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"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

Cal Humanities

"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

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WEBINAR—Humanities for All Quick Grants

WEBINAR—California Humanities invites you to attend a free informational session about Humanities for All Quick Grants. Join us Wednesday, May 15 at 11 am PT on Zoom; to attend, register […]

Free

RIVERSIDE—HOLLYWOOD CHINESE Screening

UCR Arts 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA

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 […]

Free

LOS ANGELES—We Are Where We Eat: How Restaurants Make A Neighborhood

The Crawford 474 S. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

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 […]

Free – $20

SAN FRANCISCO—Potrero Hill Community Celebration

Potrero Stage 1695 18th Street, San Francisco

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), […]

Free

SAN PEDRO—Telling the Stories of Our Elders’ Service

Port of Los Angeles Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro

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 […]

Free

SAN DIEGO—Reading and Panel Discussion: Making Space, Taking Space

Point Loma Public Library 3701 Voltaire Street, San Diego, CA, United States

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 […]

Free

SAN FRANCISCO—HOME IS A HOTEL Screening

Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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 […]

Free

SANTA CRUZ—Night at the Museum

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

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 […]

Free
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