North Pole Screening and Discussion with Producers Yvan Iturriaga ’03 and Darren Colston ’02

Join us for a screening of this comedic web series about three best friends born and raised in Oakland, CA who struggle to stay rooted as their neighborhood becomes a hostile environment. Nina, Marcus, and Benny fight, dream, and plot schemes to save the place they call home. Facing both gentrification and global warming, they combat evil landlords, deportation, crazy geoengineering plots, and ultimately each other.

Food Mapping with Treehouse Family Space

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Join Treehouse Family Space and Make Art Outside for an exploration and celebration of food cultures around the globe! Families are invited to create artworks of food to place on a large scale map to connect what we eat to different parts of the world. This activity is intended for children ages 3+ with adult supervision. 20 kids maximum. RSVP to gilda@treehousefamily.org.

Miry Whitehill - Welcome, Neighbor

Welcome, Neighbor is led by Miry Whitehill, founder and executive director of Miry’s List. Miry started Miry's List in Eagle Rock in July 2016 when a friend introduced her to a family of new arrival Syrian refugees resettling in Los Angeles with kids the same age as her own.

Join the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, the Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy for a discussion on Refugees resettlement on September 20, at 1:55 pm in Choi Auditorium.

Firmly Rooted: Chili Peppers & POC Cuisines — A conversation and tasting led by food-based collective Across our Kitchen Tables

 
Explore the origins of the chili pepper with this panel discussion moderated by Jocelyn Ramirez of Across Our Kitchen Tables/Todo Verde and cross-cultural cooking demo and tasting led by Valeria Velazquez Dueñas of Across Our Kitchen Tables/Cocina House, Nesanet Abegaze of