Events
Week of Events
Pamela Z – Seminar in Composition
Pamela Z – Seminar in Composition
Please join us on Monday, January 24, at 4:00 PM, for our keynote event in Pamela Z's 2022 UC Santa Cruz residency, jointly funded by the University Library, the Humanities Institute, and the Institute for Arts and Sciences’ Surge: Afrofuturism Festival. Pamela Z's residency begins with her January 24 seminar on composition, and culminates with […]
Xavier Livermon – Safe Houses? Queerness, Performance, and the Land Question in South Africa
Xavier Livermon – Safe Houses? Queerness, Performance, and the Land Question in South Africa
During the height of COVID restrictions in 2020, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B. They intended to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa, and the […]
Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
After a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong […]
The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery brings you a remarkable collection of Sikh art from Narinder S. and Satinder K. Kapany. Narinder S. Kapany established an endowed chair in entrepreneurship, the Narinder Kapany Professorship in Entrepreneurship, based initially at UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering in support of the school's leadership in the establishment of a comprehensive […]