OAKLAND–Exhibit: The Audacity to Believe
2023-07-31 - 2023-11-30 | African American Museum and Library, 659 14th Street, Oakland, 94612, United States
OAKLAND- Come experience “The Audacity to Believe”, a tribute to the life, legacy, and impact of an Oakland giant: Dr. Marcus A. Foster, the urban education activist and superhero who gave his life for the children of Oakland.
Dr. Marcus A. Foster was the definition of a community superhero. The first Black Superintendent of any major school system in the United States: Oakland Unified, he was a trailblazer whose life was cut short in 1973 due to his courage to bring innovation and accountability to the school system. He encouraged and challenged teachers and administrators to have “the audacity to believe” in the inherent talents of all young people, and pioneered a “Master Plan Citizens Committee” tasking each neighborhood of the city to draw up their community-led visions as part of the district’s strategic plan. His dedication to youth and community made him a fierce advocate and beloved leader. As a teacher who began her first year during his tenure shared, his presence and work made it so “We knew we were on our way to excellence.” His assassination cut that work short and left a community in mourning. Curated by local artist and storyteller Patanisha Williams as part of the Marcus Foster Education Institute’s 50th anniversary celebratory events, “The Audacity to Believe” pays tribute to his life and impact, and creates a long-needed space for the community to remember and heal.
On view: July 31 – November 30 2023
Location: The historic African American Museum and Library of Oakland is located at 659 14th Street, Oakland. The Museum and Library wheelchair accessible and is open and free to the public at the following hours:
Monday – Thursday 10 am – 5:30 pm
Friday 12 pm – 5:30 pm
Saturday 10 am – 5:30 pm
For more information, visit: https://www.marcusfoster.org/events/audacity-to-believe-exhibit
The Marcus Foster Education Institute (MFEI) was established by Dr. Marcus A. Foster in 1973 prior to his passing. 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of MFEI and our work engaging community to see improved conditions, experiences, and outcomes for K-12 and postsecondary BIPOC and first-generation students. To learn more about MFEI, visit www.marcusfoster.org. For more information about the exhibit, contact info@marcusfoster.org.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

VENICE–Exhibit: Where Has All the Affordable Housing Gone?
2023-09-17 - 2023-11-04 | Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA, 90291, United States
…in search of lost rent-control housing in Venice…
VENICE—Visit the exhibit for “Where Has All The (affordable) Housing Gone?” a participatory, community-based art project that explores the loss of affordable housing in Venice. Through a series of workshops earlier in the year, diverse Venetians and other LA residents have taken photos of and written about the 280-plus rent-control buildings that have been taken off the affordable housing market in Venice, largely using the Ellis Act. The project team also looked at the many other ways the city has lost rent-controlled housing. The exhibit/installation is developed out of the materials they’ve produced, to open on September 17, 2023 with related readings and tours with the community participants, writers, artists, activists, and scholars.
Exhibit dates: September 17 – November 4, 2023
Opening: October 8, 2023, 2-5 pm (doors open 1:30)
Where: Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd, Venice 90291
Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12-6 pm
**Join these Tours and Conversation: October 14 and 28, 1-5 pm
Closing celebration November 4, details to be announced.
Also open during events at Beyond Baroque & by appointment Tuesday-Thursday from 12-6 pm, 310-822-3006 or 310-392-2076 or wherehasallthehousinggone@gmail.com
Organized by Judy Branfman in partnership with Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Support provided by California Humanities, California Arts Council, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Thank you to partner organizations, Venice Arts Council, Venice Community Housing, Westside Local-LA Tenants Union, Veterans For Peace-LA, and Keep Neighborhoods First.
Follow along with the project’s KPFK Poets Café show
Project coverage in the Venice Beachhead
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SAN BERNARDINO–Exhibit: Afróntalo
2023-09-21 - 2024-06-19 | The CSUSB Anthropology Museum, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, 92407, United States
21 Afrolatiné Californians and 4 Afro-Mexican communities in their own words
SAN BERNARDINO—One in four Latin Americans has African ancestry. And yet, there is a general deficit of knowledge regarding the presence and prevalence of blackness throughout the Americas. This is more than a simple matter of obscurity. It is a problem of erasure, invisibility and dislocation. Afróntalo introduces you to four communities in Mexico and twenty-one Californians, all in their own words, to explore the depth and breadth of Afrolatiné histories, cultures and identities.
Why is the exhibit called Afróntalo?
“Afróntalo” in Spanish means “Face It.” This reflects the intention of our exhibition to recognize the erasure of Afro-descendants and the prevalence of anti-blackness in the Americas. Additional meaning can be found in breaking the title into two separate phrases, “Afro” and “Ntalo.” The first phrase, “Afro,” reflects the Afro-descendant focus of the exhibition. The second phrase “Ntalo,” has at least three meanings in African languages. In Xitsonga, spoken in parts of Zimbabwe and Eswatini, ntalo means “abundance.” In Lingala, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ntalo means “value.” Finally in Ganda, the primary language spoken in Uganda, ntalo means “war.” Collectively, these three words reflect the impetus of Afróntalo to make clear the widespread and deep roots of Afro-descendants in the Americas, the incredible importance of Afro-descendant contributions and populations historically and today, and the need for action to bring attention to these matters and the contemporary needs of Afro-descendant communities.
Where: California State University, San Bernardino | Anthropology Museum (SB-306)5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407
Exhibit Runs September 21, 2023 – June 19, 2024
Free and open to the public
Additional events and public programs part of the Afrolatine California project:

Learn more at on the project’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY–Circa: Queer Histories Festival
2023-10-01 - 2023-10-29 | Across Los Angeles County, United States
Above: Still promoting the Circa program Stories of Sex Work at The Mic @ Micky’s, happening October 4, 2023. Located in the heart of West Hollywood, Micky’s Weho is one of the most iconic and oldest gay bars in Los Angeles, known not just for its live entertainment but for its community based events and fundraisers.
The first and only Queer Histories Festival in the US
LOS ANGELES COUNTY—Celebrating seven decades of service to the LGBTQ+ community, One Institute (formerly One Archives Foundation) presents Circa, the first and only LGBTQ+ histories festival in the United States. Kicking off LGBTQ+ History Month, the month-long, LA County-wide programming series showcases the trailblazing histories and vibrant cultural contributions of LGBTQ+ communities through the lens of present-day challenges and triumphs. Through exhibitions, performance, readings, screenings, lectures, dialogues, and parties, Circa features queer and trans artists, activists, and educators leading the movement for LGBTQ+ liberation.
All events are free, suggested donations welcome!

TYPES OF EVENTS

Lecture
Panel Conversation
Party / Social Gathering
Performance
Podcast
Reading
Screening
Virtual Event
Workshop

LOCATIONS

Downtown / MacArthur Park
East LA / San Gabriel Valley
Glendale
Hollywood
Northridge
Santa Monica / Culver City
Silver Lake / Echo Park
West Adams
West Hollywood

Circa events run from October 1, 2023 – October 29, 2023 | Learn more at on the project’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

POV SHORTS SEASON 6–SOL IN THE GARDEN
2023-10-06 - 2023-11-06 | PBS Station
POV Shorts Season 6 Unveils New Dimensions in Storytelling
Embark on narratives that crisscross our world, touching deep emotional chords. From Denver City’s oil-driven pulse and LA’s tinderbox streets, to intimate odysseys of redemption, revelation, and rebirth. Immerse yourself in these four new episodes, each offering a distinctive voice.
Included in this season is SOL IN THE GARDEN, a short documentary awarded a California Documentary Project grant in 2022.
Synopsis: After 16 years of incarceration, Sol is released from prison, when she discovers that coming into her own freedom can be as challenging as living behind bars. Through a community gardening collective of formerly incarcerated horticulturalists in East Oakland, Sol strives to recover her humanity and sense of self.

All shorts are available now on pov.org and the PBS App.
This project is supported by a California Documentary Project Grant.

SAN FRANCISCO–Exhibit: Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California’s South Coast Range
2023-10-07 - 2024-01-07 | de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
Above: Gregg Castro (T’rowt’raahl Salinan, Rumsien and Ramaytush Ohlone), culture director, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone. Photograph by Kirti Bassendine
SANTA CRUZ—Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California’s South Coast Range: Enduring Relationships with the Land is an exhibition of portraits by Kirti Bassendine (b. 1962), featuring Indigenous community members from the South Coast Range: the San Francisco peninsula through the Santa Cruz mountains, Monterey Bay, and lower Salinan Valley. Bassendine’s photographs are accompanied by powerful personal statements from Native community members calling attention to cultural connections to the land, rematriation (restoring the relationship between Indigenous people and their ancestral land), and climate change. As an artist, Bassendine has always been intrigued by human relationships — especially how they impact the discovery of identity and belonging within one’s culture and the wider world. By bringing so many Indigenous voices together, she creates a unique experience for audiences to engage with these ideas themselves.
This exhibit is organized in consultation with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, and in collaboration with the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, Tamien Nation, Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan-Ohlone People, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Costanoan/Ohlone, the Rumsien Ohlone Tribal Community, Esselen Tribe of Monterey County, and the Salinan Tribe of San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties.
Where: de Young Museum | Kimball Education Gallery | Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
Runs: October 7–January 27, 2023
FREE admission to the Kimball Education Gallery
Learn more and purchase tickets at the de Young’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

SAN PEDRO–Pedro Play
2023-10-19 20:00 - 2023-10-21 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA, United States
SAN PEDRO—When Jessica is sent to San Pedro on a journalistic assignment, she finds much more than the feature story she expected. A romantic comedy with original music, PEDRO PLAY explores the meaning of home in a community in the midst of radical change. The show’s cast features members of the San Pedro community on stage in collaboration with Cornerstone Theater Company’s ensemble members and guest artists. The cast will be accompanied by a six-piece band playing original music by Co-Composers David Markowitz and Nehal Shahin. PEDRO PLAY is inspired by dozens of conversations and stories shared with Cornerstone artists over the script’s development, as a part of Cornerstone Theater Company’s ongoing Change Series. In these volatile times, Cornerstone is undertaking an exploration of how societal change across the country and the globe is impacting our local communities and, by extension, the very nature of the work we do as a company.

Thursday, October 19 at 8 pm
Friday, October 20 at 8 pm
Saturday, October 21 at 2 pm
Saturday, October 21 at 8 pm
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can with a suggested donation $20, but any amount is appreciated. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Warner Grand Theatre
478 W 6th Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
To purchase tickets, go to our Eventbrite page.

For more information, go to cornerstonetheater.org or 800-578-1335, info@cornerstonetheater.org.

This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

WINTERS–Cultura y Comunidad
2023-10-21 | San Juan Capistrano Library, 31495 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA, 92675, United States
WINTERS– This project aims to celebrate the culture and heritage of the Latinx community of Winters and promote community health and well-being. In collaboration with community partners, the Winters Community Library will hold weekly bilingual programs for all ages and levels throughout the month of October providing opportunities for discussion, reflection, and celebration. Programs include nutrition and movement workshops, Día de los Muertos printmaking presentation, bilingual storytimes, a health resource fair, and cultural performances.
All events take place at:
Winters Community Library
708 Railroad Avenue, Winters, CA 95694
Health Resource Fair
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 6-8 pm
Visit with various community organizations to learn about the resources available to you and your family. Children’s activities and food (while supplies last) will be provided.
Folklórico Juvenil Danzantes Unidos de Vacaville
Saturday, October 7, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Enjoy a performance by Folklórico Juvenil Danzantes Unidos de Vacaville, followed by a dance demonstration and the history of Ballet Folklórico. Culture sharing activities and dessert will be provided after the performance.
Zumba & Self Care
Saturday, October 7, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Participate in a one-hour Zumba class with instructor Mayra Loza. After the class, we will enjoy a healthy post-workout snack and engage in a self-care activity.
Kalpulli Xihuacoalt
Saturday, October 14, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Enjoy a performance by traditional Aztec dance troupe Kalpulli Xihuacoalt, followed by a dance demonstration and history of Danza. Culture sharing activities and dessert will be provided after the performance.
Dia de Muertos Printmaking Presentation
Thursday, October 19, 2023 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Join Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) for a presentation on Dia de Muertos, its origins, and its relevance in contemporary Chicano/an art and culture. A live silk screen printing demonstration and crafts will follow. Visit TANA at www.tana.ucdavis.edu for more information.
Zumba & Self Care
Saturday, October 21, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Participate in a one-hour Zumba class with instructor Mayra Loza. After the class, we will enjoy a healthy post-workout snack and engage in a self-care activity.
Hands-on Cooking & Diabetes Prevention Presentation with Winters Healthcare
Thursday, October 26, 2023 5:45 – 8:00 pm
The Winters Healthcare Health Coaches will show us how to make delicious healthy meals with a hands-on cooking demonstration, followed by a diabetes prevention presentation. Children’s activities will be offered.
Community Walk
Saturday, October 28, 2023 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Let’s go for a walk along the Putah Creek Nature Park Trail and take a tour of the Winters Healthcare Community Garden. Meet outside the library at 10 am. Bring comfortable clothing, shoes, and water for the walk. *Weather permitting
For more information, contact Ruby Buentello, Ruby.buentello@yolocounty.org.
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

SANTA PAULA–Mountain to Sea Jubilee
2023-10-21 11:00 - 15:00 | Agriculture Museum — Museum of Ventura County, 926 Railroad Avenue, Santa Paula, 93060, United States
SANTA PAULA—October 21 is a “big bash” to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Ventura County, part of a series of events that will be hosted into November. A Mountain to the Sea Jubilee will be held in Santa Paula and will feature community performances, interactive booths, and the opening of the Ventura County, the Place We Call Home exhibit.
Where: Agriculture Museum, Museum of Ventura County | 926 Railroad Avenue, Santa Paula, CA 93060
When: 11 am–3 pm
FREE and open to the public!
Other project-supported events include:
· The Japanese American Experience in Ventura County, by Dr. Lily Anne Welty-Tamai, California State University Channel Islands, Oct. 25 in Camarillo.
· “The Ramona Story: Film Screening and Discussion,” at Rancho Camulos Museum, Oct. 28, in Piru.
· History is Now Photography Exhibit curated by Focus on the Masters, in Thousand Oaks, Now through Nov. 5, Exhibit Walkthrough, Oct. 26.
· El Bracero: A Mariachi Opera at the Fillmore Town Theatre, presented by the ÁNIMO Theatre Company, Nov. 10, in Fillmore.
· “A Celebration of the Indigenous Peoples of Ventura County for Native American Heritage Month,” at the Chumash Indian Museum, Nov. 12 in Thousand Oaks.
More information on all the County of Ventura’s 150th Anniversary events, including dates, times, and locations is available on the dedicated website, venturacounty150.com. On the website, visitors can also explore the full roster of 150th Anniversary events and even submit their own favorite moments in Ventura County through VC150 Memories Project.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

RADIO BROADCAST—Valley Tales
2023-10-22 16:00 - 17:00
RADIO BROADCAST—Tune into KDUP, 88.1 FM, Surprise Valley community radio, every Sunday between 4 and 5 pm through December 17, 2023, to hear Valley Tales, a series of interviews with diverse members of the Surprise Valley community including ranchers, farmers, members of the Northern Paiute Kidutokado band, artists, writers, musicians, and others. These interviews will illuminate the remarkable stories of the people who make up the unique community of the beautiful and remote Surprise Valley in the far North-Eastern corner of California.
Sundays in 2023, through December 17, between 4 and 5 pm on KDUP FM, 88.1.
Visit the program page for the episode archive.
This project is supported with a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SAN FRANCISCO–What Does it Mean to Create Home?
2023-10-25 18:00 - 19:30 | San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
SAN FRANCISCO—Listen to part one of the We Are Home: Tenderloin Community Quilt Project panel series, which will dive into an expansive discussion of the socio-emotional impact of place making, community building and home making. The panel will highlight perspectives of people with lived experience being unhoused or homeless and those who are community/home builders, and ask how these perspectives mobilize us towards making meaningful change.
Wednesday, October 25, 6-7:30 pm: What Does it Mean to Create Home? – panel discussion hosted by Mattie Loyce at San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Branch (free and open to the public)
View panel information on the San Francisco Public Library’s website.
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This program is part of a public programming series in support of We Are Home: Tenderloin Community Quilt Project exhibit at Root Division in San Francisco.
Exhibit dates: November 9-29, 2023
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday from 2-6 PM
We Are Home: Visions and Voices of the Tenderloin Community Quilt is an exhibition presenting the work of the Tenderloin Community Quilt project. Beginning in the Fall of 2022 the project engaged the extended Tenderloin through collective quilt-making workshops to express the significance and meaning of ‘home’. The exhibition is the culmination of one year of work, featuring a film of interviews with resident artists, archival print content from the SFPL Tenderloin Archive, and the large-scale collaborative quilts created through its workshops.
In the face of the pandemic, overdose epidemic, and housing crisis that disproportionately affect the Tenderloin neighborhood, the Tenderloin Community Quilt focuses on amplifying the voices of people who have the lived experience of homelessness, and those that care for, or live and work in community with unhoused neighbors. Extending the collaboration and contributions of the project throughout the Tenderloin community, Mattie Loyce hosted workshops at the nine DISH sites and throughout the Tenderloin with Hospitality House, The Healing Well, The Tenderloin Museum, Skywatchers, Faithful Fools, and CounterPulse. With support from Mary Hogue of Mission Praxis, the quilt squares will be joined into a series of large-scale community quilts and exhibited for the first time at Root Division this November.
ALONGSIDE THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMMING:
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 6-8 pm: Radical Histories of Housing and Community Care – panel discussion hosted by Mattie Loyce at San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Branch (free and open to the public)
Thursday, November 9, 2023 3-5pm: Public community reception for resident artists, Root Division (free and open to the public).
Saturday, November 11, 4-6 pm: 2nd Saturday reception, Root Division (free and open to the public)
The 2nd Saturday reception will feature a performance by Tenderloin resident based performance group Skywatchers, and will overlap with visiting Root Division’s artist spaces as part of ArtSpan Open Studios.
Learn more on Root Division’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO–Preserving Family Heritage
2023-10-26 | San Juan Capistrano Library, 31495 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA, 92675, United States
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO– To commemorate Latinx Heritage Month and Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the San Juan Capistrano Library will offer a series of bilingual cultural programs to welcome immigrants, promote empathy, and foster a more inclusive community. Highlighting the importance of preserving family history and traditions, the project will enable participants of all backgrounds to deepen their understanding and appreciation of Latinx culture.
All events take place at:
San Juan Capistrano Library
31495 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
OC Memory Lab Demonstration and Craft
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 5:30 pm
A bilingual (English and Spanish) demonstration of the OC Memory Lab mobile unit will be presented where participants will learn to digitize images. The OC Memory Lab mobile unit offers DIY digitization of photos, documents, audiovisual records, and other formats. Participant can bring a photograph and staff will scan it and save it on a flash drive while they decorate a picture frame.
Local Author Spotlight: Marytza K. Rubio
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 5:30 pm
A local author spotlight with Marytza K. Rubio, a writer from Santa Ana, California. She was a 2008 PEN America Emerging Voice Fellow and a 2010 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Fiction. Her debut story collection, Maria, Maria & Other Stories, was long listed for the 2022 National Book Award. Marytza currently serves as the Vice President of Community & Culture at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Complimentary books available, while supplies last. No registration required. Early arrival suggested.
Modesta Avila Historical Discussion with author Sarah Rafael García
Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 5:30 pm
A bilingual (English and Spanish) discussion on Modesta Avila, the Mexican American folk heroine known for her resistance against the Southern Pacific Railroad during the 1800s and her historical significance in San Juan Capistrano. The presentation will be provided by Sarah Rafael García (Author, Community Educator, and Performance Ethnographer) who will discuss the “Modesta Avila: Obstructing Development since 1889” (#MAOD1889) multimedia digital archives project. No registration required.
Café de Olla and Pan de Muerto Tasting with a Charlie Cart Demonstration
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 5:30 pm
A bilingual (English and Spanish) Charlie Cart demonstration of how to make Café de Olla, a traditional Mexican sweet coffee. Enjoy a Pan de Muerto (Mexican sweet bread) tasting as we explore recipe sharing through different generations. Participants can bring a recipe that they would like to share with the group (Optional). Registration is required. Register at the service desk.
Bilingual Alebrijes Storytime
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 5:30 pm
A special family bilingual (English and Spanish) Storytime and craft on Alebrijes. We will explore the significance of the vibrant colorful Mexican folk art of Alebrijes. Complimentary books are available, while supplies last. No registration is required. Early arrival is suggested.
Day of the Dead Musical Performance
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 5:30 pm
A bilingual (English and Spanish), interactive, and educational family music program featuring Mexican Indigenous percussion and songs performed by Martin Espino. No registration is required.
Día de Los Muertos Nichos and Other Crafts
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 3:30 pm
In celebration of the Day of the Dead, participants will make paper Nicho’s, a type of folk art popular throughout Central and South America, and paint a skull made of air-dry clay.
Family Cultural Literacy Day
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 3:30 pm
In celebration of the Day of the Dead the library will host a Family Cultural Literacy Day with a reading and signing by Mariana Galvez, Lil’ Libros author of Little Astrology Catrina’s and Where is? / ¿Dónde está? Mi Ofrenda. Participants will enjoy performances by the local Blas Aguilar Adobe Ballet Folklorico group, a mariachi performance, crafts such as sugar skull decorating, and more. Complimentary books are available, while supplies last. No registration is required. Early arrival is suggested.
For more information, contact Saidy Valdez, 949- 493-1752, saidy.valdez@occr.ocgov.com
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.
Image via Unsplash

HAYWARD–Curbie Cares
2023-10-27 | Hayward Public Library, 888 C Street, Hayward, 94541, United States
HAYWARD– Hayward Library will host events at senior living facilities regularly visited by the bookmobile on Friday, October 27th & Thursday, November 30th. Chinese and Korean immigrant residents of the complex will enjoy talks and demonstrations of healthy Asian cooking techniques by nutritionists, dieticians and the local foodbank. Health and wellness conversations will be followed by recipe collecting from the seniors which will be contributed to a community-sourced cookbook and health guide. Books, food, and a variety of practical informational materials will be distributed, and library and social service staff will be on hand to assist the seniors and help them make connections to resources and support.
For more information, contact Project Director Reina Escovedo at Reina.Escovedo@Hayward-ca.gov.
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

THREE RIVERS–Exhibit Opening: Native Voices
2023-10-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Three Rivers Historical Museum, 42268 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, California, 93271, United States
Exhibit opening at the Three Rivers Historical Museum
THREE RIVERS—Come celebrate the grand opening of the Native Voices permanent exhibit, which honors and celebrates the diverse cultures, histories, and perspectives of the Native community through, artifacts, language, and storytelling. The exhibit will be unveiled at 10 am, with a reception to follow. This will include stations set up with local tribal members demonstrating basket weaving, native games, language, storytelling, and more!
A collaboration with members of the local Yokuts community, the Three Rivers Historical Museum, and the Mineral King Preservation Society, this interpretive exhibit about local Native history will use objects in the museum’s collection, and is informed by the knowledge of the last fluent speaker of Wukchumi of the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts. The exhibit will show how Native peoples traditionally lived and worked the land, how European settlement impacted them, and how they live today. Located on the main highway to Sequoia National Park, the exhibit will be accessible to thousands of visitors and locals on an ongoing basis.
Where: Mineral King Room, Three Rivers Historical Museum | 42268 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271
Free and open to the public
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

DEADLINE—California Documentary Grants
2023-10-31 - 2023-11-01 | Switzerland
Image: Stills from CDP projects Song of Salt, MIJA, Sansón and Me, Fanny: The Right to Rock.
DEADLINE—Are you a mediamaker working on a California story? We invite applications for the next round of California Documentary Project (CDP) grants in support of film, audio, or digital media projects that document California subjects and issues; use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective; and have the potential to reach and engage audiences statewide and nationally through multiple means.
Funding is available in two categories:

Research and Development Grants up to $15,000 (new amount for 2023)
Production Grants up to $50,000

Applications open September 1, 2023. This year’s application deadline is Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 5 pm PT.
Register HERE for a free CDP grant application informational webinar on September 13 at 10-11 am PDT.
Visit the California Documentary Project grants page for guidelines, application instructions, a list of previously awarded projects, and to register for a free informational webinar. Click HERE to apply.
For more information, contact Director of Media & Journalism Programs, John Lightfoot at jlightfoot@calhum.org.

HAYWARD–A Shoreline for All: How Citizens and Government Worked Together to Restore the Hayward Shoreline in the 1970s and 1980s
2023-11-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Hayward Public Library, 888 C Street, Hayward, 94541, United States
HAYWARD-Join a series of community conversations about how Hayward histories shape our lives today. Each conversation will feature individuals who made history through sustained local action and community work.
Between 1970 and 1990, a remarkable collaboration between citizens and government accomplished one of the most complex environmental restoration projects in history. This collaboration regained the public’s access to the Hayward Shoreline and preserved a unique ecology. This work also generated crucial new knowledge. Educators at Cal State East Bay and Hayward’s K-12 public schools created sophisticated inquiry-based science curricula, engaging students in research. This collaborative work is historically significant and unique to Hayward.
Community Panel: Community Panel: A Shoreline for All:
How Citizens and Government Worked Together to Restore the Hayward Shoreline in the 1970s and 1980s
Friday, November 3, 2023, 3:00-4:30pm
Fremont Bank Room at the Hayward Public Library
888 C Street, Hayward, CA 94541
Light refreshments will be served. This series is free to the public. Parking in city lots next to the library is free of charge.
For more information, go to haywardhistory.org or contact Dr. Bridget Ford, 510-885-3207, bridget.ford@csueastbay.edu.
Image of Hayward Regional Shoreline by Vijayalakshmi Nidugondi.

This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SAN DIEGO–HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY AT SDAFF
2023-11-03 19:35 - 21:30 | Edwards Mira Mesa, 10733 Westview Pkwy, San Diego, 92126, United States
Official Selection, 2023 True/False Film Festival
Official Selection, 2023 San Francisco International Film Festival
SAN DIEGO—Join a special screening and Q&A of HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY at the 24th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival!
Asian American Panorama| USA | Documentary | Mandarin, English | Subtitled | 2023 | 117 mins
Where: Edwards Mira Mesa | 10733 Westview Pkwy, San Diego, CA 92126
When: Friday, November 3, 2023 | 7:35 pm
Tickets: $15. Purchase here.
Synopsis, written by Kim-Anh Schreiber: Dotted across the suburban sprawl of San Gabriel, California are so-called “maternity hotels,” all-inclusive birth tourism packages for expectant Chinese families. Offering plane tickets, third-trimester accommodations, hospital selection (across a spectrum of all-cash price points), and final mailing of a social security card back home, hotel brokers enable birth to a child on American soil. Through a series of observational vignettes, HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY traces a network of actors across the supply chain of this shadow economy: motel managers, nannies, companions, and expectant mothers themselves – two whose parallel stories heartbreakingly intersect at the film’s center.
Moving through nondescript, Southern California apartments, hospital rooms, and chain stores, the actors depicted become strange bedfellows in the literal and metaphorical waystations of another country. Director Leslie Tai thrusts her viewer into the immediacy of being in-between nations, life stages, labor, and birth. Unfolding conversations unveil the myriad negotiations each of these actors make as they navigate the byzantine, bureaucratic systems of American healthcare, law, and citizenship, often from the most vulnerable of positions.
HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY is a portrait of the Chinese repurposing of the American dream, accessed through the unexpected intersection of birth and commerce. We witness two countries seen through the eyes of the other, fixed upon a vanishing point of illusory opportunities.
Filmmaker scheduled to attend.
Screening to be followed by Q&A.
This project is supported by a California Documentary Project Grant.

RANCHO DOMINGUEZ–Día de Muertos Community Celebration
2023-11-04 11:00 - 16:00 | Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum, 18127 South Alameda Street, Rancho Dominguez, CA, 90220, United States
RANCHO DOMINGUEZ—Join the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum and Semillitas Learning Community for this free, public event at the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum honoring the Día de Muertos traditional holiday. Visit us to watch live performances from mariachi to baile folklorico, enjoy our traditional food options, and shop at all our vendors present at the event! Even become a part of the event by submitting an application to put your own ofrenda up at the event! You will not want to miss this amazing chance at sharing culture, community, and heritage!
This is a free, family-friendly event!
When: Saturday, November 4, 11-4 pm
Where: Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum | 18127 South Alameda Street, Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220
Learn more on the program event page.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

LOS ANGELES–Preserving for Posterity: A DIY Archiving Workshop
2023-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 | The Autry Museum of the West, 4700 Wester Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
LOS ANGELES—Join staff from the Autry’s Libraries & Archives as they share highlights from archival materials related to Gay Rodeo and provide guidance on how to care for your personal archives.
Autry staff will cover the DIY preservation of photographs, scrapbooks, letters, media, and more, along with case studies and answers to some of your most pressing questions. The workshop will be followed by a walkthrough of the newly opened Imagined Wests gallery, exploring how personal collections can preserve oft-neglected stories and bring them to life for current and future generations.
The Autry’s Gay Rodeo Archive is comprised of the institutional archives of the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) and the Golden State Gay Rodeo Association (GSGRA), as well as the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project and items from the exhibition Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo.
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 4:00pm
Autry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Located northeast of downtown, across from the Los Angeles Zoo.
Free parking for Autry visitors.
For more information and to register, please go to the Autry Museum of the American West website. Admission: $5. Reservations are required. Space is limited.
Continue your day with a live performance of That Damn Horse: The Stories of Gay Rodeo, drawn from the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

LOS ANGELES–Performance: That Damn Horse: The Stories of Gay Rodeo
2023-11-04 19:00 - 21:30 | The Autry Museum of the West, 4700 Wester Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
LOS ANGELES—Drawn from over 60 interviews in the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project (housed in the Autry archives), That Damn Horse weaves together the many voices who represent the diversity of gay rodeo, from old timers to newcomers and across gender and sexual identities. By bringing together imagination and fact through verbatim theater, the playwrights hope to combine gay rodeoers’ broader individual experiences to capture a message about joy, survival, and family.
Performance followed by a conversation with Roger Bergmann, former president of the International Gay Rodeo Association, and Voices of Gay Rodeo Oral History Project team members Rebecca Scofield and Court Fund.
Written by Rebecca Scofield, Robert Caisley, and Court Fund
Directed by James Still
Produced in partnership with the University of Idaho
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 7:00pm
Autry Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Located northeast of downtown, across from the Los Angeles Zoo.
Free parking for Autry visitors.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. so audiences can visit the galleries and purchase food at Trail Grill.
For more information and to register, please go to the Autry Museum of the American West website. Admission: $5 for Autry Members; $10 for Non-members. Reservations are required. Space is limited.
If you are interested in learning more about preserving archives, sign up for our DIY Archiving Workshop earlier in the day. Join staff from the Autry’s Libraries & Archives as they share highlights from archival materials related to Gay Rodeo and provide guidance on how to care for your personal archives.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

BAKERSFIELD–The Fight for Civil Rights
2023-11-04 19:00 - 21:30 | The Autry Museum of the West, 4700 Wester Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
BAKERSFIELD—The Fight for Civil Rights: Contesting Discrimination in the American West. Minority Housing Districts in Bakersfield in the 19th and 20th Centuries From China Towns to Mayflower.
This program will include two lectures and will examine the history of housing in Bakersfield, California. The first Sunset Mayflower Progressive Club (SMPC): Community Organization and Self-reliance in the Sunset-Mayflower District will cover the activism and early history of the community-based organization, including details on how they fought for better housing and social conditions from 1930 to 1940s. SMPC protested inferior housing and promoted substandard housing for sale. They lobbied and protested against the city council, when they approved and authorized a variance to allow the selling of substandard homes as a “non-dilapidated alternatives.” The SMPC fought for fair housing, equality, access to city and sanitary services.
The other lecture, Bakersfield: Two Chinatowns with only an Alley Left seeks to give the public a brief historical insight into the history of Bakersfield’s Chinatowns, while simultaneously acknowledging the discrimination the Chinese community was subject to and that arguably led to our Chinatown(s) disappearance.
November 3, 2023 1:00pm – 2:30pm
California State University, Bakersfield
Humanities Office Building Room 1109
9001 Stockdale Hwy
Bakersfield, CA 93311
For more information, go to https://hrc.csub.edu/americas-newest-city/americas-newest-cities-events/or contact Christopher Livingston, Director, Historical Research Center, 661-654-3253, clivingston@csub.edu.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SAN FRANCISCO AND ONLINE–Workshop: Access Desires + Affirmations = Desired ACCESSIBILITY
2023-11-05 11:00 - 13:30 | Dogpatch Hub, 1278 Minnesota Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 94107, United States
SAN FRANCISCO AND ONLINE—Affirm your access desires! Please join us for a disability centered hybrid two-hour virtual and in-person workshop of writing, drawing, chatting, collaging and sharing your accessibility needs around “access intimacies” and ecological intimacies. We will use whiteboard and collage to make risograph-printed access desire affirmation posters! We will lead a short demonstration on how to use Zoom’s whiteboard. No need to use whiteboard, you can bring your own materials and collage, write, draw and chat along! Or, hang out – no need to produce anything! Everyone is welcome to speak out loud or add your accessibility words and thoughts. We will hold conversations around access versus accessibility to support and ferment accessibility needs, words, and ways into our accessible futures. For in-person participants materials are provided and you and your devices are welcome to join in on the whiteboard too!
When: Sunday, November 5, 11 am-1 pm (in-person); 11:30 am-1 pm (online)
Where: The Dogpatch Hub | 1278 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Reservations for in-person attendees and a link for online participants are available through the Root Division website.
Access Notes:
In-Person: Masks are required, ASL via Zoom and a large screen with ASL priority seating, no step at entrance, variety of seating, accessible bathroom, light visual descriptions, minimal instrumental music, materials provided including tactile materials, and Online and in-person Access Doulas. Water, tea, and light snacks provided. Please arrive scent free – thanks!
Zoom: ASL, whiteboard use, screen sharing, ok to be off camera, ok to use chat, ok to speak out loud, minimal instrumental music, scheduled breaks and break reminders, light visual descriptions. Our event will NOT be recorded. Online and in person Access Doulas.
Any further access needs or questions, please get in touch with moira williams and Jeremiah Barber at cripdecologies@gmail.com.
This project is a program of Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments, supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

LOS ANGELES–Girls' Voices Now Premiere Screening
2023-11-07 18:45 - 21:00 | Mount St. Mary’s University, 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
LOS ANGELES—The 6th annual Girls’ Voices Now film screening is a celebration of the 14 girls who graduated from the Women’s Voices Now intensive summer training program. The screening will showcase their social-change films, highlighting critical issues such as gender roles, beauty standards, women in power, and the immigrant experience.
Where: Rose Hill Auditorium, Mount Saint Mary’s University Doheny Campus | 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA. Parking is included with the ticket.
When: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | 6:45-9 pm (Doors open at 6:45 pm, program starts at 7 pm)
Tickets: $19. To purchase and learn more about the individual films, go here.

Theater Opens at 6:45pm
Welcome & Opening Remarks
About the Girls’ Voices Now Program
Screening of 4 short social-change docs created by our youth filmmakers
Filmmaker Q&A
Thank you & Ending Remarks
Post-Program dessert reception

Program to be followed by Q&A and dessert reception.
This project is supported by a CDP NextGen Grant.

SAN FRANCISCO–We Are Home: Visions & Voices of the Tenderloin Community Quilt
2023-11-09 - 2023-11-29 | Root Division, 1131 Mission Stret, San Francisco, 94103, United States
SAN FRANCISCO—Root Division presents We Are Home: Visions & Voices of the Tenderloin Community Quilt, facilitated and co-curated by Mattie Loyce of Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH) and Mary Hogue of Mission Praxis, featuring art by over 70 artists and participants across the Tenderloin neighborhood.
Exhibit dates: November 9-29, 2023
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday from 2-6 PM
Register for the free community reception on November 9, 3-5 pm.
We Are Home: Visions and Voices of the Tenderloin Community Quilt is an exhibition presenting the work of the Tenderloin Community Quilt project. Beginning in the Fall of 2022 the project engaged the extended Tenderloin through collective quilt-making workshops to express the significance and meaning of ‘home’. The exhibition is the culmination of one year of work, featuring a film of interviews with resident artists, archival print content from the SFPL Tenderloin Archive, and the large-scale collaborative quilts created through its workshops.
In the face of the pandemic, overdose epidemic, and housing crisis that disproportionately affect the Tenderloin neighborhood, the Tenderloin Community Quilt focuses on amplifying the voices of people who have the lived experience of homelessness, and those that care for, or live and work in community with unhoused neighbors. Extending the collaboration and contributions of the project throughout the Tenderloin community, Mattie Loyce hosted workshops at the nine DISH sites and throughout the Tenderloin with Hospitality House, The Healing Well, The Tenderloin Museum, Skywatchers, Faithful Fools, and CounterPulse. With support from Mary Hogue of Mission Praxis, the quilt squares will be joined into a series of large-scale community quilts and exhibited for the first time at Root Division this November.
ALONGSIDE THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMMING:
Wednesday, October 25, 6-8 pm: What Does it Mean to Create Home? – panel discussion hosted by Mattie Loyce at San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Branch (free and open to the public)
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 6-8 pm: Radical Histories of Housing and Community Care – panel discussion hosted by Mattie Loyce at San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Branch (free and open to the public)
Thursday, November 9, 2023 3-5pm: Public community reception for resident artists, Root Division (free and open to the public).
Saturday, November 11, 4-6 pm: 2nd Saturday reception, Root Division (free and open to the public)
The 2nd Saturday reception will feature a performance by Tenderloin resident based performance group Skywatchers, and will overlap with visiting Root Division’s artist spaces as part of ArtSpan Open Studios.
Learn more on Root Division’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

OCEANSIDE–Creando Memorias in Oceanside
2023-11-09 | Oceanside Public Library, 330 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA, 92054, United States
OCEANSIDE–Join the Oceanside Public Library in celebrating Oaxacan culture through a series of events and workshops that will be held at the Crown Heights Community Resource Center and Civic Center Library. The Oceanside Public Library recognizes there is a large and diverse Oaxaqueño community present not only in Oceanside, but throughout the North County and California, and it is our intention to share with our Oceanside community the rich traditions that are unique to Oaxaca, Mexico.
MEMELA COOKING CLASS
Join Carmen Colon of
Cocina Del Carmen, a local Mexican restaurant, as she guides you though the My process of making Memelas.
11/02 @ 5 P.M.
CROWN HEIGHTS
ORIGIN STORY ART WORKSHOP
Share your story with the help of local artist Sandra Carmona. All art supplies will be provided!
11/09 @ 5 P.M.
CROWN HEIGHTS
FLOR DE PIÑA AND CHILENA DANCE CLASS
Come and learn new dance moves! This class will teach you traditional Oaxacan dances as well as Baile folklorico.
11/14 @ 6 P.M.
CIVIC CENTER LIBRARY
FILM SCREENING OF OAXACALIFORNIA: THE RETURN (2021)
Enjoy this rare documentary screening led by UC
Riverside Professor
Dr. Xochitl Chavez.
11/16 @ 6 P.M.
CIVIC CENTER LIBRARY
MARMOTA-MAKING WORKSHOP
Come get creative and build your own marmota.
All supplies provided!
12/05 @ 6 P.M.
CIVIC CENTER LIBRARY
NOCHE DE CALENDA
Join us for a night of traditional Banda Oaxaqueña, Chinas Oaxaqueñas, and Danza de los Diablitos Mixtecos!
12/14 @ 5:30 P.M.
CIVIC CENTER LIBRARY
For more information, contact Jorge Garcia, jgarcia@oceansideca.org
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

SAN FRANCISCO–We Are Home: Second Saturday Reception
2023-11-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Root Division, 1131 Mission Stret, San Francisco, 94103, United States
SAN FRANCISCO—Visit the Second Saturday reception for We Are Home: Tenderloin Community Quilt Project. Free and open to the public with registration!
Saturday, November 11, 4-6 pm: 2nd Saturday reception, Root Division (free and open to the public)
The Second Saturday reception will feature a performance by Tenderloin resident based performance group Skywatchers, and will overlap with visiting Root Division’s artist spaces as part of ArtSpan Open Studios.
Register for free on Root Division’s website.
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This program is part of a public programming series in support of We Are Home: Tenderloin Community Quilt Project exhibit at Root Division in San Francisco.
Exhibit dates: November 9-29, 2023
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday from 2-6 PM
We Are Home: Visions and Voices of the Tenderloin Community Quilt is an exhibition presenting the work of the Tenderloin Community Quilt project. Beginning in the Fall of 2022 the project engaged the extended Tenderloin through collective quilt-making workshops to express the significance and meaning of ‘home’. The exhibition is the culmination of one year of work, featuring a film of interviews with resident artists, archival print content from the SFPL Tenderloin Archive, and the large-scale collaborative quilts created through its workshops.
In the face of the pandemic, overdose epidemic, and housing crisis that disproportionately affect the Tenderloin neighborhood, the Tenderloin Community Quilt focuses on amplifying the voices of people who have the lived experience of homelessness, and those that care for, or live and work in community with unhoused neighbors. Extending the collaboration and contributions of the project throughout the Tenderloin community, Mattie Loyce hosted workshops at the nine DISH sites and throughout the Tenderloin with Hospitality House, The Healing Well, The Tenderloin Museum, Skywatchers, Faithful Fools, and CounterPulse. With support from Mary Hogue of Mission Praxis, the quilt squares will be joined into a series of large-scale community quilts and exhibited for the first time at Root Division this November.
ALONGSIDE THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMMING:
Wednesday, October 25, 6-7:30 pm: What Does it Mean to Create Home? – panel discussion hosted by Mattie Loyce at San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Branch (free and open to the public)
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 6-8 pm: Radical Histories of Housing and Community Care – panel discussion hosted by Mattie Loyce at San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Branch (free and open to the public)
Thursday, November 9, 2023 3-5pm: Public community reception for resident artists, Root Division (free and open to the public).
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

DALY CITY–Taste of the Top of the Hill
2023-11-15 | Daly City Library, John Daly Library, 134 Hillside Blvd, Daly City, CA, 94063, United States
DALY CITY– This fall, the Daly City Library launches Taste of the Top of the Hill, a community culinary gathering. Taste of the Top of the Hill will bring together Daly City’s diverse restaurants for food-tasting events that illuminate the immigrant experience – through food! The in-library food tours will consist of tabling events inside the John Daly Library; patrons will browse the tables, taste the food and learn how foods reflect the diversity of Daly City’s immigrant communities. They will, for example, taste and learn about delicious Peruvian empanadas and savory Cantonese egg rolls from the restauranteurs! These foods will serve as a bridge to and between cultures in our city. And we’ve provided maps of our community to guide patrons in their own explorations.
Taste of the Top of the Hill
Wednesday, October 11 5pm – 6pm
Wednesday, November 15 5pm – 6pm
All events take place at John Daly Library, 134 Hillside Blvd., Daly City, CA 94063
For more information, contact Michael Whitley, 650-991-8073
Photo by Patryk Pastewski on Unsplash
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

SAN LEANDRO–Teen Storytellers Take the Stage
2023-11-18 | San Leandro Public Library Main Branch, San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Avenue, San Leandro, CA, 94577
San Leandro–Join the San Leandro Public Library to hear true stories, told live by a group of teens who have spent the last two months studying with Alma Jurado.
For more information, contact Portia Carrier at PCarryer@sanleandro.org.
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

ESCONDIDO–Cultural Fair Series
2023-11-18 | Escondido Public Library, 239 S Kalmia St., Escondido, 92025
SAN DIEGO– Escondido Public Library Cultural Fair Series
Afghan Culture and Art: Saturday, November 18, 2:00 – 4:30 pm.
Program Schedule
2:00–2:15 p.m. Live Music and song: Niam Hakimi
2:10–2:15 p.m. Afghanistan Anthem
2:15–2:30 p.m. Afghanistan introduction: geography, history, culture, and customs, and Art by Marwa Saydee
2:30–2:40 p.m. Live Music and song: Niam Hakimi
2:40–3:10 p.m. Successful Afghans in the US, Wazme Taheri and Mumtaz Momand
3:10–3:20 p.m. Live Music and song: Niam Hakimi
3:20–3:50 p.m. Afghan women’s clothes from different regions of the country including Q&A presented by Marva Saydee
3:50–4:00 p.m. Live Music and song: Niam Hakimi and Attan Afghan traditional dance
4:00–4:30 p.m. Art Workshop and refreshments
Successful Afghans in the U.S.
Wazma Taheri and Mumtaz Momand are two successful Afghan in the U.S. who share their experiences with the audiences
Wazma Taheri has been an oral surgeon assistant form 2014. She is a humanitarian who works with the American Red Cross Blood leader, Afghan Refugees Relief, and Sabil USA organizations to support Afghan refugees and vulnerable people. A social media digital contact creator and YouTuber who is creating content to support and introduce the Afghan people and their culture and art.
Mumtaz Momand is the founder and executive director of the San Diego Afghan Connections and Culture Center (SDAC). He worked as a community liaison, interpreter in five languages, legal advisor with the US Army Marines, crisis counselor for the San Diego Refugee Communities Coalition (SDRCC), community organizer for Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), and other organizations gave him enough experience to support and serve the Afghan refugees and community in San Diego.
All the programs will be held in the Turrentine Room at Escondido Public Library.
For more information, contact Project Director Azar Katouzian at Azar.Katouzian@escondidolibrary.org.
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

CALEXICO–Closing Events: Land of Milk & Honey
2023-12-02 12:00 - 20:00
SAN FRANCISCO—Please join the Land of Milk & Honey curatorial team at the Steppling Art Gallery (Calexico) for these closing events. Curators will be available to answer questions and discuss projects pertaining to the exhibition. This casual event is free and open to the public.
Land of Milk & Honey celebrates the cultural significance of agriculture and foodways in the shared regions of California and Mexico. Iterations of this program have occurred at SEVEN arts and culture venues and included over SIXTY artists and collaborators. Closing events will take place on December 1 & 2, 2023 and include a pop-up dinner event, a curator Meet and Greet, and an exploration into Japanese diaspora with artist Shinpei Takeda. The events will end with a celebratory toast and cake. See below for events info.
noon-2 pmCurator/Artist Meet and GreetSteppling Art Gallery, San Diego State University Imperial Valley Campus720 Heber Ave Calexico, CA 92231
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5 pmArtist Discussion – Virtual Space for Collective Memorycasa la linea – arte contemporaneo947 E 1st St, Calexico, CA 92231As a part of Shinpei Takeda’s “Float for Reclamation (Limit of your Safe Space II)” the artist and participating collaborators will meeting in a Virtual Space they made together to discuss their project exploring collective memory of Japanese Diaspora on the both sides of the border. It will be real-time broadcasted onsite and will be broadcast virtually. casa la linea – arte contemporaneo is an independent art space located directly adjacent to the border fence.
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6 pmClosing Celebration
We invite you to stay at casa la linea – arte contemporaneo after the artist discussion for a celebratory toast. MexiCali Biennial project manager, researcher and Land of Milk & Honey co-curator April Lillard-Gomez will be serving cake to celebrate a successful run. Lillard-Gomez is a classically trained chef who conceived of Land of Milk & Honey as a way to honor the memory of loved ones from her home state of Oklahoma, the Dust Bowl refugees that migrated to the region, and the numerous peoples who have left a cultural blueprint in the area. As a mother of a recently diagnosed child with celiac disease, she is now a dedicated gluten free baker – continuing the cultural, social and biological impacts of foodways within her research. To learn more about celiac disease, please visit the Celiac Disease Foundation at celiac.org.
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This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.
