Join the CU Women’s Resource Center and Community Health for an afternoon dedicated to crafts and self-care. With finals just around the corner it’s easy to forget about what YOU need. Join us in making microwavable heat packets to soothe your body. While you craft, relax a little more by signing up for a free massage with Community Health. This program is open to students, staff and faculty. Join us April 4, from 1 to 3 p.m. in UMC 416.

The CU Women’s Resource Center presents: Sexpressions, a talent showcase celebrating a positive expressions of women’s sexuality by women identified performers. We are looking for all forms of expression: dance, art, spoken word, song, instrumenta. We are currently looking for performers of any type. If you are interested please contact wrcprograms@colorado.edu with a description of what you would like to perform/contribute and your contact information. Deadline to sign up is April 4, at 5p.m. Sexpressions will be Friday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m.

In this April 2 talk, LASP Director and Professor Dan Baker will recount some of the history of LASP’s contributions to Sun-Earth studies, with a focus on modern research into energetic particles and electromagnetic fields in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood. Baker will conclude with a look forward to future LASP programs and opportunities in the field of space physics. In the LASP SPSC building (Room W120), located at 3665 Discovery Drive in the east campus research park. Parking and admission are free. Doors open at 7 p.m.

A panel discussion in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest and June 4 crackdown. Featuring Chris Hammons (Anthropology), Tim Oakes (Geography) and Tim Weston (History). CAS Speaker Series. Wednesday, April 23, 4 p.m. Eaton Humanities 1B80.

It's one thing to learn to read with an alphabet that has 26 letters. It's something else to master an alphabet with 2,600+ kanji. Once you master the basic principle of ideographic writing, anyone can start reading kanji. T.R. Reid, former president of the Japan America Society and longtime correspondent for The Washington Post, explains the concept of ideogram and then moves rapidly through most important kanji used in both Chinese and Japanese writing. CAS Speaker Series. Tuesday, April 8, 4 p.m., Hale 230.

Join the LGBTQ Studies Program for a free screening of the award-winning film "Wildness," followed by a discussion with the director, Wu Tsang on Friday, April 4, 6 p.m. in ATLAS 102. Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. Read more...

Join us for a free lunch and lecture hosted by Canterbury Colorado on Islam and Ecology: Environmental Values as Faith-Based Stewardship by Frederick Denny, professor emeritus of religious studies Thursday, April 3, 12-1:30 p.m. in UMC 245. This lecture provides an interpretation of how the authoritative contents of the Qur'an and the teachings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad have provided a foundation for understanding the tradition's environmental values as faith-based stewardship. RSVP TO office@saintaidans.org.

Please join us Friday, April 4, from 5-7 p.m. for an opening reception for the Spring 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition will be held in the Projects Gallery of the CU Art Museum building, part of the Visual Arts Complex on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. The Spring 2014 MFA Exhibition features the art of Mark Banzhoff, Taylor Dunne, Paul Echeverria, Amber Farnell, Jason Garcia, Nick Hay and Andrew Williams-Dremeaux.

This course will look at a broad spectrum of texts, which show the various ways Jewish authors across space have understood the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Themes will include questions of secularism and tradition, diaspora, exile and citizenship, and the changes of modernity (social and political emancipation, the Holocaust, cultural transformation, new homelands, sexuality). Taught in English. Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3:15 p.m. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts

This course examines the relationship between politics, economics, aesthetics and the way moral and social issues are treated in noteworthy Russian films in the last 25 years, from the fall of the Soviet Union to Putin’s regime. Taught in English. Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:45 p.m.; screenings Tuesdays 5 p.m.