Los Angeles Times food writers Alice Short, Jen Harris, and Lucas Peterson in conversation with arts and culture reporter Carolina Miranda. Moderated by Robert Sipchen, Occidental Professor and Pultizer Prize-winning career journalist and author.
Meet the Panelists
Drop by to share tea and sweets from a different culture each week and chat about any and everything. Tea is the medium for a ritual that is practiced daily around the world. Though the ritual may vary, tea carves out time and space for hospitality, tradition and mediation. Come share with us.
This week's theme will be small bites from Yemen, hosted by Sumaya and Shada abubaker. Sumaya and Shade grew up with their older sister in California's Central Valley. They lived and learned the tradition of tea from their mother and family visits to Yemen.
Drop by to share tea and sweets from a different culture each week and chat about any and everything. Tea is the medium for a ritual that is practiced daily around the world. Though the ritual may vary, tea carves out time and space for hospitality, tradition and mediation. Come share with us.
The ghost pop band Bitter Party performs, reads, and discusses Ghost Pop, a book of stories that honors the unheard sounds that inspire the bands songs and pays tribute to spirits from distant times and places related to their personal and family history. The event will feature a sonic-gastronomical collaboration with food-based artist Genevieve Erin O’Brien.
As a space of belonging for geographically, culturally and socially diverse constituencies, we explore the inclusive culture of food and how it transcends conventional systems of power. Breaking Bread is an opportunity to consider our coexistence through food, find shared connections and practices and hold spaces within them to thrive.
Join us for a tour of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas archive housed at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The tour will be led by cartographer David Deis. This collection of historic maps was critical in the development of the Oxy Arts exhibition Compass Rose by Debra Scacco.
It's that time again- SLICE is pleased to share we'll be showing Disney's COCO for this summer's Screen On The Green feature!
Save the date. Bring the family. All are welcome.
Wed. July 17th, 8pm
JSC Quad, Lawn in front of The Cooler.
Popcorn + Ice Cream will be served free of charge.
For four turbulent years between 1968 and 1972, the Lincoln Heights-based literary magazine, Con Safos: Reflections of Life in the Barrio, provided a platform for writers, poets, artists, cartoonists and photographers who captured the experiences of the barrio and the rumblings of the nascent Chicano movement that burst upon the nation’s consciousness during that era.