• Rasanblaj as Spirit Turn: Gina Athena Ulysse in Conversation with Jennifer González

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Please join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González, discussing Ulysse's solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. Gina Athena Ulysse (b 1966) Haiti/United States is an artist-scholar, Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Rasanblaj Praxis Project Lab (RPPL) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Concerned with the visceral in […]

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  • Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Organized by Pooja Rangan, Visiting Scholar, Visualizing Abolition at University of California, Santa Cruz Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them is the culminating in-person event in a series of conversations examining how contemporary documentary forms participate in both the making and unmaking of carceral power. This symposium brings together organizers, filmmakers, scholars and artists—both with […]

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  • Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian dance response to Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore... Agbe | Agwe, and Ulysse will read from her […]

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  • Opening Celebration for Visions from Within: Resilience

    Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos 1817 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Join us for the opening celebration of Visions from Within: Resilience. Visions From Within is a continued series of art exhibitions dedicated to uplifting and platforming artists who are currently system impacted.

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