Women Artists Challenging Nuclear State Highlight Fall Arts & Lectures
A presentation by six women who create art that challenges the nuclear state highlights the fall lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.
This season boasts a diverse selection of five events as the university hosts renowned guest speakers and performances.
Attendees can reserve tickets online via the Arts & Lectures website beginning Aug. 28.
Chasing Heroine: A Powerful Story of Revival From the Darkest Depths to the Highest Mountains
Oct. 9, 6 p.m., USU Ballroom
Jeannine Coulter was a drug addict and alcoholic for 15 years. Her addictions led to multiple arrests, homelessness and the loss of everything – which she considers to be the best thing that ever happened to her. Sober since Jan. 15, 2015, and now a successful fitness entrepreneur as well as the host of the popular addiction recovery podcast “Chasing Heroine,” Coulter will share her personal story with addiction and homelessness and her recovery journey that embraced exercise, gratitude and spirituality as critical pillars to achieve success. She will give the audience specific and easily implemented fitness tools to help manage any life challenge, elevate self-esteem and achieve even the most ambitious life goals.
CSUSM students: Free
Faculty/staff/alumni: Free
Community: $5
Power of Compassion to Transform Our World
Oct. 11, 6 p.m., USU Ballroom
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., will talk about the power of compassion to transform our world. He will provide an understanding of how compassion can be a source of solace, strength and even happiness in these turbulent times. He also will offer concrete and practical actions that we can take to move us on the path to peace and justice. Jinpa trained as a monk in India and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Cambridge University. He has been the principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. His publications include “A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives.”
CSUSM students: Free
Faculty/staff/alumni: Free
Community: $5
Faiva O Samoa: An Evening With FAIVA
Oct. 16, 6 p.m., USU Ballroom
Don’t miss an exciting evening of traditional Samoan music played with acoustic guitars, selo (upright bass) and ukulele, along with traditional Samoan percussion instruments that draw influence from the melodic storytelling traditions from throughout Polynesia. Fresh off the release of their debut album, “Faiva O Samoa,” lifelong musicians Grant Muagututi’a, Vaea A’etonu and Tinifuloa Grey will provide a night of blissful harmonies and authentic music in this age of technology. Be ready to be immersed in the language, culture and musical arts of Samoa.
CSUSM students: Free
Faculty/staff/alumni: Free
Community: $5
Ripples in Time: How the Early Chinese American Experience Shaped the Greatest Generation in WWII
Nov. 15, 6 p.m., USU Ballroom
Inspired by a 100-year-old photograph in the belongings of his great Uncle Kim, author Russell Low will share his decades-long search to find the stories behind the photograph. Low will tell the story of Ah Ying and illustrate Chinese American history from the building of the transcontinental railroad to the devastating effects of the Chinese Exclusion Act and subsequent slave trafficking of young Chinese women. The ripples of Ah Ying’s survival shaped the journey of her descendants. During World War II, two Chinese American brothers left the Oregon hop fields for the battlefields of the Pacific. One came home with a Silver Star, the other went missing. Their heroic actions and sacrifices remind us of the courage, patriotism and diversity that forms our connections to the past and to each other.
Join us to learn how the ripples of these Chinese American pioneers created scholarships for the CSUSM School of Nursing.
CSUSM students: Free
Faculty/staff/alumni: Free
Community: $5
SWANS: Slow War Against the Nuclear State
Nov. 29, noon, USU Ballroom
The legacy of over 2,000 nuclear weapon tests and the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan has had profound global effects. SWANS is a collective of six women artists – Nancy Buchanan, Judith Dancoff, Jane C. Mi, Hillary Mushkin, Sheila Pinkel and elin o'Hara slavick – who mine their personal connections to nuclear physics in artworks that challenge the nuclear state. The group explores the past and future of nuclear proliferation, with explosive visuals that interrogate the legacy of the bomb, nuclear power and uranium mining. Since 1945, atomic bombs have altered global politics, ecosystems and even our biology. Can art alter those landscapes?
Moderated by arts professor Lucy HG Solomon, the event starts with informal coffee and tea, followed by a workshop at 10:30 and the artist panel at noon.
CSUSM students: Free
Faculty/staff/alumni: $5
Community: $10
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