SPONSORED EVENTS

Dictee: A Marathon Reading

December 4, 2021

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Cha’s birth, the entirety of Dictee will be read by Deaf and Hearing volunteers, simultaneously in spoken language and in ASL.

People + Places: Saving LA’s Legacy Businesses

December 10, 2020
Join us for a Zoom conversation about Legacy Businesses and hear how the cities of San Francisco and San Antonio have created official programs, branding, and financial incentives to help support legacy business owners.

Racial Radicals: Generating new “Woke” Words, 2020 version

October 14, 2020

For Freedoms: Town Hall on Freedom of Speech

March 2, 2020

Unbreakable Resolve: Building Free-Dem Foundations in New Orleans

February 6th, 2020
Dive deeper to learn more about the Unbreakable Resolve of Jerome Morgan, Robert Jones and Daniel Rideau, who will make a powerful presentation about mass incarceration and their efforts to rescue young people from its grasp.

Teens, Media Arts, and Belonging

Summer, 2019

Slow Jam

November 6, 2019

Racial Radicals: Generating new “Woke” Words

October 10, 2019

Spatial Imaginaries and Social Justice with George Lipsitz

September 10, 2019
Join George Lipsitz Department of Black Studies, UCSB for a talk on the role played by expressive culture in place based struggles for social justice in New Orleans, Houston, and East Los Angeles.
Watch Video Highlights here
Watch Video of Full Seminar here

Little Tokyo Cultural Organizing Workshop

March, 2019

R.A.P. Lessons: Bridging Race, Arts, and Placemaking

January 16, 2019

Crossing Borders, Blurring Borders: Writing and Refugees with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Josh Kun

October 3, 2018
MacArthur grant recipient, USC RAP faculty members Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen and Professor Josh Kun engage in informal conversation about the modes of practice they have developed around art and politics, migrants and refugees, and the borders of scholarship and creativity.

Co-sponsor: USC University Faculty Club