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Maria Gaspar Artist Talk and Performance with Special Guest James Gordon Williams

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

In conjunction with Compositions, on view at the IAS, Maria Gaspar’s sculptural renderings of the jail’s fragments will be sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition. These events will periodically make present the histories of people so often occluded by carceral structures and suggest new modes of transforming the wreckage […]

Anthony Michael Jefferson (“AJ”) Presents: The Bumpy Road Less Traveled

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

Join us December 1, 7:00 p.m. for The Bumpy Road Less Traveled, a one-person theatre performance by actor and playwright Anthony Michael Jefferson (“AJ”). The powerful performance is drawn from AJ's […]

Free

Samora Pinderhughes & Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes Performance – Maria Gaspar’s Compositions’ “We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat”

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

In conjunction with Compositions, on view at the IAS, Maria Gaspar’s sculptural renderings of the jail’s fragments have been sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the […]

Free

Zombaria Practices: exercises with the body and radical imagination.

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

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 […]