The annual Spring Showcase highlights and celebrates the social justice projects of fall semester HJC students.
This two-day showcase is open to the entire Oxy community and this year will focus on the 2022-23 annual HJC theme of health justice. The event will feature exhibits, performances, presentations, and poster sessions from students in:
- FYS 2: Envisioning and Enacting Health Justice
- FYS 27: Performing Disease
- HIST/LLAS 259: Health on the Move: Migrant and Refugee Resilience
- MAC 247: Representing Health, Illness and Well-Being Through Storytelling
- MUSC 200: Music and Disease
- RELS 120: Flourishing in a World on Fire: Cosmologies of Multispecies Health in the Anthropocene
SPRING SHOWCASE 2023 SCHEDULE
All sessions held in the Academic Commons
Thursday, March 2
snacks and beverages on second floor deck
Exhibit Openings, Lobby Area:
4:30-5:30 “Songs of Remembrance” (MUSC 200) - Lobby
4:30-5:30 “Animating Health” – using comics and animation to tell visual histories of health and well-being (MAC 247) - Lobby
4:30-5:30 “How to Live in the Midst of Dying: Climate Change and Human-More-than-Human Relatedness” (RELS 120) - Artist's Alley (corridor to the left of the Lobby)
Performance, third floor, open study area
5:30-6:30 “Spring Breakdown” – using documentary theater to build community in the wake of Covid (FYS 27) - Third floor, open study area
Friday, March 3
snacks and beverages on second floor deck
Presentation, third floor, open study area:
4:30-5:30 “Reflections on the Clínica Romero Oral History Project” – using oral history as a tool for social justice storytelling (HIST/LLAS 259)
Poster Session, third floor, open study area:
5:30-6:30 “Poster Session: Envisioning and Enacting Health Justice in Our Community” (FYS 2)
Afterparty, Herrick South Lawn:
6:30-8:00 Afterparty with music by DJ Lily Jade and catering by Cacao Mexicatessen