Join us for the final open weekend of The Writing on the Wall at the Davenport Jail! Devon Simmons and Matthew Wilson, who have interpreted The Writing on the Wall at previous iterations including The High Line in New York, will guide visitors through the installation. Dr. Baz Dreisinger, who conceived the project together with […]
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 series ponder Native time and Indigenous history in relation to land, settler colonialism, and futurity. While some of these films could be categorized as “science […]
You're invited to First Friday Family Day at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Join us for an afternoon of family-friendly fun with hands-on activities and scheduled story times. We will have a button-making station, an I-spy game, temporary tattoos, stickers, snacks, prizes, and more! Activities are geared towards age 5 and up. Story […]
Created as part of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative housed at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Music for Abolition provides a soundtrack for–and heartbeat to–the shared struggle for a future in which prisons, policing, and racial violence are things of the past. Directed and curated […]
