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Making an Exoneree

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

“Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree” is taught by Professor Sharon Daniel, UCSC Film and Digital Media, in collaboration with Professor of Government and Law at Georgetown Marc Howard and his childhood friend, Adjunct Professor Marty Tankleff, who was himself wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for almost 18 years before being exonerated. Howard and Tankleff developed Georgetown’s Making an Exonoree course in 2018, and its students have already won the release of three men and made significant progress in the legal prospects of several others.

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: Multimedia Dance Performance with Oysterknife: Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch

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

his event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester, choreographer Gerald Casel, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge, an extended program of music and dance performances, film screenings, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism.

Free

“A Dream of Being: Arte Urgente

Elena Baskin Art Studios 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, California, United States

Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow are multidisciplinary artists and frequent collaborators whose individual practices and community collaborations focus on radical resistance. From 2009-2014, they co-founded and directed EDELO (En Donde […]

Music for Abolition

Murphy, Pouros and Bartoletti 1802 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States

Visualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson, Director, Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust, Ford Foundation, Future Justice Fund, Wanda Kownacki, Peter Coha, James L. Gunderson, Rowland and Pat Rebele, Porter College, UCSC Foundation, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.