09
August
2021
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles

Arts & Lectures to Present Seven Events This Fall

An appearance by the award-winning performance group Black Took Collective highlights the fall lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.  

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the series will be presented in a virtual format for the third semester in a row. All the events will take place via Zoom.  

This season boasts a diverse selection of seven events as the university hosts renowned guest speakers and performances.  

Attendees can reserve tickets online via the Arts & Lectures website beginning Aug. 30.  

 

Staying Safe When Relationships Go Digital 

Oct. 5, 6 p.m., Zoom webinar 

The shift to virtual education and online life has created a host of challenges for students, not the least of which is navigating online abuse and prioritizing their digital safety in relationships. As we acclimate to an increasingly digital existence, it is critical to understand how dating violence, stalking, impersonation and harassment also have gone digital. In this presentation, Adam Dodge will explore practical and accessible ways to prioritize digital safety in our lives while also preventing stalking online and via our devices. 

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

 

Global Movements for Social Justice 

Oct. 14, noon, Zoom webinar  

This virtual panel will discuss the parallels between local, regional and global voices and movements for social justice. This empowering event will emphasize recognition and dignity, but also acknowledges bias, marginalization, violence and other limits to identification, association and mobility. Dr. Antonio De La Garza (pictured far left) will share unique perspectives on the intersection of migration and gender in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Henry Edward Frank (pictured at left) will share American Indian views from Northern California. Dr. Meshack Simati will discuss electoral rules, elections, election violence and judicial independence in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Darren Byler’s expertise on the ongoing struggles of the Uyghur people in Western China will enlighten the audience on how this group of indigenous Chinese continue to pursue dignity in the face of an authoritarian regime. 

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

 

Tell Them Where You're From: Teaching Our Lives/Stories 

Oct. 19, 6 p.m., Zoom webinar 

In this dynamic presentation using poetry and testimony, Dr. Irene Sanchez will share her experiences as a high school Latinx studies teacher. She will discuss how teaching history is not enough – to teach for social justice, teachers must connect the past to the present and to students' lived experiences, so that the next generation will realize that they can make a change for the better today. Sanchez is an ethnic studies teacher in the Azusa Unified School District and an instructor in ethnic studies education for UC Riverside Extension. As a writer, her commentary has been featured on CNN, Huffington Post and Public Radio International.   

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

 

Chola Vida: Homegirls Navigating the Barrio to Academia 

Oct. 25, 6 p.m., Zoom webinar 

The literature on gang formations in the United States centers on men's experiences, leaving women's narratives on the margins. Today, women participate in gangs and adolescent subcultures similarly to that of their male counterparts. An organization that supports former and active female gang members, Chola Vida inspires homegirls to go to college and to disseminate knowledge by creating barrio frameworks that promote consciousness and symposiums to reach a broad audience. The panelists will discuss pressing topics that focus on Chola solidarity, education/scholarships, economic development/entrepreneurship and social justice work.  

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

 

Rhythmic Ancestries: Film Screening with Choreographer/DJ/Curator jose e. abad 

Nov. 1, 2 p.m., Zoom webinar 

jose esteban abad is a multidisciplinary choreographer, DJ and curator based in San Francisco. Born in Olongapo City, Philippines to a Filipina mother and an Afro-Caribbean U.S. Navy sailor, their work explores the complexities of cultural identity at the crossroads of gender, sexuality, class and race. Rooted in collaboration and improvisation as tools of resistance and liberation, abad’s work centers QTBIPOC experimental collective process-based practices of becoming and re-membering. They highlight the most intelligent technologies that exist in this world – our bodies, ancestral wisdom and nature. abad will present three short films followed by conversation.  

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

 

Deported 

Nov. 17, 5:30 p.m., Zoom webinar  

The film “Deported” looks at immigration issues from a different angle: What happens to foreign-born U.S. residents after they are deported? Filmmakers Rachèle Magloire and Chantal Regnault follow members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America. Most have not been on Haitian soil since they left as very young children. Through a series of individual portraits, “Deported”  gives voice to the former offenders and their families. Viewers are left to ponder the multifaceted impact of repatriation and whether it creates more problems than it solves. The panel will include Magloire, the film’s director, and Guerline Jozef, a leading immigration expert who has testified before Congress. 

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

 

Black Took Collective  

Dec. 9, 6 p.m., Zoom webinar 

The Black Took Collective is a performance group composed of three award-winning LGBTQ Black poet-performers: Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin (pictured far left) and Ronaldo V. Wilson (pictured at left). The collective challenges both popular conceptions of racial identity as well as conventional artistic practices. This event will consist of live writing, poetry, music, dance, drawing, film and critical race theory presented in an engaging and lively format designed to encourage reconsideration of identity, language and embodiment, and enlist audience participation and conversation.   

CSUSM students: Free  

Community: Optional donation  

Faculty/staff/alumni: Optional donation 

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