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The Healing Power of Dance, Featuring Dr. S. Ama Way, UCI Associate Professor of Dance ♥★✚
ZoomThe Healing Power of Dance Featuring Dr. S. Ama Way, UCI Associate Professor of Dance Join our schools for a free event that offers an opportunity for phronetic insight; in this instance, heal by doing; and the doing is Dance. The attention to breath with rhythmicity, sensory attunement and cognitive focus will bring you back…
Film Screening: Peta Ndaliko, Kapita ★
HG 1030CULTURE AND URBAN FUTURES IN AFRICA MARCH 21-22, 2022 | 10AM-6PM | HG 1030 MARCH 21, 6PM – SCREENING – PETA NDALIKO, KAPITA Join UCI’s School of Humanities, Department of History, and UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation — for a two-day workshop exploring the role of culture in struggles over rights, housing, environmental justice,…
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Roots of Afro-Brazilian Cinema ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
Global Conversations: Japanese Cart Puppetry: “Kuruma Ningyō” ♥
VirtualJapan boasts a rich heritage of diverse forms of puppetry that include exquisitely crafted figures, unusual forms of manipulation, and poetic dramatic texts. Derived from bunraku, possibly the most known Japanese puppetry to the world, kuruma ningyō shares some similarities with bunraku but also has its unique features. In kuruma ningyō, or “cart puppetry,” performers,…
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Café com Canela ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Temporada and República ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
Dr. Jacqueline Stewart “Sisters inside Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968)” ♥ ★
Humanities Gateway 1030 Room 1030 Irvine, CA 92697Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, Artistic Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Museum in LA; Film and Media Studies Prof., University of Chicago About this event Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, Artistic Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Museum in Los Angeles, and Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She has…
The Frontera Project ♥
UCI Student Center & Event Services, Woods Cove ABC 311 West Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697The Frontera Project is an interactive, bilingual theater experience, created and performed by a company of Mexican and US artists. About this event The Frontera Project is an interactive, bilingual theater experience, created and performed by a company of Mexican and US artists. We use theater, music, movement and play to actively engage the audience…
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Shorts and New Directions ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
Art | Power | Community A Black Panther Party 55th Anniversary Retrospective Multimedia Exhibit ♥
RSVP HERE Join us for a grand opening of a multi-media photography exhibition on the Black Panther Party 55th Anniversary. Photography by Micherlange Francois-Hemsley, UCI Senior and 2021 UCI Humanities Center Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster Summer Fellow. Schedule: May 4, 2022 at 4pm-6pm 4:15 Opening Remarks 4:30 - 5:30 Artist Panel Moderated…
25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference ♥★
Claire Trevor School of the Arts 4002 Mesa Road Irvine, CA 92617World-class performers, scholars, and composers come from across the nation, with international guests. About this event Celebrating our 25th anniversary of service. All events are free! REGISTER NOW