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.
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
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.”
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.
