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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 experiences over the 23 years he was incarcerated in Soledad State Prison (officially known as "Correctional Training Facility"), and the road he traveled to and […]

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Event Series Visualizing Abolition

Artist-led Workshop: Maria Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail

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

What does freedom mean to you? What are the ways you practice freedom? Join us this Saturday, December 2nd to discuss abolition in this free artist-led workshop with award-winning Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar. Be ready to make art together by participating in Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail (2021-Ongoing), an archive the artist has been building of more […]

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Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine – Sherene Seikaly in Conversation with Gina Dent

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

How do we understand conflicting claims to land and its relationship to colonialism outside of constricted paradigms of exceptionalism and the structures of the nation-state?  What can be learned about the global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession through critical analysis of the historical and present struggles in Palestine? At this event, author and […]

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