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SUMMARY:Translating (as) Freedom: Abolition and the Power of Words
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Passagem installation by Plataforma Explode!\, this three-day workshop invites participants to engage with the transformative power of translation within abolitionist struggles. Through an immersive exploration of written and oral texts\, we will actively engage in exercises of reading\, co-translating\, reimagining meanings\, and reinterpreting words\, documenting our processes both orally and in writing. The workshop will challenge us to reconsider translation as an imaginative practice\, a form of study\, re-connection\, and community-building across languages and territories—ultimately\, as a pathway to freedom. We will delve into translation as movement\, act of care\, survival mechanism\, community work\, and means to reimagine and reshape the world. \n\n\n\nThis three-day workshop runs October 22-24\, 5:30-7:30pm each day\, and is by invitation only. Please email ias@ucsc.edu for further information. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of a series of activations of the site-specific installation Passagem by a collective of Brazilian-born artists\, Explode! Platform.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJess Oliveira is a translator\, professor\, and poet. P.h.D in Literature and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia\, where she was a member of the former Research Group Traduzindo no Atlântico Negro\, coordinated by Professor Denise Carrascosa. She holds a B.A in German and Portuguese from the University of São Paulo and a Master’s degree in Translation Studies from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. A finalist for the  2020 Jabuti Award (Brazil) in the category Translation\, she participated in the artist residency Rethinking the Aesthetics of the Colony in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and of the homonymous platform for translation studies and political imagination across the diasporas from 2019 to 2020. Between 2020 and 2023\, she was a visiting professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Colorado College. Notable authors she has translated include Denise Ferreira da Silva\, Dionne Brand\, Patricia Hill Collins\, Tanya Saunders\, Lélia Gonzalez\, Leda Maria Martins\, bell hooks\, Grada Kilomba\, May Ayim\, tatiana nascimento\, Ibi Zoboi\, Sobonfu Somé\, Sylvia Wynter\, Christina Sharpe\, among others. She is currently part of the cocoruto translation-art duo\, a platform of experimentation in translation.  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Explode! Platform\n\n\n\nFounded by Cláudio Bueno and João Simões in Brazil\, Explode! Platform operates at the intersections of art\, pedagogy\, and social justice. Cláudio Bueno\, from São Paulo\, Brazil\, is a professor in the Art Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. João Simões\, from Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, is an artist\, curator\, researcher\, and designer.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/translating-as-freedom-abolition-and-the-power-of-words/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Walk-through with Imani Jacqueline Brown
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special walk-through of Seeing through Stone with Imani Jacqueline Brown\, highlighting Brown’s work in the exhibition\, The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees) (2023). This walk-through will touch on themes such as the intersection of carceral institutions and climate change and the profound impact of oil and gas infrastructure on Louisiana’s wetlands.  \n\n\n\nPoetically traversing the extractive history of Louisiana—from settler colonialism to slavery to prisons\, and the fossil fuel industry—The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees) creatively choreographs these intersecting histories and their ecological impacts. This immersive video installation consists of two video projections and an audio track. The artist merges satellite imagery of Louisiana wetlands’ carceral institutions and its oil and gas infrastructure with photographs and video recorded from vehicles traveling through the region. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImani Jacqueline Brown is an artist\, activist\, and architectural researcher from New Orleans\, based in London. Her work investigates the ‘continuum of extractivism’\, which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production\, gentrification\, and police and corporate impunity. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of US society\, she opens up space to imagine paths to ecological reparations. \n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Imani Jacqueline Brown\, The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees)\, 2023. Media installation with soundscape “Enbas” by Les Cenelles. Courtesy of the artist and Les Cenelles. Installation view at Institute of the Arts and Sciences in Seeing through Stone.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-walk-through-with-imani-jacqueline-brown/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Rebecca Belmore and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist Rebecca Belmore\, member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe)\, and renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar\, writer\, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.This unique conversation\, mediated by Professor Gina Dent and IAS Director and Chief Curator Rachel Nelson\, will focus on Belmore’s and  Betasamosake Simpson’s practices as they reflect on the multi-sited exhibition Seeing through Stone. The exhibition features the works of more than 85 international and national artists across 3 venues\, including Belmore’s “At Pelican Falls\,” which is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThis event is located at 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\nRebecca Belmore\, member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe)\, is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist. Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities\, Belmore’s works make evocative connections between bodies\, land and language. Belmore received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award (2004)\, the Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award (2009)\, the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2013)\, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2016). She received honorary doctorates from OCAD University (2005)\, Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2018)\, and NSCAD University (2019). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar\, writer and artist\, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics\,  story\, and song—bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound\, light\, and sovereign creativity.Leanne is the author of eight books\, including A Short History of the Blockade and the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies  which was  short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the Dublin Literary Prize. This Accident of Being Lost  was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award. Her new project\, a collaboration with Robyn Maynard\, Rehearsals for Living is a National Best Seller and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction.  Leanne is also a musician.  Her latest release Theory of Ice was named to the Polaris Prize short list\, and she is the 2021 winner of the Prism Prize’s Willie Dunn Award. \n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Rebecca Belmore\, At Pelican Falls\, 2017. Sculpture\, video\, wall text\, and photograph. Collection of the artist. Installation view at San José Museum of Art in Seeing through Stone.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/in-conversation-leanne-betasamosake-simpson-and-rebecca-belmore/
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:October First Friday: Party with Performances by Caleb Duarte and Guillermo Galindo
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a First Friday Party featuring special performances by artists Caleb Duarte and Guillermo Galindo. Enjoy artist performances\, an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone and a free food truck!  \n\n\n\nThese will be standing performances with limited seating. Guests will be able to hear the performance throughout the galleries. If you need accommodations or seats\, please contact us at ias@ucsc.edu. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\n\n\nCAleb Duarte\n\n\n\nTres Terrenos Activation by Caleb Duarte\n\n\n\nMultidisciplinary artist Caleb Duarte’s practice exists at the intersection of community building and collaboration\, sculpture\, installation\, and theater. Commissioned by and featured in Seeing through Stone on view at the IAS\, the sculpture Tres Terrenos is a 13-foot model of a prison surveillance tower. Constructed with concrete walls and supported by compressed dirt\, the sculpture was created during Caleb’s collaboration with members of the Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (BU) community center. For this First Friday at the IAS\, Duarte and collaborators Sonny Trujillo and Frank Alejandrez will activate Tres Terrenos through a series of gestures and actions. \n\n\n\nCaleb Duarte\, Tres Terrenos\, 2024. Installation views in Seeing through Stone at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, April 12\, 2024-January 5\, 2025. Photography by Glen Cheriton.\n\n\n\n\n\nGuillermo Galindo. Photo by Zen Cohen.\n\n\n\nOjo / Eye Activation by Guillermo Galindo\n\n\n\nExperimental composer and artist Guillermo Galindo creates objects made of discarded materials and personal items in the desert along the United States–Mexico border. In this unique performance at the IAS\, Galindo will activate Ojo / Eye\, 2015\, a work that consists of a bicycle wheel the Border Patrol ran over to prevent its use. Galindo has refashioned it into an antenna for a theremin\, an instrument that produces sound when one interferes with its electromagnetic field. The instrument’s inventor\, Leon Theremin\, developed the technology into an electronic motion-sensing alarm system implemented in Alcatraz and some United States prisons. \n\n\n\nGuillermo Galindo\, Ojo / Eye\, 2015. Installation view in Seeing through Stone at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, April 12\, 2024-January 5\, 2025. Collection of Abe Tomás Hughes and Diana Girardi Karnas. Photography by Glen Cheriton.\n\n\n\n\n\nTop image by Mickey Ta.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-10/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:San José Museum of Art: Virtual Conversation with the Tea Project and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Grab a cup of tea and join the artists of the Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes) for this virtual conversation with guests La Tanya Jenifor-Sublett and Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Expanding on the themes of their podcast\, Remaking the Exceptional\, this conversation will connect policing in Chicago to human rights violations at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay\, and the shared lessons learned from their experiences. \n\n\n\nThis conversation is online only via Zoom. Learn more at the San José Museum of Art event webpage.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of Visualizing Abolition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tea Project is an ongoing dialogue that creates opportunities to engage with local and global histories of war\, torture\, and confinement while uplifting acts of creative resistance over cups of tea.    \n\n\n\nAmber Ginsburg is an artist and teacher in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. She creates site-generated projects and social sculptures that insert historical scenarios into present day situations\, as well as engaging present-day histories to imagine alternative futures. Her background in craft orients her projects towards the continuities and ruptures in material\, social\, and utopic histories. For more than a decade\, she has collaborated with Aaron Hughes on the Tea Project.  \n\n\n\nAaron Hughes is an artist\, curator\, organizer\, anti-war activist\, and Iraq War veteran. Working through an interdisciplinary practice rooted in drawing and printmaking\, Hughes works collaboratively to create meaning out of personal and collective trauma\, transform systems of oppression\, and seek liberation. Hughes works with a range of art and activist groups\, including Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative\, About Face: Veterans Against the War\, emerging Veteran Art Movement\, and Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project. He collaborates with Amber Ginsburg on the Tea Project.   \n\n\n\nLaTanya Jenifor-Sublett is a social justice advocate\, public speaker\, community organizer\, and director of community engagement and supportive services for the Chicago Torture Justice Center. She experienced abuse and torture at the hands of Chicago Police at the age of 19. Sentenced to 42 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for a crime she did not commit\, she did her very best to reinvent herself.  \n\n\n\nMohamedou Ould Slahi is an internationally acclaimed author who currently holds positions as writer-in-residence with NITE and De Balie in the Netherlands. In 2001\, he was detained and renditioned from his home country Mauritania\, an ordeal chronicled in his bestselling Guantánamo Diary (2015). The memoir was published in twenty-five languages and adapted for film as “The Mauritanian” (2021). He has also published a novel\, The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga (2021) and co-written the theater production Yara’s Wedding (2023). He was awarded the Netherlands PAX Peace Prize in 2022 and The Marco Borradori Prize in 2023. \n\n\n\nImages: Left: Khalid Qasim\, Untitled\, 2016. Courtesy of the Tea Project.Right (clockwise): Aaron Hughes\, Amber Ginsburg\, La Tanya Jenifor-Sublett\, and Mohamedou Ould Slahi.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/san-jose-museum-of-art-virtual-conversation-with-the-tea-project-and-guests/
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Screening and Discussion of “Plantations & Prisons: a History of Forced Labor in Louisiana” with Sara Gozalo\, Engrid Hamilton\, and Willow Katz
DESCRIPTION:Join us on September 26 for a screening and conversation at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences with Sara Gozalo\, Engrid Hamilton\, Willow Katz\, Gina Dent\, and Rachel Nelson. \n\n\n\nThe speakers will discuss the short documentary film Plantations and Prisons: a History of Forced Labor in Louisiana\, which explores the direct link between slavery and mass incarceration\, focused on Angola State Prison & the state of Louisiana.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but space is limited. Registration is closed. \n\n\n\nThis event is in-person.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Gozalo is the narrative storyteller at the Promise of Justice Initiative in New Orleans and PJI’s staff union steward. Sara’s diverse educational and professional experiences have all been motivated by her desire to fight for the right of every person to live in dignity. Sara earned a Ph.D. in immunology because she wanted to help find a cure for HIV/AIDS. When she found herself craving a more creative means to fight for social justice\, Sara moved to New York City and earned an MFA. Her training in media and storytelling through film became critical to her community organizing work as she began to use writing and filmmaking as a medium for activism. Sara is originally from Madrid\, Spain. She is a queer immigrant who is determined to imagine and build a just world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEngrid Hamilton is a formerly incarcerated worker. While she served seven years of a twenty-five-year sentence\, the Louisiana Department of Corrections and Prison Enterprises paid her nothing or 2 cents an hour to paint & do maintenance. Engrid said: “I’ve even participated in murals…there was a person there who was an artist and she made me begin to see…that if it would have been cultivated at an early age…I probably could have been an artist. That’s how well I paint.” Engrid was released from prison in December 2021. She is employed at the Sewerage and Water Board for the City of New Orleans as a utility plant worker\, training to be a pumping operator. Engrid is a senior at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Leavell College. In fall 2024\, she will pursue the completion of two classes for her undergraduate degree in Church Ministry. Engrid Hamilton works to abolish the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution and involuntary servitude in the United States. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWillow Katz has been an anti-racist\, anti-war organizer since the 1960’s. Since the early 1970s\, she has worked for the freedom and human rights of U.S.-held political prisoners\, Prisoners of War\, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. Willow is an anti-imperialist\, internationalist abolitionist. She opposes global racial capitalism\, colonialism\, white supremacy\, and genocide. She is a chronically ill and disabled lesbian feminist\, committed to the revolutionary queer\, BIPOC-led Disability Justice Movement. Willow is dedicated to collective care\, healing\, and safety. She loves sharing learning\, poetry\, music\, dance\, and joy in radical community.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/screening-and-discussion-of-plantations-prisons-a-history-of-forced-labor-in-louisiana-with-sara-gozalo-and-engrid-hamilton/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Curator-led tour of Seeing through Stone with Dr. Rachel Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special curator-led walk-through of Seeing through Stone with IAS Director and Chief Curator\, Dr. Rachel Nelson. Dr. Nelson will reflect on this major Visualizing Abolition Program’s exhibition\, which is the first of such scale to be displayed at a UCSC gallery. \n\n\n\nSchedule:5–7 p.m. First Friday Gallery Opening Hours5:30 p.m. Exhibition Tour \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone brings together artwork by contemporary artists from around the globe whose work engages prisons\, justice\, and freedom. Drawing its title from poet Etheridge Knight’s evocation of those who have “the secret eyes\,” Seeing through Stone highlights the works of artists\, including those who are formerly and currently incarcerated\, that offer a vision beyond carceral systems\, drawing out the flourishing collective story and alternative imagining currently underway in creating a future free of prisons. The multi-sited exhibition is not focused on prisons but rather is oriented towards artists who help provide a vision—and a model—of abolition in practice. In sixteen newly commissioned projects\, alongside other works of video\, painting\, sculpture\, installation\, sound\, and performance\, across three exhibition sites\, Seeing through Stone provides a model of hope.Seeing through Stone is co-organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and San José Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Rachel 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages: Installation views of Seeing through Stone at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, April 12\, 2024-January 5\, 2025. Photography by Glen Cheriton.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-curator-led-tour-of-seeing-through-stone-with-dr-rachel-nelson/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Youth-led First Friday Event at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special youth-led First Friday Event organized by the high school students participating in the Art For All Teen Program at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone with screen-printing\, collective art-making\, live music\, youth-led tours\, a photo-booth\, and a free food truck! Admission is always free. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummer 2024 COHORT. Photo by Mickey Ta\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Art for All Teen Program \n\n\n\nThrough hands-on learning\, behind the scenes experiences at local museum and gallery spaces\, and mentorship from local arts professionals\, this summer program introduces rising juniors and seniors to the diversity of possibilities within the art world. Learn more here.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-8/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Remaking the Exceptional Podcast on 90.5 FM KSJS: Episode 6 "Flowers\, Freedom\, and Justice"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in to SJSU’s radio station\, 90.5 FM KSJS\, on Wednesdays at 1:30pm PT to hear the Tea Project’s podcast “Remaking the Exceptional.” Each episode brings together activists\, artists\, poets\, and torture survivors to investigate connections between policing and incarceration in Chicago and the human rights violations at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay\, Cuba. The Tea Project suggests that sitting\, sipping\, and reflecting over a cup of tea with others can create the space for conversations on difficult and at times painful subjects\, but also can create opportunities to envision a new set of social relations. See San José Museum of Art webpage here. \n\n\n\nThis broadcast is a partnership between San Jose State University’s 90.5FM KSJS and San José Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe first broadcast premiered on June 26\, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture\, and runs through July 31.  \n\n\n\nListen on 90.5 FM or via TuneIn. \n\n\n\n\nListen on TuneIn\n\n\n\n\nEpisode Schedule (Wednesdays from June 26 to July 31\, 2024):  \n\n\n\n\nJune 26 — Episode 1: Tea\, Tenderness\, and Torture \n\n\n\nJuly 3 — Episode 2: Maps\, Memory\, and Violence \n\n\n\nJuly 10 — Episode 3: Poetry\, Resilience\, and Resistance \n\n\n\nJuly 17 — Episode 4: Ships\, Contradictions\, and Confinement \n\n\n\nJuly 24 — Episode 5: Trees\, Solidarity\, and Struggle \n\n\n\nJuly 31 — Episode 6: Flowers\, Freedom\, and Justice \n\n\n\n\nKSJS will re-air the series in Fall 2024 – check back here for dates and times.  \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of Visualizing Abolition.  \n\n\n\nImage: Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes)\, Tracing the Torture Tree | Chicago to Guantánamo | The ecosystem of police and military violence from John Burge and his co-accused to Richard Zuley\, 2022. Courtesy of the Tea Project.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/remaking-the-exceptional-podcast-on-90-5-fm-ksjs-episode-6-flowers-freedom-and-justice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240727T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240727T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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SUMMARY:Block Party at VSCK Westside 
DESCRIPTION:The IAS is pleased to participate in a Special Block Party event with Venus Spirits Cocktails & Kitchen Westside (VSCK) and other participating High Road neighbors this Saturday\, July 27! This all ages event will be a full day of food\, fun\, and activities.  \n\n\n\nAt the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS)\, enjoy current exhibition Seeing through Stone\, along with hands-on art activities\, button-making\, and guided tours.  \n\n\n\nThe IAS Gallery will be open for regular visiting hours\, with exhibition tours at 1 and 3 p.m. Admission to the IAS is always free. \n\n\n\nThis Anniversary Block Party is presented by Venus Spirits\, with Collective Santa Cruz\, to celebrate Venus Spirits’ 10 years of exceptional craftsmanship. Enjoy delicious bites from VSCK’s Anniversary Menu\, refreshing drinks\, live music\, open studios\, a fun run and skate jam\, and a Vendor Village! Learn more at VENUS SPIRITS COCKTAILS & KITCHEN WESTSIDE. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/block-party-at-vsck-westside/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240724T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240724T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240629T173024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230220Z
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SUMMARY:Remaking the Exceptional Podcast on 90.5 FM KSJS: Episode 5 "Trees\, Solidarity\, and Struggle"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in to SJSU’s radio station\, 90.5 FM KSJS\, on Wednesdays at 1:30pm PT to hear the Tea Project’s podcast “Remaking the Exceptional.” Each episode brings together activists\, artists\, poets\, and torture survivors to investigate connections between policing and incarceration in Chicago and the human rights violations at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay\, Cuba. The Tea Project suggests that sitting\, sipping\, and reflecting over a cup of tea with others can create the space for conversations on difficult and at times painful subjects\, but also can create opportunities to envision a new set of social relations. See San José Museum of Art webpage here. \n\n\n\nThis broadcast is a partnership between San Jose State University’s 90.5FM KSJS and San José Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe first broadcast premiered on June 26\, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture\, and runs through July 31.  \n\n\n\nListen on 90.5 FM or via TuneIn. \n\n\n\n\nListen on TuneIn\n\n\n\n\nEpisode Schedule (Wednesdays from June 26 to July 31\, 2024):  \n\n\n\n\nJune 26 — Episode 1: Tea\, Tenderness\, and Torture \n\n\n\nJuly 3 — Episode 2: Maps\, Memory\, and Violence \n\n\n\nJuly 10 — Episode 3: Poetry\, Resilience\, and Resistance \n\n\n\nJuly 17 — Episode 4: Ships\, Contradictions\, and Confinement \n\n\n\nJuly 24 — Episode 5: Trees\, Solidarity\, and Struggle \n\n\n\nJuly 31 — Episode 6: Flowers\, Freedom\, and Justice \n\n\n\n\nKSJS will re-air the series in Fall 2024 – check back here for dates and times.  \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of Visualizing Abolition.  \n\n\n\nImage: Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes)\, Tracing the Torture Tree | Chicago to Guantánamo | The ecosystem of police and military violence from John Burge and his co-accused to Richard Zuley\, 2022. Courtesy of the Tea Project.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/remaking-the-exceptional-podcast-on-90-5-fm-ksjs-episode-5-trees-solidarity-and-struggle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240621T174213Z
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SUMMARY:Artist-led Exhibition Walk-through with Hương Ngô
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special artist-led walk-through of Seeing through Stone with Hương Ngô. In addition to speaking about her own work in the exhibition\, And The State of Emergency Is Also Always a State of Emergence (2017-ongoing)\, Ngô will reflect on a selection of other works in the exhibition as they relate to her own installation and practice. Ngô’s walkthrough will touch on themes such as refugee epistemologies and migration\, national and personal archives\, architecture and confinement\, and intergenerational memory. \n\n\n\nFor the installation And the State of Emergency Is Also Always a State of Emergence\, Ngô created a six-by-four-by-eleven-foot bunk bed frame\, similar to those found in crowded rooms of jails\, detention centers\, and prisons across the globe\, out of reinforced paper. This precarious architectural sculpture is based on the stories told by Ngô’s siblings about her family’s nearly two-year-long stay\, when they were children\, in a Hong Kong detention center. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work attends to refugee epistemologies\, expanding concepts of time and knowledge to those that are generational\, ecological\, ruptured\, and reconstructed. Often beginning with research in national and personal archives\, she realizes her work through installation\, works on paper\, and performance. Ngô’s artistic practice has been recognized and exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, MCA Chicago\, the New Museum in New York\, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago\, among others. She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam in 2016 and was featured in the Prague Biennial in 2005 and Prospect.5 Triennial in 2021. Ngô is currently visiting lecturer at University of California Santa Barbara. \n\n\n\n\n\nImages: (Top Image) Hương Ngô\, And The State of Emergency Is Also Always a State of Emergence\, 2017-ongoing. Installation view in the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Photo by Glen Cheriton. (Bottom image) Hương Ngô. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Leonard Suryajaya.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/artist-exhibition-walk-through-with-huong-ngo/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240717T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240717T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240629T172947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230232Z
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SUMMARY:Remaking the Exceptional Podcast on 90.5 FM KSJS: Episode 4 "Ships\, Contradictions\, and Confinement"
DESCRIPTION:Tune in to SJSU’s radio station\, 90.5 FM KSJS\, on Wednesdays at 1:30pm PT to hear the Tea Project’s podcast “Remaking the Exceptional.” Each episode brings together activists\, artists\, poets\, and torture survivors to investigate connections between policing and incarceration in Chicago and the human rights violations at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay\, Cuba. The Tea Project suggests that sitting\, sipping\, and reflecting over a cup of tea with others can create the space for conversations on difficult and at times painful subjects\, but also can create opportunities to envision a new set of social relations. See San José Museum of Art webpage here. \n\n\n\nThis broadcast is a partnership between San Jose State University’s 90.5FM KSJS and San José Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe first broadcast premiered on June 26\, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture\, and runs through July 31.  \n\n\n\nListen on 90.5 FM or via TuneIn. \n\n\n\n\nListen on TuneIn\n\n\n\n\nEpisode Schedule (Wednesdays from June 26 to July 31\, 2024):  \n\n\n\n\nJune 26 — Episode 1: Tea\, Tenderness\, and Torture \n\n\n\nJuly 3 — Episode 2: Maps\, Memory\, and Violence \n\n\n\nJuly 10 — Episode 3: Poetry\, Resilience\, and Resistance \n\n\n\nJuly 17 — Episode 4: Ships\, Contradictions\, and Confinement \n\n\n\nJuly 24 — Episode 5: Trees\, Solidarity\, and Struggle \n\n\n\nJuly 31 — Episode 6: Flowers\, Freedom\, and Justice \n\n\n\n\nKSJS will re-air the series in Fall 2024 – check back here for dates and times.  \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of Visualizing Abolition.  \n\n\n\nImage: Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes)\, Tracing the Torture Tree | Chicago to Guantánamo | The ecosystem of police and military violence from John Burge and his co-accused to Richard Zuley\, 2022. Courtesy of the Tea Project.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/remaking-the-exceptional-podcast-on-90-5-fm-ksjs-episode-4-ships-contradictions-and-confinement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240710T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240710T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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SUMMARY:Remaking the Exceptional Podcast on 90.5 FM KSJS: Episode 3 "Poetry\, Resilience\, and Resistance" 
DESCRIPTION:Tune in to SJSU’s radio station\, 90.5 FM KSJS\, on Wednesdays at 1:30pm PT to hear the Tea Project’s podcast “Remaking the Exceptional.” Each episode brings together activists\, artists\, poets\, and torture survivors to investigate connections between policing and incarceration in Chicago and the human rights violations at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay\, Cuba. The Tea Project suggests that sitting\, sipping\, and reflecting over a cup of tea with others can create the space for conversations on difficult and at times painful subjects\, but also can create opportunities to envision a new set of social relations. See San José Museum of Art webpage here. \n\n\n\nThis broadcast is a partnership between San Jose State University’s 90.5FM KSJS and San José Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe first broadcast premiered on June 26\, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture\, and runs through July 31.  \n\n\n\nListen on 90.5 FM or via TuneIn. \n\n\n\n\nListen on TuneIn\n\n\n\n\nEpisode Schedule (Wednesdays from June 26 to July 31\, 2024):  \n\n\n\n\nJune 26 — Episode 1: Tea\, Tenderness\, and Torture \n\n\n\nJuly 3 — Episode 2: Maps\, Memory\, and Violence \n\n\n\nJuly 10 — Episode 3: Poetry\, Resilience\, and Resistance \n\n\n\nJuly 17 — Episode 4: Ships\, Contradictions\, and Confinement \n\n\n\nJuly 24 — Episode 5: Trees\, Solidarity\, and Struggle \n\n\n\nJuly 31 — Episode 6: Flowers\, Freedom\, and Justice \n\n\n\n\nKSJS will re-air the series in Fall 2024 – check back here for dates and times.  \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of Visualizing Abolition.  \n\n\n\nImage: Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes)\, Tracing the Torture Tree | Chicago to Guantánamo | The ecosystem of police and military violence from John Burge and his co-accused to Richard Zuley\, 2022. Courtesy of the Tea Project.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/remaking-the-exceptional-podcast-on-90-5-fm-ksjs-episode-3-poetry-resilience-and-resistance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240705T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240705T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240620T183635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230242Z
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SUMMARY:First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 5 for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone. Admission is always free. \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current global realities of the prison complex\, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty national and international artists and collectives\, sixteen newly commissioned projects\, as well as works of video\, painting\, sculpture\, installation\, sound and performance. Seeing through Stone is a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, San José Museum of Art\, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, and works are on view at all three sites. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\nImage by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-7/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240628T195919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230246Z
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SUMMARY:Remaking the Exceptional Podcast on 90.5 FM KSJS: Episode 2 "Maps\, Memory\, and Violence" 
DESCRIPTION:Tune in to SJSU’s radio station\, 90.5 FM KSJS\, on Wednesdays at 1:30pm PT to hear the Tea Project’s podcast “Remaking the Exceptional.” Each episode brings together activists\, artists\, poets\, and torture survivors to investigate connections between policing and incarceration in Chicago and the human rights violations at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay\, Cuba. The Tea Project suggests that sitting\, sipping\, and reflecting over a cup of tea with others can create the space for conversations on difficult and at times painful subjects\, but also can create opportunities to envision a new set of social relations. See San José Museum of Art webpage here. \n\n\n\nThis broadcast is a partnership between San Jose State University’s 90.5FM KSJS and San José Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe first broadcast premiered on June 26\, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture\, and runs through July 31.  \n\n\n\nListen on 90.5 FM or via TuneIn. \n\n\n\n\nListen on TuneIn\n\n\n\n\nEpisode Schedule (Wednesdays from June 26 to July 31\, 2024):  \n\n\n\n\nJune 26 — Episode 1: Tea\, Tenderness\, and Torture \n\n\n\nJuly 3 — Episode 2: Maps\, Memory\, and Violence \n\n\n\nJuly 10 — Episode 3: Poetry\, Resilience\, and Resistance \n\n\n\nJuly 17 — Episode 4: Ships\, Contradictions\, and Confinement \n\n\n\nJuly 24 — Episode 5: Trees\, Solidarity\, and Struggle \n\n\n\nJuly 31 — Episode 6: Flowers\, Freedom\, and Justice \n\n\n\n\nKSJS will re-air the series in Fall 2024 – check back here for dates and times.  \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of Visualizing Abolition.  \n\n\n\nImage: Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes)\, Tracing the Torture Tree | Chicago to Guantánamo | The ecosystem of police and military violence from John Burge and his co-accused to Richard Zuley\, 2022. Courtesy of the Tea Project.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/remaking-the-exceptional-podcast-on-90-5-fm-ksjs-episode-2-maps-memory-and-violence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240621T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240621T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240407T192606Z
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SUMMARY:Make Music Day: Maria Gaspar with James Gordon Williams\, and Guillermo Galindo
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Make Music San José\, join us for live musical performances that will activate the artworks in SJMA’s exhibition Seeing through Stone. The acclaimed composer and theorist James Gordon Williams\, assistant professor of music at UC Santa Cruz\, will perform an improvisational piece using a sculpture by interdisciplinary artist Maria Gaspar made of iron bars from the Cook County Department of Corrections\, the largest single-site jail in the US. Experimental composer and visual artist Guillermo Galindo will be performing a piece on his own artwork\, Llantambores\, an instrument made of materials found at the US-Mexico border.  \n\n\n\nThis event is located at the San José Museum of Art (110 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA). Learn more at the San José Museum of Art event webpage. \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of the Visualizing Abolition series. \n\n\n\nImages: (Left) Dr. James Gordon Williams performs “The Principle of Alloys” on salvaged jail bars at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, as part of Maria Gaspar’s solo exhibition Compositions on view at the IAS (September 26th 2023 – March 3rd 2024). Still from video by Amotion.video. Courtesy of the artist. (Right) Guillermo Galindo performing at the 50th Anniversary Celebration Gala and Auction\, San José Museum of Art\, September 21\, 2019. Photo by Susana Bates for Drew Altizer Photography.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/make-music-day-maria-gaspar-with-james-gordon-williams-and-guillermo-galindo/
LOCATION:San José Museum of Art\, 110 S Market St\, San Jose\, California\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240409T172417Z
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SUMMARY:First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 7 for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone with student-led exhibition walkthroughs at 5:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. Admission is always free. \n\n\n\nStudent-led Tour Schedule:5:15 p.m.: Tour by Alexandra Singer6 p.m.: Tour by Aiko-Bliss Ponce \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current global realities of the prison complex\, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty national and international artists and collectives\, sixteen newly commissioned projects\, as well as works of video\, painting\, sculpture\, installation\, sound and performance. Seeing through Stone is a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, San José Museum of Art\, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, and works are on view at all three sites. \n\n\n\nOn the third floor of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences view a A Portfolio of Prints By UCSC Alumni as part of the UCSC Print Sale Jubilee this year. They have put together an exhibition highlighting the work that has come out of the print studios over the past 50 years by selecting 16 printmaking UCSC alumni to create an original print to become part of a limited edition portfolio. This portfolio will be on view at Institute of Art and Sciences in June and will become part of the university archives. Learn more here.  \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González\, Las 7 puertas from Tiempo Muerto\, Proyecto para Sección Abierta (Cárcel de Palma de Mallorca)\, 2011-2013. Installation view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Seeing through Stone\, on view April 12\, 2024-January 5\, 2025. Image by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-6/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230349Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Sofia Karim at San José Museum of Art
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed. View the Artist Talk here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with artist\, activist\, and architect Sofia Karim\, who will touch on the imprisonment of her uncle\, the renowned Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam\, and how it led to her ideas on architecture as a language of struggle and resistance.  \n\n\n\nThis event is located at the San José Museum of Art (110 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA). Seating is limited; registering in advance is recommended. Advance registration includes admission to the Museum. Learn more at the San José Museum of Art event webpage. \n\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with Seeing through Stone\, a multi-sited exhibition that is part of the Visualizing Abolition series.  \n\n\n\nSofia Karim has practiced architecture for over twenty years at studios including Norman Foster\, London and Peter Eisenman\, New York. Her practice combines architecture\, visual art\, and activism. The incarceration of her uncle (photographer and activist Shahidul Alam) led to the development of her theories on an ‘Architecture of Disappearance.’ and her explorations of architecture as a language of struggle and resistance. Her activism focuses on human rights across Bangladesh and India\, where she campaigns for the release of imprisoned artists and political prisoners. She is the founder of Turbine Bagh\, a joint artists’ movement against fascism and authoritarianism and platform for political art and activism. \n\n\n\nShe was a finalist for the Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics\, in 2021. She has exhibited at galleries and museums including Tate Modern\, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum\, London; Rubin Museum of Art\, New York; Wrightwood 659\, Chicago; and as part of Documenta 15\, Steidl/ Kunsthaus Göttingen. Her work has been presented at Harvard University and Cambridge University\, and featured in publications including The Observer\, The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The Architectural Review\, The Art Newspaper\, and the British Journal of Photography. She has appeared on BBC World News\, Channel 4 News\, Al Jazeera\, and Sky News. She lectures on architecture and is a visiting critic at the Westminster School of Architecture. \n\n\n\nCourtesy of sofiakarim.co.uk. Edited for length and clarity. \n\n\n\nImage: Sofia Karim. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Lylah Sanderson.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/creative-minds-sofia-karim/
LOCATION:San José Museum of Art\, 110 S Market St\, San Jose\, California\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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SUMMARY:First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 3 for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone with student-led exhibition walkthroughs at 5:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. Admission is always free. \n\n\n\nStudent-led Tour Schedule: 5:15 p.m.: The Fabric of Our Being: Woven Histories of Incarceration across Space\, Geography\, and Time\, a tour by Aiko-Bliss Ponce.Exploring the transforming landscape of incarceration and its reproductions across history\, connecting the past to the present\, and the personal to political.6 p.m.: Carceral Stories: Reconstructions of a Carceral Past and Visions of a Free Future\, a tour by Casey McHugh.This tour will focus on pieces that dismantle the global stories of incarceration and reassemble them to create objects of reflection and reimagination. In addition\, we will also look at pieces that represent windows and portals of hope through which to see a world without prisons.  \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current global realities of the prison complex\, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty national and international artists and collectives\, sixteen newly commissioned projects\, as well as works of video\, painting\, sculpture\, installation\, sound and performance.  \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone is a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, San José Museum of Art\, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, and works are on view at all three sites. Learn more here. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-5/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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SUMMARY:Abolitionist’s Tea Party with jackie sumell
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by jackie sumell\, The Abolitionist’s Tea Party asks\, “How does the natural world endorse abolition as a strategy for liberation?” In this workshop\, participants will circle up and engage with different plants and herbs\, some of which are considered “weeds.” Together\, attendees will learn how plants have played key roles in stories of resistance and share their experience and understanding of abolition.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop will offer participants the opportunity to smell and taste teas grown and prepared in collaboration with currently incarcerated people through Solitary Gardens\, at The John Thompson Legacy Center in New Orleans. A list of ingredients will be made available at the workshop. Visitors with severe allergies are advised not to consume or engage with the plants. \n\n\n\nThis event is located at the San José Museum of Art (110 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA) and is free with Museum admission and free for SJMA members. Learn more at the San José Museum of Art event website.  \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\nImage: jackie sumell\, Abolitionist’s Apothecart\, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/abolitionists-tea-party-with-jackie-sumell/
LOCATION:San José Museum of Art\, 110 S Market St\, San Jose\, California\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240304T202751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230404Z
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SUMMARY:Seeing through Stone Exhibition Opening at San José Museum of Art
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the opening of SJMA’s exhibition Seeing through Stone\, part of the ongoing Visualizing Abolition series\, which brings together artwork that engages with prisons\, justice\, and freedom to provide a vision and model of abolition in practice. Galleries are open late with local musical acts. Stop by El Cafecito by Mezcal Restaurant for a light bite and cash bar. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nImage: Maria Gaspar\, Cloud Out (Suspend)\, 2023. Archival inkjet print with oil pastel on paper\, 41 x 75 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Clare Britt.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/seeing-through-stone-exhibition-opening-at-san-jose-museum-of-art/
LOCATION:San José Museum of Art\, 110 S Market St\, San Jose\, California\, 95113\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240307T005335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230409Z
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SUMMARY:Seeing through Stone Exhibition Opening Celebration at Barrios Unidos
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Opening Celebration of the multi-sited group exhibition\, Seeing through Stone\, at Barrios Unidos on April 18\, 2024.  \n\n\n\nThis event is the second of three Openings for the multi-sited exhibition which invites viewers to see beyond the current global realities of the prison complex. This event will include music and refreshments and is free and open to the public.  \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone is on view at Barrios Unidos April 18\, 2024–January 5\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nSeeing through Stone is a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, San José Museum of Art\, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, and works are on view at all three sites. Learn more here.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/seeing-through-stone-exhibition-opening-celebration-at-barrios-unidos/
LOCATION:Barrios Unidos\, 1817 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240326T172519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230338Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240205T223659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240316T000452Z
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SUMMARY:Reconceptualizing Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Online performance with The Freedom Theatre  \n\n\n\nModerator: Adam Anabusi  \n\n\n\nThis event is online. DATE RESCHEDULED: REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. \n\n\n\nThe Freedom Theatre is a theatre and cultural centre in Jenin refugee camp\, occupied Palestine. They stage professional theatre productions\, hold theatre workshops in the refugee camp\, Jenin town and villages\, offer training in acting\, pedagogy and photography\, and publish books\, exhibitions and short films. \n\n\n\nSince 2006\, The Freedom Theatre has been internationally renowned for innovative\, thought-provoking theatre and media productions. They have made the Jenin refugee camp known in Palestine and have made theatre and visual art available to every young person in the camp\, creating a generation of artists and leaders\, who one day will be at the forefront of the Palestinian liberation movement. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by Al-Haq FAI Unit as part of the programming for They Are Shooting at Our Shadows\, their debut exhibition.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/reconceptualizing-resistance/
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240228T003512Z
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SUMMARY:Moor Mother and James Gordon Williams in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Audiences are invited to explore sonic worldmaking in this collaborative performance featuring Moor Mother\, an American poet and composer\, and composer and pianist James Gordon Williams\, an assistant professor of music at UC Santa Cruz.  \n\n\n\nLight refreshments begin at 6:30 PM—enjoy a complimentary cup of tea or coffee and a treat in the lobby before the concert. \n\n\n\nTickets are available online at Eventbrite. Free for UCSC students (ticket required for entry).  \n\n\n\nParking is available at Lot 126\, the closest parking lot to the event. Parking is by UCSC permit\, Park Mobile\, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant in Lot 126. More visitor parking information here.  \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the UCSC Music Department\, for information and questions about tickets\, please contact the UCSC Arts Division. Event is co-sponsored by the Arts Research Institute\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Institute of Arts and Sciences.  \n\n\n\n\nGet tickets\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n\n\n\nCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician\, poet\, visual artist\, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work speaks to many genres from electronic to free jazz and classical music. Camae’s work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum\, The Met\, Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Hall\, Documenta 15\, the Berlin Jazz Festival\, and the Glastonbury Festival. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism the art she makes is a statement for the future\, as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes. Camae is a Pew Fellow\, a The Kitchen Inaugural Emerging Artist Awardee\, a Leeway Transformation Award\, a Blade of Grass Fellow as part of Black Quantum Futurism\, and a Rad Girls Philly Artist of the Year. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange\, WORM! Rotterdam residency\, and the Creative Capital and CERN collide residency with Black Quantum Futurism. \n\n\n\nJames Gordon Williams is a dynamic composer\, pianist\, and cultural theorist. He has worked with artists Crystal Z. Campbell\, Maria Gaspar\, Fred Moten\, Cauleen Smith\, and Suné Woods. He has performed with pianist/composer Anthony Davis\, bassist Mark Dresser\, Joseph Jarman\, Gregory Porter\,  George E. Lewis\, Mark Dresser\, Greg Osby\, Charenée Wade as well as other musical luminaries. He held the piano chair for several years in the late Charli Persips’ Supersound band. He has performed at Birdland\, the former Lenox Lounge\, Knitting Factory\, Symphony Space\, Village Vanguard\, and music festivals around the world.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/moor-mother-and-james-gordon-williams-in-concert/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall (UCSC)\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
CREATED:20240205T223438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240304T182306Z
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SUMMARY:Technology and (Anti)Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online panel discussion about the settler state’s use of technologies in Palestine and the counter practices of the Al-Haq Forensic Architecture Investigative Unit. Panelists include Majd Shehabi\, Helga Tawil-Souri\, and Ali H.Musleh.   \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by Al-Haq FAI Unit as part of the programming for They Are Shooting at Our Shadows\, their debut exhibition.  \n\n\n\nThis event is online. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. \n\n\n\nMajd Shehabi is a systems design engineer\, based in Beirut. He works with a wide range of academic and cultural institutions and archives in the region to build openness into their information systems. His most recent project is Palestine Open Maps\, a platform for open sourcing historical maps of Palestine. \n\n\n\nHelga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. Helga’s work deals with spatiality\, technology\, infrastructure and politics in the Middle East\, with a focus on contemporary Palestine. \n\n\n\nAli H. Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. His research explores how weapons make the worlds of war we inhabit. At CPS\, he is working on his first book manuscript\, To What Abyss Does This Robot Take the Earth\, on the automation of settler colonialism in Palestine. Musleh is also Associate Researcher at the Hawaiʻi Research Center for Futures Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH-M).
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/technology-and-anticolonialism/
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240303T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T005429
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T230315Z
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SUMMARY:Heavy Lifting Listening Tour
DESCRIPTION:Felicia Rice and Theresa Whitehill will bring the Heavy Lifting Listening Tour to their friends in Santa Cruz. The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing\, and dreaming\, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film\, On Heavy Lifting\, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Located on the 3rd floor of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences Building\, 100 Panetta Ave.  \n\n\n\nFelicia Rice is an artist\, letterpress printer\, publisher\, and educator. In 1977 she set Moving Parts Press in motion. With one foot firmly planted in the 19th century and the other in the 21st\, she utilizes letterpress and digital technologies to produce limited edition artists books\, prints\, and broadsides in collaboration with visual and performing artists\, writers\, and philosophers. Work from the Press has been included in exhibitions from Mexico City to Japan and New York. Her books are held in collections worldwide and she has been the recipient of many awards and grants from the NEA to the French Ministry of Culture. In December 2018 Rice was featured in the award-winning PBS Craft in America series in their episode\, “Visionaries.” movingpartspress.com \n\n\n\nTheresa Whitehill is a California-born poet and letterpress artist\, who has been involved throughout her career in the production of poetry events and a commitment to cultural projects that address the fundamental connection between poetics and the land. Born in Sacramento and raised in Marin County\, Whitehill’s interrelated focus on literary and book arts came out of her studies with poet William Everson at UC Santa Cruz in the late 1970s and at Mills College in the Book Art program in the early 1980s. Since 1984 she has lived in Mendocino County where she is well-known to local poetry audiences. She is a former Poet Laureate of Ukiah\, and a co-founder of the Watershed Poetry Mendocino festival. theresawhitehill.com
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/heavy-lifting-listening-tour/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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