Celebrate everyBODY week is an annual event sponsored by IU Campus Recreational Sports encouraging participants to celebrate bodies of all shapes and sizes. Typically, free movie screenings, panel discussions, raffles and the “Great Jeans Giveaway” are scheduled with the intention of inspiring participants to possess a positive body image.
This year’s events include:
everyBODY Sees:
Monday, February 15th at 9:00 p.m. - SRSC Auditorium - FREE
Showing of the highly acclaimed film Bigger, Stronger, Faster, a 2008 documentary about the use of anabolic steroids as performance-enhancing drugs in the United States and how this practice relates to the American Dream. Attendees can enter to win prizes drawn at Wednesday’s event.
Tuesday, February 16th at 9:00 p.m. - SRSC Auditorium - Free
Showing of America the Beautiful, the 2009 documentary taking you on a two-year journey examining America’s new obsession: physical perfection. In America the Beautiful we learn secrets, confessions, and strikingly harsh realities as the film unearths the origins and deadly risks of our nation’s quest for physical perfection. Attendees can enter to win prizes drawn at Wednesday’s event.
everyBODY Talks:
Wednesday, February 17th at 8:00 p.m. - SRSC Auditorium - FREE
Join us for a panel discussion about the issues involved with body image. Share your questions, comments, or concerns anonymously to our panel of experts featuring Miss Indiana, Nicole Pollard; Fitness expert, Chris Arvin; Social Worker and eating disorder specialist, Jan Taylor-Shultz; and more! Prizes raffled from those who attended Monday or Tuesday movies. Must be present to win.
Thursday, February 18th at 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Wells Library foyer, SRSC, HPER, and School of Education foyer
Join us for FREE activities promoting positive body image and information about body image, exercise, and disordered eating. Share your positive thoughts and stories; and shred your negative thoughts. Today is the day to start feeling good about yourself!
everyBODY Gives:
February 15th - 19th - HPER and SRSC
Be comfortable in your "genes"—wear jeans that fit the TRUE you! Join us, and hundreds of others around the nation, to participate in the Great Jeans Giveaway. Bring your skinny jeans, or any jeans that make you feel unhappy about your body, to the SRSC Lobby or to the Wildermuth Intramural Center (HPER). All donations will be given to the Shalom Community Center in Bloomington.
