RIVERSIDE—Hollywood Chinese is a captivating revelation on a little-known chapter of cinema: the Chinese in American feature films. From the first Chinese American film produced in 1917, to Ang Lee’s triumphant Brokeback Mountain nine decades later, Hollywood Chinese brings together a fascinating portrait of actors, directors, writers, and iconic images to show how the Chinese have been imagined […]
LOS ANGELES—LAist host Austin Cross (All Things Considered, AirTalk Friday) talks with guests Andrew Muñoz (Moo’s Craft Barbecue), Gilberto Cetina (Holbox), and others about how owners of independent restaurants have made their homes in communities around LA. Food will be provided from Bridgetown Roti and Little Fish. We Are Where We Eat is a new […]
SAN FRANCISCO—PlayGround presents A Potrero Hill Community Celebration, featuring the unveiling of a new mural by Indigenous artist Natalie Contreras developed in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO), and presentation of the 16th annual Young Playwrights Project, featuring stage readings of Bay Area High School students Hiu Chu’s Take Charge (Galileo High School), […]
SAN PEDRO—All are invited to listen and learn at this series of free, public, spoken word presentations on the deck of the Battleship Iowa during Fleet Week at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. Students will have interviewed current and former California Servicemembers in “Making History Come Alive” meet-up events – some onsite at […]
LOS ANGELES—Join Joyce Yip Green and Helen H. Kim of the California Humanities-supported (re)Location project, along with other Loyola Marymount University faculty, alumni, and community partners, as they discuss various grant-funded projects that integrate art-based research and ethnography into the important work of community empowerment. Where: 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045 | Roski, […]
SAN DIEGO—Culturally and historically, AAPI writers have been silenced, whether from collectivism to governmental exclusion and incarceration. No more. Making Space, Taking Space is a public reading of work from San Diego Writers, Ink’s AAPI Writing Workshop, facilitated by playwright Thelma Virata de Castro. The reading, featuring multiple genres and perspectives, will take place at […]
SAN FRANCISCO—Don't miss a powerful community screening of HOME IS A HOTEL (2023), a feature-length documentary that examines inequality in San Francisco through the lens of five SRO residents as they fight to stay housed, followed by a discussion with featured community members and filmmakers. A loving newly-single mother in Chinatown, a blind Latina librettist fighting […]
Caption: Aladina Cawaling Standing Around Flowers, c. 1960s, Photograph, 3.5" x 3.5", Collection of Cawaling Family, https://wiith.ucsc.edu/items/show/739?collection=15 SANTA CRUZ—Watsonville is in the Heart will collaborate with The Humanities Institute of the University of California, Santa Cruz to mount Night at the Museum. The event welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and […]
SANTA CRUZ—Explore the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History's new exhibition Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley. In an interactive two-hour tour featuring family heirlooms, oral history interviews, and works of art, students will learn about Filipino labor and migration to the Pajaro Valley from the 1930s to the present. Dates: […]
NEVADA CITY—Join Art In Nature commissioned artists Elizabeth Winters & Amanda Post along Cascade Canal Trail for a guided walk through their site-specific installation “Without Walls”. A collaboration between the artists and Mother Nature, “Without Walls” consists of a series of handmade frames constructed from natural materials found on the forest floor. Swinging from branches […]