Events for the Week of: 22-28 February 2021

A Geisel Library 50th Anniversary Signature Event: A Conversation With Kevin Young

Kevin Young, whom The Washington Post calls "one of the most important poets of his generation" is a poet, essayist, editor, and curator. He is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, recently named a National Historic Landmark, and poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast.

Young is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose, most recently "Brown" (2018). He has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets for "Book of Hours"; an American Book Award for "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels"; the Paterson Poetry Prize for "Jelly Roll: a blues"; and the National Poetry Series and the Zacharis First Book Award for "Most Way Home." His books have been finalists for the National Book Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Young’s nonfiction work has also received critical acclaim. His two nonfiction books, "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness" and "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News" were both named a New York Times Notable Book and were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His newest book, "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song," is scheduled to be released in September 2020.

Admission/Cost: FREE
Link: geisel50.ucsd.edu/go/rsvp50

Wednesday, February 24 - 5:30 PM


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Foreign Language Film Night Series will screen the following films for the general public in The Languages of SoCal mini-series. Each film will be followed by a discussion with a San Diego university/college faculty and a neighbor about cultural aspects of the film and their immigrant experiences. The discussion will last about 30 minutes and include a Q&A open to all participants.

Admission/Cost: FREE
All the films via Zoom from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Email creative director, Stacy Nyikos (), for the viewing links.

Films, dates and discussants:

Wednesday, February 17 -
Mosul - After his life is saved by a rogue Iraqi squadron, a young police officer joins them in their fight against ISIS in a decimated Mosul.
Shak Hanish, professor of political science at National University, and Ghadah Al Saadi, instructor of Iraqi/MSA at SDSU-LARC (who was born in Mosul).

Wednesday, March 3 -
1982 - During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.
Iman Bakour-Aziz, Levantine, MSA instructor at SDSU-LARC, and Maha Gebara-Lamb, biostatistician and instructor at MiraCosta College and member of AMEMSA+ (Arab, Middle Eastern, Moslem, South Asian, plus group).

Wednesday, March 24 -
Miriam Miente (Mirium Lies) - Miriam doesn't know how to explain to her family that the boyfriend she met online is black.
Cristian Aquino-Sterling, associate dean of diversity and international affairs SDSU College of Education, and Patricia McGregor, theater director, playwright and performer in San Diego, currently working on a piece at UCSD.

Wednesday, April 7 -
Love is War - In this Nigerian comedy, sparks fly as a husband and wife both win the nominations as the candidates of the two major parties in an upcoming gubernatorial election. Will their marriage survive this unprecedented event?
Niyi Coker, director of the School of Theater, Television, and Film at SDSU, and Ihuoma Nwaogwugwu, competency engineer for 3D printing at HP, and lead actor Richard Mofe-Damijo.

April 28 -
Innocence Based on a real-life story, this South Korean film focuses on Ahn Jung-in (Shin Hye-sun), a lawyer who decides to defend her mother after she is wrongly accused of killing someone at her husband's funeral.
Insook Kang, Korean instructor at SDSU, and Jimi Kim, South Korean film expert and lecturer.


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The Africa World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF) is sponsored by the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University.

The AWDFF has as its objective the promotion of knowledge and culture of the people of Africa, in a Pan-African context.

In promotion of the Pan African context, public viewings of submission accepted by AWDFF shall also occur in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.

Though the AWDFF is non-competitive, prizes of $1,000 and $500 shall be awarded to two documentaries in Full-length and Short categories, respectively judged by the AWDFF committee as furthering understanding and contributing significantly to knowledge of the African World.

Admission/Cost: $10

Location:
Online streaming event
Link: Register

Wednesday, February 24 - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM


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About Frida's remarkable work: Widely revered for her ability to convey light and magic, Frida transforms oil and canvas into literal downloads of cosmic intelligence. To stand before one of Frida's paintings is to be lifted into a state of high frequency. Your host, entrepreneur of sound and light, Shelly Reef, will lead you through a transformational experience with the paintings, and an inspiring interview with the artist herself. At the conclusion of the decades-long series "Downloading the Light" and the birth of the series, "New Earth" we celebrate the artist and her extraordinary life. The paintings shown at the Encinitas gallery mark the first time Frida's work has been made available outside of Iceland. This is a free event. Zoom login details are included on the confirmation email.

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Online streaming event
Link: Please Register to receive link instructions.

Wednesday, February 24 - 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM


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Warwick's will host Ruth Druart as she discusses her new book, While Paris Slept, in conversation with Sarah K. Sleeper. Ruth Druart grew up on the Isle of Wight, leaving at eighteen to study psychology. In 1993 she moved to Paris, the city that inspired her to write While Paris Slept. There she pursued a career in international education and raised three sons with her French husband. She recently left her teaching position, so she can write full time while running her writing group in Paris.

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Online streaming event
Link: Please Register to receive link instructions.

Thursday, February 25 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM


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Join CSA San Diego for a free Online Webinar to celebrate February as Black History Month. We will focus our presentation on Race and National Origin and include tips to prevent Fair Housing issues and complaints in rental and Real Estate sales. We'll also learn the Best Practices to comply with Federal and State Fair Housing laws and tips to stay in compliance. CSA is your local HUD fair housing agency and a resource for the housing industry. Who better to learn from then the experts who investigate housing discrimination complaints. Join us for this free educational event!


Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Online streaming event
Link: Register

Thursday, February 25 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM


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9th Annual Kuumba (3) Day Fest Black 2 Action (Not in Vain)

Admission/Cost: $15/day

Location:
Online Streaming Event
See link above

Schedule:

Friday, February 26
Night of Positive Images (Virtually)

6:30 PM - This year's annual fest is a virtual celebration. Honoring special Royal Court Community Honorees: Dr. Wilma Wooten, Dr. Shirley Weber, Jacqueline Jackson, and Mrs. Ardell Matthews. The Ceremony: Vows to lead the struggle for self- determination. For those who believe we can still do something positive in this country. To honor the ancestors, and the footprints of dignity and example created with sacrifice and a frequency that would not be diminished.

Saturday, February 27
Day of Positive Challenges (Virtually)

12:30 PM - Kuumba Kids African American Person Chant Saturday School and the Community Black Book Resource Nook.

1:00 PM - Virtual Panel Discussion on Effective Black Media how will it aid in ushering Black Art into the future.

2:00 PM - Taste of Soul San Diego San Diego's Ujamaa Discussion listings of top Black owned and operated restaurants and cooks.

3:00 PM - Dance Showcase & Obesity Prevention dance and Fitness Showcase performances coordinated by STAY Entertainment.

4:00 PM - Community Actors Theater Presentation Excerpts of Earl Hamilton Jr. Play "R New Home Life in the Zoo."

6:00 PM - Virtual Panel Discussion Preserving Black Art museums, archiving and preserve Black History Art and Culture.

7:00 PM - The Black Museum History comes to life through the "Parade of History" Great Kings & Queens presentations.

Sunday, February 28
Day of Spiritual Celebration (Virtually)

2:00 PM - US Postal Service Kuumba Fest began in 2005 unveiling of the first Heritage Stamp Ella Fitzgerald this year is… to be unveiled.

2:30 PM - "Preaching the Blues" foregrounds the importance of black feminist artist in lynching culture and interdisciplinary scholarship.

4:00 PM - Virtual Gospel Artist New Release Showcase presented by Mandate Records

- Possible Special Guest artist Stay Tuned



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To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo brings together more than 25 artists, all of whom explore aspects of the Mexican American experience. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's holdings and filling the Museum's Farrell, and Wortz galleries, this exhibition includes painting, sculpture, and installation, taking the Chicano Art Movement as a point of departure. the politically and culturally inspired movement was created by Mexican American artists during the counterculture revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Heavily influenced by the iconography of revolutionary leaders, pre-Colonial art, Mexican religious icons, and socio-political issues, the movement resisted and challenged dominant social norms and stereotypes to move towards cultural autonomy. Against this backdrop of social and cultural activism, the exhibition features works from the 1980s to our current moment, interrogating the reverberations of the post-Chicano moment with special attention paid to our transnational region.

To Tame a Wild Tongue borrows its title from Gloria Anzala's pivotal text that underscores language as a source of both cultural identity and cultural hybridity. Taking a nod from Anzalda's text, the exhibition foregrounds the cultural hybridity that exists within a transborder context, without relying on identity alone as the Chicano Movement did. Instead, the artists in this exhibition, who may or may not identify as Chicano/a/x, explore conceptual processes linked to the social, cultural, and political issues related to Mexican Americans living in the United States or to those living and making work on either side of the border. Split into five thematic sections, the exhibition examines ideas of activism, labor, rasquachismo, domesticana, and the border. Questioning what it means to create political and socially oriented work outside of the label of Chicano/a/x, many artists breach ethnic, cultural, and class barriers, as well as the physical borders that shape an urban, multicultural experience.

To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo is organized by MCASD Curatorial Fellow Alana Hernandez and made possible by gifts to the annual operating fund. Institutional support of MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund.

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Online streaming event
Link: https://www.mcasd.digital/to-tame-a-wild-tongue/eng

Dates and times:
Ongoing until December 31, 2021


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The Black Nerds Expo is a virtual convention focused on Black arts, comics, video games, books, cosplay, pop culture, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Online streaming event
Visit Black Nerds Expo website for viewing instructions.

Friday, February 26 - 10:00 AM to 4:45 PM


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The WorldBeat Cultural Center will present 3 online screenings in honor of Black History Month.

• American Skin: A war veteran seeks justice when police kill his unarmed son during a routine traffic stop.

• Marshall: Starring Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell.

• The Tuskegee Airmen: A 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African-American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II.

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
Online streaming event
Link: https://events.worldbeatcenter.org/event/the-tuskegee-airmen-screening/

Film dates:
Friday, February 12 - 7:00 PM (American Skin)
Friday, February 19 - 7:00 PM (Marshall)
Friday, February 26 - 7:00 PM (Tuskekee Airman)


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9th Annual Kuumba (3) Day Fest Black 2 Action (Not in Vain)

Admission/Cost: $15/day

Location:
Online Streaming Event
See link above

Schedule:

Friday, February 26
Night of Positive Images (Virtually)

6:30 PM - This year's annual fest is a virtual celebration. Honoring special Royal Court Community Honorees: Dr. Wilma Wooten, Dr. Shirley Weber, Jacqueline Jackson, and Mrs. Ardell Matthews. The Ceremony: Vows to lead the struggle for self- determination. For those who believe we can still do something positive in this country. To honor the ancestors, and the footprints of dignity and example created with sacrifice and a frequency that would not be diminished.

Saturday, February 27
Day of Positive Challenges (Virtually)

12:30 PM - Kuumba Kids African American Person Chant Saturday School and the Community Black Book Resource Nook.

1:00 PM - Virtual Panel Discussion on Effective Black Media how will it aid in ushering Black Art into the future.

2:00 PM - Taste of Soul San Diego San Diego's Ujamaa Discussion listings of top Black owned and operated restaurants and cooks.

3:00 PM - Dance Showcase & Obesity Prevention dance and Fitness Showcase performances coordinated by STAY Entertainment.

4:00 PM - Community Actors Theater Presentation Excerpts of Earl Hamilton Jr. Play "R New Home Life in the Zoo."

6:00 PM - Virtual Panel Discussion Preserving Black Art museums, archiving and preserve Black History Art and Culture.

7:00 PM - The Black Museum History comes to life through the "Parade of History" Great Kings & Queens presentations.

Sunday, February 28
Day of Spiritual Celebration (Virtually)

2:00 PM - US Postal Service Kuumba Fest began in 2005 unveiling of the first Heritage Stamp Ella Fitzgerald this year is… to be unveiled.

2:30 PM - "Preaching the Blues" foregrounds the importance of black feminist artist in lynching culture and interdisciplinary scholarship.

4:00 PM - Virtual Gospel Artist New Release Showcase presented by Mandate Records

- Possible Special Guest artist Stay Tuned



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9th Annual Kuumba (3) Day Fest Black 2 Action (Not in Vain)

Admission/Cost: $15/day

Location:
Online Streaming Event
See link above

Schedule:

Friday, February 26
Night of Positive Images (Virtually)

6:30 PM - This year's annual fest is a virtual celebration. Honoring special Royal Court Community Honorees: Dr. Wilma Wooten, Dr. Shirley Weber, Jacqueline Jackson, and Mrs. Ardell Matthews. The Ceremony: Vows to lead the struggle for self- determination. For those who believe we can still do something positive in this country. To honor the ancestors, and the footprints of dignity and example created with sacrifice and a frequency that would not be diminished.

Saturday, February 27
Day of Positive Challenges (Virtually)

12:30 PM - Kuumba Kids African American Person Chant Saturday School and the Community Black Book Resource Nook.

1:00 PM - Virtual Panel Discussion on Effective Black Media how will it aid in ushering Black Art into the future.

2:00 PM - Taste of Soul San Diego San Diego's Ujamaa Discussion listings of top Black owned and operated restaurants and cooks.

3:00 PM - Dance Showcase & Obesity Prevention dance and Fitness Showcase performances coordinated by STAY Entertainment.

4:00 PM - Community Actors Theater Presentation Excerpts of Earl Hamilton Jr. Play "R New Home Life in the Zoo."

6:00 PM - Virtual Panel Discussion Preserving Black Art museums, archiving and preserve Black History Art and Culture.

7:00 PM - The Black Museum History comes to life through the "Parade of History" Great Kings & Queens presentations.

Sunday, February 28
Day of Spiritual Celebration (Virtually)

2:00 PM - US Postal Service Kuumba Fest began in 2005 unveiling of the first Heritage Stamp Ella Fitzgerald this year is… to be unveiled.

2:30 PM - "Preaching the Blues" foregrounds the importance of black feminist artist in lynching culture and interdisciplinary scholarship.

4:00 PM - Virtual Gospel Artist New Release Showcase presented by Mandate Records

- Possible Special Guest artist Stay Tuned



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