micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Performance, Play
and Design, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the
Critical Realities Studio.
Adapting Helon Habila’s The Chibok Girls, this
experimental documentary re-enacts the journey to Chibok to visit
those left behind after the shocking kidnapping of 276 girls from
Chibok Girls School in 2014. Actor Wale Ojo plays Habila
alongside the community in Gombe State, who re-enact the original
interviews. With daring complexity, this film invites audiences
to listen, feel, empathise and meditate on one of the greatest
challenges facing Nigeria today.
An online KQED article has selected Performing
Truth: Works of Radical Memory for Times of Social
Amnesia by Professor L.M. Bogad as an “essential new
book by a radical performing artist.” The piece
by Nicole Gluckstern goes on to say “Bogad’s book offers a
variety of road-tested activist artist tactics to create moments
of creative protest and inspire radical consciousness.”
Professor Mindy Cooper is the director of Still Will Be
Heard which shows at the Robert and Margrit
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 17, 18 and 19 at
7:30 p.m.
Professor L.M. Bogad, chair of the Theatre & Dance
Department and member of the Performance Studies Graduate Group,
has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
from the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. Bogad received his fellowship for his
achievements in the category of Theatre Arts and Performance
Studies.
