Irvine Barclay Theatre: Kulāiwi – Native Lands ♥★

Irvine Barclay Theatre: Kulāiwi – Native Lands Kulāiwi (“land of my ancestors”) combines three of Hawai‘i’s leading award-winning performers for an evening of sweet island harmonies and soaring vocals. A recipient of over 20 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards (Hawaiian “Grammy”) with her trio Nā Leo Pilimehana, Lehua Kalima has won an unprecedented three individual awards…

Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora – Exhibit ♥

Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center

Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora – Exhibit Thu, Feb 3, 2022 8:00 AM –Thu, Mar 31, 2022 8:00 AM PST (GMT-8) Details Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora centers the voices, memories, experiences, and desires of writers from the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora. Exploring their selected published works alongside materials from…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen by UCI Illuminations ♥ ★

Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center

Join us for a stirring and provocative evening of fiction, history and commentary with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen Date and time Thu, February 3, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST Add to calendar Location Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Drive A Irvine, CA 92697 View Map About this…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen by UCI Illuminations ♥ ★

Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center

Join us for a stirring and provocative evening of fiction, history and commentary with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen Date and time Thu, February 3, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST Add to calendar Location Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Drive A Irvine, CA 92697 View Map About this…

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2015) Film Screening ♥

International Film Club: I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2015) Thu, February 24, 2022 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST Add to calendar Award winning documentary about the life and work of James Baldwin About this event In Honor of Black History Month Award winning documentary about the life and work of James Baldwin:…

Christopher Carter, “The Spirit of Soul Food”: Book Talk and Food demonstration ♥

ARC Test Kitchen

Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today? Christopher Carter's answer to that question merges a history of…

BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Roots of Afro-Brazilian Cinema ♥

McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697

Brazil, 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” ♥

Virtual

Japan 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 92697

Brazil, 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 92697

Brazil, 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…