A sample of California Humanities hosted and co-sponsored lecture series, panel discussions, and interviews with authors, thinkers and educators. Also included here are documentary film trailers from California Humanities-supported projects and California Humanities grantees’ events.
Photo Credit: Chante, Home Away From Home EUREKA– Learn the stories of college students and their resilience as they experienced homelessness while attending Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods in this exhibit opening in Eureka, California on September 1, 2018 6-9pm. Photos and narrative stories will be shared during …
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SANTA CRUZ–Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a collaborative workshop connecting local educators with tribal leaders and scholars. Chairman Valentine Lopez, and Sara French, the Director of Programs and Development of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, will share the history and culture of local native tribes and …
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Artist and educator Marc Bamuthi Joseph of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, led a conversation at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
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Noted director and playwright Luis Valdez, founder of El Teatro Campesino led a conversation the farmworker movement of the past.
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Two of America’s most talented historians, Alan Taylor and Elizabeth “Lil” Fenn join in conversation about the relevance of history and humanities.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bettina Boxall joins Felicia Marcus, Chair of California’s State Water Resources Control Board on to how to manage a future in which water is going to become all the more precious.
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning is a film about the life, loves and work of photographer, Dorothea Lange, known for her famous image “The Migrant Mother”.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold, discusses the future of food in this land and includes both plenty and need author and peach grower Mas Masumoto.
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NOW EN ESPAÑOL tells the story of five Latina actresses in Los Angeles who dub “Desperate Housewives” for Spanish language audiences in the US.
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THE LAST SEASON, directed by Sara Dosa, is a meditative look at the legacy of war. While in search of the wild and valuable matsutake mushroom, the lives of two former soldiers intersect.
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California Humanities A State of Open Mind
