the series poster

January 24th February 1st
February 15th
A404 4-6pm
Main Gallery 3:30-5pm
E197: 1-4pm
Main Gallery 3:30-5pm
branka cvjeticanin:
a forum on violence
she:story and other works against women
elana mann and audrey
chan: presentation
cklara moradian:
“mapping the invisible”
Branka Cvjeticanin is a Croatian
intermedia artist who works with
government and non-governmental
institutions on relations between
body, movement and space framed
by particular economic, policy and
historical issues. She has exhibited
individual and collaborative work
internationally. She:Story examines
the multi-generational experience
of war within her family.
Performers, visual artists and writers
Audrey Chan and Elana Man present their collaborative performance
work and will explore connections to
feminist performance and activism
work from the 70s.
This Dynamic Forum will present
multiple perspectives on Issues of
violence against women, highlighting mass rapes in militarized
zones and grassroots efforts to end
violence against women.
The Calarts event is part of Getty
Pacific Standard Time events
throughout Southern California
working with artist Suzanne Lacy.
March 8th
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Spoken Word and performance of
the struggles and various forms of
resistance of the modern Kurdish
women in places that are known as
low intensity conflict zones.
Cklara pulls from her rich heritage,
memories, and experiences to
weave passionate stories of labor
and resistance. She uses poetry and
spoken word as a creative response
to the atrocities in the world.
Cklara Moradian is a Kurdish-American activist, writer, spoken-word artist, poet and columnist. Conceived
and raised by human rights advocates and survivors of the notorious
prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
her commitment to human rights
developed at an early age. She spent
most of her childhood as a refugee
in several countries before arriving in
the United States. Currently she is the
president of the Kurdish American
Youth Organization- Los Angeles
chapter.
March 21st
Langley 3-5pm
fariba nawa: “the plight
of women in afghanistan”
presentation, discussion
and film screening
Fariba Nawa, an award-winning
Afghan-American journalist, covers
a range of issues and specializes
in immigrant and Muslim communities in the United States and
abroad. She lived and reported from
Afghanistan from 2002 to 2007,
and witnessed the U.S.-led war
against the Taliban and al Qaeda.
She has also reported from Iraq,
Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, and Germany.
She has a master’s in Middle Eastern studies and journalism.
Her work has appeared in the sunday times of london, newsday,
mother jones, the village voice,
and numerous other publications.
She also reports for radio, including
National Public Radio (NPR) and is
the author of the groundbreaking
report, afghanistan, inc., and a
contributing writer in the upcoming
book under the drones: modern
lives in the afghanistan-pakistan
borderlands, to be published in
spring 2012 by Harvard University
Press. Her essays have also been
published in two other books,
March to War and Women for
Afghan Women.
A frequent speaker on Middle East
and South Asian issues, she has
participated in talks at the World
Affairs Council, major universities,
and has been interviewed by prominent television and radio networks.
Her new book opium nation:
child brides, drug lords and
one woman’s journey through
afghanistan, a mix of memoir and
reportage about the drug trade in Afghanistan, (HarperColllins, November 2011) Autographed copies of her
book will also be available for sale.
WOMEN ,
COMMMUNIT Y
ENGAGEMENT,
RESISTANCE
&
TR ANSDISCIPLINARY
ACTIVISM
SPEAKERS Jodi Evans
Code Pink
Suzanne Lacy
chair otis art and design
Chandra Khan
calarts school of critical studies
Readings and performance by
students from the course cluster.
March 21st
April 4th
April 14th
Main Gallery 5:30- 7:30pm
E 197 4-5pm
7-10pm Avenue 50 Studio
women, social justice
and activism: a dinner
party
theatre of the rowdy:
a performance talk by
virginia grise
opening night of
clusterworks – part 1
opening night of
clusterworks – part 2
An evening of performance and
conversation with activist creators
and creative activists: Xicana
performance poetry group in lak
ech and marlene beltran, nephelie andonyadis and members
of cornerstone theater company (conerstonetheater.org) and
their collaborators on the current
hunger cycle from homegirl cafe
(homegirlcafe.org). Food curated
by Homegirls cafe will be shared.
Cal Arts Alum Virginia Grise will
discuss her work from panzas to
prisons, from street theatre to large
scale multimedia performances,
from princess to chafa, plays that are
set in bars without windows, barrio
rooftops, and lesbian bedrooms. Not
endorsed by any community action
group or radical collective, these are
one queer cantinera’s recent intimate
and irreverent thoughts, dreams
and desires that occupy her heart.
Written in between book edits, after
late nights at gay bars, at a fictionalized taco truck, while she tries to
figure out how to live her art without
grants or fellowships, despite her recently acquired student loan debts.
warning: This talk will not cause
the collapse of capitalism.
Students from classes involved in the
women, community engagement,
resistance and transdisciplinary
activism cluster at calarts exhibit
their work April 14-May 6, with
a reception for the F430 Video
Exhibition and Laboratory class on
April 14.
Students from classes involved in the
women, community engagement,
resistance and transdisciplinary
activism cluster at calarts exhibit
their work April 14-May 6, with a
reception and performances from
the Woman’s-Out-House class on
April 28th.
131 North Avenue 50
Los Angeles, CA 90042
April 28th
7-10pm A
venue 50 Studio
131 North Avenue 50
Los Angeles, CA 90042
avenue 50 studio’s hours are:
TUE-THURS 10-4 PM
SAT-SUN 10-4 PM
OR BY APPOINTMENT
Cluster Related Event
9:10-10:30 Ahmanson Auditorium
Museum of Modern Art,
Los Angeles
250 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
shares & stakeholders : a day of panels
organized by audrey chan and elana mann
feminist art education: renewal and revision :
a panel on feminist pedagogy
CHAIRS Nancy Buchanan, California Institute of the Arts;
Christine Wertheim, California Institute of the Arts
PANELISTS
aucyila Brooke, California Institute of the Arts;
K
Claudia Slanar, California Institute of the Arts,
Barbara McCullough, Savannah College of Art and Design.
calarts
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valencia, ca 91355