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Film Screening: Since I Been Down

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Since I Been Down tells the story of the impacts of the rising rates of incarceration on Tacoma, WA. The film is told through the eyes of a community impacted by lack of investment in resources and the fear-based policies of the 1980s and ‘90s that sacrificed and labeled their most-vulnerable children as irredeemable “super predators.”

Free

Traction: Art Talk with Sharon Hayes in Conversation with Jennifer González

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

We welcome students, faculty, and staff to join us for this Afrofuturism-themed outdoor film screening of Sun Ra's Space Is the Place, immediately followed by Janelle Monáe's visual album, Dirty Computer (Emotion Picture).

Free

Film Screening of “The White Album” by Arthur Jafa

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Arthur Jafa is an artist, director, editor, and award-winning cinematographer. His renowned work Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016) is a compilation of found footage set to Kanye West’s gospel-inspired hip-hop track “Ultralight Beam.” The meticulously edited seven-minute montage surveys African American identity and black experience through a vast spectrum of imagery, including well-known pictures from the civil rights era, recent scenes of police brutality, and iconic clips of extraordinary athleticism. For The White Album, Jafa shifts his lens to white experience, combining 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. Jafa received the 2019 Golden Lion award for best artist in the Venice Biennale for The White Album. 

Free

Between Descendants and Ancestors: Indigenous Stories for a Future

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

Between Descendants and Ancestors: Indigenous Stories for a Future is a two-part series of contemporary short films and animation by Indigenous artists residing on Turtle Island. The stories in this […]