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Color-Ful will take place on campuses across the country to celebrate creativity through colorful foods and mood-boosting activities
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 26, 2025 — Chartwells Higher Education, a recognized leader in contract food service management, today announced “Color-Ful”, a nationwide event that highlights the connection between food, mood, and creativity by bringing together bright, bold flavors and immersive, artistic experiences. As a signature event of Chartwells’ award-winning Joy-Ful campaign, Color-Ful will take place on April 8, 2025.
Celebratory events will show students how nutrition-rich and colorful foods can improve both their physical and mental well-being and offer them creative and expressive outlets with a range of community-driven activities on campus.
“Color-Ful provides an opportunity for students to explore the foods they eat, their health benefits, and how different ingredients can fuel bodies and minds,” said Eva Wojtalewski, CEO of Chartwells Higher Education. “We’re also excited to continue creating spaces on campuses that embrace creativity and community and encourage students to be bold.”
Color-Ful’s main events feature artistic endeavors for students to participate in, connecting the power of colorful foods with creative thinking. Through collaborative murals that display large-scale artwork by groups of students and live art installations that blend mediums, students will transform campuses across the country with their creativity. Color-Ful will also feature coloring book givebacks–for every student who colors or paints at a designated station, a coloring book will be donated to a local children’s hospital.
Throughout Color-Ful, students are invited to participate in events like color runs, silent discos, food science stations, and more to embrace creating joy through color in their communities. Chartwells will be highlighting a variety of colors in campus meals with themed dining stations, curated menus exploring bold, flavorful, and nutritious options, and First Year Eats events to help new students connect and get involved.
Color-Ful is another example of how Chartwells is bringing students across the nation together in memorable ways through the Joy-Ful campaign.
