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SUMMARY:Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Santa Cruz County’s creative community during arts and culture month in California! The arts community of Santa Cruz County is coming together for this exciting new 11-day celebration showcasing the region’s rich artistic landscape. \nThe festival will feature performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, and interactive events across venues countywide\, inviting audiences of all ages to experience the transformative power of art. \nKnown for our stunning coastline and redwood forests throughout Santa Cruz County\, the Ripple Effect Arts Festival invites visitors to also discover the talent and creativity of our local artists\, as well as the hospitality that make this region a world-class destination. \nThe Ripple Effect Arts Festival was born out of a shared belief that the arts not only enrich our lives but also strengthen our community and economy. At a time when many artists and organizations face mounting challenges\, Ripple Effect provides a new opportunity for collaboration\, visibility\, and collective support. Grassroots and volunteer-driven\, the festival is powered by the dedication of local arts organizations and community partners who believe in the unifying force of creativity. \nMore info and detailed schedule at: https://www.rippleartsfestsantacruz.org/ \n\nThe Ripple Effect Arts Festival is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ripple-effect-arts-festival-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz County\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Omar Zahzah - Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Omar Zahzah- Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance. \nIn this talk\, Omar Zahzah will elaborate upon the concept of digital settler colonialism\, which captures how the internet is weaponized to fortify Israeli settler colonialism—often with the complicity of US Big Tech companies. Building off of his newly published book Terms of Servitude: Zionism\, Silicon Valley\, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle (Censored Press/Seven Stories Press\, 2025)\, the presentation will also describe the contingent role that digital technologies have played in advancing the Palestinian struggle\, and how Palestinians and their allies continue to resist censorship and repression in spite of an increasingly hostile digital status quo.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omar-zahzah-virtual-palestine-digital-settler-colonialism-and-palestinian-resistance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nJoe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist \nJoe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy — examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects — while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the Philippines as a youth and enlisting in the U.S. Marines Corps after high school — serving two combat deployments to Iraq in support of the Second Gulf War/GWOT — deVera’s works are also autobiographical observations of power structures and the machines of empire. He joined the Sam Fox School from Wake Forest University. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from California State University\, Fullerton\, and his Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from Yale University. \nJosen Masangkay Diaz (she/they) writes and teaches about race\, gender\, colonialism\, and authoritarianism. Her book\, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship\, the Racial Cold War\, and Filipino America (Duke University Press\, 2023)\, analyzes the formation of Filipino American subjectivity through a study of U.S.-Philippine cold war politics. Her writing appears in American Quarterly\, Social Text\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, Signs\, and elsewhere. She serves as section editor for Lateral\, editorial board member for the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, and Feminist Pedagogy Journal. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California\, San Diego and was previously faculty at the University of San Diego and fellow with the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-joe-de-vera-and-josen-diaz/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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