Event Category: Events

OPUS,  Trinity’s annual festival of student scholarship, is taking place on Wednesday, April 20.  The word “opus” is Latin for work. Whether it’s the arts & humanities, natural & applied sciences, or social sciences, students from all disciplines can present their work or attend this annual celebratory conference.

We invite you to attend OPUS 2022 and imagine the possibilities of your own OPUS!

OPUS SCHEDULE

12:30-12:45             OPUS Parade

12:45-1:15               Opening Ceremony

1:30-4:15                 Student Presentations

4:30-5:15                 Presentation Showdown

All students are given the opportunity to enter into a competition for all solo and group presentations. Top scorers advance to the Presentation Showdown where they give a 5-minute summary of their presentation in front of their peers and additional judges.

4:30-6:30                 Trinity Trolldown Dinner in the Dining Hall

5:00-6:00                 Dunk Tank Fundraiser for Ukraine

6:00-7:30                 Raffle & Closing Ceremony

7:30-8:30                 Senior Student/OPUS Art Reception

6:30-8:30                 GRUMPUS Graduate OPUS

9:00-10:00               Outcry

Special Thank you!

The Trinity Christian College community is grateful to alumni Yvette Madany (’85) and Peter Madany (’82), who generously provided financial support to underwrite expenses for OPUS 2022.

The OPUS 2022 committee is also grateful for the support of Trinity administration, faculty, and staff, including the departments of admissions, student life, physical plant, audio-visual services, information technology services, marketing and communications, and Creative Dining.

OPUS Committee Members

Brian Cerney

Inglebert Christiansen (Student Graphic Designer)

Sarah Hoeksema (co-chair)

Jeff Nyhoff

Mary LoGalbo

Deb Majewski (co-chair)

Katie Oomkes

Julianna Padilla (Student Government Representative)

Aron Reppmann

Omar Sweiss

Kevin Schenke

Maura Sukamto (Student Graphic Designer)

Trinity’s Cooperativity Club presents “Analytical Research Tools to Discover and Help Creation, including the systems that make them whole.” The discussion will feature Dr. Sandra Biedron ’94,  Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Biedron also has an appointment to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNM.

The event takes place on Thursday, April 14 at 5 pm in the Vermeer Fireside Room.

Join us for the tenure lecture of Dr. Kara Wolff, Professor of Counseling.  Tenure lectures are a celebration of the mature Christian scholarship of our faculty colleagues. When we celebrate these moments, we mark and extend our commitment to our core identity and mission as a College – and we rejoice at the gifted teacher-scholars in our midst!

Wolff’s lecture is entitled “Christian Social Justice Pedagogy: A Shared Dwelling Place.” At the core of the human experience is a desire to belong and to be deeply known. Despite this longing we often find ourselves challenged to connect in deep and meaningful ways across our constructed barriers. This lecture explores how cultivating a learning environment that fosters love for each other and prioritizes pursuing justice and equity opens us up to transformational ways of being in the world.  

Trinity’s Counseling and Psychology and Social Work Departments are pleased to present the Ninth Annual Psychology Renewed Conference.

Attendees to the conference will explore Conceptual Dialectical Behavior Therapy and how it can be used to treat emotional dysregulation.

Dr. Paul Holmes, a Senior Lecturer at Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice at the University of Chicago, will introduce the “Chronic Distress Model” as an explanation of emotional escalation. He will give an overview of the structure and processes that comprise C-DBT, an approach that emphasizes experiential encounters where participants decouple behaviors from emotions, thoughts, and memories and select responses based on context and valued ends. Participants can experience freedom from their past and create opportunities to organize their behavior in relation to a future they desire.

For more information and to register for the conference, click here.

Cost:
CEUs – $30 | Trinity Alums – $10 (CEUs are included in the alumni cost) | Current Students – Free with Registration

Join us for the tenure lecture of Dr. Jessica Clevering, Professor of Psychology.  Tenure lectures are a celebration of the mature Christian scholarship of our faculty colleagues. When we celebrate these moments, we mark and extend our commitment to our core identity and mission as a College – and we rejoice at the gifted teacher-scholars in our midst!

Clevering’s lecture, “Three Heads in the Well: A Pedagogical Fairy Tale, ” will explore how should professors approach the self, specifically their own selves, while teaching? Four approaches will be proposed, and the preferred approach will be illustrated by means of a fairy tale. That’s right: story time! Christian themes will be highlighted throughout. Teddy bears are welcome.

 

Join us for the tenure lecture of Professor of Art & Design Ryan Thompson. Tenure lectures are a celebration of the mature Christian scholarship of our faculty colleagues. When we celebrate these moments, we mark and extend our commitment to our core identity and mission as a College – and we rejoice at the gifted teacher-scholars in our midst!

Thompson’s lecture, “Look this Way,” engages the role of conceptual art in an attention economy, with a specific focus on how it might help stretch our attention and expand our understanding of time. The lecture will also speculate on connections between conceptual art, prayer, and the discomfort of embracing the unknown.

 

Join us for the tenure lecture of Dr. Dennis Connelly, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice.  Tenure lectures are a celebration of the mature Christian scholarship of our faculty colleagues. When we celebrate these moments, we mark and extend our commitment to our core identity and mission as a College – and we rejoice at the gifted teacher-scholars in our midst!

Connelly’s lecture is entitled Law Enforcement Reform: A Shared Responsibility. In his lecture, Connelly will explore successes and failures in the law enforcement “circle of reform.” He will offer both historical perspective and pathways forward for possible reform.

 

Students, faculty and staff are invited to yoga in the Grand Lobby on Mondays throughout the Spring semester! Sessions will be led by Dr. Mary Lynn Colosimo, Emeritus. Please bring a yoga mat or beach towel, a water bottle and prepare to be blessed and energized.

Provision Theater, performing at Trinity Christian College, presents Nicodemus.

A midnight encounter. Words were spoken. The world would be changed forever…

Nicodemus, an influential member of the clergy meets Jesus face-to-face for the first time. That encounter sets off a series of events that causes him to question his most foundational beliefs, and be a part of history’s biggest event. Set in modern day, this compelling, world-premiere play digs deep into the most important passage in all of the Bible.

Check out a sneak peek of Nicodemus here!

Featuring Rod Armentrout, Demetrios Troy, Cydney Moody and Clayton Denton.

Performances will take place on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from May 6-June 5 at Trinity’s Art & Communication Center (ArCC).

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Fridays at 8 PM
Saturdays at 4 PM and 8 PM
Sundays at 3 PM

Visit the Provision Theater site for more information and to purchase tickets.

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