to unwind and play board games! No prior experience required, we have a great collection of games we’d love you to try! Whether you come every week or are looking for a fun way to spend the night, all are welcome.

A Bayou Legend
2025-11-19 19:00 - 21:30 | Atwood Hall – Daniels Theater
In collaboration with Opera Vermont and the Longy School of Music of Bard College

The Clark University Choir and Clark University Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by the New England Repertory Orchestra present William Grant Still’s A Bayou Legend.

Featuring:

Nina Evelyn, soprano

Maria Clark, soprano

Albert Lee, tenor

Miguel Angel Vasquez, baritone

Maurice Hendricks, baritone

Cailin Marcel Manson, conductor

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 at 7:00pm at Daniels Theater, Atwood Hall.

Presented with permission from William Grant Still Music.

Ping Pong Club Meeting
2025-11-19 20:30 - 22:00 | The Grind, UC
Come play some ping pong! All skill levels are welcome. See you there!
