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SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Día de los Muertos community celebration of traditional music\, dance\, and art at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.\nEnjoy live performances by Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile and Ensamble Musical de Senderos. Stroll through the museum in a self-guided presentation of community altars. \nPerformances all day! \nThis event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in collaboration with Senderos\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. For more details\, please visit the event page on the MAH’s website here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Princes of Surf 2025: Heʻe Nalu Santa Cruz Exhibit Opening
DESCRIPTION:The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Princes of Surf 2025: Heʻe nalu Santa Cruz\, an exhibition that spotlights how three Hawaiian princes—David Kawananakoa\, Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole\, and Edward Keliiahonui— introduced surfing to the U.S. mainland via Santa Cruz in 1885 and rode the wave of legacy and relevance to Santa Cruz County. \nThis exhibition will run from July 18\, 2025 – January 4\, 2026. \nSanta Cruz is the birthplace of surfing in North America\, and the original “Surf City.” Although historical evidence clearly documents its 1885 arrival and local adoption by 1896\, confusion about its origin remains. Its pioneers were Polynesian\, in contrast to the stereotype (reinforced by movies and TV) that it is a predominantly white male sport\, and despite the fact that many BIPOC individuals take part. Furthermore\, the tale of Antoinette Swan—who was also a surfer underscores the fact that women are an important part of surfing’s origins. \nMore information at: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/hee-nalu-ma-2025
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/princes-of-surf-2025-he%ca%bbe-nalu-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Amending Worlds\, a panel discussion about speculative fiction and a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The panel will feature Micah Perks (UC Santa Cruz)\, Cathy Thomas (UCSB)\, and Kim Tallbear (University of Alberta)\, moderated by Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz). \nThis year\, THI is marking our 25th anniversary. The celebration will culminate with Night at the Museum\, an event which welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free. \n \nDoors and exhibits open at 6pm\, event program will begin at 7pm. \nAMENDING WORLDS EXHIBITION RUNS JUNE 5-15\, 2025 – CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS.\nAmending Worlds includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UCSC\, where she has taught since 1991. She is the author of Father Figures; Popular Culture: An Introduction; and Queer/Early/Modern. She has co-edited collections on Premodern Sexualities;  Species\, Race and Sex; and Animal Studies. She publishes in early modern literature\, queer and feminist theory\, and animal studies. \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her most recent novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publishers Book Award and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor at UCSC in the Literature Department and has taught Women and the Apocalypse and US Feminist Utopias. \nKim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience\, and Society\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions\, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast and a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples\, science\, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter\, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs\, cultural politics & (de)colonization. \nCathy Thomas is a writer\, filmmaker\, and creative critical scholar whose work on the ‘Black Fantastic’ and decolonial feminist thought is enriched by discovering modes of play and resistance in comic books\, literature\, through cosplay\, while wining up at Caribbean Carnival. As she approaches tenure\, she is juggling 3 novels\, 2 comic books\, 1 trade book collaboration\, 1 scholarly monograph\, and 1 experimental textile+digital+sound art installation for a 2028 museum exhibition\, all in various states of completion\, delay\, ecstasy\, and exhaustion. She is an Asst Prof of English at UCSB and the Director of the UCSB Creative Critical Writing Initiative. \n\nThe Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nThe Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures prize was established by THI’s Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future project and is made possible by alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77\, Philosophy\, and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee). \nThe exhibition opens on June 5th\, 2025 and runs until June 15th\, 2025. The exhibition launches in conjunction with The Humanities Institute’s Night at the Museum event\, which will also feature a panel discussion about speculative fiction to engage scholars\, practitioners and publics in creative speculation with and about the works. \nExhibition Projects: \nShades of Fake Green Grass\, Hannah Barrett \nShades of Fake Green Grass is a collection of short stories that focus on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people\, and their ordinary problems\, through a technologically dystopian lens. \nHannah Barrett is a writer with a current focus on science fiction. She aims to compel readers toward internal dialogues that teach us how to better engage with the world. \na portal\, Yasmine Benabdallah \na portal includes a video installation and a micro-chapbook\, part of a project linking Brazil\, Morocco\, and Portugal through a shared history of colonization\, enslavement\, and a forced exodus across the Atlantic. a portal explores memory\, archives\, and non-linear time\, and foregrounds our bodies’ resonances through time and space\, calling on them to erode\, wash over\, and imagine liberatory futures. \nYasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory\, performance\, diaspora\, archives\, rituals\, and time travel. \nWhispers of Wear\, Kristine Buriel \nThe Selveger Collective gets its name from a portmanteau of “selvage”- a stitched edge that prevents a fabric from unraveling and “salvager”- those who prevent something from being lost. Walk into the archives and don the clothes of wearers’ past and hear the stories weaved into the threads. Scan to gain insight from those whose hands touched the cloth. \nKristine Buriel is an interdisciplinary artist focused on making and craft. She uses technology to preserve the process and human story so that it can be shared and not forgotten. \nNight Lights for Squid\, Chaelim Lim \nSquid are said to be attracted to light. Powerful lights are used during the night for squid fishing. However\, scientists aren’t able to explain why some squid hide away from the lights\, under the shadows of the vessel. Are the lights overwhelming for squid individuals? What if squid could create their own night lights? What stories would these lights tell? \nChaelim Lim is an artist based in Seoul who researches disaster investigation in a fictional manner. She explores architecture that amplifies the gestures of more-than-human beings in disaster discourse. \nA Martian Manifesto\, Jorge Antonio Palacios \nA Martian Manifesto is a text and series of installations experimenting with craft and new media to create outdoor social sculptures. Through re-enacting speculative practices of the deep future and on Mars\, this process-oriented work is metabolized into a manifesto of science fiction\, gesturing towards alternative ways of being with each other\, technology\, and the world. \nJorge Antonio Palacios is an artist from Yanawana/San Antonio\, Texas. They use foraging\, digital media\, writing\, and installation as methodologies for investigating relationships between land\, technology\, displacement\, and decolonization. \nThe Third Person\, Rowan Powell \nThe Third Person\, taken from the writing of the Diggers in 1649\, refers to someone who relates to land without private ownership. Drawing on this idea\, the work stages a hypothetical conversation between ‘ravers’ and ‘ranters\,’ old and new. Through exchanges of soil\, wood\, linen\, repurposed texts and symbols\, the installation journeys through political romanticism– hope and dissolution expressed through squatting\, trespassing\, free parties and intentional communities. \nRowan Powell is a writer and researcher currently working with trees\, chickens\, film\, and dancing. Their research draws on place(s)\, tracing attempts at reaching to what is buried. \nolam ha-ba (the world to come)\, Tyler Rai \nThis project is a growing conversation between Palestinian and Lebanese heirloom seeds\, the soils of coastal California\, and communities of seed savers. Through these seeds in exile\, the project explores how heirloom seeds encompass entire cosmologies and ancestral technologies for resistance\, hope\, and birthing the world to come. \nTyler Rai is a transdisciplinary artist whose work investigates cultural inheritance\, ecological entanglements and solidarity work as a form of ancestral memory. She collaborates with seeds\, stones\, bodies\, and soils. \nSea of Paint\, Hongwei Zhou \nSea of Paint is a narrative-driven video game that explores the issues around contemporary machine learning-based AI technology. The player engages in dialogue with a “spirit” conjured from the Sea — an ever-recording flow of data. The game asks how our ideas of memory\, labor and care are brought into tension with the prevalence of data-driven AI. \nHongwei Zhou is a video game educator and researcher. He is interested in thinking about the entanglement of game systems and technoculture. \nSupport Team: \nMatt Polzin\nGSR for the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nMatt Polzin is a fiction writer and researcher whose work focuses on queer utopia\, interspecies relationships\, and the Midwest. \nValerie Sainz\n2024-25 Humanities EXPLORE Fellow\, The Coha-Gunderson Exhibition and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\nValerie Sainz is a History and History of Art & Visual Culture major (Museums\, Heritage\, and Curation concentration). \nCarla Freccero\nPI\, The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures; Coordinator\, The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature & History of Consciousness\, UCSC. \n– Special thanks – \n\nPeter Coha (Kresge College ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson College ’77\, Philosophy and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee)\nMatt Polzin\, Graduate Student Researcher\nValerie Sainz\, EXPLORE Fellow\nThe Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Marla Novo\, Deputy Director; Natalie Jenkins\, Exhibitions Manager; Shanti Nagwani\, preparator)\nThe Humanities Institute (Pranav Anand\, Faculty Director; Irena Polic\, Managing Director; Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs & Communications Director; Jessica Guild\, Event and Operations Manager)\nUCSC Faculty Guests: Micah Perks (Literature); Alison Laurie Palmer (Art); Claudio Bueno (Art); Soraya Murray (History of Art & Visual Culture); Maria Puig del la Bellacasa (History of Consciousness)\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-at-the-museum-amending-worlds/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amending Worlds: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\, housed in The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, presents a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The Amending Worlds exhibition includes installations\, performances\, visual art\, film & video\, and a computer game\, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines\, including Anthropology\, Art\, Computational Media\, Environmental Art and Social Practice\, Film and Digital Media\, Literature\, and Politics. \nThe Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures prize was established by THI’s Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future project and is made possible by alumni Peter Coha (Kresge ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson ’77\, Philosophy\, and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee). \nThe exhibition opens on June 5th\, 2025 and runs until June 15th\, 2025. The exhibition launches in conjunction with The Humanities Institute’s Night at the Museum event\, which will also feature a panel discussion about speculative fiction to engage scholars\, practitioners and publics in creative speculation with and about the works. \nExhibition Projects: \nShades of Fake Green Grass\, Hannah Barrett \nShades of Fake Green Grass is a collection of short stories that focus on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people\, and their ordinary problems\, through a technologically dystopian lens. \nHannah Barrett is a writer with a current focus on science fiction. She aims to compel readers toward internal dialogues that teach us how to better engage with the world. \na portal\, Yasmine Benabdallah \na portal includes a video installation and a micro-chapbook\, part of a project linking Brazil\, Morocco\, and Portugal through a shared history of colonization\, enslavement\, and a forced exodus across the Atlantic. a portal explores memory\, archives\, and non-linear time\, and foregrounds our bodies’ resonances through time and space\, calling on them to erode\, wash over\, and imagine liberatory futures. \nYasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory\, performance\, diaspora\, archives\, rituals\, and time travel. \nWhispers of Wear\, Kristine Buriel \nThe Selveger Collective gets its name from a portmanteau of “selvage”- a stitched edge that prevents a fabric from unraveling and “salvager”- those who prevent something from being lost. Walk into the archives and don the clothes of wearers’ past and hear the stories weaved into the threads. Scan to gain insight from those whose hands touched the cloth. \nKristine Buriel is an interdisciplinary artist focused on making and craft. She uses technology to preserve the process and human story so that it can be shared and not forgotten. \nNight Lights for Squid\, Chaelim Lim \nSquid are said to be attracted to light. Powerful lights are used during the night for squid fishing. However\, scientists aren’t able to explain why some squid hide away from the lights\, under the shadows of the vessel. Are the lights overwhelming for squid individuals? What if squid could create their own night lights? What stories would these lights tell? \nChaelim Lim is an artist based in Seoul who researches disaster investigation in a fictional manner. She explores architecture that amplifies the gestures of more-than-human beings in disaster discourse. \nA Martian Manifesto\, Jorge Antonio Palacios \nA Martian Manifesto is a text and series of installations experimenting with craft and new media to create outdoor social sculptures. Through re-enacting speculative practices of the deep future and on Mars\, this process-oriented work is metabolized into a manifesto of science fiction\, gesturing towards alternative ways of being with each other\, technology\, and the world. \nJorge Antonio Palacios is an artist from Yanawana/San Antonio\, Texas. They use foraging\, digital media\, writing\, and installation as methodologies for investigating relationships between land\, technology\, displacement\, and decolonization. \nThe Third Person\, Rowan Powell \nThe Third Person\, taken from the writing of the Diggers in 1649\, refers to someone who relates to land without private ownership. Drawing on this idea\, the work stages a hypothetical conversation between ‘ravers’ and ‘ranters\,’ old and new. Through exchanges of soil\, wood\, linen\, repurposed texts and symbols\, the installation journeys through political romanticism– hope and dissolution expressed through squatting\, trespassing\, free parties and intentional communities. \nRowan Powell is a writer and researcher currently working with trees\, chickens\, film\, and dancing. Their research draws on place(s)\, tracing attempts at reaching to what is buried. \nolam ha-ba (the world to come)\, Tyler Rai \nThis project is a growing conversation between Palestinian and Lebanese heirloom seeds\, the soils of coastal California\, and communities of seed savers. Through these seeds in exile\, the project explores how heirloom seeds encompass entire cosmologies and ancestral technologies for resistance\, hope\, and birthing the world to come. \nTyler Rai is a transdisciplinary artist whose work investigates cultural inheritance\, ecological entanglements and solidarity work as a form of ancestral memory. She collaborates with seeds\, stones\, bodies\, and soils. \nSea of Paint\, Hongwei Zhou \nSea of Paint is a narrative-driven video game that explores the issues around contemporary machine learning-based AI technology. The player engages in dialogue with a “spirit” conjured from the Sea — an ever-recording flow of data. The game asks how our ideas of memory\, labor and care are brought into tension with the prevalence of data-driven AI. \nHongwei Zhou is a video game educator and researcher. He is interested in thinking about the entanglement of game systems and technoculture. \nSupport Team: \nMatt Polzin\nGSR for the Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nMatt Polzin is a fiction writer and researcher whose work focuses on queer utopia\, interspecies relationships\, and the Midwest. \nValerie Sainz\n2024-25 Humanities EXPLORE Fellow\, The Coha-Gunderson Exhibition and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\nValerie Sainz is a History and History of Art & Visual Culture major (Museums\, Heritage\, and Curation concentration). \nCarla Freccero\nPI\, The Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures; Coordinator\, The Coha-Gunderson Creativity Workshop\nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature & History of Consciousness\, UCSC. \n– Special thanks – \n\nPeter Coha (Kresge College ’78\, Mathematics) and James Gunderson (Rachel Carson College ’77\, Philosophy and UCSC Foundation Board Trustee)\nMatt Polzin\, Graduate Student Researcher\nValerie Sainz\, EXPLORE Fellow\nThe Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Marla Novo\, Deputy Director; Natalie Jenkins\, Exhibitions Manager; Shanti Nagwani\, preparator)\nThe Humanities Institute (Pranav Anand\, Faculty Director; Irena Polic\, Managing Director; Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs & Communications Director; Jessica Guild\, Event and Operations Manager)\nUCSC Faculty Guests: Micah Perks (Literature); Alison Laurie Palmer (Art); Claudio Bueno (Art); Soraya Murray (History of Art & Visual Culture); Maria Puig del la Bellacasa (History of Consciousness)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amending-worlds-exhibition/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Threads of Love: The AIDS Memorial Quilt
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with The Diversity Center (TDC) and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present the Threads of Love: The AIDS Memorial Quilt—a powerful exhibition that reflects on the profound impact the HIV/AIDS epidemic had on the LGBTQ+ community. It celebrates the enduring resilience\, love\, and activism that has defined their collective journey. \nThe exhibit will run from May 30th – June 29th. \nThreads of Love is more than an art exhibit; it is a living love letter to the past\, present\, and future of the LGBTQ+ community. The exhibit seeks to educate\, inspire\, and engage visitors in a reflection of the challenges faced during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the meaningful exploration of our shared history. As Santa Cruz Pride marks its 50th anniversary\, the Threads of Love exhibit serves as a celebration of our community’s ongoing commitment to social justice\, advocacy\, mutual support\, and well-being. \nCentral to the exhibit will be panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, a poignant reminder of the lives lost and the memories that continue to sustain us. Alongside the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, will be a display of a diverse collection of artwork created by local students and community members displaying the focus of HIV/AIDS awareness\, prevention\, and education. Threads of Love was inspired by a Queer teen from Santa Cruz High School who expressed a desire to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt after attending The Diversity Center’s youth programming event at the Queer Santa Cruz exhibit at the MAH. \nAs part of this initiative\, The Diversity Center will be hosting monthly art workshops where community members can create art for the exhibit. More information here. \n\nBanner Image: Display of AIDS quilts at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium\, 1989. Donated by T. Lark Letchworth to the Santa Cruz County LGBTQ+ Collection\, MAH Archives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/threads-of-love-the-aids-memorial-quilt/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With support from Santa Cruz County and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz—an exhibition that pays tribute to the world of travel photography\, community\, and adventure\, where architecture\, design\, and aesthetics converge in stunning symmetry reminiscent of the iconic filmmaker’s visual style. \nThe exhibit will run from January 24th – May 18th. \nThis is an adventure. Join us to discover the most interesting places on Earth\, both near and far\, inspired by the eponymous director’s cinematic vision. Produced in collaboration with brand and social media community Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA)\, this exhibition takes guests on a visual journey to the most beautiful\, idiosyncratic locations around the globe—including Santa Cruz County—all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of filmmaker Wes Anderson. \nFrom impossibly grand hotels and chateaus to idyllic lighthouses\, cable cars\, and train carriages\, AWA explores the filmmaker’s distinct aesthetic\, whether a perfectly symmetrical landscape or a European city brimming with technicolor structures. The MAH exhibition\, which will include a selection of community-sourced images of quirky places and locales in Central Coast California\, is also presented as homage to the centennial celebration of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Giant Dipper roller coaster\, an Anderson-esque vintage wooden coaster that debuted in 1924. \nBorn off the back of a viral online phenomenon and community of the same name\, AWA celebrates the undeniable visual vernacular of one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson. Bright\, vivid\, and often slightly jarring to reality\, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors\, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location. Authorized by Anderson himself\, the exhibition and its companion books celebrate much of the weird and wonderful architecture that exists in our unique world\, paying tribute to travel\, photography\, community\, and adventure. \nAWA photo contributors have been called “adventurers” who range from travelers\, architects\, history buffs\, artists\, editors\, photographers\, to teachers\, students\, and all walks of life intrigued by the wonders of the world and civilization. \n\nBanner Image: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk\, photo by Ludwig Favre\, @ludwigfavre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/accidentally-wes-anderson-adventures-in-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Homage to Antoinette Swan & the Princes of Surf
DESCRIPTION:Do you know about the three Hawaiian princes coming to Santa Cruz in 1885 and introducing surfing to the mainland? They didn’t come here by accident. Join historians Geoffrey Dunn and Kim Stoner and learn about Antoinette Swan and her ties to Hawaiian royalty. This talk is a sneak peek of more hidden stories we will share in an upcoming exhibition in 2025. \n \nThis event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/homage-to-antoinette-swan-the-princes-of-surf/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Family Day: Sowing Seeds
DESCRIPTION:Join Watsonville is in the Heart for family-friendly fun and free admission to all current exhibitions including Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley. Participate in a community scrapbook project and take home your own photo. Lay mosaic tiles for a local public art project led by artist Kathleen Crocetti. Explore the Sowing Seeds exhibition and learn about community history from local organizations. For full program info and schedule click here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/family-day-sowing-seeds/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - From the Archives: Conversations on Filipino America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Humanities Institute’s annual Night at the Museum featuring Watsonville is in the Heart and highlighting Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley\, a community-driven exhibition that uplifts stories of Filipino American migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of the Central Coast. The exhibition brings together oral history\, archival materials\, and contemporary works of art. \nSeveral of the most prominent thinkers in Filipino American history: Catherine Ceniza Choy\, Richard “Rick” Baldoz\, and Rudy Guevarra\, Jr will present their academic insights. \n \nDoors and exhibits open at 6pm\, event program begins at 7pm \nDr. Rudy P. Guevarra\, Jr. is Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego\, and most recently\, Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi. He is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Guevarra is also co-editor of the forthcoming book\, Culinary Mestizaje: Racial Mixing\, Migration and Foodways in the U.S. \nDr. Catherine Ceniza Choy is a writer\, historian\, and professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of the books Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History; Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America; and Asian American Histories of the United States. The daughter of Filipino immigrants\, she was born and raised in New York City. She currently lives in Berkeley with her husband Greg Choy. \nDr. Rick Baldoz is a third-generation Filipino-American. His research focuses on race\, immigration law\, and the politics of citizenship. His first major book The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) examines the connection between the U.S. ascendancy as a global power and the racialization of Filipinos domestically. His book won book awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Library Association. His current book project is on US immigration policy over the past half century highlighting the interplay between US foreign policy entanglements and large scale population flows to the United States. \nEnjoy an evening of conversation on the role of archives\, the work of preserving memories\, and the histories of Filipinos in the United States. THI’s annual Night at the Museum event welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free! \nNight at the Museum is co-sponsored by I’m Just Nosy\, a special collaboration between UCSC Special Collections & Archives and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH). I’m Jusy Nosy is a zine project highlighting the Pajaro Valley Filipino American community’s genealogical research and archiving expertise. As told by Maia Mislang (WIITH Undergraduate Public Fellow) with support from Meleia Simon Reynolds (Co-Director of the WIITH Community Digital Archive) and Sam Regal (Librarian in UCSC Special Collections)\, it spotlights Juanita Sulay Wilson\, community matriarch and self-taught historian/archivist\, whose work has been foundational to the Tobera Project and Watsonville is in the Heart. The zine is a resource for folks who wish to explore their own family and community histories. This project was generously supported by California Rare Book School’s Radical Librarianship Institute. \n\nWatsonville is in the Heart and Sowing Seeds is presented with support from The Tobera Project\, California Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation\, UCSC Humanities Division\, Arts Division\, Division of Social Sciences\, Center for Labor and Community\, Office of Research\, Arts Research Institute\, Committee on Research\, Society of Hellman Fellows\, Institute for Social Transformation\, and Dr. Rebecca S. Hernandez\, member of Rise Together\, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County. The exhibition is made possible with generous contributions from Cristana DeGuzman and Bryce Lee\, Cathy and Greg Reyes\, and Ow Family Properties. \nThis project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a partner of the NEH. Visit www.calhum.org. Any views\, findings\, conclusions\, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-night-at-the-museum-from-the-archives-conversations-on-filipino-america/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T160000
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SUMMARY:Educator's Mixer: Pajaro Valley Filipino American History
DESCRIPTION:To kick of Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) will co-host a free event for local educators. \nThe event provides educators with a chance to meet with WIITH team members who are working to produce educational resources about Filipino American history in Santa Cruz county. \nCo-sponsored by UCSC’s Arts Division\, Center for Labor and Community\, History Department\, Humanities Division\, and Institute for Social Transformation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/educators-mixer-pajaro-valley-filipino-american-history/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240413
DTSTAMP:20260530T020448
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SUMMARY:Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley
DESCRIPTION:The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History presents Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley — A community-driven exhibition that preserves and uplifts stories of Filipino migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of Central California. \nThe exhibition culminates a four-year research initiative between community members\, UC Santa Cruz students\, scholars\, and curators called Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH). It brings together oral history\, archival materials\, and contemporary works of art to feature multidimensional narratives across four themes: labor\, gender\, conflict\, and memory. The artists featured in Sowing Seeds include Minerva Amistoso\, Binh Danh\, Ant Lorenzo\, Sandra Lucille\, Johanna Poethig\, Ruth Tabancay\, Jenifer Wofford\, and Connie Zheng. \nTo learn more about the exhibition visit: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/sowing-seeds \nThis exhibition is presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, California Humanities\, UCSC The Humanities Institute\, UCSC Arts Research Institute\, UCSC Arts Division\, UCSC Office of Research\, UCSC Division of Social Sciences\, UCSC Center for Labor and Community\, Monterey Peninsula Foundation\, UCSC Committee on Research\, Society of Hellman Fellows\, and Rebecca Hernandez of the Rise Together Fund at Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sowing-seeds-filipino-american-stories-from-the-pajaro-valley/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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