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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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