Collaborate is a FREE series of seven workshops conceived and taught by Occidental College students to 6-8th graders in the local community. Join us to see collages, photographs and multimedia works generated in this workshop and celebrate our local youth artists.
Spring 2020 Student Educators - Christina Carrera, Natalia Guerra, Habiba Hopson, Ariadne Makridakis, Sarah Ruiz, Hannah Sy, Kaylie Treskin, Jenn Xu
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.
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.
Join us on January 27th, 2020, from 12 -1 in JSC Studenmund for an info session on the Summer 2020 Mellon Arts Research Fellowship. This fellowship is open to enrolled undergraduates conducting original, performing- or creative-arts-centric research. Topics should incorporate a tie-in to Los Angeles. Projects proposing collaboration with community partners, local arts organizations (archives, museums), and/or local arts practitioners are highly encouraged.
This 2-part workshop hosted by Library/CDLA and sponsored by the Society of California Archivists will introduce participants to OpenRefine in the morning session, and to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) for archival materials in the afternoon. By registration only.
Brenda is a First generation Indigenous Mexican and American/ Chicana activist and founder of Restorative Justice for the Arts, a grassroots community project. The project is an artivist platform to preserve murals and sacred imagery, cultivate decolonial pedagogies, and protect cultural monuments and identities narrated through community art.
Join students in POLS 243: Restorative Justice as they host a community building circle with the Intercultural Community Center (ICC) to discuss the vision and future for the ICC! We invite anyone interested and invested in the ICC to join us for conversation and FREE TORTAS AND JUEGOS! The circle will be hosted at the ICC (1501 Campus Rd.) and is not affiliated with the Chief Diversity Officer office.
Join us for a panel discussion on TheatreWorkers Project, a community organization that provides opportunities for members of underserved communities, such as people who are or have been incarcerated, to tell their stories through the medium of theatre.