This year’s theme, Climate Change & Environmental Justice, reflects the UN's Sustainable Development Goal #13. The SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". They were set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
The First Annual Young Person's Concert is open to the public featuring five student soloists from the Occidental College community.
PROGRAM
Arturo Márquez
Hailing Cesar follows Eduardo Chavez’s journey to understand the legacy and struggle of his grandfather Cesar Chavez. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with director Eduardo Chavez, muralists John Zender Estrada, Daniel Cervantes and Pola Lopez, and scholar-artivist Brenda Perez.
Join us this February for a series of FREE generative writing workshops led by local LA-based authors. The series explores the connections between LA's built environment and how different cultures and communities interface with public space.
Free and open to the public - register here to reserve your spot.
Music historian and pianist Benjamin Binder will be giving a recital in Bird Studio featuring Opuses 116, 118, and 119 by Johannes Brahms. This concert is free and open to the public.
This performance is made possible through the support of the Benjamin H. Culley Fund.
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Club SCUM will bring their East LA queer punk Latinx party to Oxy Arts with a DJ and live performances.
Dorian Wood performs a collection of folk standards and new compositions with a voice that "inhabits a room like a choir of ghosts" (LA Weekly
How does the past show up in the future in the emotional architectures of Greater (and Lesser) Los Angeles? An evening of student engaged poetry considering the temporal moving and shaking on various Southern California locales.
Through a poetic lens, Yosimar Reyes presents a comedic conversation about what it means to be undocumented in today's political system. Drawing from personal anecdotes, Reyes takes us on a journey of self-empowerment and perseverance, providing insight into the ways undocumented communities continue to build lives despite adversities.
For the first time, EJ Hill and Texas Isaiah will commune and discuss Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria. Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria, was presented at the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. 2018 and explored performance, stills, and installation as a form of meditation and healing. For Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria, Hill and Texas Isaiah visited six of the seven schools Hill attended in Los Angeles—running laps around and documenting each.