BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Institute of the Arts and Sciences - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Institute of the Arts and Sciences REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T232136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T052727Z UID:2684-1653764400-1653771600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Multimedia Dance Performance with Oysterknife: Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged\, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  \nOYSTERKNIFE will perform the final work in their triptych\, m | ou | f.  The performative work aims to reclaim Black iconicity from the maw of consumer celebrity culture. Having explored the legacies of shame\, violence and faith for blaQ communities in their prior projects mouth full of sea and mouth//full\, their latest collaboration is a meditation on hypervisibility\, opacity\, sexuality\, and the desire of & for queer(ed) Black stars. Using drag\, ritual masquerade\, original music\, video and choreography\, OYSTERKNIFE opens a portal to an era of voices which carved a route for their queer Afro-now and beyond.  \nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nOYSTERKNIFE\n\n\n\nOYSTERKNIFE—derived from a line from Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How It Feels to Be A Colored Me” —was born out of a longtime creative friendship between Chibueze Crouch and Gabriele Christian. Drawing from our shared desire to subvert our theatrical upbringings that often neglected our complex Black + Queer (BlaQ) experiences\, we’ve forged an interdisciplinary artistic approach that reinserts our narratives into American and Afro-Diasporic cultural movements.  \n\n\n\n\n\nChibueze Crouch\n\n\n\nChibueze Crouch is a Nigerian-American interdisciplinary artist & curator based on Huichin\, Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone territory (Oakland\, CA). She works across ritual theater\, text\, song\, movement and video to create participatory\, experimental\, intimate performances in collaboration with her chi and communities. Chibueze’s work explores themes of ancestral longing\, Igbo cosmology\, Afro-Diasporic masquerade and queer identity.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGabriele Christian\n\n\n\nGabriele Christian\, born in Harlem (Wappinger Lenape land) and based in Oakland (Chochenyo Ohlone land) is a conceptual artist and descendent of stolen folks experimenting with somatic practices\, language\, performance composition\, and community arts facilitation to locate and center BlaQ (Black and Queer) experience\, vernaculars\, and aesthetics as wellsprings for radical futurity.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCostume Designer: Pamela Rodríguez-MonteroAssociate Costume Designer: Ella Schultz \n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-multimedia-dance-performance-with-oysterknife-gabriele-christian-and-chibueze-crouch/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Music & Performances,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Spring-2022-Events-Web-Listings-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T232441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T225620Z UID:2689-1653591600-1653598800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Making an Exoneree DESCRIPTION:“Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree” is taught by Professor Sharon Daniel\, UCSC Film and Digital Media\, in collaboration with Professor of Government and Law at Georgetown Marc Howard and his childhood friend\, Adjunct Professor Marty Tankleff\, who was himself wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for almost 18 years before being exonerated. Howard and Tankleff developed Georgetown’s Making an Exonoree course in 2018\, and its students have already won the release of three men and made significant progress in the legal prospects of several others. \nFor the current 2022 class\, the original crimes and convictions of five people have been re-investigated\, and students have painstakingly documented the main issues\, challenges\, injustices\, and stories involved in each case\, producing short documentary films\, interactive documentaries\, and social media campaigns designed to provide humanizing portraits of the incarcerated people’s lives and complicated legal cases. For more on “Making an Exoneree\,” read a recent news article here.  \n“Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree” is supported by the Institute of the Arts and Science’s Visualizing Abolition public scholarship initiative\, organized by Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, IAS\, with support from the Mellon Foundation.  \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n Watch (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n Watch Now Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n https://vimeo.com/695779341\n \n \n Close URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/making-an-exoneree/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/unnamed-1_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T233115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T165758Z UID:2694-1653246000-1653253200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Dance Performance & Film Screening w/ Raissa Simpson & Maurya Kerr / Tinypistol DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged\, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  \nPerformed in site-specific locations and onstage\, Raissa Simpson will be performing an excerpt of EMME YA: Expedition\, which applies a conceptual underpinning of Afro-technoculture through movement and media. This ongoing exploration includes various frameworks to reimagine paths of survival that are born out of moments of collective trauma and the reclamation of Afrofuturism as a creative metaphor for healing. \nAdditionally\, Maurya Kerr/ tinypistol will be sharing Saint Leroi\, a short film about a Black avenging angel come down from on high. By reinstating Blackness as arbiter of justice and punisher of wrong amidst the ceaseless anti-Black apocalypse of America\, Saint Leroi challenges who is allowed judgement\, destruction\, rapture\, and rebirth. While a trenchant indictment of the blood-stained hands of all those—past and present—who know what they’ve done\, Saint Leroi is ultimately an expression of belonging\, utter grief\, radical love\, the afro-future\, and the afro-now. \nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish.  For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nRaissa Simpson\n\n\n\nRaissa Simpson is an interdisciplinary artist\, scholar and director of PUSH Dance Company in San Francisco. After receiving her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase\, Simpson had an extensive performance career in the San Francisco Bay Area dancing with Robert Moses’ Kin and Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre. Hailed by Dance Spirit Magazine as “Reflective Contemporary Choreography\,” she has been presented at Ferst Center at Georgia Tech\, Sacramento State\, Joyce SoHo\, San Francisco State\, Washington Ensemble Theater\, Evolve Dance Festival/NY\, Los Angeles Theater Center\, Black Choreographers Festival\, Renberg Theater and many more. \n\n\n\n\n\nMaurya Kerr\n\n\n\nMaurya Kerr is a bay area-based artist\, poet\, educator\, and the artistic director of tinypistol. Much of her artistic work\, across disciplines\, is focused on Black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years\, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018\, and holds an MFA from Hollins University. Her poetry is anthologized in “The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superhero Poetry” and was recently chosen by Jericho Brown as a runner-up in Southern Humanities Review’s 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Maurya is currently a UC Berkeley ARC (Arts Research Center) Poetry & the Senses Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission. If you have a disability-related need\, please contact the Arts Events Office at artsevents@ucsc.edu as soon as possible. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-dance-performance-film-screening-w-raissa-simpson-maurya-kerr-tinypistol/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Spring-2022-Events-Web-Listings-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T233652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T232005Z UID:2698-1653159600-1653166800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Abolition. Feminism. Now. W/ Angela Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. The first 100 students to register will receive a free copy of Abolition. Feminism. Now (student ID required).  \nAs a politic and a practice\, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usually queer\, anti-capitalist\, grassroots\, and women of color—organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated from vibrant community based organizing\, Abolition. Feminism. Now. surfaces necessary historical genealogies\, key internationalist learnings\, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and futures. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is available for purchase online or in person at Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \nThis conversation is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, Feminist Studies\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of the Andrew W. Mellon funded Visualizing Abolition initiative UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nAngela Y. Davis\n\n\n\nAngela Y. Davis\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, is a renowned activist and scholar. The author of numerous monographs\, including most recently\, Freedom is a Constant Struggle\, 2015\, for decades Davis has been for decades at the forefront of research and activism on prison abolition and the related intersections of race\, gender\, and class.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGina Dent\n\n\n\nGina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. The editor of Black Popular Culture\, and a prison abolition activist for more than 25 years\, Dent is also the director of UC Santa Cruz’s groundbreaking public scholarship initiative\, Visualizing Abolition\, an art and education project aimed at shifting the social attachment to prisons.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErica R. Meiners\n\n\n\nErica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and author most recently of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State\, 2016. Meiners has collaboratively started and works alongside a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation\, particularly movements that involve access to free public education for all\, including people during and after incarceration\, and other queer abolitionist struggles. \n\n\n\n\n\nBeth E. Richie\n\n\n\nBeth E. Richie is Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy\, and Professor of Black studies and criminology\, law\, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richie’s most recent publication\, Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation\, 2012 demonstrates the emphasis of both her scholarly and activist work on how race/ethnicity and social position affect women’s experience of violence and incarceration\, focusing on the experiences of African American battered women and sexual assault survivors.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/abolition-feminism-now-w-angela-davis-gina-dent-erica-meiners-and-beth-richie/ LOCATION:UCSC Quarry Amphitheater\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AFN-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T234123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T163427Z UID:2704-1652702400-1652707800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Searching for Freedom with the Afronauts DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. \nIn 1964\, Edward Makuka Nkoloso\, a member of the Zambian resistance movement and the founder of the Zambia National Academy of Science\, began to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. Although space travel was not realized\, the Zambian Space Program has since captured the imagination of contemporary artists and filmmakers on the African continent and beyond. Nuotamo Bodoomo\, Larry Achiampong and Aaron Samuel Mulenga will talk about how imaginings of space travel are utilized in their disparate practices. The discussion will center on the politics and possibilities the artists and filmmakers find in the creative transcendence of space and time. \nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nLarry Achiampong\n\n\n\nLarry Achiampong is a British Ghanaian artist whose work includes moving image; sculptural installation; photographic and painted collage; audio and visual archives; live performance; spoken word; recorded sound bytes and composed scores. Achiampong has exhibited\, performed and presented projects within the UK and abroad including Tate Britain/Modern\, London; The Institute For Creative Arts\, Cape Town; The British Film Institute\, London; David Roberts Art Foundation\, London; Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen; Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation\, Accra; Logan Center Exhibitions\, Chicago; Prospect New Orleans\, New Orleans; Diaspora Pavilion – 57th Venice Biennale\, Venice; and Somerset House\, London. \n\n\n\n\n\nNuotama Frances Bodomo\n\n\n\nNuotama Frances Bodomo is a nomadic filmmaker of Dagaaba origin currently based in Tamale\, Ghana. She earned a BA in Film Studies at Columbia University and an MFA in Film Production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her award-winning short films Boneshaker (2013)\, Afronauts (2014)\, and Everybody Dies! (2016) have played at festivals including Sundance\, the Berlinale\, BlackStar\, Telluride\, Rotterdam\, SXSW\, and New Directors/New Films. Afronauts has participated in several group exhibitions\, including the Whitney Museum’s Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art\, 1905-2016\, the 2018 Venice Biennale’s Dimensions of Citizenship\, & the 4th Edition of the Lubumbashi Biennale in 2015. She has also served as staff writer & director on the Peabody Award-winning first season of Random Acts of Flyness (HBO) and co-founded the New Negress Film Society. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2014 and is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Film. Her work is currently streaming on Netflix and the Criterion Channel. \n\n\n\n\n\nAaron Samuel Mulenga\n\n\n\nAaron Samuel Mulenga\, is a multimedia artist from Zambia whose visual practice is inspired by concepts of ancestry and legacy\, with a current focus on Zambia’s space program and the Afronauts. His practice includes sculptural forms\, installation\, performance and collage. Mulenga is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Mulenga has exhibited at the Iziko Museum\, Cape Town\, the Zambia National Art Gallery\, and the 2021 FNB Art Fair\, Johannesburg in collaboration with Modzi Arts Gallery. Mulenga is scheduled to participate at this year’s Congo Biennial in Kinshasa.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-searching-for-freedom-with-the-afronauts/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/April-19-Larry-Nuotama-Frances-Aaron.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220514T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220514T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T234738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053044Z UID:2708-1652554800-1652562000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Pamela-Z and Friends in Concert DESCRIPTION:A pioneer of live digital looping techniques\, she processes her voice in real time to create dense\, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques\, operatic bel canto\, found objects\, text\, and sampled concrete sounds. Join us May 14\, 2022 at 7 p.m. for a live music performance by this world-renowned musician\, joined also by Alex Wand\, Seth Glickman\, Odeya Nini\, Archie Carey\, Brock Stuessi\, Kyle Bruckmann\, Vanessa Ruotolo\, and William Winant for a uniquely collaborative concert. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, with admission offered on a first come\, first serve basis. Registration is encouraged\, but not required for entry. See information about visiting the Rio Theatre\, Covid protocols\, and parking.  \nPamela Z and Friend’s performance is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural initiative on Afrofuturism. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions in May 2022 will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation. The event is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for the 2021-2022 Media and Society Lecture Series\, Kresge College. \nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Z\n\n\n\nPamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States\, Europe\, and Japan – performing in international festivals and venues including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (NY); La Biennale di Venezia; San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox\, the Japan Interlink Festival; Other Minds (San Francisco); and Pina Bausch Tanztheater’s Festival (Wuppertal\, Germany). Her large-scale\, performance works have been presented at venues like the Kitchen in New York\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Theater Artaud (Z Space) in San Francisco\, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago\, as well as at theaters in Washington D.C. and Budapest. Her one-act opera Wunderkabinet\, inspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (co-composed with Matthew Brubeck\,) premiered at The LAB in San Francisco\, and was presented at REDCAT in LA and Open Ears Festival in Canada. She has shown work in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (New York); Savvy Contemporary (Berlin); the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs NY); the Dakar Biennale (Sénégal); Krannert Art Museum (IL)\, and the Kitchen (NY). Ms. Z has received commissions from chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet\, Eighth Blackbird\, Bang On A Can All Stars; Ethel\, Del Sol Quartet\, California E.A.R. Unit; Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; and Empyrean Ensemble. She is he recipient of many honors and awards including the Rome Prize\, the United States Artists fellowship\, the Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award\, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency\, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts; the Creative Capital Fund; the MAP Fund\, the ASCAP Music Award; an Ars Electronica honorable mention; and the NEA Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit: www.pamelaz.com \n\n\n\n\n\nKyle Bruckmann\n\n\n\nKyle Bruckmann is an oboist and electronic musician who tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer\, educator\, and New Music specialist. His creative output – extending from conservatory-trained foundations into gray areas encompassing free jazz\, post-punk rock\, and the noise underground – can be heard on more than 100 recordings from labels such as New World\, Hat Art\, Carrier\, New Focus\, Entr’acte\, Not Two\, Clean Feed\, Another Timbre\, 482Music and Sick Room. He has performed and/or recorded with Creative Music progenitors Roscoe Mitchell\, Anthony Braxton and George Lewis\, and worked as a sideman for bandleaders such as Lisa Mezzacappa\, Guillermo Gregorio\, Andrew Raffo Dewar and Myra Melford. Current ensemble affiliations include Splinter Reeds\, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players\, Eco Ensemble\, Quinteto Latino\, sfSound\, and the Stockton Symphony; the most significant projects he has led or collaboratively founded include Degradient\, EKG\, Lozenge\, and Wrack. He is Assistant Professor of Practice in Oboe and Contemporary Music at University of the Pacific\, and also teaches at UC Santa Cruz\, Davis and Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Wand\n\n\n\nAlex Wand is a composer interested in folk music\, ecology\, social practice art\, tuning systems\, field recording\, and dance/multimedia collaborations. His music has been described as having “melody lines that can circle through one’s head for days after listening\, begging to be rewound and re-listened and timbres and layers that are supremely joyful and poignant and at times absolutely laid bare in their sincerity” (New Classic LA). He performs with groups such as Desert Magic and the Grammy Award-winning Partch Ensemble\, and his music can be heard on MicroFest Records\, Bridge Records\, Hungry Badger\, and Frog Peak Music (A Composers’ Collective). He studied music at the University of Michigan and at California Institute of the Arts\, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in music composition at UC Santa Cruz.  \n\n\n\n\n\nOdeya Nini\n\n\n\nOdeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interest is performance practices\, textural harmony\, gesture\, tonal animation\, and the illumination of minute sounds\, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Odeya’s work has been presented at venues and festivals across the US and internationally\, such as The Broad\, REDCAT\, Joyce Soho\, MONA and Art Basel Miami\, from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv\, Australia\, Mongolia\, Madagascar and Vietnam. She also leads sound healing meditations and workshops exploring the healing qualities of embodying the voice.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArchie Carey\n\n\n\nArchie Carey is a bassoonist and composer living in Los Angeles. Archie has presented his own work at REDCAT\, The Portland Art Museum\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, The Hammer Museum\, SOMArts\, and many other spaces and places throughout the US\, Germany\, Vietnam\, Israel\, and Iceland. His work as a composer aims to magnify sound\, pitch\, timbre\, and environment to make the subtlest details a point of focus\, creating a meditative space for both listener and performer. Archie is a founding member of wild Up\, and The Joshua Trio\, and has performed regularly with The Dogstar Orchestra\, The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble\, and other adventurous music groups in and around Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\nBrock Stuessi\n\n\n\nBrock Stuessi is a musician and aspiring archivist currently residing in Los Angeles. His current music projects are Neap\, a duo formation with saxophonist Kurtis Shaffer exploring improvisation\, trance\, and ambient forms\, and solo work for guitar\, synthesizer and voice. In addition to music making\, Brock also runs the Hungry Badger record label and press where he releases music and songbooks with friends. He holds a BA in Music from Northwestern University\, an MA in Ethnomusicology from UC Santa Cruz\, and is currently working on his MS in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa Ruotolo\n\n\n\nVanessa Ruotolo serves as a lecturer in music\, in cello\, at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She received her musical training from the New England Conservatory\, Boston University (B.M.) and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M).She is concurrently affiliated with Santa Rosa Symphony\, Pacific Chamber Orchestra\, Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra\, Skywalker Sound Orchestra & Shorenstein Hays Nederlander. As founding member of The Rhythm Sisters\, a String Quartet dedicated to outreach\, Vanessa has scripted and performed educational shows for thousands of children and families throughout California. Vanessa has recorded with New World and Other Minds Records. She enjoys playing a wide variety of music\, having performed with numerous Broadway shows in San Francisco and on U.S. tours\, recorded for several motion pictures and popular video games with Skywalker Sound Orchestra and shared the stage with popular musicians including Stevie Wonder\, Mary J. Blige\, Jay-Z\, Donna Summer\, Ray Charles and Andrea Bocelli\, to name a few. \n\n\n\n\n\nSeth Glickman\n\n\n\nSeth Glickman is a composer\, multi-instrumentalist performer\, and creator of music-related technologies. His orchestral and chamber works have premiered in Paris\, New York\, and Pittsburgh\, PA. His scores for the acclaimed documentary film\, Haenyeo\, and award-winning game\, Rosenstrasse\, highlight the variety in his collaborations. His Music Everywhere augmented reality piano experience was featured at the NIME conference\, and won the grand prize in Microsoft and Unity’s HoloLens Developer Competition. Seth received his master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently a DMA composition student at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Winant\n\n\n\nWilliam Winant is a Grammy nominated percussionist whoi has performed with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time\, including John Cage\, Iannis Xenakis\, Keith Jarrett\, Anthony Braxton\, James Tenney\, Cecil Taylor\, George Lewis\, Steve Reich and Musicians\, Yo-Yo Ma\, Frederic Rzewski\, Ursula Oppens\, Joan LaBarbara\, Annea Lockwood\, Joelle Leandre\, Oingo Boingo\, Mr. Bungle\, Sonic Youth\, and the Kronos String Quartet. ​​He has made over 200 recordings\, covering a wide variety of genres. His recording of Lou Harrison’s “La Koro Sutro” (which he produced for New Albion Records) was the New York Times Critic’s Choice for best contemporary recording of 1988. In 1999 he produced a recording of music by 20th-century avant-garde composers with the influential rock band Sonic Youth; “Goodbye 20th-Century” (SYR4)\, was hailed by both The Los Angeles Times and New York’s Village Voice as one of the best compendiums of this type of music ever recorded. In 2016\, Winant was awarded a large unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in recognition for his groundbreaking work as a contemporary percussionist. He is principal percussionist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In 2014 he received a Grammy nomination for his recording of John Cage’s historic solo work\, 27′ 10.554″ for a percussionist\, on Micro Fest Records. ​​He performs frequently with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players\, and is a member of the faculty at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa Ruotolo\n\n\n\nNidhi Mahajan (Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, University of California\, Santa Cruz) Nidhi Mahajan is currently working on a book project “Moorings: The Dhow Trade\, Sovereignty and Capitalism in the Indian Ocean” that focuses on trade networks\, illegality/legality\, vernacular capitalism\, shipping and state power across the Middle East\, South Asia\, and East Africa. She has also curated exhibitions in Kenya\, India and recently participated in the 2019 Sharjah Architecture Triennial.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSeth Glickman\n\n\n\nDavid Haussler\, Ph.D. (Investigator\, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Distinguished Professor\, Biomolecular Engineering\, University of California; Santa Cruz Scientific Director\, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute\, University of California\, Santa Cruz; Scientific Co-Director\, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences) develops statistical\, algorithmic and experimental methods to explore molecular function and evolution in the human genome\, integrating comparative and high-throughput genomics data to study gene structure\, function\, and regulation. He develops and shares infrastructure to support both basic research and medicine. In the 1990s\, he pioneered the use in genomics of hidden Markov models\, stochastic context-free grammars\, neural networks and discriminative kernel methods\, building some of the most successful computational methods to find genes in genome sequences and align them to detect evolutionary changes. As collaborators on the international Human Genome Project\, his team created the first publicly available computational assembly of the human genome sequence and posted it on the Internet on July 7\, 2000. They subsequently developed the UCSC Genome Browser\, a web-based tool that is used extensively in biomedical research and serves virtually all large-scale vertebrate genomics projects including NHGRI’s ENCODE project and the NCI’s Cancer Genomics Atlas Project\, where he served on the steering committee. More recently they developed the BRCA-exchange\, which\, with >20\,000 variants of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes\, is the largest public data network for BRCA variants in the world and the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Project to enable international comparison of childhood cancer genomes with a special emphasis on pediatric brain cancer. His experimental research focuses on the molecular evolution of DNA\, RNA\, and protein sequences with a special emphasis on neurodevelopment and immunology. His lab uses CRISPR\, cortical organoid\, single cell RNA-seq and other technologies to functionally characterize neurodevelopmental genes that were specifically altered in human evolution. His team develops and shares infrastructure to support both research in and the clinical application of precision medicine. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-pamela-z-and-friends-in-concert/ LOCATION:Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PZ_Gray1B-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T235137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053108Z UID:2713-1652468400-1652475600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Afrofuturism Film Screening Featuring Films by Larry Achiampong and Nuotama Bodomo DESCRIPTION:Films featured: \nAfronauts\, Nuotama Bodomo \, 2014 \nAfronauts\, a 2014 short film by Ghanaian-born filmmaker Nuotama Frances Bodomo\, follows a team of astronauts as they train for a mission to the moon. This video was inspired by the Zambian space program in the 1960s and follows then-17-year-old astronaut Matha Mwamba\, the woman at the center of this historic mission. Led by schoolteacher and revolutionary Edward Mukuka Nkoloso\, Zambia’s National Academy of Science\, Space Research and Philosophy began as an unofficial program with aspirations to beat the Soviet Union and the United States to the moon. \nCombining true events and fiction\, Bodomo set the film on July 16\, 1969\, the same day as the Apollo 11 launch\, and wove audio and video clips from its historic moon landing throughout the narrative. Though the Zambian mission did not send an astronaut to the moon\, the program successfully asserted the ambitions of its country\, which had become independent from the United Kingdom in 1964. \nSet historically in the years following this independence\, Afronauts draws many parallels with today\, highlighting the persistent and unfounded underestimation of African nations\, the continued fight for racial and gender equity\, and the international competition for scientific advancements. \n“Relic Traveller Series”\, Larry Achiampong\, 2017-2020 (Relic 0\, Relic 1\, Relic 2\, Relic 3\, Reliquary 4) \nThe “Relic Traveller Series” is a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong\, which manifests in performance\, audio\, moving image and prose. Centred within themes related to Sanko-time\, “Relic Traveller “takes place across various landscapes and locations; the project builds upon a postcolonial perspective informed by technology\, agency and the body\, and narratives of migration. \nThis speculative project considers the social and political climate of current times; the rise of nationalism within the global West and tensions surrounding moments such as the United Kingdom’s leave ‘Brexit’ vote in 2016. Meanwhile\, the African Union’s passport programme (also established in 2016) points toward the potential opening of boarders across a unified African continent in the future. With these instances\, the Relic Traveller series imagines a future in which the global West devolves to point of decline\, whilst the African Union ascends into prosperity\, harmony\, independence and\, responsibility in shaping the future of the planet. \nAt this unspecified point in time amongst an ambitious set of new initiatives\, the African Union create the ‘Relic Travellers’ Alliance’\, a programme that equips Relic Travellers with space-travelling-technology for the sole purpose of venturing outside of the African Union to retrieve vocal information left by those whom had been historically oppressed as a result of political systems such as colonisation\, capitalism and globalisation. These uncovered testimonies are collected and used as a basis for the African Union to responsibly govern the future informed by a bottom-up perspective. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Paid parking through the Parkmobile App is available in Lot 126\, adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. For additional information and disability or access needs please contact ias@ucsc.edu. \nThis event is part of “Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\,” an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions which brings together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/afrofuturism-film-screening-featuring-films-by-larry-achiampong-and-nuotama-bodomo/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/afronauts.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T000059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053147Z UID:2722-1652122800-1652130000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Nishat Khan\, David Murray\, and Hamid Drake in Concert DESCRIPTION:This event is free for UC Santa Cruz students and $40 for the public.Tickets and admission details to be announced.  \nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, the Ali Akbar Khan Classical Indian Music Endowment\, the UCSC Music Department\, the Center of South Asian Studies\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.  \n\n\nAbout the performers\n\n\n\n\n\nNishat Khan\n\n\n\nNishat Khan is an Indian sitar player from an illustrious musical family and the foremost sitar virtuoso of his generation. With the strike of a single\, unmistakable note\, the sound of Nishat Khan’s sitar instantly captivates and transforms one’s mood. Listeners are transported to another realm by sight and sound unlike any other. As the current torchbearer of the most recorded musical family in the world\, seven generations of wisdom reside in his fingertips. While grounded in centuries of tradition\, Nishat forges his own signature sound\, unfolding with emotional contrasts and surprises at every turn. Nishat gave his first public concert at age 7 and has lived and toured all over the world continuously since age 13. His unique cosmopolitan perspective has inspired a great sensitivity and connection to musical philosophies of the world.  As a composer and music producer he has collaborated with some of the world’s leading musicians such as Larry Coryell\, Paco Peña\, John McLaughlin\, and Gregorian choir Vox Clamantis. In 2021 he premiered his composition for members of the Royal family\, a sitar-cello duet with one of the world’s leading artists\, Sheku Kanneh-Mason.  \n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Murray\n\n\n\nDavid Murray is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who performs mostly on tenor and bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s. He was initially influenced by free jazz musicians such as Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp. He gradually evolved a more diverse style in his playing and compositions. Murray set himself apart from most tenor players of his generation by not taking John Coltrane as his model\, choosing instead to incorporate elements of mainstream players Coleman Hawkins\, Ben Webster and Paul Gonsalves into his mature style. Despite this\, he recorded a tribute to Coltrane\, Octet Plays Trane\, in 1999. He played a set with the Grateful Dead at a show on September 22\, 1993\, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. His 1996 tribute to the Grateful Dead\, Dark Star\, was also critically well received. Murray was a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet with Oliver Lake\, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett. He has recorded and performed with musicians such as Henry Threadgill\, James Blood Ulmer\, Olu Dara\, Tani Tabbal\, Butch Morris\, Donal Fox\, McCoy Tyner\, Elvin Jones\, Sunny Murray (no relation)\, Ed Blackwell\, Johnny Dyani\, Fred Hopkins\, and Steve McCall.  \n\n\n\n\n\nHamid Drake\n\n\n\nHamid Drake is a drummer/ percussionist whose rhythmic expressions and interest in the roots of the music has led him to working with a wide roster of musicians and collaborators. Touring and recording all over the world\, Hamid has played and /or recorded with Fred Anderson\, Peter Brotzmann\, Don Cherry\, Marilyn Crispell\, Pierre Dorge\, Johnny Dyani\, Hassan Hakmoun\, Herbie Hancock\, Joseph Jarman\, George Lewis\, bassist William Parker (in a large number of lineups)\, Michael Zerang\, David Murray\, Bill Laswell\, Jamie Saft\, Sabir Mateen\, Joe McPhee\, Jim Pepper\, Dewey Redman\, Adam Rudolph\, Pharoah Sanders\, Foday Musa Suso\, John Tchicai\, Dave Leibman\, Irene Schweizer\, Michel Portal\, Iva Bittova\, Nicole Mitchell\, Zahra Glenda Baker\, Amina Claudine Meyers\, Josh Abrams\, among others. Hamid won the Jazz Journalist Awaard in 2009 and the Downbeat Critics Poll in 2006\, 2010\, 2017\, 2018\, 2019 as best percussionist. In 2017 he was awarded the title of Chevalier Des Arts et des lettres. \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-nishat-khan-david-murray-and-hamid-drake-in-concert/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Music & Performances,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/May-9-Nishat-Khan-David-Murray.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T235638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T163719Z UID:2717-1652122800-1652130000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Festac '77 and Liberation w/ Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi and Ntone Edjabe DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUgochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi and Ntone Edjabe will discuss the recent publication of FESTAC ’77\, an innovative book and mixtape which is the product of years of research helmed by Chimurenga—a magazine based in Cape Town\, South Africa\, and one of the most important cultural journals on the continent—in collaboration with Afterall\, the London-based journal. Listen to the FESTAC ’77 mixtape here. \n\n\n\nThe 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture which took place in Lagos\, Nigeria\, otherwise known by the acronym FESTAC ’77\, was considered one of the most important cultural events in the Black world in the 20th century. The aims of the cultural fiesta were ambitious: to represent the breadth of Black and African values and culture\, to model mutual coexistence with the other cultures of the world\, and to position Africa as the original homeland of African diaspora peoples. Through the recent book and mixtape\, the editors of Chimeranga recirculate this vibrant past as platform and aesthetic paradigm through which to engage the liberatory possibilities of the future for Africa. As the editors of the book and the creators of the mixtape ask: “Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?”  \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \n\n\n\nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nUgochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi\n\n\n\nUgochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi joined the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, in July 2019 as the first The Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. Previously\, he was the Curator of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art\, where he organized Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art (2020) and co-organized Ama: The Gathering Place (2019). Prior to Cleveland\, Nzewi was the Curator of African Art at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum. There his exhibitions included Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art (2016)\, and he spearheaded the acquisition of works by artists such as Kader Attia\, Candice Brietz\, Ibrahim El-Salahi\, Julie Mehretu\, and Obiora Udechukwu. At MoMA includes Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound\, the first survey exhibition on the Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré in the United States. He is currently working on several projects at MoMA including a forthcoming monograph on the Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré.  He leads the Museum’s Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) Africa group\, which is MoMA’s internal research and exchange initiative devoted to art in a global context. Nzewi holds a PhD in art history from Emory University. As an artist\, he has exhibited internationally and is represented in public and private collections including the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art\, Washington\, DC\, and Newark Museum\, New Jersey. Recent publications include Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound (2022)\, Dak’Art: The Biennale of Dakar and the Making of Contemporary African Art (2020) and Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art (2019).   \n\n\n\n\n\nNtone Edjabe\n\n\n\nNtone Edjabe is a Cameroonian writer\, journalist\, DJ and the founding editor of Chimurenga magazine (est. 2002)\, a Pan African publication of culture\, art\, and politics based in Cape Town. The title Chimurenga refers to the Shona word for struggle\, as well as to a popular music genre in Zimbabwe. Edjabe’s practice as a DJ weds musical erudition and explicit political engagement centered on Africa’s place in the world. In 2004\, he was facilitator of Time of the Writer\, and in 2007 he participated in its 10th edition at the Centre for Creative Arts of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Edjabe is co-founder and member of the DJ collective Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem. In 2009 he was Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abramowitz Artist-in-Residence. Edjabe also started the Pan African Space Station (PASS)\, an Internet radio platform streamed live across the African world.  In 2011\, he won the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Awards and in 2014\, he was a researcher-in-residence at KHOJ. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-festac-77-and-liberation-w-ugochukwu-smooth-c-nzewi-and-ntone-edjabe/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Spring-2022-Events-Web-Listings-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220508T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T000519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053234Z UID:2726-1652036400-1652043600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: "Not About Race Dance" Performance by GeraldCaselDance DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged\, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  \nDance artist and equity activator Gerald Casel will present Not About Race Dance\, a collaborative\, choreographic response to the racial politics of U.S. postmodern dance. Despite postmodernism’s popularity\, its racial dynamics have gone largely unacknowledged. In Not About Race Dance\, Casel and his collaborators occupy a space that has been historically defined by white artists to present a contrasting vision of where Black and Brown bodies belong. When the work premiered this past December\, the Fjord Review said that the dancers were “intensely present and riveting…reclaiming the literal and sociological ‘white space’ of postmodern dancing in episodes that are vulnerable\, cathartic\, clever\, and delivered with compelling rigor. Not About Race Dance features an all-BIPOC ensemble of five dancers that includes Styles Alexander\, Gerald Casel\, Audrey Johnson\, Karla Quintero\, and Cauveri Suresh\, with an original score performed live by sound designer Tim Russell. Additional collaborators include Aron Altmark (lighting and media design) and Rebecca Chaleff (dramaturgy). \nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nAbout GERALDCASELDANCE \nSince 1998\, GERALDCASELDANCE has been creating and presenting experimental dance that combines social practice with creative and collaborative explorations. Each dance provokes reflection and implants its imagery into the viewer’s psyche by combining movement and spatial composition with metaphor. Dropping hints of narrative while inviting space for contemplation\, the dances deliver multiple levels of interpretation and meaning. GERALDCASELDANCE has been presented at KuanDu Arts Festival Taiwan\, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church\, Movement Research at Judson Church\, Dance New Amsterdam\, Dance Theater Workshop (Fresh Tracks and SplitStream)\, Joyce SoHo\, Dixon Place\, Dancenow NYC\, Aaron Davis Hall\, 92nd Street Y\, The Yard\, Jacob’s Pillow (Inside/Out)\, Danceworks Milwaukee\, ODC Theater and throughout Scotland following a company residency at Dancebase Edinburgh. Casel has been an artist in residence at ODC Theater\, Movement Research\, and has been awarded fellowships through the Hellman Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Freedom Fellow)\, National Center for Choreography Akron\, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography\, and The Bogliasco Foundation. For more information about GERALDCASELDANCE visit geraldcasel.com. \nCostume Consultant: Pamela Rodríguez-Montero \nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission.  \n\n\nAbout geraldcaseldance\n\n\n\nSince 1998\, GERALDCASELDANCE has been creating and presenting experimental dance that combines social practice with creative and collaborative explorations. Each dance provokes reflection and implants its imagery into the viewer’s psyche by combining movement and spatial composition with metaphor. Dropping hints of narrative while inviting space for contemplation\, the dances deliver multiple levels of interpretation and meaning. GERALDCASELDANCE has been presented at KuanDu Arts Festival Taiwan\, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church\, Movement Research at Judson Church\, Dance New Amsterdam\, Dance Theater Workshop (Fresh Tracks and SplitStream)\, Joyce SoHo\, Dixon Place\, Dancenow NYC\, Aaron Davis Hall\, 92nd Street Y\, The Yard\, Jacob’s Pillow (Inside/Out)\, Danceworks Milwaukee\, ODC Theater and throughout Scotland following a company residency at Dancebase Edinburgh. Casel has been an artist in residence at ODC Theater\, Movement Research\, and has been awarded fellowships through the Hellman Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Freedom Fellow)\, National Center for Choreography Akron\, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography\, and The Bogliasco Foundation. For more information about GERALDCASELDANCE visit geraldcasel.com. \n\n\n\nCostume Consultant: Pamela Rodríguez-Montero \n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission.  \n\n\n\nCostume Designer: Pamela Rodríguez-MonteroAssociate Costume Designer: Ella Schultz \n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-not-about-race-dance-performance-by-geraldcaseldance/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Music & Performances,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/May-8-Not-About-Race-2-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T001109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T172432Z UID:2730-1651863600-1651870800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Surge Afrofuturism: Multimedia Music Performance with Hesterian Musicism DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged\, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  \n\n\n\nHesterian Musicism is the creative process through which Karlton Hester\, composer\, flautist and saxophonist\, brings together musicians\, visual artists and poets in collaborative synergy to create a sonically riveting and visually compelling immersive mulitdisciplinary arts experience. With participating musicians\, poets\, and artists drawing on past traditions to create stepping-stones to future creations\, Hesterian Musicism provides an aesthetic environments in which new art forms can emerge through imaginative effort. Its philosophical basis involves an intrinsic freedom of expression\, focused and disciplined spontaneity\, and a structural basis that explores the creative components of diverse sources from the whole earth. Performances have taken in New York\, California\, South America\, and Asia.   \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism\, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester\, choreographer Gerald Casel\, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement\, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge\, an extended program of music and dance performances\, film screenings\, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism. \n\n\n\nSurge is made possible by generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, the National Endowment from the Arts\, UCHRI\, UCSC Academic Senate\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, the Ali Akbar Khan Classical Indian Music Endowment\, the UCSC Music Department\, the Center of South Asian Studies\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Performers\n\n\n\n\n\nKarlton E. Hester\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nKarlton E. Hester\, Ph.D. (composer/flutist/saxophonist)\, began his career as a composer and recording artist in Los Angeles where he worked as a studio musician and music educator. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York Graduate Center and is currently Director of “Jazz” Studies (and member of the Digital Arts and New Media faculty) at the University of California in Santa Cruz. As performer on both flute and saxophone\, he is founding music director of the Fillmore Jazz Preservation Big Band (in San Francisco)\, director of Hesterian Musicism\, and served as the Herbert Gussman Director of Jazz Studies at Cornell University from 1991-2001. Hester specializes in premeditated\, spontaneous and electro-acoustic composition. His compositions span a wide range; from numerous solo cycles for various woodwinds to chamber configurations\, music videos and electro-acoustic symphonic works written in an eclectic array of styles. \n\n\n\n\n\nYunxiang Gao\n\n\n\nYunxiang Gao is a composer\, pianist\, and pipa player from China. She graduated from Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Composition. In 2005\, her multimedia piece “Yin” won second prize in the MUSICACOUSTICA festival\, and in 2009\, her pipa concerto “Qin Yong” was awarded third prize in Beijing International Music Festival and Academy. In 2012\, she performed a pipa concerto for the“Pan-Asia” Festival at Stanford University. Her symphonic works “Picture of Borderland” and “Beijing Opera – Sheng\, Dan\, Jing\, Chou” were performed by the UC Irvine orchestra and conducted by Professor Christopher Dobrian. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts with an emphasis in World Music Composition at the University of California at Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill Johnson\n\n\n\nBill Johnson has been a trumpet player for over 40 years and spends his days (any many evenings) as the general manager of WRTI\, Philadelphia’s classical music and jazz public radio station.  He believes music is a powerful model for social change and that we all have an obligation to support music education as a means of teaching collaboration\, listening\, respect\, concentration\, and appreciation for the power of what working together can achieve. He serves on the board of Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation and the leadership team for Jazz Philadelphia\, a new project to create a sustainable jazz ecosystem.  \n\n\n\n\n\nMandjou Kone\n\n\n\nMandjou Kone (griot/storyteller\, kora\, dancer\, choreographer) was born and raised in West Africa in the countries of Mali and Burkina Faso. She was born into the Koné family\, a well-known Griot Family. The Griots people of West Africa are world renown for their unique ability to record events carefully and accurately\, passing history from one generation to the other. As a young girl Mandjou assisted her Griot father in keeping his band alive by singing\, dancing and playing instruments like the Djembe\, Bala\, Dundun\, Kora and Tama. She also danced and performed with the National Ballet of Burkina Faso. With her brother’s group ‘Surutukunu’ Mandjou toured Europe extensively as lead singer. Mandjou is a very popular dance educator and has been teaching and performing over the past eleven years throughout the US. In March 2003 in Santa Cruz\, CA she was honored with the ‘Calabash Award’ for her excellence in the ethnic arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEki’Shola\n\n\n\nEki’Shola is vocalist\, multi-instrumentalist\, and board-certified internal medicine and lifestyle medicine physician\,whose music has been called  “half-time electronic soul for the mind” – Featured in PBS\, NPR Tiny Desk Contest\, KQED and Best of the Bay Editors’ Pick\, Eki’Shola’s music transcends genre\, as she seamlessly draws from jazz\, electronica\, and soul music to create a sonic landscape all her own. Her debut album\, Final Beginning\, was released in 2016. Her most recent release\,  Essential\, 2020\, features instrumentals\, spoken word\, and lyrics that share hope\, inspired by periods of contemplation among movements of climate change\, coronavirus pandemic\, and Black Lives Matter advocacy. \n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Smith\n\n\n\nDavid Smith is a performer\, composer and educator. Mr. Smith has earned both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music. He has developed a unique fifths tuning with five strings for his primary instruments\, the Double Bass and Electric Bass. Through technique and a penchant for elegant solutions\, Mr. Smith aims to pattern music that moves our experience towards freedom. \n\n\n\n\n\nSiwen Zhao\n\n\n\nSiwen Zhao is a well-known Chinese dancer\, actress and singer. She holds a B.A degree from Minzu University of China\, majoring in dance performance. She caught attention through her solo dance in the closing ceremony of Athens Olympiad in 2004 and her solo dance “dream” in National Centre for the Performing Arts in 2005. She gained her fame through Expo 2010 Shanghai China and other commercial occasions. From 2008-2015\, she starred in the movie remake of “White Snake” with Jack Li\, then successfully entered the Chinese television field. From 2015 until now\, she teaches at Mei Dao Art Education Center as a dance instructor with focuses on Chinese folk dances. \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission. If you have a disability-related need\, please contact the Arts Events Office at artsevents@ucsc.edu as soon as possible. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/surge-afrofuturism-multimedia-dance-performance-with-oysterknife-gabriele-christian-and-chibuezecrouch/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Music & Performances,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/May-6-Hesterian-Musicism.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T001504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T232354Z UID:2734-1650913200-1650920400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY: Visualizing Abolition with Rhodessa Jones and Sarah Crowell DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, IAS\, with support from the Mellon Foundation. The events feature artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition.  \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nRhodessa Jones’\n\n\n\nRhodessa Jones’ work in education\, performance and activism has taken place in corrections and for educational institutions internationally. She conducted the Medea Project in South African prisons\, working with incarcerated women and trained correctional personnel and local artists. In 2012\, the U.S. Department of State\, Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau named her as Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy. Jones is a recipient of many awards and honors including the US Artist Fellowship; the Pew Fellowship; SF Bay Guardian’s Lifetime Achievement Award; SF Foundation Community Leadership Award; Non-Profit Arts Excellence Award by the SF Business Arts Council; and an Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theater. From 2018-2021\, she was Frank H.T. Rhodes Chair at Cornell University. She was appointed as a Rhodes Professor “to strengthen the undergraduate experience by bringing individuals from every walk of life who represent excellence of achievement to the university.” As a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College\, Jones was invited to join August Wilson\, Cornel West\, Yo-Yo Ma\, and Anna Deavere Smith as a “Montgomery Fellow”\, fostering “the advancement of the academic realm of the College in ways that will significantly add to the quality and character of the institution.” Most recently\, Jones was an Actress/Voice Talent for the character “Lulu” in Disney’s (Pixar) award-winning feature length animated film\, SOUL. \n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Crowell\n\n\n\nSarah Crowell is a dancer and choreographer who has taught dance\, theater\, mindfulness and violence prevention for over 35 years. At the end of 2020 she left her position as the Artistic Director at Destiny Arts Center in Oakland where she served in different capacities including Executive Director for 30 years. She founded and co-directed the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company\, which was the subject of two documentary films\, and won the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award. Sarah has facilitated arts integration\, violence prevention\, cultural humility and team building professional development sessions with artists and educators since 2000\, both locally and nationally. She is the recipient of many awards including the KPFA Peace award\, the KQED Women’s History Local Hero award\, and the National Guild for Community Arts Education Milestone award. She is a four-time finalist for a Tony Award for Excellence in Theater Education. Sarah believes that movement must be part of all movements for social change. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-with-rhodessa-jones-and-sarah-crowell/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/58453629_DATEBOOK_rhodessa0826-1024x683-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T001815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053512Z UID:2738-1650654000-1650661200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Strange Weather Exhibition UCSC Alumni Reception DESCRIPTION:Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades\, from 1970-2020\, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations\, industrialization\, global capitalism\, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape. \nConcurrent with Strange Weather\, a capsule exhibition of the works of Glenn Ligon from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will be on view at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa Cruz. \nArtists Include: Carlos Almarez\, Carlos Amorales\, Leonardo Drew\, Joe Feddersen\, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds\, James Lavadour\,  Nicola Lopez\, Hung Liu\, Julie Mehretu\, Wendy Red Star\, Alison Saar\, Lorna Simpson\, Kiki Smith\, Charles Wilbert White\, Kehinde Wiley\, Terry Winters. \n\n\nCostume Designer: Pamela Rodríguez-MonteroAssociate Costume Designer: Ella Schultz \n\n\n\nPlease familiarize yourself in advance with the full COVID-19 protocols required for admission.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/strange-weather-exhibition-ucsc-alumni-reception/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MAH_640x480.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T192804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053547Z UID:2484-1650549600-1650553200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traction: Art Talk with Leonardo Drew and Jordan D. Schnitzer DESCRIPTION:Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades\, from 1970-2020\, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations\, industrialization\, global capitalism\, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape. The exhibition is organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.  \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo Drew\n\n\n\nLeonardo Drew is known for creating reflective abstract sculptural works that play upon the dystopic tension between order and chaos. Recalling Post Minimalist sculpture that alludes to America’s industrial past \, as well as the plight of African Americans throughout U.S. history. One could find many meanings in his work\, but ultimately the cyclical nature of life and decay can be seen in his grids of transformed raw material to resemble and articulate entropy and a visual erosion of time. Drew’s natural talent and passion for art was recognized at an early age\, first exhibiting his work at the age of 13. He went on to attend the Parsons School of Design and received his BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and art in 1985. His works have been shown nationally and internationally and are included in numerous public and private collections. Public institutions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York; The Guggenheim\, The Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden\, Washington DC; and Tate\, London\, among others as well as collaborating with Merce Cunningham on the production of “ Ground Level Overlay.”  New York Times art critic Roberta Smith describes his large reliefs as “pocked\, splintered\, seemingly burned here\, bristling there\, unexpectedly delicate elsewhere. An endless catastrophe seen from above. The energies intimated in these works are beyond human control\, bigger than all of us”.  He currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\n\n\n\n\nJordan D. Schnitzer\n\n\n\nJordan D. Schnitzer bought his first work of art from his mother’s Portland\, Oregon contemporary art gallery at age 14\, marking an early beginning to his lifelong vocation as a collector. Today\, his collection exceeds 19\,000 works and includes many of today’s most important contemporary artists. It has grown to be the country’s largest private print collection. He and His Family Foundation generously lend work from the collections to qualified institutions and has organized over 110 exhibitions and has art exhibited at over 160 museums. Schnitzer is also President of Harsch Investment Properties\, a privately owned real estate investment company based in Portland\, Oregon\, which owns and operates over 28 million square feet of office\, multi-tenant industrial\, multi-family and retail properties in six western states. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/traction-art-talk-with-leonardo-drew-and-jordan-d-schnitzer/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jordanandleo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T002334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053620Z UID:2742-1650546000-1650549600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Strange Weather Exhibition Tour with Jennifer Gonzalez and Jordan Schnitzer DESCRIPTION:Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades\, from 1970-2020\, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations\, industrialization\, global capitalism\, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape. \nArtists Include: Carlos Almarez\, Carlos Amorales\, Leonardo Drew\, Joe Feddersen\, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds\, James Lavadour\,  Nicola Lopez\, Hung Liu\, Julie Mehretu\, Wendy Red Star\, Alison Saar\, Lorna Simpson\, Kiki Smith\, Charles Wilbert White\, Kehinde Wiley\, Terry Winters. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/strange-weather-exhibition-tour-with-jennifer-gonzalez-and-jordan-schnitzer/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Spring-2022-Events1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T003057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053652Z UID:2746-1648735200-1648738800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:I Agree to the Terms DESCRIPTION:The discussion will focus on I Agree to the Terms\, a new interactive cross-media performance presented by The Builders Association— live streaming online by NYU Skirball March 25-April 3.  \nI Agree To The Terms is a new virtual performance developed by the OBIE Award-winning ensemble The Builders Association and presented by NYU Skirball. The interactive 30- minute online event is developed in collaboration with a community of Amazon “microworkers” who discretely train the algorithms that influence our online e-commerce experiences. Microworkers earn from $1 to $100 a day in a vast\, unregulated industry. Their assignments are repetitive\, boring\, maddening\, and sometimes disturbing. For I Agree to the Terms\, audiences enter the Builders Marketplace\, train with actual microworkers and compete for paying jobs\, connecting with the invisible online labor force that shapes our everyday virtual lives. \nLearn more about the performance and how to attend.  \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nMarianne Weems\n\n\n\nMarianne Weems is Professor of Performance Play and Design at UC Santa Cruz and a theater and opera director. She is founder of the award-winning New York-based theater company The Builders Association\, an influential ensemble working at the forefront of integrating media with live performance. With the company\, Weems has created and directed 17 original large-scale productions and worked with unexpected collaborators including the architects Diller + Scofidio\, The National Center for Super Computing Applications\, and the South Asian arts collective motiroti. Her work has toured domestically and internationally including to the RomaEuropa Festival\, the Festival Iberoamericano de Bogota\, the Seoul Festival\, the Melbourne Theater Festival\, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Guggenheim Museum\, and The Brooklyn Academy of Music. Weems has also worked in various creative roles with The Wooster Group\, David Byrne\, Taryn Simon\, Susan Sontag\, The V-Girls\, and many others.  \n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Jackson\n\n\n\nShannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater\, Dance\, and Performance Studies\, UC Berkeley. She is author of numerous books including The Builders Association: Performance and Media in Contemporary Theater (M.I.T. Press\, 2015); Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good\, co-edited with Johanna Burton and Dominic Willsdon (M.I.T. Press 2016); and Social Works: Performing Art\, Supporting Publics (Routledge 2011). Jackson’s writing has also appeared in dozens of museum catalogues\, journals\, blogs\, and edited collections. She has received numerous awards\, including a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Lilla Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Performance Studies (NCA)\, the ATHE Best Book Award\, Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize\, the Kahan Scholar’s Prize in Theatre History (ASTR)\, and the Arts and Humanities Outstanding Service Award.  She has received fellowships from the Spencer Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities\, as well as several collaborative project grants from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund\, UCIRA\, the Creative Work Fund\, the San Francisco Foundation\, and the LEF Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLarry Shea\n\n\n\nLarry Shea is an artist and educator working with a wide variety of digital and analog media\, creating visuals and interactivity for theatrical productions and fine artworks around the world. Some highlights include Julia Scher’s surveillance-art installations in the late 90’s; “Securityworld” (Galerie Hussenot\, Paris); “Wonderland” (Andrea Rosen Gallery\, NY); and “Predictive Engineering 2” (SFMOMA). He was the media/technical designer for Mary Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson’s large-scale outdoor\, train-based performance & projection extravaganza “Geyserland\,” (2003\, Montana). He led the team that created an Augmented Reality “app” for smartphones used throughout “The Elements of Oz” for the acclaimed media-theater company\, The Builders Association (2015-17) and continues to work with them on several projects in development. Larry holds an MFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and a BA from the University of Virginia. He dedicated 8 years to the internationally acclaimed MIX: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival\, serving on the Programming Committee from 1997-2002 and as Executive Director from 2003-2005. He has taught at The New School & Pratt Institute in NY\, & The Museum School\, Boston. Currently he’s an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh\, where he founded and runs the Video & Media Design MFA & BFA programs in the School of Drama. \n\n\n\n\n\nNoah Wardrip-Fruin\n\n\n\nNoah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz. He co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio\, a technical and cultural research group\, with Michael Mateas. Noah has authored or co-edited six books on games and digital media for the MIT Press\, including The New Media Reader (2003)\, a book influential in the development of interdisciplinary digital media curricula. His most recent book\, How Pac-Man Eats\, was published by MIT in 2020. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Institute of Museum and Library Services\, Google\, Microsoft\, and others. Noah’s collaborative playable media projects\, including Screen and Talking Cure\, have been presented by the Guggenheim Museum\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, New Museum of Contemporary Art\, Krannert Art Museum\, Hammer Museum\, and a wide variety of festivals and conferences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n https://vimeo.com/695776761\n \n \n Close URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/i-agree-to-the-terms/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Music & Performances,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Spring-2022-Events2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221024T220637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T223319Z UID:2619-1646316000-1646319600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paula Arai\, Kyle Robertson\, Ruth Murray-Clay DESCRIPTION:The wide-ranging presentations will explore subjects including the science of Buddhist painting\, the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the search for life\, and the interconnections between philosophy and social justice. \nThis event is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and The Humanities Institute. \n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n https://vimeo.com/695779341\n \n \n Close\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nPaula Arai\n\n\n\nLeonardo Drew is known for creating reflective abstract sculptural works that play upon the dystopic tension between order and chaos. Recalling Post Minimalist sculpture that alludes to America’s industrial past \, as well as the plight of African Americans throughout U.S. history. One could find many meanings in his work\, but ultimately the cyclical nature of life and decay can be seen in his grids of transformed raw material to resemble and articulate entropy and a visual erosion of time. Drew’s natural talent and passion for art was recognized at an early age\, first exhibiting his work at the age of 13. He went on to attend the Parsons School of Design and received his BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and art in 1985. His works have been shown nationally and internationally and are included in numerous public and private collections. Public institutions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York; The Guggenheim\, The Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden\, Washington DC; and Tate\, London\, among others as well as collaborating with Merce Cunningham on the production of “ Ground Level Overlay.”  New York Times art critic Roberta Smith describes his large reliefs as “pocked\, splintered\, seemingly burned here\, bristling there\, unexpectedly delicate elsewhere. An endless catastrophe seen from above. The energies intimated in these works are beyond human control\, bigger than all of us”.  He currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Murray-Clay\n\n\n\nPaula Arai received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University\, specializing in Japanese Sōtō Zen. She is author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Buddhist Nuns (Oxford University Press)\, and Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Buddhist Women’s Rituals (University of Hawai’i Press)\, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra––The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo (Shambhala Publications). Her research has received a range of support\, including from Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies. She trained at Aichi Senmon Nisōdō under the tutelage of Aoyama Shundō Rōshi. Arai is currently a professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University\, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. \n\n\n\n\n\nKyle Robertson\n\n\n\nKyle Robertson is a lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz philosophy and legal studies departments. In 2015 he co-founded the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. An attorney\, he has a passion for all things public philosophy. He is involved with high school Ethics Bowl programs\, teaching as part of Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin State Prison\, and philosophy for children. He regularly speaks on public philosophy and publishes on the challenges of doing public philosophy. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/laser-talks-w-paula-arai-kyle-robertson-ruth-murray-clay/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T183000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T003525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053848Z UID:2751-1645549200-1645554600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tina Campt and a Black Gaze in Art DESCRIPTION:Engaging works by artists including Deana Lawson\, Arthur Jafa\, Kahlil Joseph\, Dawoud Bey\, Okwui Okpokwasili\, Simone Leigh\, and Luke Willis Thompson\, Campt argues that these artist’s practices require “viewers to do more than simply look… [they] solicit visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.”  The book has been hailed by Art in America as “a methodological offering [and] a theory of what Blackness brings to making and viewing art\, and to perception in general.”  \nJoin us for a talk by Professor Campt followed by a conversation moderated by Darren Wallace\, PhD student\, Film and Digital Media. \n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\n\n\nTina M. Campt\n\n\n\nTina M. Campt\, a Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art\, is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and a Research Associate at the VIAD (Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre) at the University of Johannesburg. She is the author of Image Matters: Archive\, Photography\, and the African Diaspora in Europe\, 2012\, Listening to Images\, 2017\, and other books. \n\n\n\n\n\nJust Futures: Black Quantum Futurism\, Arthur Jafa\, and Martine Syms​\, presented in collaboration with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, is on view at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery from February 1–March 19\, 2022. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/tina-campt-and-a-black-gaze-in-art/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3.22.22-Tina-Campt-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094910 CREATED:20221025T004152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T053918Z UID:2755-1644310800-1644354000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening of "The White Album" by Arthur Jafa DESCRIPTION:Arthur Jafa is an artist\, director\, editor\, and award-winning cinematographer. His renowned work Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death (2016) is a compilation of found footage set to Kanye West’s gospel-inspired hip-hop track “Ultralight Beam.” The meticulously edited seven-minute montage surveys African American identity and black experience through a vast spectrum of imagery\, including well-known pictures from the civil rights era\, recent scenes of police brutality\, and iconic clips of extraordinary athleticism. For The White Album\, Jafa shifts his lens to white experience\, combining imagery from a wide array of sources\, from music videos to confessionals posted to YouTube\, to produce a trenchant examination of race relations in the United States. Jafa received the 2019 Golden Lion award for best artist in the Venice Biennale for The White Album.  \nJust Futures: Black Quantum Futurism\, Arthur Jafa\, and Martine Syms​\, curated by T.J. Demos\, is on view at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery January 19- March 19\, 2022. With artworks by Black Quantum Futurism\, Arthur Jafa\, and Martine Syms\, Just Futures highlights poignant creative experiments in futurity and justice\, directed at emancipatory worlds-to-come.  \nFilm courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery\, New York and Brussels. The screening is hosted by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Center for Creative Ecologies\, and The Humanities Institute. \nVisitors must be in compliance with Covid-19 protocols. Please complete a symptom check before or upon arrival. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-of-the-white-album-by-arthur-jafa/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/white-album.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T004552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054025Z UID:2759-1643706000-1643749200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:"Just Futures" Opens DESCRIPTION:Against the present’s seemingly endless backdrop of deep political unrest\, environmental emergency\, and racialized injustice\, Just Futures highlights poignant creative experiments in futurity and justice\, directed at emancipatory worlds-to-come. With artworks by Black Quantum Futurism\, Arthur Jafa\, and Martine Syms\, Just Futures considers how time itself is a site of struggle and a horizon of liberation. The centerpiece of the exhibition\, Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death (2016)\, was screened simultaneously over 48 hours across art museums in 2020 as an international response to racial justice uprisings and civil unrest. Far from homogenous\, inherently progressive\, or equitable\, dominant time expresses the 24/7 chronologies of capital\, long synchronized to racialized\, gendered violence and oppression. The seemingly endless meter of production encloses people in temporal holds\, defuturing communities\, and imposing time-traps of debt and deadlines. \nThe artworks included in Just Futures powerfully reveal and challenge such temporality\, including its seeming fixity and policed regimentation. In doing so\, they build on the critical resources of Afrofuturisms of decades past—experiments in sonic and visual futurity that draw together Afro-diasporic cultures of creativity and the chronopolitics of coming liberation. Expanding horizons of the possible\, the artists presented in Just Futures reveal new singular experiments in time travel. They cultivate space agency that dismantle the “Master(s) Clock(work Universe)” (Black Quantum Futurism); present a stunning cinematic exploration of African-American image archives opposing police brutality with scenes of freedom dreams and anti-racist struggle (Arthur Jafa); and offer a “Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto” contesting the entire edifice of racial capitalism (Martine Syms). Each inclusion provokes compelling and urgent recalibrations of justice and futurity.  \nThe exhibition forms part of “Beyond the End of the World\,” which comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture\, and administered by UCSC’s Humanities Institute. For more information visit beyond.ucsc.edu. \nPlease note: Exhibition includes violent imagery and content. Visitors must be in compliance with Covid-19 protocols. Please complete a symptom check before or upon arrival. \nJust Futures is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery\, Center for Creative Ecologies\, and The Humanities Institute. Education programming is developed by Darren Wallace\, PhD student in Film and Digital Media. \nRelated event:FREE EVENT: Screening of Arthur Jafa’s The White AlbumThe White Album by Arthur Jafa (40 min)Feb 8\, 2022\, 9:00 am to 9:00 pmDigital Arts Research Center 108\, UC Santa CruzFilm screens every hour\, on the hour. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/just-futures-opens/ LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-Winter-Events-Web-Listings-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T005042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T232618Z UID:2768-1637089200-1637096400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY: Visualizing Abolition with Cassils and Rafa Esparza DESCRIPTION:In Plain Sight is a coalition of 80 artists\, led by Cassils and esparza\, united to create an artwork dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention and the United States culture of incarceration. On July 4\, 2020\, skytyping fleets spelled out artist-generated messages in white vapor over detention centers across the U.S. This action made visible what is otherwise purposefully obscured: the immoral and appalling treatment of imprisoned immigrants\, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. For this Traction: Art Talk\, Cassils and rafa discussed In Plain Sight\, from its conception to implementation\, and consider the role of art\, collaboration\, and community in ending the government’s unjust treatment of immigrants while providing material support for those most affected.  \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nCassils\n\n\n\nCassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils’s art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence\, representation\, struggle and survival. For Cassils\, performance is a form of social sculpture: Drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations\, Cassils’s work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.  They have had recent solo exhibitions premier globally\, including at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts\, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts\, and MU Hybrid Art House\, Eindhoven\, The Netherlands. Cassils is the recipient of many awards and fellowships\, such as a Fleck Residency from the Banff Center for the Arts\, a Villa Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship\, the inaugural ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art\, a California Community. Foundation Grant\, and MOTHA (Museum of Transgender Hirstory) award. Their work has been featured in New York Times\, Boston Globe\, Artfourm\, Hyperallergic\, Wired\, The Guardian\, Performance Research\, and Art Journal. Their new catalogue Solutions\, is published by the Station Museum of Contemporary Art\, TX. \n\n\n\n\n\nrafa esparza\n\n\n\nrafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history\, personal narratives\, and kinship\, his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that it produces. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry\, esparza employs site-specificity\, materiality\, memory\, and what he calls (non)documentation as primary tools to investigate and expose ideologies\, power structures\, and binary forms of identity that establish narratives\, history\, and social environments. esparza’s recent projects are grounded in laboring with land and adobe-making\, a skill learned from his father\, Ramón Esparza. In so doing\, the artist invites Brown and Queer cultural producers to realize large-scale collective projects\, gathering people together to build networks of support outside of traditional art spaces. esparza is the recipient of many prestigious awards\, including of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant\, California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts\, and Art Matters Foundation grant. In addition to multiple solo and group exhibitions\, esparza has performed at art institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; and Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles. esparza’s work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum\, New York; Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; KADIST\, San Francisco\, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, CA;  Vincent Price Art Museum\, Monterey Park\, CA; and Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-with-cassils-and-rafa-esparza/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Traction_-Art-Talk-with-Cassils-and-rafa-esparza.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221024T200027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054149Z UID:2520-1636466400-1636470000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traction: Art Talk with Delilah Montoya DESCRIPTION:Montoya’s image-making quest is about the discovery and articulation of Chicano culture\, as well as the icons which elucidate the dense history of New Mexico. Her work is an autobiographical exploration that has far-reaching implications for both her community and the preservation of its unique history.  She states\, “As a Chicana artist\, my work\, interpreted as an alternative to the mainstream\, stands as a personal statement that evokes an identity.” Montoya’s Traction: Art Talk covers her groundbreaking artistic practice\, with formats ranging from large\, colorful photographs to intriguing assemblages of gauche\, printing\, and photography\, and topics such as women boxers\, contemporary Casta portraits\, sacred heart collotypes\, and a mural-sized Guadalupana installation. \n  \n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n View the talk Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Close\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\n\n\nDelilah Montoya\n\n\n\nDelilah Montoya was born in Fort Worth\, Texas\, in 1955. Her early work was inspired by Cartier-Bresson’s notion of “decisive moment;” soon this documentary method gave way to alternative approaches that incorporated mark-making and graphic skills with photographic processes. Currently\, Montoya is an emeritus professor at the University of Houston in the School of Art. She has lectured at the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe\, the Albuquerque Museum\, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco\, and the New Wight Gallery at the University of California\, Los Angeles. In 2021\, she was honored with the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF) Latinx Artist Fellowship. Montoya is an Artadia Awardee\, as well as a recipient of the Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States including New Mexico\, Texas\, New York\, California as well as internationally in Puerto Rico\, Russia\, Japan\, France\, and Mexico. Montoya’s work also resides in the Smithsonian Collections. Several of her pieces were in the monumental traveling exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n View the talk here Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n https://vimeo.com/651782142\n \n \n Close URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/traction-visualizing-art-talk-with-delilah-montoya/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Traction_-Art-Talk-with-Delilah-Montoya.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T005749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T232903Z UID:2771-1636392600-1636398000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Abolition and Healing with Jerome Morgan and jackie sumell DESCRIPTION:This event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public.Faculty\, staff\, and students must be in compliance with COVID-19 protocols and the badge system for clearance to be on campus. Please wear your face covering at this event. Check your Health e-Messenger for your daily clearance. \nJerome Morgan was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is an entrepreneur and organizer\, mobilizing communities to confront systems of oppression and to create spaces to heal from the traumas caused by the criminal legal system. jackie sumell is an artist and abolitionist organizer. Her public art and garden project\, Solitary Garden\, a collaboration with Tim Young\, who is currently on Death Row in San Quentin\, is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Jerome and jackie will discuss their individual approaches to mutual aid and organizing against carceral systems. They will speak about their shared work with New Orleans youth at the Ngombo Café and Sanctuary\, a café and healing space created by exonerees\, artists\, and activists which aims to “provide plant based products grown in tandem with incarcerated individuals to facilitate healing for the communities they have been accused of harming. It is through this unique collaboration that we envision a world without prisons.” \nThis event is collaboratively produced and sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, the Dean of Humanities\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz.  \nOf interest articles and writings by Jerome Morgan and collaborator:  \n“Education is Improvisation: Improvisation is Art” \n“Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression” \n“Letters: I was wrongfully convicted in Louisiana\, then overcharged by the bail bond industry” \n“Letters: New Orleans has wasted its money on jails instead of supporting its people” \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nJerome Morgan\n\n\n\nJerome Morgan is a native New Orleanian who was wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 17 in Angola State Penitentiary for 20 years before he was fully exonerated in 2016. He is the Co-Founder/Programs Director of Free-Dem Foundations\, Owner/Trauma Counselor with Jerome 4 Justice\, LLC\, Graphic Designer/Writer with Park Roots Productions\, LLC\, Real Estate Developer/Investor with J & A Justice Holdings\, Inc\, Social Justice Co-Facilitator/Community Activist with Students At the Center (SAC)\, Panelist for Criminal versus Gentlemen: What Defines The Black Male Image 1 & 2\, co-author of “Unbreakable Resolve: Triumphant Stories of 3 True Gentlemen”\, published in 2017 and “Go To Jail: Confronting a System of Oppression”\, published 2021 and has conducted workshops at universities all over the country about how he overcame injustice. Morgan is a pioneer in Formerly Incarcerated Person  (FIP) entrepreneurship\, community-based business models\, FIP peer mentoring\, FIP youth advocacy and FIP literary works. \n\n\n\n\n\njackie sumell\n\n\n\njackie sumell works at the intersection of abolition\, social practice\, and contemplative studies. She has spent the last 2-decades working directly with incarcerated folx\, most notably\, her elders Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has been the recipient of multiple residencies and fellowships including\, but not limited to\, an A Blade of Grass Fellowship\, Creative Capital\, Art 4 Justice\, Robert Rauschenberg Artist-as-Activist Fellowship\, Soros Justice Fellowship\, Eyebeam Project Fellowship and a Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship. sumell’s work invites us to imagine a landscape without prisons. She is based in New Orleans\, Louisiana where she continues to work on Herman’s House\, Solitary Gardens\, The Prisoner’s Apothecary PLUS and several other community generated\, advocacy based projects. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/abolition-and-healing-with-jerome-morgan-and-jackie-sumell/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jerome-and-jackie-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T220000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T010116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054247Z UID:2774-1635879600-1635890400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traction: Art Talk with Sharon Hayes in Conversation with Jennifer González DESCRIPTION:Afrofuturist Film Screening: Space Is the Place\, Dirty ComputerNovember 2\, 7-10:00p.m.Porter College Quad\, UC Santa CruzThis event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. Some folding chairs will be available. You are encouraged to bring a picnic blanket or cushion to sit on. Bundle up as the weather may change rapidly! \n \n\n\nabout the films to be screened\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Ra\, Space Is the Place\, 1974\n\n\n\nScience fiction\, blaxploitation\, cosmic free-jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra returns to earth in his music-powered space ship to battle for the future of the black race and offer an ‘alter-destiny’ to those who would join him. Intentionally created as an homage to the low-budget science fiction films of the 50’s and 60’s\, Space Is The Place became a visual embodiment of Sun Ra’s Afro-Egyptian myth of salvation in outer space. The special effects\, outrageous plot line and apocalyptic message harmonize with the otherworldly score and a climactic live performance by one of the most innovative and profound groups in jazz history. This is the director’s cut of the 1974 film production restored to its original 82 minute length. \n\n\n\n\n\nJanelle Monáe\, Dirty Computer (Emotional Picture)\, 2018\n\n\n\nA visually stunning story of a young woman named Jane 57821\, who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are referred to as “computers.. A timely and poignant Emotion Picture\, Dirty Computer explores humanity and what truly happens to life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when mind and machines merge\, and when the government chooses fear over freedom. \n\n\n\n\n\nStudents must be in compliance with COVID-19 protocols and the badge system for clearance to be on campus. Please wear your face covering at this event. Check your Health e-Messenger for your daily clearance.  \n\n\n\nPresented by the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences with support from the Porter College Activities Office. \n\n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n View the talk here Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Close URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/traction-art-talk-with-sharon-hayes-in-conversation-with-jennifer-gonzalez/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Afrofuturism-film-screening-newsletter-image2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221024T221518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T223619Z UID:2636-1635861600-1635865200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anna Friz\, John Jota Leaños\, and Irene Lusztig DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Research Institutes (ARI) invites you to join us November 2\, 2021 for a special online LASER Talk ​featuring this year’s cohort of ARI research fellows: Anna Friz\, John Jota Leaños\, and Irene Lusztig. ARI Research Fellowships are awarded to support the research and creative practices of faculty in the Arts Division.  \n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n https://vimeo.com/663462869\n \n \n Close\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Friz\n\n\n\nAnna Friz is a sound and radio artist\, and media studies scholar. Since 1998\, she has created and presented new audio art and radiophonic works internationally in which radio is often the source\, subject\, and medium of the work. She also composes sound works and sonic installations for theater\, dance\, film\, and solo performance that reflect upon media ecologies\, land use and infrastructures\, time perception\, the intimacies of signal space\, and critical fictions. Current projects include We Build Ruins\, a suite of sound-focused media artworks expressively considering the industrialized high altitude desert in northern Chile\, and ongoing projects concerning radio beacons\, air traffic control\, and military monitoring vs. citizen listening. Presentations of her work in the recent years include Ars Electronica Big Concert Night (Linz\, Austria)\, the Museum of Arts and Design (New York)\, SITE Gallery (Houston)\, the New York Times Magazine\, Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro (Valparaíso and Santiago\, Chile)\, ReWire Festival (The Hague\, Netherlands)\, Radiophrenia (Glasgow\, Scotland)\, Soundhouse at the Barbican (London UK)\, Espace Multimedia Gantner (Belfort France)\, and Kunstradio on the cultural channel of Austria’s national radio. Her radio art/works have been heard on the airwaves of more than 25 countries\, and commissioned by national public radio in Austria\, Australia\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, and Mexico.  \n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Jota Leaños\n\n\n\nJohn Jota Leaños is a Mestizo (Xicano/Chumash) interdisciplinary artist and documentary animator concerned with the embattled terrains of history and memory as they relate to nation\, power and decolonization. A Guggenheim Fellow of Film and Media\, Creative Capital Artist and United States Artist (USArtist) Fellow\, Leaños’s practice includes a range of media arts\, documentary animation\, video\, public art\, installation and performance introducing alternative perspectives into the public imagination through strategic revealing\, social documentation\, and symbolic intervention. Leaños’ animation work has been shown internationally film festivals and museums including the Sundance Film Festival; Cannes Film Festival\, France; PBS.org; Manifesta 13: La Biennale Européenne de Création Contemporaine\, aluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival\, Ars Electronica 2020\, Tehran International Animation Festival\, Iran\, and the Morelia International Film Festival\, México. His installation and performance work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles\, Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others. Leaños’ animated films have won Best Animation at the 2014 39th Annual American Indian Film Festival\, 2014 XicanIndie Film Festival\, Denver\, Best Animation\, Arizona International Film Festival and VideoFest\, San Francisco. He is currently a Professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz in the Department of Film and Digital Media. \n\n\n\n\n\nIrene Lusztig\n\n\n\nIrene Lusztig is a feminist filmmaker\, archival researcher\, educator\, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images for new meanings in order to reframe\, recuperate\, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Beginning with rigorous research in archives\, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day\, inviting viewers to contemplate questions of politics\, ideology\, and the production of personal\, collective\, and national memories. She is invested in expanding the form of artful nonfiction through her lyrical use of archival images\, her commitment to listening-centered and collaborative cinematic approaches\, patient durational shooting\, and open-ended\, associative editing where the viewer is encouraged to make connections between past and present. She is the solo director\, producer\, DP\, and editor of three acclaimed feature length documentaries that have screened widely in festivals and are distributed by Women Make Movies: her debut film Reconstruction (2001)\, the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013)\, and the performative documentary Yours in Sisterhood (2018). Irene’s work has been screened around the world\, including at the Berlinale\, MoMA\, Film Society of Lincoln Center\, Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, Anthology Film Archives\, Pacific Film Archive\, Flaherty NYC\, IDFA Amsterdam\, Hot Docs\, AFI Docs\, BFI London Film Festival\, Melbourne Film Festival\, DocLisboa\, and RIDM Montréal. Irene is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/anna-friz-john-jota-leanos-and-irene-lusztig/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Anna-Friz-John-Jota-Leaños-and-Irene-Lusztig_0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T173000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T010456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T001458Z UID:2778-1635264000-1635269400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition w/ Adrienne Maree Brown and Gilda Sheppard DESCRIPTION:In a wide-ranging conversation about filmmaking and abolition\, brown and Sheppard will engage the critical questions the film raises about how to build trust\, restore and repair lives devastated by the U.S. criminal legal system. \nRegistration to this event will also include limited access to an online screening of the award-winning Since I Been Down. WATCH HERE between October 21-28. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The events feature artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition.  \n \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nadrienne maree brown\n\n\n\nadrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute\, and author of Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation\, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice\, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good\, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change\, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the “How to Survive the End of the World”\, “Octavia’s Parables” and “Emergent Strategy” podcasts.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGilda Sheppard\n\n\n\nGilda Sheppard is an award-winning filmmaker who has screened her documentaries throughout the United States\, and internationally in Ghana\, at the Festival Afrique 360 Cannes\, France\, and at the International Black Film Festival in Berlin. Sheppard is a 2017 Hedgebrook Fellow for documentary film and a 2019 recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship. For over a decade Sheppard has been teaching sociology classes in Washington State women and men prisons. She is a sponsor for the Black Prisoner’s Caucus\, and is among the founders and faculty for Freedom Education for Puget Sound (FEPPS) an organization offering college credit courses at Washington Correctional Center for Women. Sheppard is the author of several publication’s including Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice: A Way Out of No Way (2013). Sheppard is a Professor of Sociology\, Cultural and Media studies at The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus. \n\n\n\n\n\nSince I Been Down focuses on one city in the USA\, Tacoma\, WA\, as an example of “Everytown.” Influenced by the national drug war frenzy and the fear-based culture of punishment in the 1980s-90s\, Tacoma sacrificed its most-vulnerable children to a life behind bars. Those children\, now adults\, cannot be silenced as they advocate for transformative and restorative justice from behind bars\, seeking to prevent future generations of black and brown boys from the same fate. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/adrienne-maree-brown-and-gilda-sheppard/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2021-Fall-Events-Web-Listings-e1668442242529.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T010803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T233527Z UID:2785-1634824800-1635433200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: Since I Been Down DESCRIPTION:October 21-28\, 2021Film Screening: Watch Here \nRegister also for a live conversation with director Gilda Sheppard and author and activist adrienne maree brown on October 26\, 4-5:30 pm\, PDT.  \nSince I Been Down tells the story of the impacts of the rising rates of incarceration on Tacoma\, WA. The film is told through the eyes of a community impacted by lack of investment in resources and the fear-based policies of the 1980s and ‘90s that sacrificed and labeled their most-vulnerable children as irredeemable “super predators.” \n​The film presents dramatic stories of how fear\, racism and a false sense of safety\, security and prosperity\, arrested the development of one American community\, discarding the poorest and targeting brown and black youth and led to the disappearance of an entire generation of children.  \nSince I Been Down spotlights the life of Kimonti Carter and a group of his peers\, young girls and boys\, as they maneuver through a non-negotiable pathway to joining gangs as early as 11 years old and follows their trajectory into violent crimes and to prison. The film unravels intimate stories from interviews brought to life through archival footage\, cinema verité discussions\, masquerade and dance to cinematically unravel why children commit violent crime\, and how these children now adults are breaking free from their fate by creating a model of justice that is transforming their lives\, our humanity and a quality of life for all our children. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-since-i-been-down/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Screenings,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/since-i-been-down-key-still.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T011202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054352Z UID:2791-1634644800-1634652000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Seed Ball Making at the Solitary Garden DESCRIPTION:Learn about the participatory garden project by award-winning artist jackie sumell in collaboration with Tim Young\, an innocent man who is currently on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. The sculpture follows the blueprint of a 6’x9’ U.S. solitary confinement cell similar to the one that Tim has been confined to for twenty-one years. The stark cell is surrounded by a garden which Tim designed via letters and drawings to students and volunteers\, who cultivate it as his proxies. \nWe will have a writing station at the event for participants to send a letter to be mailed to Tim. \nRead more about the Solitary Garden here. \nThis event is limited to the campus community and not open to the public. Thank you for your understanding.Students must be in compliance with COVID-19 protocols and the badge system for clearance to be on campus. Please wear your face covering at this event. Check your Health e-Messenger for your daily clearance. \nPresented by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. \n  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/seed-ball-making-at-the-solitary-garden/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Seed-ball.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T173000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T011808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054412Z UID:2795-1634227200-1634232600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Afrofuturism Then and Now DESCRIPTION:Afrofuturism Then and Noww/ India Cooke\, Mandjou Kone\, Emmanuel Etolo\, Charles Tolliver\, and Nelson HarrisonModerated by Aaron Samuel Mulenga October 14\, 4-5:30 pmOnline event: Register here \nThis event is collaboratively produced with Professor Karlton Hester\, Music\, and Professor Gerald Casel\, Performance\, Play\, and Design \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nIndia Cooke\n\n\n\nIndia Cooke is a Grammy-nominated\, national and internationally renowned violinist\, composer\, and educator. She plays a range of genres from improv\, jazz\, to classical. Cooke has performed with Pharaoh Sanders\, Peter Kowald\, Sun Ra\, Cecil Taylor\, Pauline Oliveros\, George Lewis\, Joelle Leandre\, Amiri Baraka and many others. She has also been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. India has performed in Bay Area symphony and opera orchestras\, chamber ensembles\, and broadway shows. As one of California’s most respected contract artists\, she has performed with the Louie Bellson Orchestra\, Sarah Vaughn\, Frank Sinatra\, Tony Bennett\, and many others. India has recorded sessions for Atlantic\, Fantasy\, and Stax records. As a featured recording artist she can be heard on Leo Records with Sun Ra and his Arkestra\, Black Saint records What We Live Fo(u)r\, Hat Music’s Nomadic Winds\, Plainisphares’ African Roots of Jazz\, and Sparkling Beatnik Records The Circle Trio: Live at the Meridian. She recorded and released to critical acclaim\, her Grammy nominated debut CD as a leader\, “Music and Arts’ India Cooke: Redhanded.” India is currently on Mills College Music Department Faculty\, Ensemble Directors & Lesson Instructors roster\, and teaches at her private studio\, India’s Music Room.  \n\n\n\n\n\nMandjou Koné \n\n\n\nMandjou Koné is a dancer and dance educator. Born into the Koné family\, a Griot family in West Africa\, betwen Burkina Faso and Mali renown for their tradition of recording events and passing history down generations\, she was invited to the United States to help translate a documentary about the last 40 years of her family’s musical tradition and history\, titled Great Great Great Grandparents’ Music\, produced by Taale Laafe Rossellini. She has danced and performed with the National Ballet of Burkina Faso and toured with her brother’s group\, Surutukunu\, and has been a dance teacher throughout the United States for the past eleven years and is currently a dance lecturer at UC Santa Cruz. She was honored with the Calabash Award in Santa Cruz\, CA in 2003.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmmanuel Etolo\n\n\n\nEmmanuel Etolo is the President of the Board of Directors of the Plastic Arts\, Ministry of Culture in Cameroon. His artworks are realized from the bark of the Obom tree\, and he has had several exhibitions in San Francisco\, the West Indies\, and France.   \n\n\n\n\n\nCharles Tolliver\n\n\n\nCharles Tolliver is a jazz trumpeter\, composer\, and co-founder of Strata East Records\, based in New York City. Born in Jacksonville\, FL\, Tolliver made his musical recording debut with saxophone giant Jackie McLean in 1964 with Blue Note Records and has performed and/or recorded with renowned artists such as Roy Haynes\, Hank Mobley\, Willie Bobo\, and The Gerald Wilson Orchestra. He has been awrded the Downbeat Critic’s Choice for best Trumpet and Best Large Ensemble of the Year 2007 by The Jazz Journalists Association with his group MUSIC INC. Tolliver is noted for perfecting his individual and distinctive sound of tradition and improv in his music\, setting him apart from other trumpet players. His most recent big band CD “Emperor March” was recorded live the the Blue Note in New York City  and was released in 2009.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRahman Jamaal\n\n\n\nRahman Jamaal is an emcee/educator from the Bay Area\, founder of Rap Force Academy\, and Executive Director of Hip Hop Congress. He began acting in theater productions and playing music at the age of 6\, studying and performing for American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) before his starring film debut as “Flip” in “The Beat” which featured at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. His affiliation with Hip Hop Congress took him across the nation as a performing artist\, where he began working on a cultural education initiative using rap as a teaching tool in the community\, schools\, juvenile halls\, and non-profit organizations. In 2014\, he won the prestigious Lennon Award in the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest for his song “This Isn’t Art\,” also featured in “The Beat.” \n\n\n\n\n\nNelson Harrison\n\n\n\nNelson Harrison\, PhD is an accomplished musician\, trombonist\, jazz historian\, and Pittsburgh Jazz leader. Harrison has played with numerous legendary musicians such as trombonist of the Count Basie Orchestra\, Kenny Clarke\, Billy Eckstine\, and recorded with Walt Harper and Nathan Davis. He has received a Ph. D. in clinical psychology  is currently active with The Blues Orphans\, Wee Jams\, and his groups The Work According to Bop\, Jazz ‘N Jive\, Dr. Jazz and the Salty Dawgs\, Blue to the Bone\, and Nelson Harrison and Associates. He is cited in the Marquis publication Who’s Who in the East (1979) and has received the 2008 Legacy Arts Project Keepers of the Flame Award\, the 2008 Build the Hill Award\, the 2008 MCG Jazz Pittsburgh Legends of Jazz Award\, African American Council on the Arts Rob Penny Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2009 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA)\, and the 2015 Jazz Heroes Award\, among many others.   \n\n\n\n\n\nAaron Samuel Mulenga\n\n\n\nAaron Samuel Mulenga is a Visual Studies Ph.D. student at the University California\, Santa Cruz and research asssistant at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. His area of study includes contemporary art of Africa\, post-colonial theory and Africa studies. Mulenga is a multi-disciplined artist with a keen interest in sculptural forms and installation. He recently took part in the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale (2020) held in South Africa entitled: Tomorrow There Will be More of Us. Mulenga’s art practice is part of his research process for his Ph.D.  Mulenga holds a B.F.A. from the University of Cape Town and an M.F.A from Rhodes University. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/afrofuturism-then-and-now/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Afrofuturism-then-and-now.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T173000 DTSTAMP:20260422T094911 CREATED:20221025T012422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054548Z UID:2799-1633449600-1633455000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Assuming the Ecosexual Position Book Celebration with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens DESCRIPTION:We invite you to a book launch celebration for Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover with Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle w/ special guest appearances from: Linda M. Montano—Performance artist\, authorGuillermo Gómez-Peña & Allison Lovejoy—Artist-Poet & Musician.Jennie Klein—Beth & Annie’s collaborator on Assuming the Ecosexual Position\, Art history professor at Ohio University.K-HAW & Alias the Ass—Rural Alchemy Workshop artistsCourtney Desiree Morris—artist\, professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley.Joy Brooke Fairfield—Theatre/Performance Director and Professor of Media Studies\, Rhodes College.Evelyna Jarosz\, Justyna Górowska and a.r. brine shrimp—Artist-scholars from Poland and brine shrimp brides.Dragonfly Diva—Storyteller\, culture warrior\, ecosexual.Paul Corbit Brown—Director of Mountain Keepers Foundation\, environmental activist.Emma McNairy & Emily Casey—Opera singer & heavy metal rocker.Butch—Beth & Annie’s dog. \nOctober 5\, 4-5:30 p.m. PDTOnline Event: Register here \nIn 2008\, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens married the Earth\, setting them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality. Assuming the Ecosexual Position describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators\, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia\, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory\, their seven-year art and exhibition project with performance artists Linda M. Montano\, Guillermo Gómez-Peña\, and feminist pornographer Madison Young.  \nThroughout the pages of the book\, Stephens and Sprinkle share the process of making interactive performance art\, celebrating their vows to love\, honor\, and cherish the many elements of the Earth. The collaboration between Sprinkle\, Stephens\, their diverse communities\, and the Earth opens gender and sexuality\, and art and environmentalism to the infinite possibilities and promise of love. \nAs written in CNN\, Stephens and Sprinkle’s “collaborative projects bring joy amid injustice and hardship… make saving the planet a bit sexier.” The book launch is planned as another joyful project in the struggle against climate change. \nAssuming the Ecosexual Position is available for purchase here with a 40% discount through December 1\, 2021\, as part of the National Women’s Studies Association conference sale. Discount code: MN88300​ \nThis event is collaboratively produced by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Arts Research Institute\, the Science & Justice Research Center\, and E.A.R.T.H. Lab.  \nAnnie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been life partners and collaborators on multimedia projects since 2002. They are authors of the Ecosex Manifesto and producers of the award-winning film Goodbye Gauley Mountain and Water Makes Us Wet. Sprinkle is a former sex worker with a PhD in human sexuality. Stephens holds a PhD in performance studies and is founding director of E.A.R.T.H. Lab at University of California at Santa Cruz.  \n\n\nWatch the discussion here\n\n\n\n\n\n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n \n \n \n Ecosexual Book Launch w Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens Play\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n https://vimeo.com/638832717\n \n \n Close URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/assuming-the-ecosexual-position-book-celebration-with-annie-sprinkle-and-beth-stephens/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Tours & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/10_5_21-Assuming-the-Ecosexual-Book-launch-.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR