Bell Young Garden Planting
No gardening experience is necessary and all plants and tools are provided. Contact Remy Barbiero at rbarbiero@oxy.edu if you have any questions.
Writer's Workshop with Bonnie Kaplan + Xochitl Julisa Bermejo: "Suburbia's Daughters: How Two Poets Came to Settle in Two Valleys"
Suburbia's Daughters: How Two Poets Came to Settle in Two Valleys
Participants will be invited to consider personal origin stories and celebrate home with writing exercises and discussion lead by poets Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo and Bonnie S.
Capstone talk: "An Elegant Radical: Luisa Moreno and Her Search for Social Justice"
"An Elegant Radical: Luisa Moreno and Her Search for Social Justice"
Writing Workshop with Angela Morales “Our True Stories: Art of the Personal Essay”
“Our True Stories: Art of the Personal Essay”
How can we turn our memories and true stories into art? How do we make sense of our traumas, our joys, our struggles? The personal essay is the perfect genre for chronicling the past as well as making sense of the present.
Eagle Rock HS Senior Student Exhibit
In it's 3rd year, Oxy Arts supports the next generation of local artists. This is part of an ongoing partnership with the students of Mr. Oliveros from Eagle Rock HS.
Chia Cafe Collective: Refocusing Your Cultural Lens with Native Plants
Chia Cafe Collective is a grassroots group of individuals who share a philosophy that is action-based,a way of life connected to honoring all the Indigenous people of Southern CA and of our mother earth. Free and open to all.
Abe Sanchez & Craig Torres will lead an interactive workshop to share about the healing properties of our plant relatives and their cultural contexts.
Spring Break Beach Cleanup
We will provide transportation to Toes Beach, so please sign up here if you are interested:
Shades of LA: Collecting Images from LA’s Diverse Family Albums
Reception 5:30-6pm
Talk begins at 6pm
Critical Reflections on Specacle: #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName and #MeToo
Shatema Threadcraft is the author of Intimate Justice: the Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.