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Native American Heritage Month Celebration (NAHM)

Prairie Tails - Public Lecture By Lakota Ledger Artist Dwayne Wilcox

Date: Friday, November 3, 2017

Time: 2:30 p.m.

Location: Seuss Room, Geisel Library

Description: The exhibit presents a selection of ledger drawing by Dwayne Wilson from the artist’s collection. Dwayne “Chuck” Wilcox began as a full-time artist in 1987, but has always been a lifelong producer of art. Event flyer (PDF).

Co-sponsored by Mandeville Special Collections, Department of Ethnic Studies, Intertribal Resource Center, SPACES, Native American Heritage Month Celebration, Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project.

Tritons Rock Hunger is a campus wide food drive happening 10/21- 11/11 that will benefit the Triton Food Pantry and the San Diego Food Bank right in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Red bins will be located near campus dining halls and college markets to collect non-perishable food items donation! Help our efforts to reduce food insecurity on campus and within the San Diego community by donating!

The documentary, Khoon Diy Baarav made over nine years, enters the complex political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the disappeared. Using personal narratives and reminiscences, emphasizing the real and the human against the abstract and the brutal, the film seeks to confront the amnesia on Kashmir as well as in other conflict zones.

Co-sponsored by SAI and the Internation Institute.

The year was 1960. John F. Kennedy was elected president, To Kill a Mockingbird was published and UC San Diego was founded on November 18.

Join us for cake as we celebrate 57 years of redefining conventional wisdom!

Friday, November 17

Noon

Library Walk

Learn more about our founding—and what makes us distinctive:

History of UC San Diego

UC San Diego Timeline

An Artist Talk with YOUNG JOON KWAK

Drag Assemblages, Trans Performance Objects, and Reparative Objectification

Tuesday, November 14th 2017 5:00 - 6:30pm

Literature Building, Room 155 (de Certeau)

Young Joon Kwak is a LA-based multi-disciplinary artist working mainly with sculpture, performance, video, and sound. Kwak’s sculptures reimagine the function, material, and form of objects, in order to create spaces and scenarios that propose different ways of viewing and interpreting bodies as mutable and open-ended. She is the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving beauty salon/platform for experimental performance collaborations with her community of queer, trans, femme, POC artists and performers, and the lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. Performances and exhibitions include: the Hammer Museum, The Broad, REDCAT, and ONE National LGBT Archives, Los Angeles; Regina Rex and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; and Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’Art Contemporain, Clichy, France. Kwak will be the Summer 2018 Artist in Residence at LACE (LA). Kwak was recently awarded the Art Matters Grant and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Artist Community Engagement Grant. She received an MFA from the University of Southern California, MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

About the Talk Artist Young Joon Kwak will discuss her past and current projects in sculpture, video sound, performance art, and collaborations with her community that explore alternative ways of being bodies in relation to objects with open-ended functionality.

Sponsored by the Department of Literature, SPACES, and Queer Asias Working Group.

On Sunday, November 19th from 7pm-9pm, Sixth College will be holding Adelante, an event that will provide a space to the Latinx community and for students to learn more about the Latinx community and their experiences! There will be live performances, food, activities, and educational booths!