October 1, 2015
…Dance), this evening of poetry, spoken word, and storytelling by Indigenous writers and performers features a variety of emergent and established artists from local communities reading their own work, or selections from other Indigenous writers. The Loft. March 1 to April 4, California Native American Day High School Art and…
February 5, 2016
The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities recently sponsored, “The Scarlet Stone,” a modern dance/theater retelling of a tragic Persian myth developed by Shahrokh Yadegari, professor of sound design in the Department of Theatre and Dance. The production was performed last summer at UC San Diego’s…
January 20, 2022
…’14 will be performing poetry. Dametrius Bedgood ’14 Attendees are invited to view the full agenda online, which lists virtual opportunities to acquire new skills, network and learn how to communicate more effectively. Event organizers have curated five breakout sessions featuring student/alumni panels and thought leaders throughout the weekend, covering…
April 16, 2014
A rich digital archive documenting the UFW Farmworkers’ Movement in Central California from 1962 to 1993 has been acquired by the University of California, San Diego Library. The archive, which was developed by LeRoy Chatfield, includes a wide variety of information on the activities, accomplishments, challenges, and work of Cesar…
August 11, 2021
When this year’s San Diego Festival of Books returns Aug. 21, UC San Diego will once again be well represented, from faculty as featured authors and professors leading key panels, to staff who have helped shape the cultural event in our region for years.
May 24, 2018
…shout. You can make poetry. And if you learn ASL later in life, you might be signing with an accent forever. In most ways, it is a language just like any other, with a complex grammar, slang, dialects, the whole shebang. But in some respects, ASL is much more than…
April 4, 2024
A $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the UC Sentencing Project to drive work – inside and outside of prison – that disrupts the narratives that legitimize the racialized and gendered criminalization of people in California’s women’s prisons.
May 15, 2014
…poet, because this is poetry’ ” Tarter said to the audience, while displaying a video of the hundreds of orbiting star systems with habitable planet systems identified by the Kepler Telescope. Such events, combining classic science fiction films with compelling speakers who are also real scientists, are what McGinnis and…
November 1, 2022
On Oct. 27, UC San Diego students, staff, faculty and community members were invited to join in a storytelling and musical performance event to learn about the Day of the Dead tradition.
January 31, 2012
…African descent through spoken-word poetry and musical performances. “Stitching Memories: The Story of African American Quilting,” Feb. 1 to March 31, 2nd Floor West Wing, Geisel Library. Denied the opportunity to read or write, slave women quilted their diaries, creating permanent but unwritten records. This exhibit moves from the past…
