New Leaders Now: Artists Advancing Racial Justice

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On Indigenous People’s Day, join an important conversation with four rising artists who are making work that advances racial justice and challenges patriarchal systems of exploitation. This event is part of Foresight Is 2020: Racial Justice and the Arts.

Racial Radical: Generating New “Woke” Words

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This unique multimedia event invites USC students and the larger community to join forces with Milwaukee visual and spoken word artists Fondé Bridges, Mikal Floyd-Pruitt, and Dasha Kelly Hamilton to recognize familiar but so-far-unnamed racial experiences and brainstorm new vocabulary around them.

Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles

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Join a collective of environmental justice advocates from Esperanza Community Housing’s People Not Pozos campaign and USC performers in a workshop presentation of Arts in Action's ongoing documentary theatre project.

Make Me Laugh! Clowning, Comedy, and Wellness Workshops

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Join us on Wellness Days for “Make Me Laugh!,” a series of workshops using laughter and clowning to improve our emotional and physical wellness in a historic moment of separation and stress,  led by USC's head of comedy, Zach Steel.

Common Ground: Water – An Activist Dance Theater Project by CONTRA-TIEMPO

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Join us for the premiere of somos agua: a collective honoring of our mama agua, a dance film by CONTRA-TIEMPO.  Common Ground is an original series of events that showcases Los Angeles artists and organizers who are deconstructing and reimagining America’s relationship to itself—the interplay between the nation and the actual landmass on which it depends.