Drawing from Community Power Collective’s arts activism with workers, musicians, and youth in Boyle Heights, artists Quetzal Flores, Martha Gonzalez, and USC history graduate student Yesenia Hunter will guide participants through a collective songwriting and digital artwork workshop, followed by a discussion centered on the relationship between land and power.
In a live broadcast straight from Downtown Los Angeles, an ensemble of musicians led by Solidarity for Sanctuary will pay tribute to club spaces that nurture Black and Brown art and discuss the concept of sanctuary as both a physical place of safety and a condition upon which creativity depends.
USC students! How can you create healing, drive hope, and enact radical change through art? Arts in Action invites you to join forces with other artists and activists, respond to that challenge, …
Join explosive San Francisco rapper and activist Rocky Rivera, acclaimed Los Angeles–based artist and educator Audrey Chan, and USC professor and poet Adrian De Leon (moderator) for an uplifting conversation about social justice, feminism, and using art to empower diasporic communities. This inspiring discussion will lead up to an inspiring performance by Rivera. After the discussion and …
Join some of today’s most exciting artists and filmmakers for a critical, surreal, experimental, and beautifully open exploration of LGBTQ communities and their allies within AAPI cultures. Ku’er, a Chinese slang word for “queer” especially popular in Taiwan, plays on the colloquial term “cool kids,” and encapsulates the subversive spirit of this evening of short …
Following “Ku’er Worlds: Queering Chinese American Identities in Art and Film,” USC students are invited to join acclaimed filmmakers Andrew Thomas Huang, WangShui, and Hao Wu for a hands-on workshop exploring issues related to storytelling, LGBTQ identities, AAPI identities, and cross-cultural exchange, assisted by USC professor Jenny Lin and USC Chinese Studies librarian Tang Li. …
