Join J-town Action と Solidarity (JAとS) for a workshop on the principles and practice of mutual aid. During the workshop, JAとS members offer advice on what it takes to run a mutual aid POWER UP! table, discuss how mutual aid can address the root causes of existing systems of oppression, and explain why building community is crucial in the fight against powerful institutions that are currently working to criminalize and banish the poor.
Join us for an evening of cross cultural solidarity, creativity and inspiration.
traci kato-kiriyama, a Los Angeles based, artist, writer and educator, skillfully and intuitively brings folks together in community and solidarity. They are a natural connector and collaborator.
Join us for an evening with filmmaker Nanfu Wang in her keynote address (simulcast) from the International Documentary Association's Getting Real '22 conference, followed by a screening of Wang's 2017 film, I Am Another You.
A post-screening discussion will be facilitated by Kathy Ou (Oxy alum '22).
Join us on Thursday, November 17th, at OXY ARTS for an intergenerational dialogue between author Ryan Lee Wong; Jai Lee Wong, Ryan’s mother, community organizer, and activist; and poet Christopher Soto.
Part performance, part pep talk, mostly rapture—Kristina will offer a taste of her Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord" and reflect on the journey of Auntie Sewing Squad and the possibility of community in crisis.
Join us for a walkthrough of Voice a Wild Dream: Moments in Asian American Art and Activism, 1968-2022 with curator Kris Kuramitsu.
Join us for a walkthrough of Voice a Wild Dream: Moments in Asian American Art and Activism, 1968-2022 with curator Kris Kuramitsu.
Voice a Wild Dream: Moments in Asian American Art and Activism, 1968-2022 highlights collectives of Asian American artists and activists and their work toward social change over the past six decades. Sharpened by a recent interest among artists in remaking systems in ways that harken back to the revolutionary impulses of the late 1960's, many exhibitions and publications trace the lineages of feminist, queer, black, and Chicanx arts and activism; however, the story intertwining strands of art, activism, and community aid is significantly less visible
Professor Mary Beth Heffernan will trace the arc of her research-based art practice, illuminating the questions and material explorations that inform her work.
This concert features guest artist Adán Fernández performing on the Herrick Chapel's pipe organ. Dr. Fernández program will include Dieterich Buxtehude's Te Deum (BuxWV 218), J.S. Bach's Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542), and the Bach/Vivaldi Concerto in D Minor (BWV 596).
This concert is sponsored by the Music Department with support of the Benjamin H. Culley Fund. It is connected with the curriculum of Music 261: Western Music and Culture, 1580-1829, as well as being an approved CORE 99 event.