By Ginger Peck, PLU Director of Auxiliary Services While PLU’s December graduates filed into Olson for their graduation ceremony, over 793 kids filed into PLU’s East Campus to participate in the 23rd Annual Winterfest Celebration. While their parents went and shopped through donated batches of toys, clothes, hats, socks and gloves, kids made their way through…
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Join us for the 23rd Annual Winterfest at PLU’s East Campus!
Winterfest provides the joy and spirit of Christmas to 500 low-income families who are experiencing economic despair in our own community. The heads of these families are hard-working, disabled, laid off, or unable to work. Children will get to visit with Santa and enjoy holiday festivities like face painting, holiday crafts, and picking a book of their…
PLU’s 61st annual Sankta Lucia Fest, Dec. 2
Pacfic Lutheran University’s Sankta Lucia Fest is December 2 in Lagerquist Hall. Admission is free for PLU students & children under 10. Scandinavian Cultural Center members & Senior Citizens are $5. General Admission is $7. The highlight of the program is Lucia and her attendants who enter the dimly-lit auditorium by candle light, singing the Sankta Lucia song…
PLU, A Child is Born, Christmas Concerts
The time for awe inspiring music is coming this December. Please join Pacific Lutheran University’s Choir of the West, the University Chorale and members of the University Symphony Orchestra in what has become one of the region’s most inspirational Christmas celebrations. Students spend hundreds of hours preparing for the five concerts they perform each holiday…
PLU Fall Lecture: Peter Altmann’s “Adele’s Wish” Nov. 15
Pacific Luther University — November 15, 2012, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Anderson University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center. Peter Altmann, a longtime Tacoma resident, will present a special viewing of the film “Adele’s Wish.” This one-hour film tells the story of Peter Altmann’s mother, Maria. A Holocaust survivor, Maria Altmann recently fought all the way to the Supreme…
PLU’s Winterfest, by special invitation
Winterfest is an event for people in need. The 23rd Annual Parkland Children’s Winterfest will be taking place December 8. Organized by Pacific Lutheran University, this event is sponsored by several local non-profit organizations who provide money, clothing and blankets to be distributed to the lucky children in families who have been selected by local social…
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