Recap: Praxis Forum

This past Thursday, April 30, the Marist Public Praxis Project held our annual forum. Featured at the forum were students who presented their projects from this semester, original poetry, songs, and spiritual meditations. This year has been particularly productive for the praxivists as we truly had an amazing collection of people who had one common objective, to make a difference. As Dr. Mar put it, “you were Awesome yesterday, today, and throughout the term with all your projects, and writing, editing, blogging, researching, critiquing, reflecting, journaling, singing, dancing, creating poetry, drawing, mentoring, instructing, fundraising, photographing, videotaping, sharing clips, offering meditations.” Attached are some pictures of the Praxis forum, I only hope in the coming years we can come near what we’ve accomplished this year. -mike



Anthony giving opening remarks.


Dr. Bruce Luske giving a short lecture about spirituality and praxis.


Cara singing and playing her guitar.


Alanna talking about her involvement in the Kolkata Children's Project.


Emily presenting about the ESL program she and Cass Rosado run for Marist's Hispanic employees.


Carola reading her poem about the effects of taking down trees.


Lauren talking about her experiences as a vegan.


Andy reciting some original poetry.


Mike speaking about the Nobel Peace Prize booklet and his refugee project which also took place on April 30.


Sam describing her project where she measured the importance of hugs.


Kasey, Joe, and Nicole presenting their project at the forum. They are doing fundraisers for the Kolkata Children's Fund as Mar and Alanna are traveling there soon.


Dr. Mar giving closing remarks at the forum.