<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/0219-skidmore-reflects-on-love-community-at-lovefest.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Skidmore reflects on love, community at Lovefest</title><author>Tory Abbott and Emrah Jusufoski ’28</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>02/21/2025 11:36:07 AM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Community members from across campus came together to celebrate Skidmore’s third annual Lovefest, an event honoring love in all its forms, at Wyckoff Center.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2025/images/0219-lovefest-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Two heart ornaments on a tree branch, one reads &#34;I am so loved!&#34;"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2025/images/0219-lovefest-hero.jpg" alt="Students make valentines and craft at a table in Wyckoff Center."/></image><caption>The theme of this year's Lovefest celebration was “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion,” a quote from bell hooks' "All About Love: New Visions."</caption></item>