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.
Alum Anuj Vaidya (PhD., performance studies, ‘24) has devised a
one-of-a-kind people-powered cinema that re-stories
the South Asian epic Ramayana, as eco-tales at the
edge of the sixth extinction. On Thursday, June 4 at 6 p.m., “The
Smoldering Forest” is a live performance in which Vaidya and
audiences co-create the film through live sound,
tactile images, and collective imagination.
Blending mythology, ecology, and science-fiction, this
intimate experience invites audience members to become part
of the film itself
The Human Rights Film Festival, a collaboration
of Human Rights Studies, Cinema and Digital Media,
Global Affairs and the College of Letters and Science at UC
Davis, begins with a screening of So Surreal: Behind the
Masks on Jan. 30.
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.”
