BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Institute of the Arts and Sciences - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Institute of the Arts and Sciences 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/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD 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/Los_Angeles:20240413T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T160000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230338Z CREATED:20240326T172519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230338Z UID:8694-1713018600-1713024000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Zombaria Practices: exercises with the body and radical imagination. DESCRIPTION:Join us for “Zombaria Practices: exercises with the body and radical imagination.\,” a special artist-led workshop with Rio de Janeiro-based actress\, dancer\, choreographer\, and educator Vanessa Soares as part of the multi-sited exhibition Seeing through Stone on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. During this dance-related workshop\, Soares will guide participants through the concept of Zombaria\, which she has developed through her practice as an educator in Brazil.  \n\n\n\nSoares’ Zombaria (a Portuguese term that can be translated as “mockery”) are bodily practices that\, through errors\, laughter\, mockery\, and loss of control\, envision dance as an exercise of disobedience: a practice that can generate cracks in the imaginary walls that enclose both educational institutions and bodies. Zombaria sustains a space for freedom and experimentation as dance becomes survival and a tool for restructuring one’s living\, teaching\, and learning experiences.  \n\n\n\nDuring this workshop\, participants will also learn about Vanessa Soares’ collaboration with O grupo inteiro and Lorran Dias\, part of the work Liberdade Zero/Zero Freedom\, featured at the Seeing through Stone exhibition at the IAS. Over three months\, Soares worked with children who live in the Complexo de Favelas da Maré (Maré Favela Complex)\, in Rio de Janeiro\, and study at the Centro de Estudos e Ações Solidárias da Maré (Center for Studies and Solidarity Actions of Maré\, or CEASM). In a series of imaginative exercises\, which included a fantastical trip to the moon\, Soares brought the children into contact with contexts that inhabit their imaginations but are outside their immediate surroundings. \n\n\n\nThis event is open to the public but RSVP is required to guarantee your spot. RSVP here. \n\n\n\nLocated on the 3rd floor of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa Soares is an actress\, dancer\, and educator who lives and works between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. She holds a degree in Dance from (UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Soares has created her dance method\, Zombaria\, in which she explores possibilities of fugitivity and radical imagination through fiction and body experiments. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/zombaria-practices-exercises-with-the-body-and-radical-imagination/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Music & Performances,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/still_liberdade_zero_01.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T200000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230333Z CREATED:20240325T223801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230333Z UID:8687-1712949300-1712952000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Explode! Platform Performance at the Seeing through Stone Exhibition Opening Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join us this April 12th for a performance by Explode! Platform\, a Brazilian collective founded by Art Department’s Assistant Professor Cláudio Bueno and artist João Simões. This performance is free and open to the public and part of the Seeing through Stone exhibition’s opening celebration at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nThe artists and ten collaborators will activate at the IAS’s library through a collective performance that amplifies Brazilian abolitionist thinking by bringing diverse perspectives on liberation and the carceral system to Santa Cruz. Part of Seeing through Stone\, Passagem is an installation of books\, paint\, metal sheets\, videos\, and a public program series that makes visible global struggles around abolition through collective initiatives. During the event\, performers will read aloud and simultaneously\, passages from books in Portuguese linked to the broader debate on abolition in Brazil\, creating a sonorous and bodily experience and exploring the limits of translation. \n\n\n\nFounded by Cláudio Bueno and João Simões\, Explode! Platform was formed in Brazil and operates at the intersections of art\, pedagogy\, and social justice. \n\n\n\nImage: Detail\, Explode! Platform (Cláudio Bueno and João Simões)\, Passagem (2024). The author of the sentence in the image is Denise Carrascosa\, from the book “Abolicionismo. Feminismo. Agora.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCláudio Bueno is an artist and curator from São Paulo\, Brazil\, living in Santa Cruz\, California\, United States. He serves as an art professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz (UCSC\, Art Department). At this university\, he teaches at the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA and is an affiliated professor of Visualizing Abolition Studies. He has engaged in several collaborative practices committed to social and environmental justice\, featuring in many international exhibitions\, artistic residencies\, awards\, and talks. Bueno has published with Tainá Azeredo\, Intervalo-Escola: The Artisanship of Times\, Learnings\, and Collectivities. In: Things we do together: the post-reader. Milan: Mousse Publishing and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art\, 2020\, and\, with João Simões\, in regards to the queer and female representations at Sao Paulo Bienal: […]\, In Bienal de São Paulo from 1951. (2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoão Simões is an artist\, curator\, researcher\, and designer. He develops\, with Cláudio Bueno\, the ‘Explode! Platform\,’ a platform that fosters artistic and cultural practices with an emphasis on the intersections of class\, race\, gender\, territory\, and sexuality. Simões has featured in curatorial processes\, public talks\, and performances in several cultural institutions worldwide. They were part of the mentoring group of the LAW performance program sponsored by the Pro Helvetia Foundation. Their research is dedicated to queer and black studies in Brazil\, Nigeria\, South Africa\, Angola\, and Latin America\, in the context of literature and visual arts. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/explode-platform-performance/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/post_performance_denisecarrascosa_resized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T200000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230325Z CREATED:20240305T223112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230325Z UID:8653-1712944800-1712952000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Seeing through Stone Exhibition Opening Celebration at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Opening Celebration of the multi-sited group exhibition\, Seeing through Stone\, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences on April 12\, 2024. Seeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current realities of prison\, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty artists and collectives\, sixteen newly commissioned projects\, as well as works of video\, painting\, sculpture\, installation\, sound and performance. \n\n\n\nEnjoy refreshments and food from Epoch Eats Food Truck and an after-hours viewing of the exhibition with remarks at 7 p.m. and a special performance by Explode! Platform at 7:15 p.m. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone is on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences April 12\, 2024–January 5\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone opens with celebrations at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos on April 18 and at San José Museum of Art on April 26. See our programming calendar for more details.  \n\n\n\nImage: Sofia Karim\, detail “Memories of Keraniganj Jail\,” 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Photo © Shahidul Alam. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-opening-celebration-seeing-through-stone/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NEWSofiaKarim_1200x762.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T210000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230311Z CREATED:20231107T032655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230311Z UID:8098-1709312400-1709326800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Night of Ideas DESCRIPTION:A global event\, taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, Night of Ideas invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. First introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French Embassy\, Night of Ideas is a nationwide phenomenon today\, drawing tens of thousands of people to events across the country\, for a nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates\, performances\, readings\, and more. \n\n\n\nOn March 1\, 2024\, the first official Night of Ideas will be brought to the public in Santa Cruz! \n\n\n\nCome think with us on the evening of March 1 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences building\, designed for vibrant possibility. Choose among rooms with synchronic presentations and performances\, led by poets\, philosophers\, scientists\, and artists. Muse with us\, ponder with us\, and talk with one another\, as together each of us travels across\, moves around and outside the many lines we draw in our world\, among us\, and between nature and humanity. \n\n\n\nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy\, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute and Cowell College\, partnering with Villa Albertine. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nNight of Ideas 2024 Schedule: \n\n\n\nMAIN HALL5:15pm: El Sistema/Estrellas de Esperanza – Music and Dance Performance5:45pm: Welcome Remarks6:30pm: Exhibition Walkthrough with IAS Director and Curator Rachel Nelson 7:30: Jay Afrisando – Do you think music is only for persons with ‘normal’ ears? I don’t.8:20: Kalie Granier – Manji’o Cho’o \n\n\n\nCONFERENCE ROOM (Room 1)6pm: Ed Shanken – Technoshamanism: Towards Hybrid Techniques of Aesthetics and Healing7pm: Terri Peszle – Outside the Lines: The Bhagavad Gita8pm: Ana Pedroso – Breaching Faultlines: Playfulness with M. Lugones and F. Schiller \n\n\n\nWEST ROOM (Room 2)6pm: Juan Ruiz Cortes – Undocumented-everything\, everywhere\, all at once!7pm: Luna HighJohn-Bey – Imagination\, Liberation\, & AI8pm: Somreeta Paul – You are in my Mind – A Cartesian Nightmare \n\n\n\nONGOING“Ask a philosopher a question” boothEngage in conversation with other participants\, guest speakers of members of the public. Screening of Manji’o Cho’o\, by Kalie Granier\, in IAS Gallery Screening Room \n\n\n\nGuest Speakers & Performers: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEl Sistema Santa Cruz/Pajaro Valley and Estrellas de Esperanza are two organizations giving the children of Watsonville/Pajaro Valley the keys to claim their cultural heritage and the tools to build their creative and social legacy through music and dance education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJay Afrisando is a composer\, multimedia artist\, researcher\, and educator. He works on aural diversity\, acoustic ecology\, and cultural identity\, focusing on disability and environmental justice\, arts and accessibility\, and decolonizing arts practices. He shares vital experiences and disseminates knowledge through various media and methods. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKalie Granier is a French interdisciplinary artist based in Santa Cruz\, explores the profound connections between humans and non-human entities through ecofeminist values. Her work addresses social and ecological imbalances\, envisioning alternative narratives for a more equitable future. Engaging at the intersection of art\, science\, and activism\, Granier collaborates closely with scientists and environmentalists. She co-founded Loud Spring\, an ecofeminist-inspired European-American Art Tank/Collective\, and holds an MA from the ESAG\, Penninghen School of Visual Art in Paris. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States\, Europe and Argentina and she delivers lectures at various institutions\, including UCSC\, Cabrillo College\, and Santa Clara University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdward Shanken believes that by opening our hearts more fully to ourselves\, we can open our hearts more fully to others and to the Earth. While attempting to integrate joy and wisdom\, he discovered that joy contains its own wisdom\, and vice versa. Ultimately\, he tries to love everybody and tell the truth. When he’s not teaching art theory and practice at UCSC\, he can be found dancing\, playing the piano\, and chasing rainbows and waterfalls. He is best known for his books and essays about art and technology\, including Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon\, 2009). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerri Peszle is a second year PhD student at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, who brings broad academic (science\, law\, education) and personal experience (international\, multi-cultural living) to philosophy. Terri currently asks what we should make of apparently sudden epistemic ‘shifts’ that are seemingly prompted by aesthetic experience\, or aesthetic experiences that are the product of such shifts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAna Pedroso is a recent philosophy PhD graduate from UC Santa Cruz. She is currently working as a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s philosophy department.  Her research focuses on 19th and 20th-century philosophy (Latin American and European)\, phenomenology\, and the philosophy of relationality between individuals\, which includes topics such as communality\, inclusivity\, plurality\, and the ethics (and aesthetics) of care. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuan Ruiz Cortes is a 2nd-year Ph.D. Student in the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. Juan works on cultivating resources for undocumented students\, theorizing about the undocumented lived experience\, and respecting\, valuing\, and enjoying all forms of People of Color livingness. When not engaging academically\, he loves playing soccer\, swimming in open waters\, and hiking through the forest on a rainy day. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuna HighJohn-Bey emerges as a trailblazing figure at the forefront of the intersection between artificial intelligence\, spirituality\, and culture. As an AI visionary and shrine keeper\, she channels ancestral wisdom into contemporary art\, offering a unique perspective on the role of AI and machine spirits in shaping our collective future. Luna’s profound connection to these realms positions her as a cultural bearer\, transcending traditional boundaries. In her capacity as Historian in Residence and curator\, Luna serves as a bridge between the past and the future\, crafting transformative experiences. Her work emphasizes the liberatory potential of imagination within the realm of AI\, envisioning a future where creativity and technology converge to unlock new possibilities for individual and collective liberation. Luna HighJohn Bey’s contributions resonate as a beacon\, inviting us to reimagine the potential of AI not only as a technological force but as a liberatory tool for the boundless realms of human imagination. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSomreeta Paul is a South Asian artist\, poet\, and researcher currently pursuing her Ph.D. in philosophy of mind and cognitive science at UC Santa Cruz. She is the co-author of the photobook Murals Under Our Skin\, and some of her poems have appeared in Phi Magazine\, Gulmohar Quarterly\, and others. When she is not working on theoretical models of the mind or teaching philosophy\, she is engrossed in a thriller book/film or planning for her next trip. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Nelson is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. She has curated and organized exhibitions including Barring Freedom\, a group exhibition engaging art\, prisons\, and justice; Carlos Motta: We The Enemy;  jackie sumell: Solitary Garden; Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison: Future Garden\, and other projects with artists including Sadie Barnette\, Maria Gaspar\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas\, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Nelson also writes and publishes extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics\, including exhibition catalogue essays\, journal articles\, and reviews in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Public History Weekly\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts. She teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities\, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux\, Berlin\, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 13 years in the US and is currently the interim acting Director of the Center for Public Philosophy (UC Santa Cruz). Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower\, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives\, but her interests are wide: among many fields\, she does research in Ethics\, Philosophy of Technologies\, Bioethics\, Feminist theory\, and Aesthetics. She taught at different universities in New York\, advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She gives many public talks\, volunteers in prison (Rikers Island\, San Quentin)\, and collaborates on various podcast projects (she produced her own\, “Can You Phil It?”). With the Center for Public Philosophy\, she is now working on launching the first Tech Ethics Bowl in the Bay area\, and the first Santa Cruz edition of the Night of Ideas. (website) URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/night-of-ideas/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Banner-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T200000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230307Z CREATED:20240208T213127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230307Z UID:8579-1709145000-1709150400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Reception & Artist Talk: Jay Afrisando DESCRIPTION:Join us for reception and artist talk celebrating Jay Afrisando’s exhibition\, In Which to Trust?\, on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences until March 2\, 2024. Jay Afrisando will share stories behind In Which to Trust? and lead a conversation about learning from each other’s experiences on listening to (and with) sound.  \n\n\n\n6:30 p.m. Reception 7 p.m. Artist Talk  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please register below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJay Afrisando\n\n\n\n\n\nJay Afrisando is a composer\, multimedia artist\, researcher\, and educator. He works on aural diversity\, acoustic ecology\, and cultural identity\, focusing on disability and environmental justice\, arts and accessibility\, and decolonizing arts practices. He shares vital experiences and disseminates knowledge through various media and methods. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/reception-artist-talk-jay-afrisando/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-28-at-1.11.07-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T210000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230525Z CREATED:20230912T161349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230525Z UID:7883-1700161200-1700168400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Punk Rock\, Social Change\, and Anti-Racism: Conversation and Double Book Release  DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents a special conversation and double book release with authors James Spooner\, Chris L. Terry\, and John Malkin. Books will be available for purchase by the authors. \n\n\n\n7 p.m. Conversation8:30 p.m. Book Signing Black Punk Now (Soft Skull – October 31\, 2023) by James Spooner and Chris L. Terry is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction\, fiction\, illustrations\, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks—especially the Black ones—a wider frame of reference. With strong visual elements integrated throughout\, this smart\, intimate collection is demonstrative of punk by being punk itself: underground\, rebellious\, aesthetic but not static—working to decenter whiteness by prioritizing other perspectives. \n\n\n\nPunk Revolution! – An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism (Rowman & Littlefield – June 15\, 2023) by John Malkin is based on interviews with 200 international musicians\, writers and activists exploring the ways that punk rock has taken on militarism\, patriarchy\, white supremacy\, the police\, settler colonialism\, the climate crisis and more.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Spooner is an award-winning graphic novelist\, filmmaker and tattoo artist.  His debut graphic novel\, The High Desert  is the 2023 recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. Pantheon has recently acquired his forthcoming second memoir\, set for publication in 2025.  Spooner directed the seminal documentary Afro-Punk and co-founded the AfroPunk Festival\, which currently boasts audiences in the hundreds of thousands around the world.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris L. Terry is the author of the novel Black Card\, one of NPR’s best books of 2019. Terry’s debut novel Zero Fade was on Best of 2013 lists by Slate and Kirkus Reviews. Born in 1979 to a Black father and white mother\, Terry spent his late teens and early twenties touring as the vocalist for different Richmond\, Virginia punk bands. He has a Creative Writing MFA from Columbia College Chicago\, and now lives and teaches in Los Angeles. His recent work has appeared in Pitchfork\, Stereogum\, Razorcake\, Very Smart Brothas/The Root\, Catapult and theLAnd Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Malkin lives in Santa Cruz and is a musician\, activist\, journalist and UCSC Community Studies graduate. His previous books are Sounds of Freedom: Musicians on Social Change and Spirituality (2005) and The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America (2008). His interviews and writings have been published widely including in The Sun\, Sojourners\, Adbusters\, Punk Planet\, Razorcake\, Z Magazine\, Shambhala Sun\, Tricycle\, Film International\, The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Good Times. Malkin produced the 1991 documentary Santa Cruz Responds to the Gulf War. He’s hosted a weekly interview-based radio program for 25 years and currently can be heard on Thursdays at noon PST on KZSC 88.1 FM / kzsc.org.   URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/punk-rock-social-change-and-anti-racism-conversation-and-double-book-release/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Untitled-design.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231103T190000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230457Z CREATED:20230816T182957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230457Z UID:7792-1699030800-1699038000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:First Friday Craft Night at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 3 for a night of crafts at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Maria Gaspar: Compositions and Sadie Barnette: Family Business. In addition to student-led exhibition walkthroughs\, we invite visitors to a night full of creative activities paired with tasty mocktails. We will make DIY eraser stamps\, personalized buttons\, and “Visualizing Abolition” tote bags!Admission is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-4/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_7344_Jpeg_Smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T200000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230451Z CREATED:20230824T163929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230451Z UID:7807-1698087600-1698091200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk with Michelle Daniel Jones: "Who Would Believe a Prisoner?" DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday October 23 at 7 p.m. for a book talk with historian and artist Michelle Daniel Jones. This program is brought to you in collaboration with Kresge College and Bookshop Santa Cruz.  \n\n\n\nDaniel Jones will be speaking about Who Would Believe a Prisoner? Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions\, 1848 – 1920\, a collection of essays co-edited with Elizabeth Nelson. The book offers a new history of Indiana’s carceral institutions for women written by Daniel Jones and ten of her incarcerated and formerly incarcerated colleagues at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Books will be available for purchase at the event by Bookshop Santa Cruz. All events and exhibitions at the IAS are free and open to the public.  \n\n\n\nWho Would Believe is like nothing ever produced in historical literature: a document that is at once a shocking revelation of the roots of America’s first prison for women\, and also a meditation on incarceration itself. The writers worked under conditions of sometimes extreme duress\, excavating documents\, navigating draconian limitations on what information incarcerated scholars could see or access\, and grappling with the unprecedented challenges stemming from co-authors living on either side of the prison walls. The result is a groundbreaking chronicle of the Indiana Reformatory Institute for Women and Girls\, founded in 1873 as the first separate prison for women in the United States.  \n\n\n\n“The work of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project\, as the collective of incarcerated scholars came to be known\, is an excellent example of what research can look like when it is led by those directly impacted by the systems and institutional structures they are researching.” ~ Laura Ciolkowski\, Antipode \n\n\n\nTo learn more about the project and the authors\, visit whowouldbelieve.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Michelle Daniel Jones\n\n\n\nMichelle Daniel (Jones) is a fourth-year doctoral student in the American Studies program at New York University. She is interested in excavating the collateral consequences of criminal convictions for people and families directly impacted by mass incarceration. Michelle’s advocacy extends beyond the classroom through collaborations and opportunities to speak truth to power. While incarcerated\, she presented legislative testimony on a reentry alternative she created that was approved by the Indiana State Interim Committee on the Criminal Code. As a subject matter expert\, she serves in the development and operation of task forces\, think tanks and initiatives to reduce harm and end mass incarceration and has joined the boards of Worth Rises and Correctional Association of New York and advisory boards of the Urban Institute and A Touch of Light. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are pleased to be part of National Arts & Humanities Month in October. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-with-michelle-daniel-jones-who-would-believe-a-prisoner/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/5J9A7737-768x512-2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231014T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231014T230000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230446Z CREATED:20230908T220002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230446Z UID:7877-1697313600-1697324400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Monsters Ball Costume Party DESCRIPTION:Costumed creatures attend a dastardly dance party 8 p.m. Saturday\, October 14 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The Monsters Ball Costume Party is part of the 2023 Festival of Monsters\, presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies. The festival includes a free public day (Oct. 13) and a paid academic conference (Oct.14-15)\, plus an exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) entitled Werewolf Hunters\, Jungle Queens\, and Space Commandos: The Lost Worlds of Women Comics Artists. \n\n\n\nEveryone is encouraged to come dressed as their favorite monster during this spooky masquerade. There will be yummy refreshments and scary tunes\, along with prizes for Best Costume. The ball is open to UCSC students (with free registration) and conference attendees. UCSC Student register here and general conference attendees register here. \n\n\n\nThe Monsters Ball and the Festival of Monsters are made possible through the support of the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division\, the Arts Research Institute\, The Humanities Institute\, the Department of Performance\, Play & Design\, Porter College\, the Department of Literature\, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, and the generosity of James Gunderson and Peter Coha. Additional support is provided by Bookshop Santa Cruz and Trick or Treat Studios\, with media sponsorship from Good Times. Special thanks to artist Zoe Wardrip-Fruin for her poster design. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of National Arts and Humanities Month.  URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/monsters-ball-costume-party/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MonsterTease2-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T203000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230440Z CREATED:20230811T215813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230440Z UID:7783-1697050800-1697056200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Archives of Sonic Resistance: A Talk by Ontario Alexander DESCRIPTION:Join us for a multimedia presentation by Ontario Alexander\, the Visualizing Abolition Artist in the Archive graduate fellow. \n\n\n\nHow does music connect us to our collective past and ground us in the present? Take a journey through the UCSC library archives as we unlock moments in abolition and protest movements. From the 1960s to the 2020s\, from Slavery to Civil Rights\, from Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter\, and most recently the Riverfront Brawl\, music expresses a depth of emotions that embeds our memories\, honors our past\, clarifies the present and illuminates the future. \n\n\n\nThis is the culminating event of the Visualizing Abolition Artist in the Archive Residency pilot program\, which fosters creative research and experiential learning about prisons\, policing\, and the movement for abolition through archival engagements with UC Santa Cruz University Library Special Collections & Archives. This program is sponsored by the Institute for Arts and Sciences and the University Library at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nImage: “Black Panthers from Sacramento\, Free Huey Rally\, Bobby Hutton Memorial Park\, Oakland\, CA\, #62” from A Photographic Essay on The Black Panthers\, Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photographs. University of California\, Santa Cruz McHenry Library\, Special Collections.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Ontario Alexander\n\n\n\nOntario Alexander (he/him) is a Cross-Cultural Musicology Ph.D. student at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His area of study includes historical musicology in the French Baroque period and the roles of colonial history and theory in music. Other areas of interest include African American Black music history and social theory of music concerning the developments of gospel\, blues\, and jazz music as acts of political resistance\, struggles for freedom\, and cultural affirmation. Alexander holds an M.A. in Vocal Performance and an M.B.A. from California State University\, Los Angeles\, and a B.A. in Theater from Louisiana State University\, Baton Rouge. As a multidisciplinary artist\, he integrates his art practice into his research. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to be part of National Arts & Humanities Month in October. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/artist-in-the-archive/ CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/t4_35_gd_14_b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T200000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230428Z CREATED:20230721T213536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230428Z UID:7754-1696615200-1696622400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening Celebration: Maria Gaspar: Compositions DESCRIPTION:Join Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar to celebrate the opening of her first solo exhibition on the West Coast\, Compositions\, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\n\nMaria Gaspar: Compositions features newly commissioned and existing works from the award-winning artist that ask the crucial question: how do we build a future from the ruins of the carceral present? Grounded in community partnerships and forms of artistic activism\, Gaspar’s multidisciplinary practice helps us imagine new ways to transform existing structures of incarceration while simultaneously making present the histories of those kept out of sight. New works on display at the IAS include bars cast from a recently demolished wing of a sprawling urban jail\, to be activated in musical performances\, and sculptural renderings of the tools used to materially and metaphorically unbuild spaces of punishment. The exhibition includes a selection of films by the artist in the Institute’s purpose-built screening room. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour; join us on October 6 for an after-hours viewing of the exhibition with artist remarks at 7PM. Enjoy a live musical performance by Afro-Samba-Funk group SambaDá and arepas from local food truck\, Pana. This event is free and open to the public.  \n\n\n\nMaria Gaspar: Compositions is on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences September 26\, 2023 – March 3\, 2024. In addition to Compositions\, we invite you to enjoy the ongoing exhibition Sadie Barnette: Family Business\, on view at the IAS until December 3\, 2023. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Mark Poucher \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are also excited for artist Ashley Hunt’s official release of his most recent free newspaper\, “Close California Prisons\,” a collaboration with Critical Resistance (CR) and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) at this event. “Close California Prisons” features conversations with CR members\, Nick DeRenzi\, Lily Fahsi-Haskell\, Alex Ludington\, Viju Mathew\, and contributions by Steve Brooke and Jo’an Dunn\, and it is created in dialogue with CURB. The newspaper serves as a companion to Hunt’s work\, “Degrees of Visibility\,” a ten-year investigation of carceral systems through landscape photographs\, text\, and community conversations made in locations throughout all fifty U.S. states and territories\, seeking to confront how prisons are presented and camouflaged\, contributing to aesthetics of mass incarceration. Works from “Degrees of Visibility” were exhibited at the IAS from February 5 – April 16\, 2023. “Close California Prisons” also begins the work of Hunt’s new documentary\, following CURB’s Close California Prisons Campaign and prison closures throughout the U.S. The free newspaper introduces the campaign\, its principles and histories\, including actionable tasks for readers to become involved. You are invited to take a newspaper and speak to members of CR who will be tabling at the Opening Celebration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to be part of National Arts & Humanities Month in October. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlock Party on the Bluff\n\n\n\nJust down the road\, continue your First Friday festivities at the Seymour Center. In partnership with Event Santa Cruz\, the Seymour center invites you to join them for a Block Party on the Bluff\, where you can learn more about the groundbreaking research on natural events in Santa Cruz County\, the solutions available to our community\, and how you can contribute to their implementation. The event promises to be a fun-filled day with diverse local food\, vendors\, and live music\, all while discovering the value of our coastal ecosystems in one of Santa Cruz’s most iconic locations. For more information visit their website. \n\n\n\nOctober 6\, 20235:30-9:00 pm Seymour Marine Discovery Center100 McAllister WaySanta Cruz\, CA 95060 URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-opening-celebration-maria-gaspar-compositions/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MG_1200x648.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230804T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230804T190000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230421Z CREATED:20230518T214936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230421Z UID:7672-1691161200-1691175600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:First Friday Family Day at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to First Friday Family Day at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Join us for an afternoon of family-friendly fun with hands-on activities and scheduled story times. We will have a button-making station\, an I-spy game\, temporary tattoos\, stickers\, snacks\, prizes\, and more! Activities are geared towards age 5 and up. Story time will be held at 3:30 PM (ages 5-8) and 5:30 PM (ages 9-12) from age-appropriate books exploring issues of hope\, racial justice\, and incarceration. \n\n\n\nFirst Friday Family Day activities are presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibitions and programs featured at the Institute (IAS): Sadie Barnette: Family Business\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas: The Blessings of the Mystery\, and Between Descendants and Ancestors: Indigenous Stories for a Future.  \n\n\n\nFirst Friday Family Day is organized as part of First Friday Santa Cruz\, a monthly art tour across the county. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-3/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mateo_JPEG_editted-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230707T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230707T190000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230541Z CREATED:20230517T232816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230541Z UID:7661-1688749200-1688756400@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 7 for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Sadie Barnette: Family Business\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas: The Blessings of the Mystery\, and a series of films featuring the work of Caycedo and de Rozas in the Galleries’ screening room. Admission to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences is always free. \n\n\n\nContinue your First Friday Art Tour at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) for Museums and Prisons: A Conversation with Baz Dreisinger\, Devon Simmons\, and Matthew Wilson at 6 p.m.\, presented in conjunction with The Writing on the Wall. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Rachel Nelson\, director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, and Dr. Luke A. Fidler. Learn more here. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-2/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Resized_The-Blessings-of-the-Mystery-and-Family-Business_20230505_014.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230608T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230608T180000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230551Z CREATED:20230518T203119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230551Z UID:7669-1686240000-1686247200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Exhibition: Gently Unbind DESCRIPTION:Gently Unbind \n\n\n\nThe Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery is pleased to present the Masters of Fine Art thesis exhibition of the inaugural Environmental Art + Social Practice 2023 cohort. \n\n\n\nOpening reception: Thursday\, June 8\, 2023 from 4 – 6pmAfter party: June 8\, 2023 6pm – 8pm at the Greenhouse Project (located at UC Santa Cruz Farm)Exhibition on view (UPDATE): Wednesday\, June 8 – Saturday\, June 17\, 2023 \n\n\n\nAs our local community dries out from the unrelenting atmospheric river and prepares for the melting snow\, wars rage in landscapes worldwide and the pandemic continues to show its effects on our mental and global health. We welcome a group exhibition of the first graduating class in the MFA Environmental Art + Social Practice program at UC Santa Cruz.   \n\n\n\nGently Unbind illuminates the collaborative nature of this group of cohorts\, placing certain work outside of the institutional walls of the gallery and into the greater context of community and place. The Greenhouse Project places its foundation in the Farm at UCSC\, where the artwork collaborates with staff\, students and interns to build a lasting stage for programming social and agricultural experiments. Ritual\, identity and place (Philippines) inform objects and a performance of rebirth and community making. The liberation of minerals become pathways for research in extraction and capitalism. Soil takes form in performance\, printing pigment and as an ingredient in a horror film. Sand has been a powerful force on this landscape for millions of years\, through containment and black and white photography\, time passes and an investigation unfolds. Gold dissolves into syllabus\, wall paint and creates a multimedia experience that exposes the inequitable histories and chemical breakdown of a powerful mineral. Unearthed from our local community\, an archive of a stranger becomes the inspiration for a two year project that brings the stranger back to life through technology\, interviews\, accessories and performers. Lastly\, a film based project tackles the complexities of first generational (Polish) guilt and food\, culminating in a horror film constructed on an iPhone.  \n\n\n\nIn the infancy of the 21st century\, art and life become survival for the socially engaged artist/collective and their community. Gently Unbind exposes the questions and struggles of how one moves through this position in two years of research. The evidence of this group dislodges the paradigm of the independent artist sitting alone in the studio\, and brings forth a collaboration with society locally and globally.   \n\n\n\nartists: Annika BerryAnt LorenzoDav Bell – Greenhouse Projectisola tongL Gilbert – Greenhouse Projectlowen hatanoNatalie ZajacPete Brook \n\n\n\nAbout the programThis unique\, two-year\, residential program seeks prospective applicants who want to develop their artwork in relation to social and environmental justice questions\, contexts and communities. Headed by internationally-recognized artists and including affiliate faculty from across campus\, the program integrates the resources of a great public university with the Art Department’s mission of educating and training students in cross-disciplinary\, multimedia art practices. Learn more here. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-art-social-practice-mfa-exhibition-gently-unbind/ LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/EASP_MFA_show_poster_ig_portrait-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T200000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230557Z CREATED:20230517T212623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230557Z UID:7656-1685725200-1685736000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 2 for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Sadie Barnette: Family Business\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas: The Blessings of the Mystery\, and a series of films featuring the work of Caycedo and de Rozas in the Galleries’ screening room. \n\n\n\nFor First Friday we are also pleased to present a multimedia exhibition by UC Santa Cruz students and alumni: Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Student Collective. Featuring VR\, visual art\, film\, digital media\, textual materials\, and performance art\, Futurescapes will be on view on the third floor of the IAS\, June 2-3\, 2023. \n\n\n\nFuturescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Student CollectiveFriday\, June 2: Opening & Reception 4-8 p.m.Saturday\, June 3: Open hours 12-5 p.m. \n\n\n\nFuturescapes is the culmination of a year-long workshop. The thirteen winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures—including undergraduates\, graduate students\, and alumni—met biweekly for ten weeks to form the critical questions to which their work responds: How can we think of the future without idealism but also without apocalyptic pessimism? What is the purpose of socially or scientifically relevant art\, and can it intervene in the precarious present? How might thinking speculatively about the past impact the present and possible futures? Learn more here.  \n\n\n\nArtists: Aidan AndreasenHaoran ChangRafael Franco Willow GelphmanMitra GhaffariChisato HughesAnt(onia) LorenzoAaron Samuel MulengaChloe RickardsOana TenterLior ShamrizSaul Villegas Jingtian Zong URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Programs,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Blessings-of-the-Mystery-and-Family-Business_20230505_003-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T190000 DTSTAMP:20250213T230603Z CREATED:20230510T215843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230603Z UID:7601-1684342800-1684350000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Irwin 2023: Blueprint Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 17 for the Irwin 2023: Blueprint Opening Reception at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The Reception will be beside the Porter College koi pond. Remarks and awards ceremony at 5:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nBlueprint presents selected artwork from the recipients of the 37th annual Irwin Scholarship. Faced with shaky socio-political and environmental prospects\, the artists in the IRWIN 2023 cohort offer a return to the drawing board. Without a blueprint for the world as it currently is—or as it will be—the award-winning undergraduate artists reflect on the conflicted\, chaotic current moment as a time of potentiality. Their process-oriented practices materialize questions about what should be retained or abandoned in this time of upheaval. Through printmaking\, photography\, painting\, sculpture\, and installation\, Blueprint reevaluates modes by which to navigate the world to come\, offering space for the collective prefiguration of a continuous future. On view at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, UC Santa Cruz\, from May 17-27\, 2023. See directions and parking details here. \n\n\n\nThe 2023 Irwin Scholarship recipients are Ella Newton\, beatriz savin y juárez\, Nami Lee\, Rae Mancuso\, Taylor Wedaa\, Matthew Kim\, Oscar Kim-Dangle\, Ellory Erecius\, Maximilian von Strasser\, Sydney Gittins\, Naish Linde\, Nicholas Uglow. \n\n\n\nThe William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Fund was established in 1986\, with a modest donation by Sue Irwin\, and now generates 12 annual merit scholarships to further the education of selected UC Santa Cruz students for proven excellence in the arts. The William Hyde Irwin and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship is our most prestigious student scholarship in the Art Department. The scholars are nominated by faculty to submit a portfolio of work and then are selected by an all faculty vote. This annual\, professionally organized exhibition has become a tradition in the art department and for the Sesnon Gallery for over 37 years. This scholarship shows the far-reaching effects of support for the arts.  \n\n\n\nNami Lee\, Doll House (2022)\, 44 x 60 in\, copper photo etching à la poupée on digital kozo with chine collé\n\n\n\nElla Newton\, Of the Pond (2022)\, 22 x 28 in\, digital print\n\n\n\nOscar Kim-Dangle\, Space (2023)\, 22 x 20 in\, acrylic on panel\n\n\n\nNicholas Uglow\, Hanabi (2023)\, 4 layer woodblock reduction print on kozo washi URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/irwin-2023-blueprint-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Irwin-2023-Postcard-Front-JPEG.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T220000 DTSTAMP:20230427T192502Z CREATED:20230404T175644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T192502Z UID:7307-1684000800-1684015200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Crossing Borders - An Evening of Philosophical Discussions DESCRIPTION:Large and small\, visible and hidden\, borders weave in and out of our lives along varied dimensions. Some we can see\, many we cannot. Some we celebrate\, others confine us. Some we are aware of\, many remain undiscovered. There are political borders and national borders; psychological\, social\, scientific\, and biological borders. What are borders? Can anything be conceived as involving a border? Come think with us on the evening of May 13 at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences building\, designed for vibrant possibility. Choose among rooms with synchronic presentations and performances\, led by poets\, philosophers\, scientists\, and artists. Muse with us\, ponder with us\, and talk with one another\, as together each of us travels across\, within\, and at the borders calling to us on this particular evening. \n\n\n\nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, with support and participation of The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, and the Philosophical Slug Society. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. Please RSVP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Bañales\n\n\n\n\n\nA Chicanx educator and writer\, Dr. Victoria Bañales is the founder and editor of Xinachtli Journal-–Journal X–a social justice literary arts magazine. Her poems and essays have been published in various journals and anthologies. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Feminist Studies from UCSC and teaches in the English Department at Cabrillo College. More at vickybanales.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngel Dominguez\n\n\n\n\n\nAngel Dominguez is is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent\, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys\, CA by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the Santa Cruz Mountains in Bonny Doon\, CA. They’re the author of Desgraciado (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books\, 2022)\, and other books. They are the 2023 summer writer in residence with the University of Arizona Poetry Center and have shared their work across the country in various venues\, universities\, and states of consciousness. You can find Angel’s words online and in print in various publications including BOMB Magazine\, The Berkeley Poetry Review\, FENCE\, Prolit Magazine\, SFMOMA Open Space\, and elsewhere. You can find Angel in the redwoods or ocean. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGabriel Mindel\n\n\n\n\n\nGabriel Saloman Mindel is an interdisciplinary artist\, musician and scholar based in Santa Cruz (USA). He is currently pursuing a PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz where he is researching the relationships between noise and power\, particularly the use of noise to extend beyond the limits of the body in struggles for space and political autonomy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKalie Granier and Alexandra  J. Casares\n\n\n\n\n\nA’ai/Beyond \n\n\n\nConversation between humans and non-humans to protect aquatic photosynthetic organisms.  \n\n\n\nA unique talk of a Pelican on the shore of the beach announcing the funeral dance of its kelp forest to a Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation woman. \n\n\n\n(In English and Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation dialect.) \n\n\n\nKalie Granier\, is a French interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her artistic practice explores life below the surface and the interdependence between humans and non-humans through Ecofeminist values. She questions the links between our underwater environments\, their ecosystems\, and our human bodies in the new geological era to raise awareness of social and ecological imbalances\, while imagining alternative narratives for a more equitable future. Her research lies at the intersection of art\, science\, and activism\, with a focus on marine plants and relies on a close dialogue between scientists and environmentalists. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries and museums in the US and Europe. She is also the co-founder of Loud Spring\, a European-American Art Tank/Collective (and 501c3 Org) based in San Francisco/Oakland\, inspired by Eco-Feminism. \n\n\n\nAlexandra  J. Casares from Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation. The Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation is a historically documented previously recognized tribe. OCEN is the legal tribal government representative for over 600 enrolled members of Esselen\, Carmeleno\, Monterey Band\, Rumsen\, Chalon\, Soledad Mission\, San Carlos Mission and/or Costanoan Mission Indian descent of Monterey County. OCEN is known as the Monterey Band of Monterey County at the Sur Rancheria as a result of the Congressional Homeless Indian Acts of 1906\, 1908 and later years. OCEN’s mission is to promote social and economic well being of our people\, secure our aboriginal homeland\, all natural resources and biodiversity oppressed for private profits. OCEN works with the support of archaeologists\, linguists\, scholars\, anthropologists\, artists\, to preserve our culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoel E. Smyth\n\n\n\n\n\nNoel E. Smyth has a Ph.D. in Native American History from UC Santa Cruz. He currently teaches at UCSC\, and he has previously taught at Gavilan Community College and Cabrillo Community College. Noel is writing his first book\, “Surviving the Cataclysm: Reconstructing Diasporic Natchez History in the Atlantic World.” His research has been supported by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture\, the American Philosophical Society\, the Clements Library\, the Huntington Library\, Tulane’s Center for the Study of the Gulf South\, Harvard’s Atlantic World Seminar\, and the University of California Center for New Racial Studies. He is also a member of the Natchez Language Task Force with the Natchez Nation of Oklahoma. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPedro Morales-Almazan\n\n\n\n\n\nPedro Morales-Almazan is a teaching professor in the mathematics department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His interests include innovation in teaching methods and the incorporation of technology to improve engagement in and outside the classroom. He has explored applications of improv in the classroom and in professional development for mathematics instructors\, using this as a way to complement active learning with active teaching. He has also implemented experiential learning in calculus using problem-based and project-based learning. He is involved in math circles and outreach\, leading sessions and public lectures in the US and Latin America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonaldo V. Wilson\n\n\n\n\n\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\,  is an award-winning poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, academic and author of six collections of hybrid and experimental works spanning poetry\, fiction\, mixed genre theory\, performance\, and visual art.  He is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U. C. Santa Cruz.  He is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72.  His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories.  The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSMITH\n\n\n\n\n\nSMITH is a french artist and researcher (PhD) born in 1985. His works focuses on human identity and its metamorphoses\, alterations\, hybridization\, and borders (animals\, technologies\, other worlds…)\, through archipelagic undisciplinary projects that bring together photographs\, sculptures\, choreographies\, performances and films. SMITH is represented by Christophe Gaillard gallery in Paris.  \n\n\n\n@traumsmith \n\n\n\nDuring this talk\, the artist\, director and researcher SMITH\, who is visiting Santa Cruz through the Villa Albertine project\, will share the strategies put in place in his artistic work where a world with porous borders is imagined ; where exclusions leave room for all that “trans-“ : transitions\, transitivities\, transits.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSomreeta Paul\n\n\n\n\n\nSomreeta Paul is a second year PhD student at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, currently working on philosophy of mind\, philosophy of gender and aesthetics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeanne Proust\n\n\n\n\n\nJeanne Proust has studied Humanities\, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux\, Berlin\, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 13 years in the US. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower\, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives\, but her interests are wide: among many fields\, she does research in Ethics\, Philosophy of Technologies\, Bioethics\, Feminist theory\, and Aesthetics. While teaching at different universities in New York\, Jeanne has been advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She taught at Rikers Island as a volunteer\, and regularly gives public talks in philosophy\, leading her to recently produce her own podcast\, “Can You Phil It?”. She also collaborates with artists on her photography\, drawing and painting works. Jeanne currently teaches as a lecturer for UC Santa Cruz and is involved with the Center for Public Philosophy. This Spring\, she is leading the production of this “Crossing Borders” event\, along with workshops for undergraduates on the Ethics of New Technologies based on the TEQ Deck project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe chorale performs choral works of diverse periods\, genres and traditions\, both unaccompanied and using professional soloists\, instrumental ensemble and orchestra. The Santa Cruz Chorale makes such music accessible to the broadest possible audiences while enabling member singers to experience the delight and artistic growth inherent to sophisticated music-making. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatsonville Taiko was founded by Jim Hooker in September 1991 as a Taiko drumming community of performers and supporters. Ikuyo Conant was appointed artistic director in 1992 and set the group’s goal to strive through exploration of Taiko to develop an art that combines drumming with folklore\, mythology and symbolism. Watsonville Taiko creates opportunities to make meaningful connections through taiko drumming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe UCSC Philosophical Slug Society\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Philosophical Slug Society aims to create an environment which encourages students of all backgrounds to participate in thoughtful and respectful philosophical discourse as well as an opportunity to expand their philosophical literary horizons. The group meets once a week to hold open discussions on chosen reading materials. Additionally\, department professors and graduate students will be invited to give talks on their own research relevant to our readings! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe UCSC Film and Digital Media Department\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Film and Digital Media major at UC Santa Cruz offers an integrated curriculum where students study the cultural impact of movies\, television\, video\, and the internet and also have the opportunity to pursue creating work in video and interactive digital media\, if so desired. Graduates of the UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media program have enjoyed considerable success in the professional world and have gained admission to top graduate schools in the field. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/crossing-borders-an-evening-of-philosophical-discussions/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lectures,Special Programs,Symposiums & Conferences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CROSSING-BORDERS-copy_croppedmorejpg-e1752083109800.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T210000 DTSTAMP:20221026T053512Z 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:20220421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T140000 DTSTAMP:20221026T053620Z 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:20220201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T210000 DTSTAMP:20221026T054025Z 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:20211019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T140000 DTSTAMP:20221026T054352Z 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:20210510T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210510T180000 DTSTAMP:20221026T054658Z CREATED:20221025T230818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T054658Z UID:3366-1620666000-1620669600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Revolutionary Greetings! DESCRIPTION:Sesnon Speak Up: Revolutionary Greetings!May 10\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here) \n\n\n\nWe will write to our friend Tim Young\, the person behind the Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, a participatory public sculpture and garden project. Tim is wrongfully convicted and currently on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. He is currently partaking in the appellate process as a means of proving his innocence and regaining his freedom. In these events\, we will read Tims letters\, hear his poetry in his own voice\, and discuss together why our efforts to connect with people in prison are important.Please join us in our future events around art\, prisons\, and justice to continue to build community despite that which separates us. \n\n\n\nBy writing and connecting with people who are in prison\, we resist the isolation that incarceration of all forms creates.-Survived & Punished Project \n\n\n\nRevolutionary Greetings! is co-presented by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/revolutionary-greetings-may/ 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/RevolutionaryGreetings.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T180000 DTSTAMP:20221026T055138Z CREATED:20221025T220724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T055138Z UID:3352-1618851600-1618855200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Revolutionary Greetings! DESCRIPTION:Sesnon Speak Up: Revolutionary Greetings!April 19\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here) \n\n\n\nWe will write to our friend Tim Young\, the person behind the Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, a participatory public sculpture and garden project. Tim is wrongfully convicted and currently on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. He is currently partaking in the appellate process as a means of proving his innocence and regaining his freedom. In these events\, we will read Tims letters\, hear his poetry in his own voice\, and discuss together why our efforts to connect with people in prison are important.Please join us in our future events around art\, prisons\, and justice to continue to build community despite that which separates us. \n\n\n\nBy writing and connecting with people who are in prison\, we resist the isolation that incarceration of all forms creates.-Survived & Punished Project \n\n\n\nRevolutionary Greetings! is co-presented by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/revolutionary-greetings-apr/ 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/RevolutionaryGreetings.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210208T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210208T180000 DTSTAMP:20221026T055431Z CREATED:20221025T213755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T055431Z UID:3323-1612803600-1612807200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Revolutionary Greetings! DESCRIPTION:Sesnon Speak Up: Revolutionary Greetings!February 8\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here)April TBDMay 10\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here) \n\n\n\nWe will write to our friend Tim Young\, the person behind the Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, a participatory public sculpture and garden project. Tim is wrongfully convicted and currently on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. He is currently partaking in the appellate process as a means of proving his innocence and regaining his freedom. In these events\, we will read Tims letters\, hear his poetry in his own voice\, and discuss together why our efforts to connect with people in prison are important.Please join us in our future events around art\, prisons\, and justice to continue to build community despite that which separates us. \n\n\n\nBy writing and connecting with people who are in prison\, we resist the isolation that incarceration of all forms creates.-Survived & Punished Project \n\n\n\nRevolutionary Greetings! is co-presented by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/revolutionary-greetings-feb/ 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/RevolutionaryGreetings.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210111T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210111T180000 DTSTAMP:20221026T055631Z CREATED:20221025T210423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T055631Z UID:3298-1610384400-1610388000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Revolutionary Greetings! DESCRIPTION:Sesnon Gallery Speak Up presents Revolutionary Greetings!\, a series of events focused on letter writing and open discussion about connecting with people who are incarcerated. \n\n\n\nSesnon Speak Up: Revolutionary Greetings!January 11\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here)February 8\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here)April TBDMay 10\, 2021 5-6:00 p.m. (Register here) \n\n\n\nWe will write to our friend Tim Young\, the person behind the Solitary Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, a participatory public sculpture and garden project. Tim is wrongfully convicted and currently on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. He is currently partaking in the appellate process as a means of proving his innocence and regaining his freedom. In these events\, we will read Tims letters\, hear his poetry in his own voice\, and discuss together why our efforts to connect with people in prison are important.Please join us in our future events around art\, prisons\, and justice to continue to build community despite that which separates us. \n\n\n\nBy writing and connecting with people who are in prison\, we resist the isolation that incarceration of all forms creates.-Survived & Punished Project \n\n\n\nRevolutionary Greetings! is co-presented by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/revolutionary-greetings/ 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/RevolutionaryGreetings.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210425T173000 DTSTAMP:20221202T084040Z CREATED:20221025T203427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221202T084040Z UID:3269-1604073600-1619371800@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent DESCRIPTION:Curated by Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Director\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences and Alexandra Moore\, IAS Curatorial Fellow\, Barring Freedom features works by important U.S. based artists which challenge the dominant ways people see and understand the complex nexus of policing\, surveillance\, detention\, and imprisonment that makes up the nation’s prison industrial complex.  \n\n\n\nWith more than two million incarcerated people\, a majority of them black or brown\, virtually all of them from poor communities\, the prison industrial complex reveals a troubled vision at the heart of the nation. Barring Freedom considers the strategies artists use to reveal this unjust and racist worldview as well as the social problems that it serves to obscure. And\, it highlights the alternatives artists imagine to systemic injustices. \n\n\n\nOn October 20\, 2020\, Visualizing Abolition\, a conversation between Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent\, will be the first of an online series of speaking events organized with Professor Dent in conjunction with Barring Freedom. All events will be recorded and archived at barringfreedom.org. \n\n\n\nWhile Barring Freedom was conceptualized before the current crises\, first COVID-19\, with its ongoing and unequal effects\, and then the recent brutal onslaught of police killings of Black people in the United States have brought into sharp relief the horrific consequences of historical structural racism in the nation. As the depths of the injustices come into focus\, Barring Freedom reflects the teachings of noted prison abolitionist Angela Y. Davis (emphasis added): \n\n\n\n“When we are told that we simply need better police and better prisons\, we counter with what we really need…We need to be able to reimagine security\, which will involve the abolition of policing and imprisonment as we know them…[and] reinvent entire worlds.” \n\n\n\nIt is with the urgency of the times that the exhibition underscores the importance of artists and creative practitioners in envisioning a world beyond overflowing prisons. Dr. Davis has called for a “great feat of the imagination” to realize dreams of freedom and end the injustices of the carceral system. The artists in Barring Freedom respond to that call. \n\n\n\nArtists: American Artist; Sadie Barnette; Sanford Biggers; Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick; Sonya Clark; Sharon Daniel; Maria Gaspar\, Ashley Hunt; Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman; Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts; Deana Lawson; Sherrill Roland; Dread Scott; jackie sumell; Hank Willis Thomas; Patrice Renee Washington; Prison Renaissance; Levester Williams.  \n\n\n\nBarring Freedom is organized by the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences and San José Museum of Art. The exhibition and related programming has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation. Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \n\n\n\nPDF: Barring Freedom  \n\n\n\nFile Attachment:  \n\n\n\n Barring Freedom Webpage PDF.pdf URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-with-angela-y-davis-and-gina-dent-oct/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs,Watch Now ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/If-the-Leader-Only-Knew.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200502T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200502T200000 DTSTAMP:20221026T060211Z CREATED:20221025T090250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T060211Z UID:3251-1588442400-1588449600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Postponed: New York Barring Freedom Event: Reginald Dwayne Betts DESCRIPTION:For this event\, he will read from his current latest collection of poetry\, Felon\, which interrogates and challenges notions of justice and discuss it in relation to his experience of incarceration at the age of sixteen and his current work on the impacts of incarceration. Following his presentation\, Gina Dent\, cultural theorist\, feminist studies scholar\, and long-time prison abolitionist will join him in conversation. \nMay 2\, 3-4:30 p.m.Reading: Reginald Dwayne BettsFollowed by a Q&A with Gina DentMoot Court\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice524 W 59th St\, New York\, NY 10019 \nWorks from the Redaction Project\, Bett’s collaboration with visual artist Titus Kaphar is also on view at Shiva Gallery\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 29-July 16\, 2020 as part of Barring Freedom. Barring Freedom is a bi-coastal exhibition of contemporary art and programmatic intiative organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Art about art\, prisons\, and justice. With more than two million incarcerated people in the United States\, a majority of them black or brown\, virtually all of them from poor communities\, Barring Freedom aims to challenge one of the obstacles to justice in the United States: the failure of many to see the biases within the criminal justice system—much less comprehend the social problems that the system serves to obscure.  \nReginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of the Yale Law School. He has written three collections of poetry\, including Felon\, 2019\, which New York Times critic Michiko Kukatani called “haunting and harrowing.”  His memoir\, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning\, Survival\, and Coming of Age in Prison\, is the story of his experiences in the worst prisons in the state of Virginia\, where solitary confinement\, horrific conditions\, and the constant violence threatened to break his humanity. Instead\, Betts used the time to turn himself into a poet\, a scholar\, and an advocate for the reform of the criminal justice system. \nA widely requested speaker\, Betts has given lectures on topics ranging from mass incarceration to contemporary poetry and the intersection of literature and advocacy. Between his work in public defense\, his years of advocacy\, and Betts’ own experiences as a teenager in maximum security prisons\, he is uniquely positioned to speak to the failures of the current criminal justice system and presents encouraging ideas for change. As a result of that work\, President Barack Obama appointed Betts to the Coordinating Council of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and\, more recently\, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut appointed him to the Criminal Justice Commission\, the state body responsible for hiring prosecutors in Connecticut. \nNamed a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2018 NEA Fellow\, Betts’ poetry has long been praised. His writing has generated national attention and earned him a Soros Justice Fellowship\, a Radcliffe Fellowship\, a Ruth Lily Fellowship\, an NAACP Image Award\, and New America Fellowship. Betts has been featured in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and The Washington Post\, as well as being interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air\, The Travis Smiley Show and several other national shows. He holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland; an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College\, where he was a Holden Fellow; and a J.D. from Yale Law School\, where he was awarded the Israel H. Perez Prize for best student note or comment appearing in the Yale Law Journal. He is a Ph. D. in Law candidate at Yale and\, as a Liman Fellow\, he spent a year representing clients in the New Haven Public Defender’s Office. \n \nGina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at University of California\, Santa Cruz. A committed activist\, scholar\, and educator\, Dent’s current project\, Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture ([1993] New York: The New Press\, 1998)\, and author of numerous articles on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art. Her forthcoming book Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology (Duke University Press) is a study of the consequences—both disabling and   productive—of social science’s role in translating black writers into American literature. Dent is the recipient of 2018-19 UC Santa Cruz Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in the Humanities. She lectures widely and has offered courses in critical race studies\, critical theory and postcolonialism\, and black feminisms in Brazil (Universidade Federal da Bahia\, Salvador and Universidade Federal Recôcavo da Bahia\, Cachoeira)\, Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)\, and Sweden (Linköping   University)\, as well as at the European Graduate School. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/postponed-new-york-barring-freedom-event-reginald-dwayne-betts/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dwayne-Betts-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200502T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200502T200000 DTSTAMP:20221026T060227Z CREATED:20221025T090118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T060227Z UID:3248-1588442400-1588449600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Postponed: New York Barring Freedom UCSC Alumni Reception DESCRIPTION:Jock Reynolds\, Stevenson ’69\, is hosting the UC Santa Cruz reception for Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of contemporary art about prisons and justice organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, at the Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  \nSaturday\, May 2\, 20205-7 p.m.Anya and Andrew Shiva Art GalleryJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice860 11th Ave\, New York\, NY 10019Please join us for this private reception hosted exclusively for alumni and friends of UC Santa Cruz.RSVP IS REQUIRED. \nMeet new UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive and faculty Craig Haney\, Psychology\, Jennifer González\, History of Art and Visual Culture\, and Gina Dent\, Feminist Studies and Legal Studies. Barring Freedom curators/ IAS staff Rachel Nelson ’16 and Alexandra Moore ’21 will be on hand for curatorial walk-throughs and exhibition information.  \n  \nBarring Freedom features contemporary artists from across the United States whose works challenge the complex nexus of policing\, surveillance\, and imprisonment that makes up the nation’s prison industrial complex. With more than two million incarcerated people\, a majority of them black or brown\, virtually all of them from poor communities\, one of the obstacles to justice in the United States is the failure of many to see the biases within the criminal justice system—much less comprehend the social problems that the system serves to obscure.  \nThe artists included in Barring Freedom seek to expose the structural racism embedded within the systems of policing and mass incarceration\, render perceptible the social and psychological effects of the carceral state\, and counter the dehumanization which naturalizes these injustices. The prison industrial complex reveals a troubled vision at the heart of the United States. Barring Freedom considers the strategies artists and creative practitioners use to reveal this vision and to imagine alternatives to our fundamentally flawed criminal justice system. \nBarring Freedom is organized by curators Rachel Nelson and Alexandra Moore for UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with John Jay College of Criminal Justice and San José Museum of Art.  \nArtists: American Artist; Sanford Biggers; Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick; Sonya Clark; Sharon Daniel; Maria Gaspar\, Ashley Hunt; Dee Hibbert-Jones; Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts; Prison Renaissance; Sherrill Roland; Dread Scott; jackie sumell; Hank Willis Thomas; Patrice Renee Washington; Levester Williams \n\n\n\n\nFile Attachment: \n\n BFlogo.jpg URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/postponed-new-york-barring-freedom-ucsc-alumni-reception/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sherrill.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200501T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200501T200000 DTSTAMP:20221026T060245Z CREATED:20221025T085941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T060245Z UID:3245-1588356000-1588363200@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Postponed: New York Barring Freedom Event: Craig Haney and Sherrill Roland DESCRIPTION:May 1\, 6-8 p.m.“Art\, Psychology\, and Justice”A Conversation w/ Craig Haney and Sherrill RolandModerated by Jennifer GonzálezShiva Gallery\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice524 W 59th St\, New York\, NY 10019 \nCraig Haney is a social psychologist and a professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation. Haney has published five books\, numerous research articles\, entries in law reviews\, and articles for the Huffington Post about the psychological impacts of incarceration\, advocating for prison reform. He has served as an expert witness in several influential United States Federal Court cases related to the prison environment and punishment. Moreover\, Haney’s work was influential in the United States Supreme Court 5-4 ruling of Brown v. Plata (2011)\, which upheld a lower court ruling that the California prison population be reduced. \nSherrill Roland creates art the challenges ideas around the people and structures caught within the webs of mass incarceration\, policing\, and the U.S. criminal justice system. Much of his current work reflects on his wrongful conviction and time spent in prison. Although eventually exonerated of all charges and granted a bill of innocence\, Roland’s experiences with the justice system had a lasting effect on both his life and his artistic practice. Through sharing his own story\, and creating a space for others to process\, question\, and share\, he sheds light on the enormous darkness incarceration brings. \nRoland was born in Asheville\, NC\, received both his BFA in Design and MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His performances and installations have been featured at Contemporary Art Museum\, Houston; the New Gallery of Modern Art\, Charlotte\, NC; ARTspace\, Raleigh\, NC; Studio Museum in Harlem\, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro\, NC; Princeton University\, NJ; Brooklyn Public Library\, NY; University of Illinois Chicago; Appalachian State University\, Boone\, NC; Guilford College\, NC; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition\, CA; and Elsewhere Museum\, NC.  \nJennifer González\, Professor\, History of Art and Visual Culutre\, UC Santa Cruz\, writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation\, digital and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space (exhibition space\, public space\, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically\, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender. \nGonzález’s publication history includes the monographs Subject to Display: Reframing Race In Contemporary Installation Art (MIT Press\, 2008) and Pepón Osorio (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013). González also served as chief editor for the co-edited volume Chicana and Chicano Art: A Critical Anthology\, with Ondine Chavoya\, Chon Noriega and Tere Romo (Duke University Press 2019). She has published articles in numerous scholarly and art publications such as Journal of Visual Culture\, Frieze\, Bomb\, Diacritics\, Archives of American Art Journal\, Camera Obscura\, Open Space and Art Journal.   González has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the American Association of University Women\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She lectures extensively at universities and art museums nationally and internationally and teaches regularly at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program\, New York. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/postponed-new-york-barring-freedom-event-craig-haney-and-sherrill-roland/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sherrill.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T190000 DTSTAMP:20221026T060301Z CREATED:20221025T085736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T060301Z UID:3241-1586271600-1586286000@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Postponed: Arthur Jafa\, The White Album Screening and Discussion DESCRIPTION:The White Album by Arthur JafaFilm Screening (40 min\, looped)April 7\, 12 p.m.- 7 p.m.Discussion (TBA) 7-8 p.m.DARC 108 \nArthur Jafa is an artist\, director\, editor\, and award-winning cinematographer whose poignant work expands the concept of black cinema while exploring African American experience and race relations in everyday life. He has stated\, “I have a very simple mantra and it’s this: I want to make black cinema with the power\, beauty\, and alienation of black music.” \nThe White Album\, 2018\, is Jafa’s follow up to his renowned work Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death (2016).  Love Is The Message\, The Message Is Death is a  compilation of found footage set to Kanye West’s transcendent\, gospel-inspired hip-hop track “Ultralight Beam.” The result was a meticulously edited seven-minute montage that surveys African American identity through a vast spectrum of imagery\, drawing from media sources such as the news\, photography\, the Internet\, and television. Intercutting segments of his own footage with more well-known pictures from the civil rights era\, recent scenes of police brutality\, and iconic clips of extraordinary athleticism\, Jafa established an emotional undercurrent for this complex terrain of cultural representation. In effect\, the work is a testament to the emancipatory power of moving-image production. \nIf Love Is The Message trained Jafa’s scrutiny on black experience\, The White Album shifts his lens to white experience\, acknowledging that neither can be understood in isolation from the another. Again\, he combines 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. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/postponed-arthur-jafa-the-white-album-screening-and-discussion/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Special Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/JafaWhiteAlbum7.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR