LOS ANGELES–Girls' Voices Now Premiere Screening
2023-11-07 18:45 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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.

CALEXICO–Closing Events: Land of Milk & Honey
2023-12-02 12:00 - 20:00 | C
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.

JURUPA VALLEY–My Life, My Struggle, My Victory/Mi Vida, Mi Lucha, Mi Victoria
2023-12-06 | Glen Avon Regional Library, 9244 Galena Street, Jurupa Valley, CA, 92509, United States
JURUPA VALLEY–Attend the première of the independently produced film, “My Life, My Struggle, My Victory/Mi Vida, Mi Lucha, Mi Victoria”, a documentary about the varied immigrant experiences that formed the foundation of Jurupa Valley. African, European, Asian, and Hispanic families have built this community in unique ways. Through the shared experiences of our neighbors we learn that differences in age, culture, religion and ethnicity are not as great as our common challenges, hopes, goals and experiences.
In English and Spanish with subtitles. No RSVP is required and entry is open to all at no charge.
My Life, My Struggle, My Victory/Mi Vida, Mi Lucha, Mi Victoria
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, 6:00pm-7:00pm @ Glen Avon Regional Library
9244 Galena Street, Jurupa Valley, CA 92509
Thursday, December 7th, 2023, 6:00pm-7:00pm @ Louis Robidoux Library
5840 Mission Blvd, Jurupa Valley, CA 92509
For more information, contact Michael Jacome, Branch Manager, Glen Avon Regional Library, Friends of the Jurupa Libraries (Glen Avon Chapter), 951-685-8121, michael.jacome@rivlib.net
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

MALIBU–Preserving the History of South Los Angeles
2023-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Payson Library, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, 90263, United States
MALIBU—With support from California Humanities, Pepperdine Libraries’ Preserving the History of South Los Angeles initiative has recorded oral history interviews as part of the broader effort to preserve the voices and lived experiences of members of the African American community in South Los Angeles. We spoke to elders in the community who come from a faith background, especially one rooted in the Church of Christ tradition, and who have uplifted their community through their work. Most of their interview participants also have a connection to Pepperdine or its former campus, which was in South Los Angeles from 1937-1981. Please join a community lunch and discussion with interviewees to celebrate the launch of an official website for this project.
Where: Payson Library | Surfboard Room | 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90263
When: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 12-1 pm
FREE, register on this page.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

EXHIBIT— Imperial Geographies: How Border Policy, Pollution, and Labor Create the Modern Salton Sea and Imperial Valley
2023-12-08 - 2023-12-14 | Union Center for the Arts
EXHIBIT—Imperial Geographies: How Border Policy, Pollution, and Labor Create the Modern Salton Sea and Imperial Valley examines the hidden inequities and environmental justice issues that disproportionately affect residents of the Imperial and Mexicali Valley regions. It highlights the work of local residents, and asks citizens across the U.S. to take responsibility for human and ecological rights in the region. A series of paintings, photographs, writing, and video interviews with residents, workers, and activists bring the human stories behind environmental justice issues to life.
Exhibition
Start: 12/8/2023 Open Thursday – Sunday 12 noon – 4 pm and by appointment
End: 12/14/2023
Opening Reception
12/9/2023 6 – 8 pm
Artist Talk and Community Discussion
12/10/2023 2 – 4 pm
LA Artcore @ Union Center for the Arts
120 Judge John Aiso Street
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Free: no reservations necessary.
For more information, go to savethesaltonsea.com or contact Carly Creley at carlycreley@gmail.com.
Image: Union Center for the Arts by Downtown LA.
This project is supported with a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

PBS Premiere–HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY
2023-12-11 | PBS Station
PBS Premiere–Tune into broadcast premiere of HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY, directed by Leslie Tai. The film will air as part of PBS’ Season 36 of POV.
HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the booming shadow economy catering to pregnant Chinese tourists who travel to Southern California on “birthing vacations”—in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for their babies. Told through a series of intimately observed storylines and situations, we meet expectant mothers, maternity hotel operators and operator wannabes, local doctors and civic officials, birth tourism agents in China, and the nannies, cooks, and chauffeurs that fuel this industry. Inside bedrooms, delivery rooms, and private family meetings, the story of a hidden global economy emerges—depicting the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in the web of its influence.
HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY, Directed by Leslie Tai
PBS PREMIERE (120 minutes)
Monday, December 11, 2023 (check your local listings for times)

Learn more about the film on the PBS website.
This project is supported by a California Documentary Project Grant.

HEALDSBURG–Healdsburg Library Posada
2023-12-16 11:30 - 14:00 | Sonoma County History Wine Library, 139 Piper St, Healdsburg, CA 95448
HEALDSBURG–Enjoy tamales, horchata, and holiday treats, while joining us to learn about our new immigrant oral history project and how you can record your family history using the library’s Playback Memory Lab. Take a family photo at our photo booth and decorate a photo frame to take home. Children can enjoy the Spanish Music & Movement storytime at 11:30am, and Sabor de mi Cuba will perform music for all ages from 1-2pm.
• Spanish Music & Movement at 11:30am
• Tamale lunch at Noon
• Sabor de mi Cuba at 1pm

For more information, contact Megan Jones at mjones@sonomalibrary.org.
This project is supported by the Library Innovation Lab.

CALEXICO—Imperial Geographies
2024-01-23 - 2024-02-27 | Steppling Gallery at San Diego State University, 720 Heber Ave., Calexico, CA, 92231
CALEXICO—Imperial Geographies: How Border Policy, Pollution, and Labor Create the Modern Salton Sea and Imperial Valley examines the hidden inequities and environmental justice issues that disproportionately affect residents of the Imperial and Mexicali Valley regions. It highlights the work of local residents, and asks citizens across the U.S. to take responsibility for human and ecological rights in the region. A series of paintings, photographs, writing, and video interviews with residents, workers, and activists bring the human stories behind environmental justice issues to life.
Location:
Steppling Gallery at San Diego State University – Imperial Valley Campus
720 Heber Ave.
Calexico, CA 92231
Time:
Exhibition
Start: 1/1/2024 Tuesday/Thursday 9 am – 11:30 am and by appointment
End: 2/27/2024
Opening Reception
2/1/2024 5 – 8 pm
Artist Talk and Community Discussion
2/2/2024 9 – 11:30 am
For more information, go to https://carlycreley.com/about/exhibitions/.
This project is supported with a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SACRAMENTO–Exhibit: Take Me to the Water: Black Histories of the Pacific
2024-01-23 - 2024-03-16 | Sacramento Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
Caption: Black seamen onboard ship [073]. Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection, African American Museum and Library at Oakland.
SACRAMENTO—Visit the Central Library in Sacramento from January 23 to March 16 for Take Me to the Water, a multimedia exhibit curated by Dr. Caroline Collins that captures the historic panorama of the Black experience with the Pacific Ocean.
The exhibit seeks to recenter the relationship between African Americans, water, and ships, moving beyond the entrenched narrative of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and towards the understanding that Black people have not only existed in the Pacific region for centuries, but played an integral role in the development of Pacific economy and society.
The exhibit will be accompanied by the following series of free public programs:
February 8, 6:30 pm on Zoom: Join us as Dr. Caroline Collins has a Q&A about her exhibit Take Me to the Water: Black Histories of the Pacific with SPL archivist and historian James Scott. The talk will focus on the relationship between African Americans and the Pacific. This zoom-based program encourages audience participation.
Zoom Link
February 15, 7 pm on Zoom: Join Sacramento Public Library archivist James Scott and Marcquarie University (Sydney, Australia) Professor of History Chris Dixon as they discuss his recent book, “African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality and the Fight for Freedom,” (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This zoom-based program encourages audience participation.
Zoom Link
February 24, 1:00 pm at Central Library: Join us in the Sacramento Room at Central Library as Sacramento historian and Emmy-nomiated documentarian Chris Lango discusses a lesser known but vital chapter in the life of Sacramento attorney and civil rights champion Nathaniel S. Colley – his experience in the South Pacific during World War II and how it shaped the course of his life. Lango will use rarely seen archival materials, both in paper and audio-visual, in an effort to bring clarity to this defining period in the life and career of Mr. Colley.
March 16: 1:00 pm at Central Library: Born to a Danish-Jewish father and Afro Caribbean mother in the Virgin Islands at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, William Alexander Leidesdorff sailed both the Atlantic and Pacific, forged fresh trade routes, built influential relationships, and eventually settled in California where he became one of the nation’s first African American millionaires. American River College professor of humanities Michael Harlan shares his research on this figure who – transitioning from mariner to landholder – became one of the most influential figures in the early development of California.
Tickets: Facilitated by the Sacramento Room, the exhibit and all accompanying programs are free and no registration is required. For questions or comments about the series, please contact archivist James Scott at jscott@saclibrary.org or 916-264-2795.
Take Me to the Water is toured by Exhibit Envoy, and supported by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Exhibit Runs: January 23, 2023 – March 16, 2024
Learn more at on the library’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

LOS ANGELES—The St. Clair Bourne Community Documentary Screening
2024-01-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, 4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, 90008, United States
LOS ANGELES—The St. Clair Bourne 4th Tuesdays Community Screening series is a free community monthly documentary film and discussion series, named in honor of the founder of our organization, the late award-winning documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne. The St. Clair Bourne 4th Monday Community Screening series serves our mission of advocating and exhibiting high quality films to the African-American community.
See a screening of THE ONE AND ONLY DICK GREGORY directed by Andre Gaines, a feature-length documentary examining activist, pop-culture icon and thought leader Dick Gregory, whose work as a self-described ‘agitator’ shaped a generation demanding justice. As a renowned Black comedian, Gregory had a platform to take on the most incendiary battles of hunger, gender equity, and civil rights—stirring trouble and making headlines in the service of social justice. Featuring Gregory’s personal reflections, archival footage and interviews with the artists he influenced—including Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes.
The event is free.
Please RSVP at badwestla3@gmail.com
Location:
Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center
4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Time:
7-9 pm
*Street parking available, one block away from the Leimert Park Metro Station on the K Line.
For more information, go to www.badwest.org.
This project is supported with a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

PASADENA—Culinary Connections: Hamburger Fry
2024-01-25 19:00 - 20:00 | The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105, United States
PASADENA—Join LAist for an old-school Hamburger Fry! LAist associate editor of food and culture Gab Chabrán (he/him) fondly recalls attending these community-style events as a kid and now we’re inviting you to ours, featuring some of our favorite burger makers from around L.A. Gab and How To LA’s Brian De Los Santos (he/him) will talk with Alicia Lopez (she/her) and Cecilia Ledezma (she/her) of Hangaburs, Jimmy Han (he/him) of Love Hour, and Jairo Bogarin (he/him) of Hamburgers Nice about their passion for smashed patties, burger history, and more! And it’s the 100th anniversary of the creation of the cheeseburger. Legend has it that in 1924, at the Rite Spot restaurant in Pasadena, this iconic meeting of cheese and beef was invented.
When: Thursday, January 25, 2024 | 7 pm-8 pm

Where: The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena

Tickets: This event is free and open to the public under our “pay what you choose” model. $0-$20

Tickets are available on the event website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

SAN FRANCISCO—Crip'd Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments
2024-02-01 14:00 - 2024-03-10 18:00 | Root Division, 1131 Mission Stret, San Francisco, 94103, United States
SAN FRANCISCO—Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments, co-curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber, will be presented at Root Division in February-March 2024, with an Opening Reception on February 10, 2024.
The exhibition features Disabled* artists addressing ecosystems that are personal, shared, imagined, and invites artists across disabilities to consider the following curatorial question: How can we bring dynamic Crip strategies into landscapes, ecosystems, and bodies impacted by climate change to support practices of becoming, grief, and abundance instead of scarcity?
Exhibit Run: February 1-March 10, 2024

Gallery Hours: 2-6 pm Wednesday-Saturday and by appointment
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 10 | 6 pm-8 pm
Featuring a Reading by Sunaura Taylor and Performance by Beast Nest

Where: Root Division | 1131 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
For more information, contact moira williams and Jeremiah Barber at cripdecologies@gmail.com
*Disabled includes but is not limited to; Blind, Low Sighted, d/DEAF, HOH, ILL, Chronically ILL, MAD, FAT, Neurodivergent.
Access Notes:
Free and open to the public. Masks are require and provided. No step at entrance, variety of seating, ADA accessible bathroom, ADA accessible artworks, wayfinding floor grip tape, free water, image descriptions, tactile stim chill tent with low lighting, ear plugs, multiple kinds of seating, all events are alcohol-free. Please arrive scent free – thanks!
Any further access needs or questions, please get in touch with us at cripdecologies@gmail.com or click HERE.
Directions and Parking
Close to Civic Center BART Stop and 14 Mission Bus Stop. Public transit is recommended.
Close to US-101 Northbound Mission Street Exit, I-80 Eastbound 7th St Exit, I-80 Westbound 5th St Exit. Neighborhood metered street parking.

Tickets: This event is free and open to the public

Visit the exhibit website for more information.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

COSTA MESA—The Splendid Table Live with Francis Lam
2024-02-04 14:00 | South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626, United States
COSTA MESA—Join a special live taping of The Splendid Table, a weekly audio companion celebrating the intersection of food and life. For this live experience, host Francis Lam (he/him) will dig into Orange County’s rich culinary scene, offering delicious bites of wisdom from some of the area’s most beloved culinary artisans.
He’ll be joined onstage by Daniel Castillo of Heritage Barbecue, Kenneth Nguyen, host of The Vietnamese podcast, Patricia Huang, general manager of the wildly popular 626 Night Market, and Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times columnist and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. And of course we’ll have something delicious for everyone to taste!
When: Sunday, February 4, 2024 2 pm – 3:30 pm

Where: South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa

Tickets: $35-$45

Purchase tickets on the event website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

LOS ANGELES–HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY screening
2024-02-08 18:00 - 20:35 | James Bridges Theater, UCLA, 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
LOS ANGELES—Please join us for the LOS ANGELES PREMIERE of HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY on February 8 at 6 pm at UCLA. Los Angeles County is the place where most of the film’s mystery unfolds, home of the very special “ethnoburbs” of San Gabriel Valley. “A good documentary scratches your soul,” said the late Marina Goldovskaya, my legendary UCLA film professor.
Asian American Panorama| USA | Documentary | Mandarin, English | Subtitled | 2023 | 117 mins
Where: James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles
When: Thursday, February 8, 2023 | 6-8:35 pm
Tickets: Free
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.
Screening to be followed by Q&A with Leslie Tai.
This project is supported by a California Documentary Project Grant.

VIRTUAL–Program: Take Me to the Water: Black Histories of the Pacific
2024-02-08 18:30 - 19:30, 2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom, CA, United States

SAN FRANCISCO—Exhibit: Crip'd Ecologies Opening Reception
2024-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Root Division, 1131 Mission Stret, San Francisco, 94103, United States
SAN FRANCISCO—Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments, co-curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber, will be presented at Root Division in February-March 2024, with an Opening Reception on February 10, 2024.
The exhibition features Disabled* artists addressing ecosystems that are personal, shared, imagined, and invites artists across disabilities to consider the following curatorial question: How can we bring dynamic Crip strategies into landscapes, ecosystems, and bodies impacted by climate change to support practices of becoming, grief, and abundance instead of scarcity?
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 10 | 6 pm-8 pm
Featuring a Reading by Sunaura Taylor and Performance by Beast Nest
Exhibit Run: February 1-March 10, 2024
Gallery Hours: 2-6 pm Wednesday-Saturday and by appointment

Where: Root Division | 1131 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
For more information, contact moira williams and Jeremiah Barber at cripdecologies@gmail.com
*Disabled includes but is not limited to; Blind, Low Sighted, d/DEAF, HOH, ILL, Chronically ILL, MAD, FAT, Neurodivergent.
Access Notes:
Free and open to the public. Masks are require and provided. No step at entrance, variety of seating, ADA accessible bathroom, ADA accessible artworks, wayfinding floor grip tape, free water, image descriptions, tactile stim chill tent with low lighting, ear plugs, multiple kinds of seating, all events are alcohol-free. Please arrive scent free – thanks!
Any further access needs or questions, please get in touch with us at cripdecologies@gmail.com or click HERE.
Directions and Parking
Close to Civic Center BART Stop and 14 Mission Bus Stop. Public transit is recommended.
Close to US-101 Northbound Mission Street Exit, I-80 Eastbound 7th St Exit, I-80 Westbound 5th St Exit. Neighborhood metered street parking.

Tickets: This event is free and open to the public

Visit the exhibit website for more information.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

PASADENA–Proud Stutter
2024-02-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Octavia’s Bookshelf, 1365 North Hill Avenue, Pasadena, 91104, United States
PASADENA—Proud Stutter is partnering with Design Matters and Sappi Ideas That Matter for a special event in Pasadena, California.
Join the stuttering community and allies for a special evening featuring a reading from the authors of Proud Stutter’s new comic book, Life of Verbal Turbulence, and special guest speakers from the Los Angeles stuttering community.
RSVP at designmatters@artcenter.edu
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf | 1365 North Hill Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91104
When: Monday, February 12, 2023 | 6-7:30 pm
Tickets: Free
*Comic books will be available with a suggested donation of $30 to Proud Stutter. All proceeds will go to the production of Proud Stutter’s documentary on Californians Who Stutter.
Find out more about this event here.
This project is supported by a California Documentary Project Grant.

FRESNO—Educational Conference: Raising the Mong Mountain
2024-02-24 08:30 - 16:00 | California State University, Fresno, 5241 N Maple Ave, Fresno, CA, 93740
FRESNO—Mong Heritage will hold an educational conference to learn more about Mong culture and history through ancient writings and literatures; genealogy and DNA analysis; and oral history through cultural practices and customs. Come and join the gathering to learn the importance of raising the Mong mountain.
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ntawv cimtxaim & puavpheej, DNA xeebcim roj-ntshaa, thiab tej laus neeg tau thaam qha tseg nyob rua huv cov kablig kevcai.
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Location:
California State University, Fresno | Satellite Student Union | 2485 E. San Ramon Ave., Fresno, CA 93740
Time:
Saturday, February 24, 2024 | 8:30 am to 4 pm
Doors open at 8:00 am and a light lunch will be provided.
For more information, visit www.mongheritage.org.
If anyone need special accommodation, please contact us at least 10 days in advance.
This project is supported with a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SACRAMENTO–Program: Take Me to the Water: Black Histories of the Pacific
2024-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Sacramento Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
Caption: Black seamen onboard ship [073]. Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection, African American Museum and Library at Oakland.
SACRAMENTO—Visit the Central Library in Sacramento from January 23 to March 16 for Take Me to the Water, a multimedia exhibit curated by Dr. Caroline Collins that captures the historic panorama of the Black experience with the Pacific Ocean.
The exhibit seeks to recenter the relationship between African Americans, water, and ships, moving beyond the entrenched narrative of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and towards the understanding that Black people have not only existed in the Pacific region for centuries, but played an integral role in the development of Pacific economy and society.
The exhibit will be accompanied by the following series of free public programs:
February 8, 6:30 pm on Zoom: Join us as Dr. Caroline Collins has a Q&A about her exhibit Take Me to the Water: Black Histories of the Pacific with SPL archivist and historian James Scott. The talk will focus on the relationship between African Americans and the Pacific. This zoom-based program encourages audience participation.
Zoom Link
February 15, 7 pm on Zoom: Join Sacramento Public Library archivist James Scott and Marcquarie University (Sydney, Australia) Professor of History Chris Dixon as they discuss his recent book, “African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality and the Fight for Freedom,” (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This zoom-based program encourages audience participation.
Zoom Link
February 24, 1:00 pm at Central Library: Join us in the Sacramento Room at Central Library as Sacramento historian and Emmy-nomiated documentarian Chris Lango discusses a lesser known but vital chapter in the life of Sacramento attorney and civil rights champion Nathaniel S. Colley – his experience in the South Pacific during World War II and how it shaped the course of his life. Lango will use rarely seen archival materials, both in paper and audio-visual, in an effort to bring clarity to this defining period in the life and career of Mr. Colley.
March 16: 1:00 pm at Central Library: Born to a Danish-Jewish father and Afro Caribbean mother in the Virgin Islands at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, William Alexander Leidesdorff sailed both the Atlantic and Pacific, forged fresh trade routes, built influential relationships, and eventually settled in California where he became one of the nation’s first African American millionaires. American River College professor of humanities Michael Harlan shares his research on this figure who – transitioning from mariner to landholder – became one of the most influential figures in the early development of California.
Tickets: Facilitated by the Sacramento Room, the exhibit and all accompanying programs are free and no registration is required. For questions or comments about the series, please contact archivist James Scott at jscott@saclibrary.org or 916-264-2795.
Take Me to the Water is toured by Exhibit Envoy, and supported by California Humanities and the Endowment for the Humanities.
Exhibit Runs: January 23, 2023 – March 16, 2024
Learn more at on the library’s website.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

LOS ANGELES—Screening of SILVER DOLLAR ROAD
2024-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, 4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, 90008, United States
LOS ANGELES—On Tuesday, February 27 at 7pm see a screening of Silver Dollar Road directed by Raoul Peck. Silver Dollar Road follows the story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought on generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.
About the series: The St. Clair Bourne 4th Tuesdays Community Screening series is a free community monthly documentary film and discussion series, named in honor of the founder of the organization, the late award-winning documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne. The St. Clair Bourne 4th Monday Community Screening series serves our mission of advocating and exhibiting high quality films to the African-American community.
The event is free. Please RSVP at badwestla3@gmail.com
Street parking available. Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center is one block away from the Leimert Park Metro Station on the K Line.
Location:
Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center
4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Time:
Tuesday, February 27
7:00-9:00 p.m. PT
With questions contact Tim Morganfield at (323) 350-1962. For more information, go to www.badwest.org
This project is supported with a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

LOS ANGELES—Exhibit: "Comfort Women" Then and Now
2024-02-29 - 2024-07-14 | Museum of Social Justice, 115 Paseo De La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Caption: Soon-duk Kim, Taken Away, 1995, courtesy of Comfort Women: Then and Now–Who They Were and Why We Should Remember Them.
LOS ANGELES—In collaboration with Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education (CARE), a California-based organization led by survivors of World War II-era institutionalized sex slavery and human trafficking, a new interpretive exhibit opening in February 2024 will bring to light the experiences of these abused women and girls and their struggle for justice. Using historical photographs, documents, maps, and storytelling, the exhibition will foster public understanding of how an event that happened more than 70 years ago is still relevant in the context of present-day human trafficking and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV), and how these women transformed from victims to activists.
Tens of thousands of women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese army between 1932 and 1945. Forced to work in “comfort stations” for twelve hours a day, the women lived under deplorable conditions, moving about as they followed the army, then abandoned when the war ended. CARE (Comfort Women Action for Redress & Education) continues to tell the story of these women, pushing for acknowledgment of these human rights abuses from the Japanese government.
Comfort Women: Then and Now—Who They Were and Why We Should Remember Them
Exhibit Run: February 29–July 14, 2024

Where: Museum of Social Justice | 115 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Tickets: Free admission
Visit the exhibit website for more information.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

MENDOCINO—Nathaniel Smith and the History of African Americans in California
2024-03-01 - 2024-05-27 | Kelley House Museum, 45007 Albion Street, Mendocino, 95460, United States
Caption: Nathaniel Smith, circa 1880-1900. Photograph courtesy of Open UCLA Collections
MENDOCINO—Nathaniel Smith arrived in Mendocino County in the 1850s and is believed to be the first African American to settle on the coast. His life story is revealed through photos, clippings, and artifacts in the Kelley House Museum’s newest exhibit. Smith was at one time “known to every man, woman and child on the coast.” He was known for his wit, good nature, and essential work as a hunter, fisherman, farmer, and ferry operator. When Smith arrived in Mendocino, California passed laws and instituted policies discriminating against African Americans and Native Americans. As his popularity in the region grew, he also endured the racism of some of his neighbors, including the frequent use of a derogatory nickname. Despite the challenges, Smith succeeded in many professions, owned a home and land, and raised a family. This exhibition presents details of Nathaniel Smith’s life set against the history of California’s treatment of people of color. Follow the path of Smith’s life as he moved from his hometown of Baltimore, traveled the world on a ship, and eventually settled and made his life in Mendocino County. We are grateful to guest curator Alexander Wood for his thorough research and to Arlene Zornes, Nathaniel Smith’s descendant, for all the information and assistance.
Exhibit Run: March 1–May 27, 2024

Where: Kelley House Museum | 45007 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
Tickets: $5 suggested donation

Visit the exhibit website for more information.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant.

SONOMA—Making Change and Ruffling Feathers Opening Reception
2024-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Sonoma Community Center, 276 East Napa Street, Sonoma, 95476, United States
SONOMA—Join the opening reception for Making Change and Ruffling Feathers-The extraordinary task of ordinary women at the Sonoma Community Center!

6 pm: Reception Gallery 212Making Change and Ruffling Feathers Opening Reception
Sonoma Woman’s Club History Panels created for the Sonoma Valley Historical Society, by Tom Whitworth. The panels tell the story of Making Change and Ruffling Feathers-The extraordinary task of ordinary women. The Woman’s Club purpose would be to improve sanitary conditions, parks and streets, and to promote the social and literary interests of the community. The panels tell the story of how the women accomplished their goals.

7 pm: Presentation

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb presented by Iris Jamahl Dunkle Iris will tell the story of the writer Sonara Babb, a dustbowl immigrant to California from Oklahoma who volunteered for the Farm Security Services that was started in 1937 to help with the poverty of farmers in rural land in the US. The presentation will explore Sanora’s career and now finally recognition for her book she wrote about the people and experiences of that difficult time in US history. A book she was unable to publish. Ironically she was working with the migrants and her own book while writing the reports that were supplied to John Steinbeck as he researched his book Grapes of Wrath.
Exhibit Run: March 1- March 20, 2024

Where: Sonoma Community Center | 276 E Napa Street, Sonoma, CA 95476

Tickets: Free admission

Author Bio

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an award-winning literary biographer, essayist, and poet. Her academic and creative work challenges the Western myth of progress by examining the devastating impact that agriculture and over-population have had, and continue to have, on the North American West. Taking an ecofeminist bent, her writing also challenges the American West’s male-oriented recorded history by researching the lives of women.

She obtained her MFA in poetry from New York University and her PhD in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University. Dunkle was the 2017-2018 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, CA. Her newest poetry collection West : Fire : Archive was published by Mountain/ West Poetry Series in March 2021. Her other poetry collections include Interrupted Geographies (Trio House Press, 2017) and Gold Passage Links (Trio House Press, 2013) and There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air (Word Tech, 2015). Her poem “Listening to the Caryatids on the Palace of Fine Arts” was featured on 100 buses as part of the San Francisco Beautiful and Poetry Society of America Muni Art 2020 campaign. Her works have been published in Tin House, San Francisco Examiner, Fence, Los Angeles Review of Books, Split Rock Review, Taos Poetry Journal, Pleiades, Calyx, Catamaran, Poet’s Market, Women’s Studies, and Chicago Quarterly Review.

Her biography Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer was published by the Oklahoma Press (2020 print edition 2023 audiobook edition). Her biography Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb will be published by the University of California Press, in fall 2024

Visit the exhibit website for more information.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.

LOS ANGELES—"Comfort Women" Then and Now: Opening Reception
2024-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Social Justice, 115 Paseo De La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
LOS ANGELES—Join the Museum of Social Justice for the opening of “Comfort Women” Then and Now.
Tens of thousands of women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese army between 1932 and 1945. Forced to work in “comfort stations” for twelve hours a day, the women lived under deplorable conditions, moving about as they followed the army, then abandoned when the war ended. CARE (Comfort Women Action for Redress & Education) continues to tell the story of these women, pushing for acknowledgment of these human rights abuses from the Japanese government.
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2 | 4 pm
Exhibit Run: February 29–July 14, 2024

Where: Museum of Social Justice | 115 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Tickets: Free with RSVP, donations welcome
Visit the exhibit website for more information.

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

LOS ANGELES–Reception: Welcome to the Covid Hotel
2024-03-09 | Los Angeles Poverty Department, 250 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Caption: Photos courtesy of Dr. Sudarsky.
LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is pleased to announce the opening of its new Skid Row History Museum & Archive exhibition, Welcome to the Covid Hotel.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County Health Department’s emergency Quarantine and Isolation sites for houseless Covid patients and people exposed to the virus in shelters.
Exhibit
March 9-December 14, 2024
Thursdays-Saturdays, 2-5pm
Public Reception
March 9, 2024 @ 4:00-7:00pm
S. Broadway, Los Angeles 90012
The opening event will feature a 15-minute preview of a work-in-progress theatrical performance by LAPD at 5 pm, as well as an opportunity to meet some of the frontline heroes who staffed the QI sites.
Panel Discussion
March 27 at 6:30pm
Panel with Adversity Generates Innovations, featuring Dr. Sudarsky with Marissa Axelrod, RN and AlternaGve Healing PracGGoner, who was one of the first staff at the original QI site; and Soma Snakeoil, Co-Founder and ExecuGve Director of The Sidewalk Project, which improvised responses to help people living on the streets during the pandemic; moderated by Clancey Cornell, a clinical social worker and member of LAPD’s archive staff whose interviews are featured in the exhibition.
For information, contact info@lapovertydept.org or visit the website.
Los Angeles Poverty Department is a multi-disciplinary arts organization that produces and presents artworks and events that instaniate the existence of the Skid Row community—affirming its assets, advocating for its rights, and supporting its aspirations.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.
