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Mellon Summer Arts Research Fellowship Info Session

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.

Indigenous Images on Gentrified Lands: Mural & Graffiti Artivism in Highland Park, Northeast Los Angeles

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.

 

ICC Community Building Circle

 

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. 

Chia Cafe Collective "Refocusing Your Cultural Lens with Native Plants"

Join us as we welcome back Chia Cafe Collective, a grassroots group of individuals who share a philosophy that is action-based, a way of life connected to honoring all the Indigenous peoples of Southern CA and of our mother earth. Abe Sanchez and Craig Torres will lead an interactive workshop to share about the healing properties of our plant relatives and their cultural contexts.