Writing about Culture: Appropriate or Appropriation?

A conversation with Minerva Canto, Carlos Cortés, Yi Shun Lai, Terria Smith, James Coats, and Ellen Estilai Located at Riverside Main Library (Community Room) 3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside CA Free event with free parking!

Salt + Spine Live: The State of California Cuisine

Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, United States

Salt + Spine Live: The State of California Cuisine A Conversation with Leading Cookbook Authors Join us as we bring cookbooks to life with a live recording of the award-winning Salt + Spine podcast, which features compelling cookbook authors in conversation. For this thought-provoking episode focused on the "State of California Cuisine," host Brian Hogan Stewart…

Responsibility and Reciprocal Relationships with the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation, and Land Return

OxyArts 4757 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Occidental's Community Book Program Presents: Responsibility and Reciprocal Relationships with the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation, and Land Return. Join Oxy Professor of Biology Gretchen North, Celestina Castillo, Executive Director of the Center for Community Based Learning, artist and scientist Samantha Morales Johnson, Tina Calderon, Tongva Language Committee member, Bryce Lewis-Smith, Research Assistant at UW’s Center…

Celebrating Civil Rights Heroes

Plummer Park Community Center 7377 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, United States

“Celebrating Civil Rights Heroes,” hosted by West Hollywood Poet Laureate Jen Cheng will feature Rudy Ortega Jr., Tribal President of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, as one of the speakers on the panel about Civil Rights Leaders and coalition-building. Other speakers include Shonda Buchanan (author of Black Indian), Martha Gonzalez (Quetzal), Miya Iwataki (Little…

Original Stories: California’s First Voices

Maidu Museum & Historic Site 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive, Roseville, CA, United States

The Maidu Museum is proud to present the next Night Out at the Museum program: a panel conversation between four contributors of Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance on February 17. This new book is a powerful collection that details how California’s Indigenous communities are resisting the legacies of forcible loss of…

Engaging with Our Indigenous Community

Hybrid

Join us for our next hybrid (on campus & zoom) event on April 26th: Engaging with Our Indigenous Community. We welcome local gallerist/tv producer/art curator Ruth-Ann Thorn; USD Alumni and Area Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Nuñez-Soria; and USD Ethnic Studies lecturer Prof. Maria José Plascencia to discuss ways we can move beyond land acknowledgements and effectively…

Contemporary Voices: A Native Artist Panel Discussion

Lesher Center for the Arts 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek, CA, United States

Leading contemporary Native artists dive into their art-making & process. In this insightful panel discussion, leading contemporary Native artists dive into what drives their art-making and process. Panelists include Sterlin Harjo (creator behind the award-winning FX series Reservation Dogs), Tommy Orange (Oakland based novelists and finalized for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize) and Danielle SeeWalker (artist, writer, activists and co-founder The Red Road Project).…

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