• October First Friday: Party with Performances by Caleb Duarte and Guillermo Galindo

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

    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! These will be standing performances with limited seating. Guests will be able to hear the performance throughout the galleries. If you need accommodations […]

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  • In Conversation: Rebecca Belmore and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    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 […]

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  • Exhibition Walk-through with Imani Jacqueline Brown

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

    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 […]

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  • Translating (as) Freedom: Abolition and the Power of Words

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

    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 […]

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