Drawin Wit Multidimensional Lines!…And Gettin Rhythmless While
doin’ it! Snap! Creates spaces for Black Blackty Blk nonbinary
persons such as myself, to further convey the balancing and
negotiating wit de many hues Black Queer performers experience
both inside and outside African and African American Diasporas as
creatives.
Recently co-founded by PFS student Anuj Vaidya, in collaboration
with Wintun culture-bearer Diana Almendariz, and Just Transitions
organizer Juliette Beck, YoloSol is an intergenerational
“artivist” collective dedicated to sharing stories of the pasts,
presents, and futures embedded in the landscapes and waterways of
the Yolo bioregion.
Professor Jon Rossini and Continuing Lecturer and Alumna Michele
Apriña Leavy in Los Angeles this weekend for the Latinx Theater
Commons’ Encuentro 2024. Rossini serves as a scholarly advisor
while Leavy is the LTC’s Steering Committee.
PFS faculty Marit MacArthur has received a NEH Mellon Digital
Publication Fellowship for her co-authored book project,
“Listening to Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly Black
Rooms.”
Isa Leal’s participatory performance asks, Can we practice
pre-colonized ways of knowing while we remain surrounded by the
detritus of the trauma of late stage capitalism? In Systems from
our flesh, our emotional memory to oceans. What are we feeling
with?
The Film Festival at UC Davis presents its 26th two-night
screenings of student created film on May 28 and 29 in 1002
Cruess Hall. Each night features a different selection of films
and programming begins at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.
The free public opening features performances by master’s and
doctoral students, as well as the presentation of the LeShelle
and Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Keister and Allen Art
Purchase Prize, the Letters and Science Prize, and the Savageau
Award in the Department of Design.
Explore new ways of seeing and understanding
the past, present and future. Works by
graduate students in the Department of Design,
Performance Studies Graduate Group, Art History
Program, and the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at
UC Davis are represented in this
multidisciplinary exhibition.
Schedule of Performances
5:30–5:55 p.m.
Events Plaza
Sean Olmstead, M.F.A. Art Studio I Know I Am Here, But Where Is Here?
5:40–5:55 p.m. (Part 1) 7:05–7:20 p.m. (Part 2)
Art Studio
Elmira M. Sultan Rashid, Ph.D. Performance Studies,
in collaboration with Samira Danesh Grape Blood
Melinda Marks, Ph.D. Performance Studies,
in collaboration with Adam Magill Excerpt: The Annotated Macbeth
8:15–8:45 p.m.
Community Education Room
Gino Robair, Ph.D. Performance Studies, in collaboration with
Gabriel Aguilar, Sepehr Jafari Jozani, Madeline Lazarus, Esther
Shih and Sam Tillett Radical Divination (for two papermakers and musical
ensemble)
Explore new ways of seeing and understanding
the past, present and future. Works by
graduate students in the Department of Design,
Performance Studies Graduate Group, Art History
Program, and the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at
UC Davis are represented in this
multidisciplinary exhibition.
