Join the Peer Health Educators in the lobby of James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., to make your own beaded reflection bracelet and learn how mindfulness and self-care can help cope with stress. A masseuse from RecWell will offer chair massages on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, contact Emily Tompkins at peerhealth@vcu.edu or visit http://recwell.vcu.edu.

Calling all first and second year students: Do you want to study abroad for free? Join VCU's National Scholarship Office to learn more about the Fulbright UK Summer Institutes. The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes provide recipients with the opportunity to spend three or four weeks at a prestigious UK university studying abroad during summer 2023. Register at the following URL to attend the session via Zoom or request the recording. For more information, contact Meredith Sisson, Ph.D., at natlscholar@vcu.edu or visit https://forms.gle/vzuNj7sWzJATynkPA.

The ICA will host a workshop on gathering, sharing, exchanging and questioning how value is read. The participatory publishing event with Mariana Parisca, part of M.U.R.R.M.U.R. (misread, unread, read, re-read, misread, unread, re-read), will be in Gallery Four, the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Markel Center, 601 W. Broad St. Participants are asked to bring an object: perhaps it’s trash that you find value in, or something sentimental, or something spiritually charged, or something that holds potential. RSVP at the following URL. For more information, contact Natalie Hale at halene@vcu.edu or visit https://icavcu.org/events/mariana-parisca-on-valor/.

VCUarts and VCUmusic will present the choral department's fall concert in the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. Admission is free. The theme for this concert is "Compass Points: New Directions." This concert will feature the new VCU choral director, Christopher Hansen, Ph.D. For more information, contact Christopher Hansen at hansenc3@vcu.edu or visit http://arts.vcu.edu/event/choral-concert/.

Leroy Thacker, Ph.D., associate professor, biostatistics, will discuss requirements for research sample size calculations and considerations necessary for calculating sample sizes for research studies. He will speak at an online lunch research seminar hosted by VCU's C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research. Register for the Zoom link at https://vcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsdOCqqzMsGdblrJgxZOGxevI0GAfpGH9Q For more information, contact Pamela Dillon, Pharm.D., research liaison, at pmdillon@vcu.edu or visit https://cctr.vcu.edu/.

All fans are encouraged to wear gold for the game with James Madison University at the Siegel Center, 1200 W. Broad St. Fans who wear gold will receive a discounted ticket rate of $3. For more information, contact Sarah Frasier at frasiers2@vcu.edu or (801) 232-0669 or visit https://vcuathletics.com/sports/womens-basketball.

"Gross Indecency" by Moisés Kaufman is a thrilling courtroom drama based on the true events surrounding the downfall of celebrated poet and playwright Oscar Wilde in Victorian England. Kaufman uses trial transcripts, personal correspondence, interviews and other source materials to tell the story of the 1895 trials that resulted in Wilde's arrest and imprisonment for the crime of sodomy. Performances will be Thursday, Dec. 1 through Sunday, Dec. 4 at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. For more information, contact Sarah Moore at theatretix@vcu.edu or (804) 828-6026 or visit https://arts.vcu.edu/academics/departments/theatre/vcuarts-theatre-mainstage-season/.

Wrap up the semester with VCU's BGSA at the Rollerdome, 4902 Williamsburg Road. No skating fee for the first 10 who register to attend. For more information, contact Ariel Johnson at bgsa@vcu.edu.

Half milk, half cream; half real, half dream. Graduate students from VCU's Department of Kinetic Imaging will present a group exhibition of new works made up of more parts than could ever make a whole. The exhibition will be shown through Dec. 15, with an opening reception on Dec. 2. The exhibit will be at Murray N. DePillars Gallery, 1000 W. Broad St., first floor, from the entrance to the left. For more information, contact Leilei Xia at xial2@vcu.edu.