Dialogue Creative Journal

22/02/2022

!!! calling all calvin creatives !!!
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Submission deadline THIS Friday! We want to see your work! Bring your short films, your notes app poetry, your midnight painting you did in your basement.
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Submit by midnight!

28/01/2022

Mark your calendars! Dialogue’s first ever workshop night is coming up!
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Bring what you’re working on, get help submitting, see what others are working on, get some critique, and be in a space with other creatives! Join in for a night of art and fun.
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We want to hear your music, watch your film, talk about your visual art, and dissect your poetry. Bring anything!
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Design Hub (SC 180)
6PM-9:30PM
Feb. 8
🎨🖼🖍✨💕

09/12/2021

RELEASE PARTY TONIGHT
/// take a much needed break from studying for some hot drinks, donuts, and conversation.
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Along with the release there will be a ceramics sale going on all day, all the proceeds go to Feeing America. Along with a student art sale going on from 7:30-9:30pm organized by
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Center Art Gallery in the CFAC
7:30PM-9:30PM
TONIGHT
come for a good time.

16/11/2021

“the pair you refused to dissect”
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what is their story? what brought these frogs together? are they in love? (forbidden lovers?) are they the ones that see themselves as friends? (everyone else can see there is more but they just haven’t noticed yet) did they meet in the 9th grade biology classroom and fall in love at first sight or were they childhood friends, who grew up together in whatever place frogs used in science classrooms come from?
whatever they are i love them. so much. and i like to think whatever force brought these frogs together also brought them to me, from the dusty back corner of a (slightly sketchy and very smelly) antique store in a random small town i happened to be passing through. everyday i see these frogs, hanging out on a branch in a frame on my wall, and I make up a story for them, where they came from and where they are off to. and it makes me happy. what is your story?
love, han

10/05/2021

"Curating is art; an intentional, daily rhythm...a starting point for experiencing the voices, thoughts, dreams, expertise, & input of the excluded."

Today on the blog: staff member Olivia Mason talks about uplifting de-centered voices through the simple act of curation—whether that means your bookshelf, playlist, or campus arts journal. Check it out:

http://calvindialogue.weebly.com/blog/what-you-tell-us-when-you-uplift-us

Under a bridge, into a telephone pole, onto the rings of a tree stump. Last fall, with care and precision, Gabby Eisma took a set of metal die stamps, and pounded poetry into outdoor spaces, letter...

04/05/2021

TOMORROW: Dialogue 53.2 release party!
Featuring student performances, art sales, and free screen-printing (bring your own t-shirt). You won’t want to miss this.
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ft. “skaters” by Joshua Swanson

27/04/2021

What combines free screen printing, student performances, student art sales, and a fabulous journal? the DIALOGUE 53.2 RELEASE PARTY! Our biggest and best ever.
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Wednesday, May 5, 5-7 p.m.
Commons Lawn
B.Y.O.T-shirt (tote bag, pillowcase, etc.) for a free Dialogue screen print.

12/03/2021

12/03/2021

DIALOGUE 53.1 RELEASE PARTY

12/03/2021

Today’s the day! Issue 53.1 will be released tonight from 6 - 9 p.m. We can’t wait to see you there! For any remote folks, we’ll be live-streaming the performances on our Instagram.

p.s. If you haven’t signed up yet, there are 10 spots left! Link on our website.

“deluge” by Clara Visser

09/03/2021

Are you coming to the release party this Friday? Reserve a spot soon—seats are going fast! All attendees must sign up for a 1-hr time slot using the form on our website: www.calvin.edu/dialogue
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Dialogue 53.1 Release Party
Friday, March 12, 6 - 9 p.m.
CFAC Lobby + Recital Hall
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above: “Five streets down” by Miriam Joy Kluitenberg

06/03/2021

BIG NEWS. Issue 53.1 is being released a week from today—March 12! The release event will take place in the CFAC recital hall and west lobby from 6-9 p.m., and feature a walk-through of the visual showcase, distribution of the magazine, and performances from student writers, musicians, and filmmakers. All attendees must sign up for a 1-hr time slot at 6, 7, or 8 using this form: https://forms.gle/VWB6hx971MPhggDFA. Attendance is limited, so sign up today!
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[de]composition by Gabrielle Eisma