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 Visualizing Abolition with Rhodessa Jones and Sarah Crowell

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

Visualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson, Director, IAS, with support from the Mellon Foundation. The events feature artists, activists, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. 

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: Multimedia Music Performance with Hesterian Musicism

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

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  Hesterian Musicism is the creative […]

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: “Not About Race Dance” Performance by GeraldCaselDance

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

Dance artist and equity activator Gerald Casel will present Not About Race Dance, a collaborative, choreographic response to the racial politics of U.S. postmodern dance. Despite postmodernism’s popularity, its racial dynamics have gone largely unacknowledged. In Not About Race Dance, Casel and his collaborators occupy a space that has been historically defined by white artists to present a contrasting vision of where Black and Brown bodies belong.

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: Festac ’77 and Liberation w/ Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi and Ntone Edjabe

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

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi and Ntone Edjabe will discuss the recent publication of FESTAC ’77, an innovative book and mixtape which is the product of years of research helmed by Chimurenga—a magazine based in Cape Town, South Africa, and one of the most important cultural journals on the continent—in collaboration with Afterall, the London-based journal. Listen to the FESTAC '77 mixtape here.

Free