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1 | Focus | Theme | Project title | Semester | Date | Project description | Live-streamed or in-person | Link to Event Calendar | Canvas Assignment | Last Name - A | First Name - A | Last Name - B | First Name - B | Email address | Department | Proposed educational impact as a result of the event: | |
2 | Performing Arts | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Choreographer in Residence with Camille Brown and Dancers | SPRING | Feb. 4, 7:30-9:30pm | The Choreographer in Residence Program is a fully integrated educational and artistic residency involving a professional dance company from New York City, all BFA and BA dance majors, all Dance faculty, university students enrolled in dance courses, and the San Jose community. Camille A. Brown, the 2022 Choreographer in Residence artist, is a prolific Black female choreographer, who is reclaiming the cultural narratives of African American identity. Her work on race culture and identity has won accolades across the country. Part I of the residency involves a 12-day workshop with members of the Camille Brown dance company and the BFA and BA dance students in the advanced performing ensemble, University Dance Theater. The students will work for forty hours learning a dance from the Camille Brown and Dancers repertory. Learning a masterwork is an essential part of dance education, as it is only through these experiences that students can be prepared for the professional dance world. Diversity of dance perspectives and creative practices is also essential. Residencies, such as the Choreographer in Residence with Camille Brown help students develop a broad integrated knowledge of dance as a career and dance in community. During the workshop, students will also focus on movement practices and performance skills. Part II of the residency involves a full week with the entire professional company and the Dance Program. The educational component includes a total of ten technique masterclasses for all dance majors. Camille Brown and Dancers company members participate in all dance technique classes, dancing alongside SJSU dance students. Company members will lead a seminar for the graduating seniors. At this time, the professional artists share their direct experience and advice to students preparing to enter the field. The company also offers a lecture-demonstration, open to the students, faculty, and general public. An open company rehearsal is also included in the residency. Students are invited to be a "fly on the wall" and observe how professional artists work. Company members attend all student rehearsals during this week, offering additional, valuable feedback to the students. The week culminates in two productions at the Hammer Theater. The performances include a full evening of Camille Brown and Dancers and a performance by SJSU dance majors. This project aligns with the theme of Racial Equity and Social Justice. The Dance Program is committed to highlighting work by BIPOC artists. Camille A Brown and members of her company are BIPOC artists. Ms. Brown’s driving passion is to empower Black bodies to tell their story using their own language through movement and dialogue. She is an expert on the history of African-American social dance. Her bold work taps into both ancestral stories and contemporary culture. For years we have hoped to bring Camille Brown to San Jose. We are thrilled our students will have the opportunity to learn from this artist and we are excited to bring her work to the university and San Jose community. | Live-streamed or in-person via Hammer ($ & registration required) | http://events.ha.sjsu.edu/musicanddance/events/camille-a-brown-and-dancers/ | Cooper | Heather | heather.cooper@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The Choreographer in Residence program is one of the most valuable educational experiences for the dance majors. It is only through learning masterworks and dancing alongside and observing professional artists that students can be prepared for a professional dance career. Exposure to great work is vital, and Camille A Brown is one of the most influential dance artists in the field today. The residency has lasting impacts. Alumni that have participated in years past have received professional dance jobs as a direct result of working with one of the Choreographer in Residence artists. Several students have engaged in collaborative projects for their senior capstone projects with professional artists from the residencies. Other students have received scholarships to attend summer workshops and have established meaningful professional connections. Many students and alumni claim these residencies to be the most impactful experiences of their SJSU careers. Diversity in dance education is a Dance Program value. Bringing in thriving dance artists, with unique perspectives and varying aesthetics, adds greatly to the dance curriculum. Developing opportunities for our students to engage in works by BIPOC artists will positively contribute to student success. Learning and celebrating dance by Black dance artists is a Dance Program value. | ||||
3 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | Spring | Feb. 9, 4-6pm | Futurefarmers are working with geologist Jane Willenbring at Stanford University to analyze the soil using X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF). Through this process, they will mine the soil for data which will then be translated through the work of sound artist Yasi Perera into an original score. The score will be played by the SJSU Marching Band, an ensemble of 40 students, under the direction of Craig McKenzie. This will take place outdoors at SJSU Parking Lot #4 on February 9th, 2022 from 4pm-6pm. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The band will march barefoot on top of 2000 pounds of clay, wedging the clay beneath their feet to prepare the soil for new formations. According to Futurefarmers: “the scoring asks us to step out of place and reassemble in new formations. To rethink the militant origins of marching bands, industrial agriculture, biotechnology and the space race. We ask ourselves, who should be marching? Whose attention do we call? And at what scales does this march proceed?” | In-person - location tbd - COVID Protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/wedging_action_futurefarmers_sjsu_marching_band?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History; Humanities | |||
4 | Performing Arts | Black Cab Concert Series: Tiffany Austin | SPRING | Feb 17, 7-8:30pm | Black Cab Jazz is a collaboration between San Jose Jazz, San José State University, and the Hammer Theatre, bringing an intimate cabaret experience featuring some of the best names in modern jazz. Tiffany Austin is one of the most in-demand and dynamic vocalists on the scene today. Join us for a rare intimate concert experience at the Hammer Theater. For more information on Ms. Austin, please visit her bio. | In-person @ Hammer - $ - COVID protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/tiffany_austin_trio_-_black_cab_concert_series | Lington | Aaron | aaron.lington@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The masterclasses provide the music students at SJSU with real-world interaction with world-class artists. The concerts raise the cultural offerings at SJSU and in San Jose as a whole. | |||||
5 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Poetic Postcards Online Spring Workshop | SPRING | Feb 25, 10am-12pm | Calling All Students working in subject matter inspired by San Jose! Join us for a FREE, Online Workshop Friday February 25th 10-12pm hosted by Poetic Postcards, a collaborative project connecting artists and writers to share what San Jose means to you. Hosted by photographer Emilio Banuelos and poet Sally Ashton. Participants are encouraged to bring and share images, writings or other artworks that tell personal stories and/or histories of San Jose and to create a submission to the Poetic Postcard Project. All SJSU students are welcome to attend, especially those currently working in or making work about San Jose. Share your knowledge, experience and love for this great city in this inspirational workshop. You can register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/244612351127 | Live-streamed (registration required) | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/poetic_postcards_online_spring_workshop | Krishnaswamy | Revathi | Holberton | Rhonda | revathi.krishnaswamy@sjsu.edu | English & Comparative Literature | An estimated 90-100 student participant from English/Creative Writing and Digital Media/Graphic Arts will gain hands-on experience in collaborating and creating art works that imaginatively integrate visual art and literary text to tell stories. They will learn how the humanities and arts can be used in combination for the purpose of placemaking, representing place-in-pandemic, and for communicating diverse experiences of place. The risograph book will be a significant work of cross-disciplinary collaborative art that will come out of the project. In addition, selected poetic postcards will be included in the San Jose Story Map and become available for public viewing. | ||
6 | Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Listen Differently: Black Feminism, Music, and Popular Culture | SPRING | March 1, 1:30-5pm | The milestones of women of color in popular music and culture are often celebrated. Yet, in both the music industry and in scholarly studies, little attention is paid to what women of color think about the state of popular music and culture; the impact popular images and tropes have on their everyday lives; and the possibilities for interracial exchange and political mobilization. “Listen Differently: Black Feminism, Music, and Popular Culture” prioritizes Black feminist thought and criticism in the Arts and Humanities by welcoming one of its most powerful practitioners—Dr. Tricia Rose-- to the SJSU campus for a keynote address and conversation with Bay Area hip hop artist and journalist, Rocky Rivera. Dr. Tricia Rose is an internationally-respected scholar of post Civil Rights era Black U.S. culture, popular music, social issues, gender, and sexuality. Her first book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America laid the intellectual foundations for Hip Hop Studies. In 2008, Dr. Rose returned to hip hop to challenge the field she helped found, with: The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop-And Why It Matters. Following her keynote, Dr. Rose will join in conversation with Bay Area independent hip hop artist and journalist Rocky Rivera. Their conversation will focus on addressing the lines between cultural appreciation and appropriation, along with the possibilities for social and political alliances within hip hop music and culture for women of color. Rocky will also perform songs from her latest album Rocky’s Revenge. | In-person & live-streamed @ the Hammer (registration required) | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/listen_differently_black_feminism_music_and_popular_culture_4869 | Berney | Apryl | apryl.berney@sjsu.edu | Film & Theatre | _Listen Differently: Black Feminism, Music, and Popular Culture_ will bring students, faculty, and staff in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences from San Jose State University and De Anza together to think about music and popular culture through a Black feminist lens. Students will learn how to identify what is unique about Black cultural practices and values, and the kinds of interventions Black feminist critics like Rose have made to critical analyses of African American musical practices and discourse. Students will apply what they learn in order to document, historicize, and analyze the cultural stylings of their own relatives, family, and community members whose youthful styles and engagement with hip hop in fashion, music, and dance will make up the content of the digital community archives. Linking Rose’s scholarship with the creation of a community-based digital archive will give students a deeper understanding of hip hop as a social movement, rather than a commodity allowing students to better explore gender and sexual politics in popular music and culture. The archive will also emphasize Afro-Latinx and Afro-Asian coalitions and cultural exchanges allowing students to identify and be in dialogue with each other on the differences between cultural appropriation and appreciation. | ||||
7 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | SPRING | March 1, 5-7:30pm | Futurefarmers: Bones, Tones, and Phones. Founded in 1995 in San Francisco, Futurefarmers is an international working group of artists, architects, anthropologists, writers and farmers aligned through a common interest in recalibrating our senses – one that encourages attention to the many dimensions of the world. Their work engages large spans of time, geography and a superposition of narratives that sometimes contradict. It is within this tension of contradictions where the work is manifest. The artists will speak about current work in conjunction with the opening of their exhibition at the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Artist walk-through, Tuesday, March 1, 5-6pm Opening Reception, Tuesday, March 1, 6-7:30pm Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery SJSU Art Building Room 127 | In-person - ART 127 - COVID Protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/futurefarmers_bones_tones_and_phones?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History; Humanities | |||
8 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Poetic Postcards, Mobile Artmaking, Poetry Art | SPRING | March 4, 6-8pm | Join us in two open-air creative spaces for kids, teens and adults of all ages who are interested in safely gathering for a creative event full of communal art making to celebrate our beautiful city of San José. Friday March 4th from 6-9pm we will have a variety of workshops run by students and faculty from SJSU working in the arts and will provide swag from local businesses. Opportunities to view art through a Mobile Art Kiosk, create visual art pieces through photography and printmaking or share your experience through writing. All participants will have the opportunity to submit work to the San Jose Story Map with help of student assistants via our submission booth. | In-person @ SJMA Circle of Palms | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/san_jose_story_maps_and_mobile_creative_kiosk | Holberton | Rhonda | Krishnaswamy | Revathi | |||||
9 | Art & Public Engagement | Abierto | THE 4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE CELEBRATION | SPRING | March 6, 12-4pm | In this event, various local food truck vendors (food for purchase) and dance groups from different cultures will come and showcase how their cultures influence their food and dance traditions. Come join us at MACLA in downtown San José from 12 pm to 4 pm. Face painting, cultural performances, food trucks, dance groups, art workshop, youth artist exhibit at MACLA -- free and open to the public. | In-person @ Parque de los Pobladores & MACLA | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/the_4th_annual_international_mother_language_celebration | Korani | Tina | |||||||
10 | Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Discussion with Broadway Director Giles Croft and Musical Composer Jonathan Girling | SPRING | March 10, 5pm | Join SJSU professor Matthew Spangler in conversation with Broadway and West End director Giles Croft (The Kite Runner, former Artistic Director of the Nottingham Playhouse, and former Literary Manager of the National Theatre in London) and musical composer Jonathan Girling (The Kite Runner and others). Dr. Spangler's stage adaptation of The Kite Runner will open on Broadway on July 6. The production, which has previously had two runs on London's West End, as well as four UK and Irish tours, and a run at the Dubai Opera House, has been directed by Giles Croft with original musical score by Jonathan Girling. | In-person @ Todd Theatre - COVID protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/discussion_with_broadway_director_giles_croft_and_musical_composer_jonathan_girling | Spangler | Matthew | matthew.spangler@sjsu.edu | Communication Studies | (1) This event aims to provide a comparative analysis of racial equality and social justice through a consideration of the experiences of refugees from predominantly Muslim countries. In the broad landscape of all the events that will be supported by AEPG grants next year, this particular event will enable students the opportunity to examine issues of racial equality and social justice as they operate across geographic, racial, and ethnic boundaries. (2) In its use of the campus reading program selection for 2021//22 (Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric”), the event has the potential to increase student understanding of this particular text, and participate in the series of events hosted by the Campus Reading Program. (3) Finally, the event involves both a theatre workshop (led by Ammar Haj Ahmad) as well as a creative writing masterclass (led by Christy Lefteri) giving student participants the opportunity to experience the social justice capacity of live performance as well as the written text. | ||||
11 | Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Arts as Emancipatory Education Workshop | SPRING | March 10-13 | The project creates a mini-conference called “Arts as Emancipatory Education” that will be embedded within the Philosophy of Education Society’s (PES) 78th annual conference, at the downtown San Jose Hilton Hotel. The “Arts as Emancipatory Education” activities directly address the grant’s Racial Equity and Social Justice theme by asking students and performing artists to address the theme of “Education in Contact Zones.” This theme aligns with the PES conference Call for Papers and Proposals, which situates “schools, colleges, universities, and classrooms as ‘contact zones,’ spaces shaped by the violences of coloniality and racism in contradiction to the proclaimed values of truth, respect, justice, and democracy. At the same time, these contact zones are shaped by what anthropologist Mary Louise Pratt defined as the ‘transculturation phenomena, the emergence of new literacies that embody resistant and transformative values, aspirations and understandings of space and time, of peoples and communities’” (excerpted from the conference’s call for papers). “Arts as Emancipatory Education” proposes that the visual and performing arts are literacies with the potential to express, shape, and transform contact zones. The grant invites SJSU undergraduate and graduate education students (across colleges), SJSU faculty, UCSC credential students, Santa Clara County in-service teachers, and over 100 national and international scholars of education to engage in arts making as transculturation. There are three components to the grant proposal: 1) The first invites SJSU students in specific classrooms (see below) to create works of art that respond to the “Education as Contact Zones” call prior to the conference. These works will then be curated by student assistants and displayed throughout the 4-day conference in the large plenary meeting room at the Hilton. Student-artists will participate in an artist-meets-audience gallery “opening” reception after the (free) keynote speeches in the conference. These speakers are Sandy Grande, author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought and Ron Glass, professor and activist whose work sees education as a practice of freedom and ideological (trans)formation. In addition to the gallery opening and keynotes, students and conference attendees will be invited to a Spoken Word performance and interactive workshop conducted by Brandon Santiago, a Puerto Rican Poet, Educator, and Radio Host. The workshop focuses on spoken word as a practice of emancipatory education. Participants will learn how storytelling (and telling one’s own story) can function to cultivate culturally responsive classrooms. Participants will also create and perform their own spoken word poems. 3) A third component of the grant is a performance and interactive workshop by the two-time Grammy nominated Alphabet Rockers, an intergenerational music group who work with communities, educators, and students to shape a more equitable world through hip hop. The Los Angeles Times calls them “The Grammys wokest act….” The Rockers will perform and facilitate a workshop on the power of the arts for emancipatory and anti-racist education. In this workshop, participants learn how hip hop music and dance can cultivate cultural responsiveness in their classrooms. Participants will also directly engage in hip hop as a pedagogical practice. | live-streamed | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/arts_as_emancipatory_education | Verducci | Susan | Muriera | Gina | susan.verducci@sjsu.edu | Humanites | The project will fulfill the following objectives: Increase awareness of K12 and university classrooms and schools as sites of social and political oppression, as well as sites of potential action and transformation through the arts; Encourage students and faculty to incorporate the arts as pedagogies of emancipation, abolition, and culturally responsive education, and help them develop skills necessary to do so; Increase participants’ sense of themselves as artist-activists-teachers; and Engage participants in interdisciplinary conversations across the arts, philosophy, and education, as well as across educational theory and practice. | ||
12 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | SPRING | March 11, 2-4pm | Graphic Novel Workshop (limited to 20 in-person participants) - As part of the interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fire lecture series, this workshop invites students to hear from acclaimed author Brian Fies, writer of the graphic novel A Fire Story. | In-person - @Steinbeck Center | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/brian_fies_a_fire_story | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History; Humanities | |||
13 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Poetic Postcards, Mobile Artmaking, Poetry Art | SPRING | March 12, 3-6pm | Join us on The Alameda in San Jose for Second Saturdays in two open-air creative spaces for kids, teens and adults of all ages who are interested in safely gathering for a creative event full of communal art making to celebrate our beautiful city of San José. We will have a variety of workshops run by students and faculty from SJSU working in the arts and will provide swag from local businesses. Opportunities to view art through a Mobile Art Kiosk, create visual art pieces through photography and printmaking (screenprinting) or share your experience through writing. All participants will have the opportunity to submit work to the San Jose Story Map with help of student assistants via our submission booth. | In-person @ The Alameda | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/geography_of_art_saturday_stroll_on_the_alameda | Holberton | Rhonda | Krishnaswamy | Revathi | |||||
14 | Performing Arts & Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Latin Choral Music Festival | SPRING | March 14-19 | The Latinx community in California has been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic.* After a harrowing year, the proposed project will strive to celebrate and highlight the extremely rich and diverse musical cultures and traditions that are too often pushed to the margins of the classical music world, as we aim to center the vocal and choral music of Latin America in a week-long Latinx Choral Music Festival. The Festival will include six major collaborative components over a full five days from February 21–25, 2022. The first component is an invited guest conductor of international acclaim who will clinic the SJSU Choirs on their prepared Latinx choral pieces, as well as conduct the day-long High School Choral Invitational that will take place on the final day of the Festival. The clinician will share their expertise in both non-idiomatic and Latinx repertoire. Secondly, a new work will be commissioned for four SJSU Choirs along with the HS choirs to premier at the Festival’s close by a Latinx composer. Third, SJSU students will assist Dr. Corie Brown in transcribing, arranging, and performing choral repertoire previously collected in Colombia, but not yet published abroad or in the US. Oregon choral music publisher earthsongs has agreed to publish said pieces in a series (Música de Latinoamérica) curated by renowned Venezuelan conductor María Guinand, and Juan Manuel Hernández, Colombian choral conductor from the Universidad Industrial Santander will work virtually with students to ensure authenticity. The Voice Area, as well as Mariachi Oro Azul will also take part in master classes focused on performance practice, vocal technique, and Spanish diction across dialects. Spanish students from World Languages & Literature have been invited to participate through contributing translations for the texts of the music. Finally, two San Jose high schools with large Latinx populations who often do not have funding to be able to attend the HS Choral Invitational will be invited free of charge. The Choral Area professors will provide a clinic for the HS singers in the fall on their campus, prior to the Festival. A major barrier for Title I High School participation in events off campus such as this is bussing. Additionally, we know that if students set foot on a university campus, they are much more likely to see university as a future option. Thus, both for the student’s futures, as well as our commitment to equity-minded recruitment, I would like to provide these two schools funding for their bussing to and from our Invitational. The theme of “Racial Equity and Social Justice” is embodied in the Festival’s goals: to raise awareness of, center, and celebrate Latinx Choral Music. This project will model excellence in both content, and process and will strive to be as equitable, and accessible as possible, creating a space where our Latinx students (and Latinx guests) see and hear their identity represented and valued. All programs will be in both Spanish and English, there will be supertitles during each concert or masterclass, speakers will be encouraged to present in Spanish and/or English, artists will be hired who represent our Latinx, and QTBIPOC community members, and the repertoire will be prepared with cultural relevancy in the forefront. The Festival will also be made accessible to those beyond SJSU through livestream, recordings, etc. *(As of March 10, 2021, the California Department of Public Health reported that, while Latinx populations make up only 38.9% of the total California population, 55.4% of all cases, and 46.3% of all deaths associated with COVID-19 in the state were found in the Latinx community.) | In-person - Some free + some $ | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/latin_american_choral_festival | Brown | Corie | corie.brown@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The educational impact that this week-long series of events will have is far reaching. The music students are active participants in the process, and will reflect on their growth, and the sociopolitical elements presented throughout the week as part of Concert Choir (MUSC 50/150), Choraliers, Treble Choir, and Spartan Glee Club. Moreover, the music education students (MUED 175) will gain first hand experience through helping organize the mariachi clinic, as well as research assignments directly related to the Festival content. Active engagement from music students in the Voice, Choral, Music Education, Instrumental, and Composition Areas will result in students taking a deep dive into contemporary choral music from Latin America. Not only will students research, prepare, and discuss the newly commissioned choral work, alongside many already extant pieces, but they will share their work with the High School Invitational students (as well as the many people across the globe who will join virtually), through student-led sectionals, lectures, and guided discussions. Additionally, (pending COVID restrictions, with live stream options as a plan B) our live audience will be engaged through our daily lunchtime Discovery Series, which are hands-on lectures that will also be live streamed, and accessible to Spanish and English speaking communities internationally. The outside departments who will collaborate will provide pre-lecture and post-lecture reflection activities intended to deepen student buy-in and knowledge. The high school students who will join us will be rehearsing and performing in the Concert Hall, and will get a chance to work with renowned clinicians, and interact with our SJSU students. The impact for future recruitment, as well as appreciation for Latinx culture and art will have a future impact throughout these high schooler’s careers, our future music educator’s careers, and will elevate the lives of all who learn from this immersion in Latinx choral music. | ||||
15 | Performing Arts | Black Cab Concert Series: Helen Sung | SPRING | March 19, 7-8:30pm | Black Cab Jazz is a collaboration between San Jose Jazz, San José State University, and the Hammer Theatre, bringing an intimate cabaret experience featuring some of the best names in modern jazz. Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung will be appearing at the intimate Hammer Theater - join us for an unforgettable evening! | In-person @ Hammer - $ - COVID protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/helen_sung_-_black_cab_concert_series | Lington | Aaron | aaron.lington@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The masterclasses provide the music students at SJSU with real-world interaction with world-class artists. The concerts raise the cultural offerings at SJSU and in San Jose as a whole. | |||||
16 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | SPRING | March 22, 5-6pm | Tuesday Night Lecture Series: "Breathing Fire: Those Left Standing," by Robin Lasser. In conjunction with the interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fire lecture series, SJSU Professor of Art Robin Lasser will speak about her new and ongoing series that combines fiction with reality, recognizing that wildfires are forever, here in the Native Now in California. The artworks conflate documentation from the fire-scarred scape of Big Basin in the form of large-scale photographic postcards, 3D point cloud scans, video, and bio data sonification from the surviving trees translated as song. Art Lecture Hall, Art Building Room 133 - For more info, visit sjsu.edu/thompsongallery FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | in-person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/robin_lasser_-_breathing_fire_the_voices_of_those_left_standing?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | The most significant proposed educational impact of this project is a collaboration between students and faculty in the Art, Humanities (American Studies), Environmental Studies, and English Departments and their counterparts in newly formed Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center at San Jose State University on a topic which directly affects all residents of California and has had, in the recent years, significant impacts on the South Bay Area: wildfire and its effects on domestic environments. Through a shared Canvas assignment and resources, participating faculty will create an interdisciplinary reading list which will present multiple perspectives of fire management, the history of wildfire in California, and works of art and literature pertaining to the topic. Students will collaborate via a social annotation assignment, will attend a panel and workshops, and will have the opportunity to contribute to a student gallery exhibition in Spring 2022 on the topic. Equally important is the opportunity for students in Spatial Art to work closely with internationally renowned artists Futurefarmers on the planning, design and construction of the exhibition Picture House. Students will engage with Futurefarmers members through demonstrations, hands-on workshops, and in class visits, and will have the opportunity to share their experiences on the Thompson Art Gallery Youtube page and through an online exhibition of the project. Along with the exhibition, the Thompson Gallery intends to host programs for student and public participation- including an exhibition walk through and performance by Futurefarmers and a panel discussion by scholars of Native American fire management. Students will have the opportunity to learn about traditional fire management techniques in California and the work of researchers and advocates across the state to create sustainable approaches to fire management and protect biodiversity, the environment, and communities. Moreover, hands-on personal narrative and graphic novel workshops will give students the opportunity to explore their own experiences with wildfires and propose their hopes and ideas for the future. Finally, coinciding with the closing of the Picture House exhibition, the Theta Belcher student art gallery at San Jose State University will be the site of a student exhibition of ceramics, photography and interdisciplinary arts students from participating classes on the topic of “the Future of Fire Management in California.” Students in English, Humanities, and Fire Science affiliated classes will be invited to submit personal narratives for display in the exhibition. | ||
17 | Performing Arts & Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem | SPRING | March 23-25 | A West Coast U.S. tour of the play Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem, which would begin at SJSU and continue for three weeks during the spring of 2021. I created this verbatim play from interviews during my Fulbright semester in Bethlehem, Palestine Occupied Territories. The play represents Palestinian Christians and Muslims who responded to the questions: Who is Mary/Maryam (the mother of Jesus/Issa) in 21st century Bethlehem? What role does she play in their lives in this politicized land? The play premiered in Arabic in Bethlehem and subsequently toured Palestine during the spring of 2019. I contracted for low-production video documentation of both the play and the tour. In the US, I've shown these videos in talks about Mary's multivalent symbology in Palestine to generate awareness of Palestine in these volatile times. Audiences at the American Academy of Religion and six churches in the Bay Area were excited, but also indicated that the play must be translated and edited to communicate fully with a U.S. audience. The project: 1. Re-edit the play for US audiences; 2. Rehearse in Bethlehem with the dramaturg and two Palestinian actresses; 3. Tour the play (with audience discussions) to SJSU, community centers, churches and mosques in California; 4. Create a video of the tour. Pew surveys and scholars note that while sympathies are shifting, Americans primarily hue to the Israeli interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The U.S. media rarely offers a Palestinian perspective; even less, nuanced analysis of religious expression. Touring Maryam in the US addresses this lacunae. It offers diverse Christian/Muslim Palestinian interpretations of Mary/Maryam as a source of power, solace, suffering, and resistance. It illuminates the roles of women in Palestinian culture and by extension in the Middle East. It introduces Palestinian actresses – college students themselves – who break the fourth wall so that their otherness is normalized. This play thus demystifies “the other” as an avenue for just peace. | Live-streamed & In-person @ Hammer - registration required - COVID Protocols required for in-person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/maryam_woman_of_bethlehem | Rue | Victoria | victoria.rue@sjsu.edu | Humanities | While SJSU is religiously and racial-ethnically diverse, my students over the last six years were confused about the Israel-Palestine conflict and Palestinian religiosity. This can be ameliorated by both the play and interaction with the two superb bilingual actresses, Dalia Shaktour and Waad Azzeh, both students at Dar Al Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem. Waad lives in Aida Refugee Camp and is a singer; Dalia works as a secretary. The actresses will speak to their daily life, dreams, and challenges. They will address what it means to be a Palestinian woman artist under occupation. They will contribute to SJSU’s knowledge about women, religion and the arts in Palestine. The involvement of SJSU students as volunteers will be crucial to the play’s production on several levels: 1) as part of the advance team in the U.S. helping to organize the U.S. West Coast tour, 2) traveling with the production as support staff, 3) a videographer and editor. Students and professors in several classes will also study the script ahead of time and witness the performances. | ||||
18 | Performing Arts | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Antigone, presented by the girls of St. Catherine's by Madhuri Shekar | SPRING | March 24-26 | The ancient myth of Antigone, a young woman who suffered for heroically standing up to irrational authority, has been adapted numerous times over the past 2500 years, starting with tragedies by both Sophocles and Euripides. Award-winning playwright Madhuri Shekar (2020 Lanford Wilson Award for early-career writing) is the latest to do so, injecting a female, (South Asian) Indian, and 21st-century sensibility with her idiosyncratic take on the iconic Grecian legend, Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s. Shekar’s one-act play is set in the mid-1990s at St. Catherine’s Preparatory School, an all-girl Catholic boarding school in rural Connecticut. There, the drama unfolds among six students, ages 15 to 18, and their male drama teacher, in his mid-40s, struggling to put on their first school play. St. Catherine’s conceit is that the school play the students are mounting (Antigone) mirrors the offstage lives of these young women and their drama teacher at the repressive school, where the strict nuns are sticklers for the rules and unsupportive of theatrics. What Shekar has concocted is a cocktail mixing the subjects of Catholic church sex abuse scandals, the #MeTooMovement, generational differences among romantic partners, Social Justice, friendship, betrayal, secrecy, teenage coming-of-age Sturm und Drang, sexual splendor, self-expression through the arts, and more.This new work has received much praise in workshops and will be an excellent opportunity to share with our students and the SJSU community. | In-person @ Todd Theatre - registration required - COVID Protocols required for in-person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/antigone_presentted_by_the_girls_of_st_catherines | Bechert | Andrea | andrea.bechert@sjsu.edu | Film & Theatre | This production could potentially involve around a hundred students, faculty, and staff in various roles from inception to performance. The audience numbers depend on the venue configuration and number of performances, but we anticipate reaching several hundred members of the campus community and greater San Jose community. This piece aligns with the Social Justice theme, with themes in the #MeTooMovement, and is written by a BIPOC playwright. The impact of a meaningful piece such as this will be felt throughout the entire campus community, greater San Jose community, and beyond. | ||||
19 | Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | What makes our society accepting: Exploring Japanese immigration cases in Monterey and San Jose | SPRING | April 7, 5-7pm | After the WWII, the Monterey people welcomed the Japanese Americans’ return from the internment camps, with a newspaper advertisement titled “Democratic Way of Life for all” signed by more than 400 local people. Similarly, Secretary Norman Mineta, who became the Mayor of San Jose, as the first Japanese American Mayor of a major city, in 1971, witnesses that San Jose’s anti-Japanese sentiment was not as bad as other cities, and that the SJSU president and some faculty members at that time supported them, according to his biography book “Enemy Child”(2019). This is also evidenced by the fact that Santa Clara County accepted about twice as many pre-war Japanese American population right after WWII (Lukes and Okihiro 1985:123). Since 2020 Fall to date, my students and I have been researching why Monterey people welcomed the Japanese Americans after WWII from various perspectives such as geographical conditions, history, demography, economical competition, cross-cultural collaborations, segregation of their residential areas etc. by interviewing the local people and historians and by reading Lyndon(1997),Yamada (2009), Thomas(2011) and the online articles, in JPN102B(SJSU studies area V) “Local and Minority Cultures of Japan”, to learn the key factors that contribute to the creation of an accepting society, like the Monterey case. In coming 2021 Fall and 2022 Spring, the course will focus on our hometown San José and the role of our San Jose State University at that time through the analysis of our local newspaper San Jose Mercury, JACL Newsletter, Spartan Daily and the local Japanese Americans life story interviews collected in Japanese American Museum San José as well as some additional interviews of the local people, while reading Lukes and Okihiro (1985) and Warren (2019) . Then, our research results from Monterey and San José will be shared with Prof. Ma and her students of Psychology Department, and they will analyze the results from the perspectives of social psychology that specifically deals with prejudice and discrimination. By collaborating with a social psychology expert and her students, our research results will be explained and endorsed theoretically, and therefore, become more convincing ones. In the symposium being held using this AEP grant in 2022 April, we will report what we found from our research on San José in comparison with those of Monterey and discuss how we can make our society more accepting with the panelists, Prof. Gary Okihiro of Yale University the author of “Japanese Legacy: Farming and Community Life in California Santa Clara County”(1985), Mr. Tim Thomas, the Monterey local historian and the author of “The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula”(2011), Prof. Steven Doi, the scholar of Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and Prof. Ma, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SJSU. Ultimately, I would like our SJSU students and the audience to know about the genes of their hometown San José and University more, as well as to obtain some hints on how to make our society more accepting through this project and symposium. | Live-streamed from the Hammer - registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/what_makes_our_society_accepting_exploring_the_japanese_immigration_cases_in_monterey_and_san_jose | Yanai | Yasue | yasue.yanai@sjsu.edu | World Languages and Literatures | Ultimately, I would like our SJSU students and the audience to know about the genes of their hometown San José and SJSU more, as well as to obtain some hints on how to make our society more accepting through this project and symposium. | ||||
20 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | SPRING | April 8, 1-2:30pm | Indigenous Fire Stewardship: Panel Discussion with Monique Wynecoop and Don Hankins: Presented as part of the interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fire lecture series, this panel discussion with Monique Wynecoop and Don Hankins will explore Indigenous fire stewardship in California and Washington. | Zoom; registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/indigenous_fire_stewardship_panel_discussion_with_monique_wynecoop_and_don_hankins?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History; Humanities | |||
21 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Digital Design for Sustainability: A UX/UI Bootcamp | SPRING | April 18, 9:30-12pm | With the impact of our planet’s impending climate crisis growing more prevalent each year, it is essential that our students are equipped with the knowledge to conceptualize innovative solutions for our Earth’s most pressing problem. How can students use User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) to understand human behaviors and motivations and, in turn, educate and influence a more sustainable future? (See here for more info: https://express.adobe.com/page/AJPmo0pghNiYw/) The proposed UX/UI bootcamp will take place as a series of workshops and design sprint over 10 days during Spring 2022. The sessions will be facilitated by Adobe UX/UI experts and SJSU’s three official Adobe Education Leaders from the disciplines of Advertising, Graphic Design, and Mass Communications, and feature guest speakers. This collaboration will allow students from various studies to come together, network, learn how to use UX/UI to promote a sustainable future, exercise their creativity, and compete for cash prizes. Part of the bootcamp includes a design sprint event. The theme of the Creative Jam will be Sustainable Futures, and the students will be tasked with creating mobile applications that encourage device users to adopt and maintain habits that promote a more sustainable future. They will be encouraged to depict climate crisis-related subjects and/or consequences such as climate change, environmental practices, ecology, pandemics, climate change-induced population movement, environmental justice, linguistic and cultural preservation, and more. For the design sprint, the students will work in teams of up to 5 students from a variety of majors to design prototypes for their mobile applications using Adobe XD. Their prototyped applications must have at least 20 screens, successfully implement the theme of Sustainable Futures, and be showcased during a 2-minute presentation at the Adobe HQ in downtown San Jose. The groups will be judged according to the communication of their message, adherence to the theme, flow of screens, human factors/accessibility, and visual design. All participating groups will receive complimentary Adobe merchandise (swag) that is sponsored by Adobe. In addition to the competition, there will be a portfolio review for students attending to have the chance to have their portfolio viewed by 5 professional judges. The judge assigned to each student will be relevant to their specialization. The event will be promoted on social media with the hashtag #SJSUClimateCreatives. | In-person & on Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/digital_design_for_sustainability_a_uiux_hackathon | Korani | Tina | Delacruz | John | tina.korani@sjsu.edu | Journalism & Mass Comm | New media design has the ability to influence and impact the ways in which humans learn and behave, including in regards to their sustainability habits. Understanding methods of new media design such as UX and UI are critical to the utilization of new media technologies in any effort to impact the slowing of climate change. By introducing these emerging technologies to students and challenging their critical thinking to invent unique solutions, we are gearing up the next generation to use the tools of tomorrow and face the climate crisis head-on. The students who will be participating will also be learning valuable new skills that will benefit them throughout the remainder of their studies and once they enter the workplace. Adobe XD is a powerful tool not only used for prototyping, it is also applied across the UX and UI process. They will be applying critical thinking and problem solving in a fast, team-based environment using industry-standard tools. | ||
22 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Data+AI+Design II : Rethinking the Future of Sustainable Design | SPRING | April 19-20, 3-4pm | LECTURE: Weidi Zhang (Media Artist, Ph.D. Candidate (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Lecturer (The Ohio State University) - A New Assemblage: Image-data-based Interactive visualization of a human-machine reality |||| WORKSHOP: 2 Day In-Person Virtual Reality Workshop: Visualizing a Bauhaus Style Composition in Virtual Reality - Part 1: Tuesday, April 19 2022 1:30ppm-2:30pm at IS 226 + Part 2: Wednesday, April 2022 3pm-6pm at IS 226 | Zoom (lecture) + Workshop (in-person) - contact Prof. Yoon Chung Han, yoonchung.han@sjsu.edu | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/a_new_assemblage_image-data-based_interactive_visualization_of_a_human-machine_reality | Han | Yoon Chung | yoonchung.han@sjsu.edu | Design | This project will have a significant educational impact by aligning withseveral H&A priorities, including support for students, the use of technology,and globally-engaged, informed citizenship. Students will be able to havean open discussion about the meaning of identity in the 21st centurythrough this exhibition. The exhibition will be voices from ourunderrepresented and minority students. In San Jose State University,nearly a third of the students are the first in their families to attend collegeand about half our students are Pell-Grant eligible. More than 40 percent ofincoming freshmen and 35 percent of incoming transfer students identify asan underrepresented minority. This project will be great opportunities for theminority students who would be struggled with self-identity and borderissues. They can address this social issue in the forms of design researchthrough diverse approaches, which will lead the students to conversationswith their peers, campus communities, international design professionalsand local visitors – they will be invited to think and reflect on rights of ourstudent immigrants and their families, humanities, and meaning of theborders and identities. This event will offer an invaluable opportunity fornetworking, and also bring great visibility to our university. | ||||
23 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | SPRING | April 21, 5-7pm | What’s Next? Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Realty: Scott Stephens, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley - Climate change is impacting the fire regimes of California’s forests by drying fuels earlier, producing more variability in precipitation patterns, and by lengthening fire seasons. However the culmination of 100 years of fire exclusion/suppression and past forest management is a much larger component of our current forest fire problems. While the 2020 fire season and others illustrates fundamental challenges, there are activities that can be taken today to conserve our frequent fire woody ecosystems. I will present information on this topic from forests in Yosemite National Park and the Sierra San Pedro Martir in northwestern Mexico. The good news is we can take actions to today to increase the resilience of our forests but we will have to move decisively if we are going to be able to conserve our forests into the future. | Zoom; registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/whats_next_forest_fires_in_californias_new_climate_reality | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History; Humanities | |||
24 | Performing Arts | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | The Grouch, a Modern Version of the Misanthrope | SPRING | April 22-23, 27, 28, 29 and 30 | In this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope, Molière’s angry hero, Alceste, becomes Alan, a journalist, intellectual, and free spirit-who finds himself adrift in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade (or even knows what a spade is for), how can the cantankerous but high-minded Alan secure the affections of Celia—a spoiled, feckless, fickle socialite, who happens to be the love of his life? | In-person @ Hammer - $ - COVID protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/the_grouch_a_modern_version_of_le_misanthrope | Glazer | Amy | Brandt | Kirsten | amy.glazer@sjsu.edu | Film & Theatre | This project ties in directly with the theatre curriculum supporting, in particular, Advanced Acting TA110, Stage Directing TA116, Theater History TA120 and our GE course TA13 Great Comedies. In addition it becomes fodder for all of our lower division GE Beginning Acting Class, as well as our Intermediate Acting Class, and upper division GE 127 Contemporary Theater Class. All TA students will be required to attend this productions as we incorporate responding to the performance through written assignments and class discussions and examine the directorial interpretation of the production as part of our curriculum in all of our TA courses. Additionally, the guest director will be invited to speak and bring members of the cast to several of our above-mentioned classes where they will discuss and unpack this contemporary and "decolonized" approach to a classical satire. | ||
25 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 22, 2:30-3:45pm | Publishing Master Class. Independent Literary Press Publishing webinar with editors from Nomadic Press, Oakland CA. Live-stream only on Zoom. Free admission. | Live-streamed via Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_publishing_master_class | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
26 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 22, 3-7:30pm | Earth Day Student, Faculty, Staff, Alumni Group Reading: Poetry reading by student contest winners, faculty spotlight, and alumni poets from SJSU with special guest, Interim President, Steve Perez | In-person & live-streaming @ Student Union | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_earth_day_student_faculty_staff_alumni_group_reading | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
27 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 23, 2:30-4pm | Performance Poetry Video Production Workshop: Led by former and current Santa Clara County Poet Laureates "Mighty" Mike McGee and Tshaka Campbell. | Live-streamed via Zoom + Registration Required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_performance_poetry_video_production_workshop | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
28 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 23, 4:15-5:15pm | San José Story Map Reading, Award Ceremony & Tribute to Robert Bly: Featuring Nils Peterson, Patrick Surgalski, Sally Ashton, "Mighty" Mike McGee, Arlene Biala, Lara Gularte, and others. | In-person & live-streaming @ Hammer Theatre + Registration Required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_san_jose_story_map_reading_tribute_to_robert_bly | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
29 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 23, 5:30-7pm | "Habitat Threshold" Environmental Poetry Reading: Featuring Keynote Poet Craig Santos Perez (live on Zoom from Honolulu, Hawaii) and onstage poets MK Chavez and Arlene Biala (2016-17 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate). Folled by an onstage discussion and audience Q&A. | In-person & live-streaming @ Hammer Theatre + Registration Required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_habitat_threshold_environmental_poetry_reading | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
30 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 24, 2;30-3:30pm | Poetry Performance Video Premiere produced by the Diasporic Peoples Writing Collective. | Live-streamed via YouTube | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_poetry_performance_video_premiere | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
31 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 24, 4-5:15pm | Poet Laureates Reading: Featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (San Francisco Poet Laureate); Tshaka Campbell (Santa Clara County Poet Laureate); Nils Peterson (First Santa Clara County Poet Laureate); "Mighty" Mike Mcgee, Arlene Biala, Sally Ashton (former Santa Clara County Poet Laureates); Lara Gularte (El Dorado County Poet Laureate); Ayodele Nzinga (Oakland Poet Laureate); Kalumu Chaché (East Palo Alto Poet Laureate); and other local area Poet Laureates. | In-person & live-streaming @ Student Union Theatre + Registration Required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_poet_laureates_reading | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
32 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Can Poetry Save the Planet?: Poetry & Environmental Justice | SPRING | April 24, 5:30-7pm | "Black Nature" Environmental Poetry Reading: Featuring Keynote Poet Camille T. Dungy (live on Zoom from Colorado State University). Live onstage readings by Tshaka Campbell, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Ayodele Nzinga. Followed by an onstage discussion and audience Q&A. | In-person & live-streaming @ Student Union Theatre + Registration Required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/legacy_of_poetry_festival_22_black_nature_environmental_poetry_reading | Soldofsky | Alan | |||||||
33 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | XR Climate Visualization Series | SPRING | April 27, 10:30am-12:30pm | Morning Session: Have you ever wondered how you can create a more sustainable world and combat climate change? Join us for the Climate VR Series and learn about how virtual reality can help us get a better inside look into climate change, enable our community to embrace sustainability, and broaden our toolset in conveying the message of a sustainable future. See the website for a list of speakers: https://express.adobe.com/page/uGSCROxkXYW2P/ | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/climate_vr_series_a_mixed_reality_hackathon_morning_session | Korani | Tina | tina.korani@sjsu.edu | Journalism & Mass Comm | The workshop series will provide students with a comprehensive set of skills in new media technologies necessary to address broad issues like climate change. They will leave with a greater understanding of storytelling through virtual reality filmmaking, development of responsive web content, techniques in 360 video production, and methods of crafting messages for climate communication. Additionally, they will expand their educational and professional networks at the event by collaborating with like-minded SJSU students and professors from departments outside of their own and meeting industry professionals from Silicon Valley and beyond. | ||||
34 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | XR Climate Visualization Series | SPRING | April 27, 6-8pm | Evening Session: Have you ever wondered how you can create a more sustainable world and combat climate change? Join us for the Climate VR Series and learn about how virtual reality can help us get a better inside look into climate change, enable our community to embrace sustainability, and broaden our toolset in conveying the message of a sustainable future. See the website for a list of speakers: https://express.adobe.com/page/uGSCROxkXYW2P/ | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/climate_vr_series_a_mixed_reality_hackathon_evening_session | Korani | Tina | tina.korani@sjsu.edu | Journalism & Mass Comm | The workshop series will provide students with a comprehensive set of skills in new media technologies necessary to address broad issues like climate change. They will leave with a greater understanding of storytelling through virtual reality filmmaking, development of responsive web content, techniques in 360 video production, and methods of crafting messages for climate communication. Additionally, they will expand their educational and professional networks at the event by collaborating with like-minded SJSU students and professors from departments outside of their own and meeting industry professionals from Silicon Valley and beyond. | ||||
35 | Performing Arts | Black Cab Concert Series: Miguel Zenón | SPRING | April 28, 7-8:30pm | Black Cab Jazz is a collaboration between San Jose Jazz, San José State University, and the Hammer Theatre, bringing an intimate cabaret experience featuring some of the best names in modern jazz. Multiple Grammy Nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón represents a select group of musicians who have masterfully balanced and blended the often contradictory poles of innovation and tradition. Widely considered as one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists and composers of his generation, he has also developed a unique voice as a conceptualist, concentrating his efforts on perfecting a fine mix between Jazz and his many musical influences. | In-person @ Hammer - $ - COVID protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/miguel_zenon_duo_-_black_cab_concert_series | Lington | Aaron | aaron.lington@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The masterclasses provide the music students at SJSU with real-world interaction with world-class artists. The concerts raise the cultural offerings at SJSU and in San Jose as a whole. | |||||
36 | Performing Arts & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Ecoacoustics Series | SPRING | May 4, 7pm | The Ecoacoustics series consists on the production of two string quartet concerts that involve interdisciplinary collaboration between music and environmental science. The first concert will feature environmental sonic translations by Christopher Luna-Mega, incoming faculty member in the School of Music and Dance, exploring the acoustics of climate futures, the biophony in the Arctic, sounds of geysers, and sounds of insects. The second concert will feature music by the students in Luna-Mega’s specialty course (Ecoacoustics) and in Music 167 (Electroacoustic Music Synthesis). The first concert will feature brief presentations of faculty from the Environmental Sciences, Biology, and Geology, fields from which Luna-Mega’s environmental work derives. These presentations will serve as introductions to the pieces featured in the evening. The second concert will follow the same logic as the first concert. Music students will present their final projects, which involve collaborating with students majoring in environmentally focused fields in order generate music compositions. For both concerts, Luna-Mega will embark on building relationships with the departments involved in Environmental Science, with the objective of developing projects such as these concerts. | In-person @ Hammer - COVID protocols required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/water_and_fire_ecoacoustics?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Luna-Mega | Christopher | Furman | Pablo | ch.luna.mega@gmail.com | School of Music & Dance | This event will begin a planned collaboration between the Department of Music and Dance and other departments in the field of environmental sciences. This could begin a series of projects between faculty of these departments and set an antecedent for pedagogical practices involving environmentally focused projects. Most importantly, this project will introduce the students in SJSU to the field of environmental sonic translation in Ecoacoustics, which is an important strategy for interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and the sciences with the objective of increasing environmental awareness. | ||
37 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | SPRING | May 10, 6-8pm | FEAST | EAT | PLAY - Gallery Reception (with art on display May 9-12) A selection of works produced by students in Art 135: Moldmaking for Artists that examines what we consume through food and play. Equal Play: creating culturally diverse play food is part of COMMUNITY TABLE, a project sponsored by a College of Humanities and the Arts Artistic Excellence Programming Grant. Community Table utilizes art and design to consider the availability of fresh and diverse food on the SJSU campus, foster a better understanding of food needs of SJSU students, and create resources for students and community members. It runs parallel to Taste of Home, a project by community partner Chopsticks Alley Art and Cynthia Cao, Creative Ambassador for the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San José, which engaged San José communities in printmaking workshops to share food stories and inspire change in future food donations. Community Table builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula, visiting artist lectures, student presentations, and hands-on workshops. | In-person @ Black Gallery, SJSU Art Building, 2nd floor, Room 204 | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/feast_eat_play | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
38 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Perspectives on Fire: Fire, Soil, and California Ecology | Spring | May 10, 11-1pm | Perspectives on Fire: Interdisciplinary Mixer: Join faculty and student participants of the interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fire group to learn more about Fire Science research at SJSU and its connection to the Humanities and the Arts. This open tabling event will feature a photography exhibition, instruments from the Fire Weather Research Center, student work on fire and humanities and more. | In-person, 7th St. Paseo | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/perspectives_on_fire_interdisciplinary_mixer?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Sauzade | Alena | Rivers | Daniel | alena.sauzade@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History; Humanities | |||
39 | Performing Arts | Musical Theatre Showcase | SPRING | May 12, 7pm | An accompanist / vocal director guest artist for TA 103: Musical Theatre. This course is technique-based class for musical theatre that will culminate in a Showcase at the end of the semester. The course focuses on ‘acting the song.” The Showcase will be open to the general public and SJSU community. I have taught the course for the last three years without the assistance of an accompanist, using click tracks and karaoke links. Adding an accompanist/vocal director to work with students at strategic times throughout the semester will enhance in the development of their technical skills, performance confidence and overall education in the disciple. This guest artist will bring a real-world experience into the classroom and help prepare our students for the industry. As the department continues to build the Musical Theater Minor, we need to offer experiences for students to hone their skills and widen their repertoire. The showcase will consist of contemporary musical theatre songs and scenes, focusing on the latest trends in the genre, like SIX, BE MORE CHILL, HADESTOWN, MOULIN ROUGE, ALLEGIANCE, HAMILTON, BEETLEJUICE, MEAN GIRLS, THE PROM, etc. I will curate the evening to create a thematic through line that connects the pieces together for a full evening. | Hal Todd Theatre | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/musical_theatre_showcase | Brandt | Kirsten | kirsten.brandt@sjsu.edu | Film & Theatre | Musical Theatre has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are anticipating that by Spring 2022, we will be returned to regular practices. Therefore, TA 103, will be the first opportunity for students to work with musical theatre techniques and perform since March of 2020. As we continue to build enthusiasm for the Musical Theater Minor, and momentum for the Fall 2022 musical, this Showcase will reach a wide variety of students (including transfers and new students) interested in the discipline. | |||||
40 | Performing Arts | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Opera Double Bill: La Curandera & Trial By Jury | SPRING | May 13 & 15 | La Curandera, composed by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, is a one-act comic opera, set in present-day Tepoztlán. This enchanting and mystical opera is a refreshing take on the same story as Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, where the sorcerer is replaced with a curandera, a Mexican folk healer and magician. Watch as La Curandera cures Alba’s jealous heart. ¡¡Ayyyyy!! ++ Silence in court!! Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan is a classic and hilarious one-act comic opera. Laugh out loud at the antics on stage as ex-lovers Edwin and Angelina battle it out in a “breach of promise of marriage” lawsuit. Perhaps these jealous hearts are long past healing… Catch the “Trial-Law-Law” of the century on May 13th and 15th at the Hammer Theater. | In-person @ Hammer - $ - COVID protocols required | https://hammertheatre.com/events-list/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022.05.02%20SJC&utm_term=SJCtoday%20Subscribers%20-%20MASTER | Cohen | Fred | fred.cohen@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | One of the purposes of the Artistic Excellence Fee is to involve students in the creation of excellent artistic productions. The proposed production will engage student performers in the process of creating an artistically excellent produce, and will engage audience members from diverse communities in a unique and artistically satisfying experience. The juxtaposition of the "classical" Mozart with Rodríguez' inventive score and Mary Medrick's modern libretto highlight the timelessness of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's original story while creatively updating the romantic tale for 21st-Century sensibilities and adapting it to a Latin American cultural paradigm. Approximately 700 non-music majors will attend the performances and engage in pre-concert talks and other educational activities in preparation for the production. In addition, a high school matinee will be provided for area high schools. | ||||
41 | Performing Arts | n/a | 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚! | SPRING | CANCELLED | The 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚! program features 450 students from the School of Music and Dance as well as non-music/dance majors. 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚! is a non-stop, fun-filled music/dance event for the whole family. From jazz to percussion, guitar to musical theater, there's something for everyone at 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚! Students are actively involved in all aspects of preparation and performance. | Cohen | Fred | fred.cohen@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚! program involves over 450 student performers located in and around the Hammer Theatre. Faculty are involved as ensemble directors, coaches and soloists. Outcomes include a heightened awareness throughout the SJSU/San José community of the quality of performance at the SMD, and, perhaps more importantly, a heightened comraderie amongst students in the various areas/degrees of the SMD as they come together on the same stage. This year's 𝙆𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙚! program is schedule to coincide with music area auditions —it's an excellent recruiting tool—and for the first time will offer a matinee for high school students. | ||||||
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43 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 7 @ 10:45am | Alumni artist talk, Nanzi Muro: Social Practice Community Garden/Photography. This collaborative project focuses on student-made resources to raise awareness and address food scarcity and insecurity among SJSU students and surrounding San Jose communities. Students in Art, Design, Nutrition, Art Education, and Animation will participate in a series of workshops, lectures, design challenges, and cooking events, engaging in cross-departmental projects that explore creative solutions to food scarcity and related issues. Community Table addresses the Sustainable Futures theme by utilizing art and design to consider the availability of fresh and diverse food on campus, foster a better understanding of food needs of SJSU students, and create resources for students and community members in the form of printed materials like recipe cards, cookbooks, and awareness posters. The resources are intended to give students more agency as they navigate food pantries and other sources of food donation. This project will run parallel to the Taste of Home project by Cynthia Cao, Creative Ambassador for the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Jose, and community partner Chopsticks Alley Art, which engages San Jose communities in printmaking to share food stories and inspire change in future food donations. Students in ARED150: Field Experience in the Arts will develop art lessons and assemble art kits for K-12 classrooms to expand the audience impact of this project. | Zoom recording | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | |||
44 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 14 @ 12pm | Natural homemade inks workshop with Instructor Irene Carvajal. Irene Carvajal is a multidisciplinary Costa Rican-American artist, her art practice includes printmaking, collage, sculpture, video, performance and installation. Thematically her work touches on the intersectionality of colonialism, labor, feminism, value, mass production and environmentalism. She is an experimental, conceptual artist interested in materiality and meaning making through process and medium. Her research has led her to explore sustainable alternatives to traditional methods and materials. In this workshop, Irene will explain how to make natural homemade inks with items commonly found in the home. | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/irene_carvajal_workshop_natural_homemade_inks | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
45 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 14 @ 1pm | Michael Martinez, Artist talk: Urban Garden Zines. Michael Martinez is a Tejano conceptual artist, photographer, painter, and part of the transnational artist collective “WE DA PEPO.” Martinez specializes in the brazen and bizarre while confronting social ideologies unrelenting logic. Through his poignant compositions and often controversial subject matter, the artist can evoke intense feelings from the spectator with layered meanings to challenge the audience’s perspective. | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/michael_martinez_artist_talk_urban_garden_zines | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
46 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 16 @ 4:30pm | Tim Berry, Artist talk: Natural Transfers. Tim Berry has been a practicing artist for over 30 years. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, including 21 solo and 75 group exhibitions. He is also a dedicated art educator, having taught and lectured at university level for 33 years. He is presently on the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute. | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/tim_berry_artist_talk_natural_transfers | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
47 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 21 @ 1-2pm | Angela Smith, Alumni artist talk: Food culture/Cultural foods. Angela Smith is an Irish and Filipina American printmaker, born and raised in San Jose, California and has recently relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. She graduated from San Jose State University in Spring of 2021 with a Bachelors in Design Studies. In 2019, Angela was accepted into an Artist Residency program at the Palo Alto Art Center, featuring two large printing collages, focused on the systemic issues of violence committed by the state and industrial environmental destruction. | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/angela_smith_alumni_artist_talk | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
48 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Poetic Postcards | FALL | Sept 24 @ 10am-12pm | Workshop 1 “Poetic Postcards” is a place making project focused on the city of San José. Creative Writing and Visual/Digital Art students at SJSU will collaborate and create “poetic postcards” that imaginatively integrate visual art and literary text to tell stories about San José. “Poetic Postcards” extends the 2019-20 “Wish You Were Here” project in a new and cross-disciplinary direction. The Poetic Postcards project will organize a series of workshops in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. Each workshop will be led by a San José based writer and artist who will provide inspiration, ideas, tools and techniques for imagining San Jose. PROMPTS: What is San José to you? Is it an iconic place? A life experience? A memory? A frame of mind? How would you capture something essential about the city on a postcard? Join artist Emilio Banuelos and writer Sally Ashton who will lead a group of student writers and artists to consider just that. In this generative workshop you will have a chance to work together in a group and in pairs, if desired, to create collaborative postcards to contribute to the San José Story Map project. Generative prompts will help get you started. Suggested prompts for stories: ● Covid Chronicles (pandemic experiences in San José) ● Finding Home in San José ● We too are San José Come back in November to share your progress. Find support, critique, and a way to put it all together. The emphasis of this workshop is on creating an opportunity for personal exploration that enables participants to document their community using their unique voice. Participants should be prepared to work with a sense of visual curiosity in order to extend the limits of their approach to storytelling. You'll need: a well-charged cell phone, paper and pen/pencil. SJSU students from two clubs – The Poets and Writers Coalition & Dirty Brushes – will participate in the Poetic Postcard workshops. | Zoom - registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/poetic_postcards?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar&mkt_tok=NjYzLVVLUS05OTgAAAF_ozsuXgaW4ZGdVf0iQa6scd8pLJ4Nn_2XFYDqBlONdpAxfOz-2FIJ1ooMqllejX4LiTRgE9p9ccTRTCXiZiS6d1Z-u6LnimoghfGkOxlp | Krishnaswamy | Revathi | Holberton | Rhonda | revathi.krishnaswamy@sjsu.edu | English & Comparative Literature | An estimated 90-100 student participant from English/Creative Writing and Digital Media/Graphic Arts will gain hands-on experience in collaborating and creating art works that imaginatively integrate visual art and literary text to tell stories. They will learn how the humanities and arts can be used in combination for the purpose of placemaking, representing place-in-pandemic, and for communicating diverse experiences of place. The risograph book will be a significant work of cross-disciplinary collaborative art that will come out of the project. In addition, selected poetic postcards will be included in the San Jose Story Map and become available for public viewing. | ||
49 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 27 @ 9am & 10:45am | Rhiannon Alpers papermaking wokrshop. Rhiannon will demonstrate how to make paper incorporating food scraps and basic materials. Making paper from plant-based food scraps. Rhiannon Alpers, has an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Book Arts from UC Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies. She is a papermaker, letterpress printer and book artist. She has exhibited internationally, and her edition and one of a kind artist books are produced under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint. Rhiannon will demonstrate how to make paper incorporating food scraps and basic materials. This collaborative project focuses on student-made resources to raise awareness and address food scarcity and insecurity among SJSU students and surrounding San Jose communities. Students in Art, Design, Nutrition, Art Education, and Animation will participate in a series of workshops, lectures, design challenges, and cooking events, engaging in cross-departmental projects that explore creative solutions to food insecurity and related issues. | Zoom | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/rhiannon_alpers_workshop_papermaking | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
50 | Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | Citizen: Artistic, Literary, and Political Conversations on Race in Higher Education | FALL | Sept 27 @ 5pm | Together with the Campus Reading Program, College of Humanities and the Arts Artistic Excellence Programming Grant, and the Center for Literary Arts , we are pleased to present Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, in a reading and conversation on Monday, September 27th at 5PM PST on Crowdcast. This event is free and open to the public. Yale Professor Claudia Rankine has emerged as a premier writer on race and social justice. In Citizen: An American Lyric, she reflects on racial inequalities through personal, professional, and artistic lenses. She "recounts mounting racial aggressions . . . in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time.” Citizen was awarded The National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. The symposium features a reading and presentation from Rankine, followed by a question and answer session. The event serves to bring together students, professors, and staff to exchange ideas and to learn from one another. In particular, the event provides an entry point into inequality from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Symposium participants will also learn through the experience of hearing Rankine speak in the moment, and through the educational experiences of the symposium itself. For more information, visit: https://www.sjsu.edu/reading/events/citizen-symposium.php | Live-streamed - requires registration | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/cla_presents_claudia_rankine?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Email for access: richard.mcnabb@sjsu.edu | McNabb | Richard | richard.mcnabb@sjsu.edu | English & Comparative Literature | Instructors who have used Citizen in their classes note how the text and co-curricular campus events have allowed students to “grapple with difficult issues in a safe space” and to create “artistic responses to current events.” First year composition students will also be exposed to different genres of writing and different ways authors construct meaning in a text. | |||
51 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 28 @ 12:30pm | Glenn Hansen from Reynolds Advanced material. Demonstration with Reynolds Advanced Materials using more traditional molding methods. | Zoom: Registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/glenn_hansen_workshop_molding_methods | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
52 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Sept 30 @ 12:30pm | Corinne Takara on biomaterial molds. Corinne Takara is a Bay Area artist/arts educator who creates technology integrated art projects. Her public collaborative work explores the use of modern day products to preserve cultural heritage and memory, and honors the colliding and merging stories that arise in rapidly shifting communities. Corinne’s workshop will focus on making molds from 3D printed bucks for biogrown substrates. She will share biomaterial recipes and elaborate on the process of transforming materials diverted from the waste-stream. | Zoom (registration required) | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/corinne_takara_workshop_biomaterial_molds | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
53 | Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | A Conversation on the Business of Music with the Ronstadt Brothers | FALL | Oct 1 @ 3pm | This event features Peter and Michael Ronstadt of the folk rock band, the Ronstadt Brothers, in conversation with Benjamín Juárez Echenique, (Emeritus Professor of Arts Leadership, Boston University). The talk will explore the business of starting and running a successful touring band, and it will be facilitated by Marcela Davison Aviles, of the Chapultepec Group and TomKat Media. | Workshop (Student Union): in-person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/the_business_of_music_featuring_the_ronstadt_brothers | Rivers | Daniel | daniel.rivers@sjsu.edu | Steinbeck Center | SJSU students of all backgrounds, but especially those from Mexican-American families, will connect with the Ronstadt Brothers and find inspiration from their example. If the May 2018 masterclass is any indication, the Ronstadts will gladly visit classrooms as well, time and COVID permitting. | ||||
54 | Performing Arts | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | The Ronstadt Brothers in Concert | FALL | Oct 3 @ 3pm | The Ronstadt Brothers are a Tucson-based folk music trio offering a new take on the traditional Southwestern and Mexican songs that the Ronstadt family has been performing for five generations. Like so many of our students, they grew up in a Mexican-American household steeped in artistic traditions from both sides of the border. Following in the footsteps of their aunt Linda, they are bringing this cross-cultural art to new generations. In 2019, the Center for Steinbeck Studies commissioned the Ronstadts to compose a new album of songs inspired by the cultural legacy of El Camino Real. The proposed AEPG/Social Justice event will be the world premiere of these songs, and it will be timed to coincide with the Steinbeck Center's other musical commission, “Camino Chronicles” by Gabriela Ortiz, which will be premiered by Symphony Silicon Valley at the California Theater in downtown San José in October 2021. AEPG funding will allow us to create a mini music festival themed around El Camino Real that incorporates both symphonic music (SSV) and folk music (Ronstadt Brothers) and brings together audiences from SJSU and the wider community. Both commissions (by Gabriela Ortiz and the Ronstadt Brothers) were supported by a grant from the TomKat Foundation, the family foundation of Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor. The key contributors to this project, including composers Ortiz and Peter Ronstadt, convened on the SJSU campus in May 2018 for kickoff events that included a masterclass (May 4, 2018) with students in Prof. Mauricio Rodriguez’s composition course. Our partners also include the San José based Mexican-American arts organization Camino Arts (www.caminoarts.org) and Symphony Silicon Valley (https://www.symphonysiliconvalley.org/). See more information in the Camino Chronicles blog post from the SJSU newsroom. | Hammer Theatre: in-person - registration required (free) | Rivers | Daniel | daniel.rivers@sjsu.edu | Steinbeck Center | SJSU students of all backgrounds, but especially those from Mexican-American families, will connect with the Ronstadt Brothers and find inspiration from their example. If the May 2018 masterclass is any indication, the Ronstadts will gladly visit classrooms as well, time and COVID permitting. | |||||
55 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Oct 14 @ 12-3pm | Students will learn about printmaking (screenprinting and styrofoam printing), and will be able to create their own unique work of art. The workshops will be in the SJSU Art Quad. Materials will be provided. | In-person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/printmaking_event?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
56 | Art & Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Community Table: Creative Approaches to Addressing Food Scarcity | FALL | Oct 21 @ 12-3pm | Students will learn about printmaking (screenprinting and styrofoam printing), and will be able to create their own unique work of art. The workshops will be in the SJSU Art Quad. Materials will be provided. | In-person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/printmaking_event?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Wilson (SJSU Lecturer, Pictorial Art) | Michelle | Cao | Cynthia | cynthia.cao@sjsu.edu | Art & Art History | This project builds bridges across disciplines and connects students in the art, design, and nutrition departments through curricula and hands on workshops. The educational and public impact of this project will be an enhanced awareness throughout SJSU of the food insecurity felt by students and the surrounding community as well as creative art and design based solutions for more culturally diverse and enjoyable ways to access and utilize available on campus food resources. Our overall goal is to bring awareness to food relief options on campus, while helping students gain agency by encouraging them through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, and tutorials, to create material resources in the form of recipes, posters, cookbooks, and compost containers that can be utilized by their peers. | ||
57 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Data+AI+Design II : Rethinking the Future of Sustainable Design | FALL | Oct 22 @ 11am-3pm | Steven Geofrey (assistant professor at Northeastern University) - Data visualization lecture and workshop: "Technologies of Seeing" through design as a way to articulate human interaction. We are increasingly confronted with the consequences of a changing environment on a daily basis. However, data about the environment can feel abstract and hard to understand due to their complexity, use of scientific jargon, need for expert knowledge, and general difficulty in accessing them. As a result, such data can be difficult to distill down to practical terms that are salient to the experience of individual people. How can environmental data be communicated in more tangible and actionable forms? This workshop explores principles of information design and data storytelling, in both theory and practice, that can be used to make environmental data more accessible to public audiences. | Zoom - registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/storytelling_with_environmental_data_through_information_design | Han | Yoon Chung | yoonchung.han@sjsu.edu | Design | This project will have a significant educational impact by aligning withseveral H&A priorities, including support for students, the use of technology,and globally-engaged, informed citizenship. Students will be able to havean open discussion about the meaning of identity in the 21st centurythrough this exhibition. The exhibition will be voices from ourunderrepresented and minority students. In San Jose State University,nearly a third of the students are the first in their families to attend collegeand about half our students are Pell-Grant eligible. More than 40 percent ofincoming freshmen and 35 percent of incoming transfer students identify asan underrepresented minority. This project will be great opportunities for theminority students who would be struggled with self-identity and borderissues. They can address this social issue in the forms of design researchthrough diverse approaches, which will lead the students to conversationswith their peers, campus communities, international design professionalsand local visitors – they will be invited to think and reflect on rights of ourstudent immigrants and their families, humanities, and meaning of theborders and identities. This event will offer an invaluable opportunity fornetworking, and also bring great visibility to our university. | ||||
58 | Creative Writing | Sustainable Futures | CLA Presents: Gala Celebrating REED Magazine #154 featuring Tracy K. Smith | FALL | Oct 28 @ 5pm | The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to host the launch of Reed Magazine: Issue 154 which explores innovative uses of cliché. The evening will include a reading by some of the award-winning contributors in the genres of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. During the second half of the program, acclaimed author Patricia Engel will read from her best-selling novel, Infinite Country. Patricia Engel is the author of Infinite Country, a New York Times Bestseller, Reese’s Book Club pick, Esquire Book Club and Book of the Month Club pick, Indie Next pick, Amazon Best Book of the Month, and more. Her other books include The Veins of the Ocean, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, which won the International Latino Book Award, and of Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award and the Young Lions Fiction Award; winner of a Florida Book Award, International Latino Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award, longlisted for the Story Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. For Vida, Patricia was the first woman to be awarded Colombia’s national prize in literature, the 2017 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, and Key West Literary Seminar among others, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Award. Patricia’s books have been translated into many languages. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, A Public Space, Ploughshares, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Her criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Catapult, and in numerous anthologies. CLA Presents: Reed 154 is a fundraising event celebrating the launch of student run Reed magazine, the oldest literary magazine west of the Mississippi. The evening helps make possible several CLA community programs, including low-cost or free literary performances by the nation's best contemporary writers, creative writing workshops for the general public, book clubs, and more. | Live-streamed - requires registration | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/cla_presents_reed_154_launch_party_feat_patricia_engel?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar | Anderson | Selena | selena.anderson@sjsu.edu | English & Comparative Literature | REED 155 brings vibrancy to the university community and San Jose in a variety of ways. The gala features an onstage bilingual poetry performance, the likes of which audience members are not likely to see elsewhere. It is not only a call to literary arms--a beautiful act of resistance to troubling rhetoric and attacks on the truth--but it also demonstrates how we can build bridges and share space to create art. Poet Tracy K. Smith will meet with students within the English Department for an informal craft talk on poetry. PWC members in their role as poetry buskers, have the opportunity to hone their own creative writing skills and wits, by tapping into the muse of immediate inspiration as they write poems for people based on themes given to them on the spot. For community members, getting a poem written specifically for them is an invaluable, and it makes poetry feel like a relevant and accessible experience. English majors also have the opportunity to write about and interview their literary heroes and through classes like ENGL 70, ENGL 141. In ENGL 139 Visiting Authors, students give presentations on a book by a CLA author and develop their critical thinking and close reading skills by conducting personal interviews and writing conference style papers. REED 154 is sure to have a far-reaching effect and inspire important conversations. | ||||
59 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Data+AI+Design II : Rethinking the Future of Sustainable Design | FALL | Nov 10 @ 6pm | Lecture by Hyemi Song (designer at Microsoft HQ) - Data visualization lecture and workshop. Hyemi Song is a designer, an artist, and a researcher. She is interested in data as a language for human communication and relevant practices associated with Information Data Visualization, Data Sonification, Human-Computer Interaction, Data-Driven Self-Expression, and Walking as an artistic language. In the professional field, based on her specialties (Data Visualization and UX/UI Design), she has extensively worked with international companies and institutions, including Microsoft, Naver, Samsung, Korea Telecom, RISD, MIT and more. | Zoom - registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/data_and_human_communication | Han | Yoon Chung | yoonchung.han@sjsu.edu | Design | This project will have a significant educational impact by aligning withseveral H&A priorities, including support for students, the use of technology,and globally-engaged, informed citizenship. Students will be able to havean open discussion about the meaning of identity in the 21st centurythrough this exhibition. The exhibition will be voices from ourunderrepresented and minority students. In San Jose State University,nearly a third of the students are the first in their families to attend collegeand about half our students are Pell-Grant eligible. More than 40 percent ofincoming freshmen and 35 percent of incoming transfer students identify asan underrepresented minority. This project will be great opportunities for theminority students who would be struggled with self-identity and borderissues. They can address this social issue in the forms of design researchthrough diverse approaches, which will lead the students to conversationswith their peers, campus communities, international design professionalsand local visitors – they will be invited to think and reflect on rights of ourstudent immigrants and their families, humanities, and meaning of theborders and identities. This event will offer an invaluable opportunity fornetworking, and also bring great visibility to our university. | ||||
60 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Data+AI+Design II : Rethinking the Future of Sustainable Design | FALL | Nov 12 @ 4pm | Workshop by Hyemi Song (designer at Microsoft HQ) - Data visualization lecture and workshop. Hyemi Song is a designer, an artist, and a researcher. She is interested in data as a language for human communication and relevant practices associated with Information Data Visualization, Data Sonification, Human-Computer Interaction, Data-Driven Self-Expression, and Walking as an artistic language. In the professional field, based on her specialties (Data Visualization and UX/UI Design), she has extensively worked with international companies and institutions, including Microsoft, Naver, Samsung, Korea Telecom, RISD, MIT and more. Her works have been featured in international awards, publications, and exhibitions such as Information is Beautiful Awards, IEEE Arts Program, Fast Company, Monthly Design Magazine, iF Design Awards, The Guardian, Raw Data: Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, Seoul Design Olympiad, among others. | Zoom - registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/measuring_the_temperature_of_my_mind | Han | Yoon Chung | yoonchung.han@sjsu.edu | Design | This project will have a significant educational impact by aligning withseveral H&A priorities, including support for students, the use of technology,and globally-engaged, informed citizenship. Students will be able to havean open discussion about the meaning of identity in the 21st centurythrough this exhibition. The exhibition will be voices from ourunderrepresented and minority students. In San Jose State University,nearly a third of the students are the first in their families to attend collegeand about half our students are Pell-Grant eligible. More than 40 percent ofincoming freshmen and 35 percent of incoming transfer students identify asan underrepresented minority. This project will be great opportunities for theminority students who would be struggled with self-identity and borderissues. They can address this social issue in the forms of design researchthrough diverse approaches, which will lead the students to conversationswith their peers, campus communities, international design professionalsand local visitors – they will be invited to think and reflect on rights of ourstudent immigrants and their families, humanities, and meaning of theborders and identities. This event will offer an invaluable opportunity fornetworking, and also bring great visibility to our university. | ||||
61 | Performing Arts | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | MARISOL by José Rivera | FALL | Nov 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at 7:30 & Nov 17 at 11am | José Rivera’s Obie award-winning play MARISOL explores the College of the Humanities and the Arts’ themes of “Social Justice and Racial Equity” as well as “Sustainable Futures”. Written in 1992, this play resonates with current issues impacting our global environment. Through lyrical language and sardonic humor, the play serves as a wake-up call to the climate crisis, homelessness, mental illness, and systemic racism. Ultimately, the play ends with an uplifting call for compassion in the time of crisis with the hope of building a sustainable future. MARISOL follows Marisol Perez, a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher who grew up and lives in the Bronx. Striving to maintain her burgeoning middle-class existence, she is confronted with the cruel realities of inequality as she narrowly escapes assault on the subway. When her Guardian Angel appears and declares “the universal body is sick,” Marisol is thrust into a world she didn’t think possible. The Angels are waging a war in heaven against an old, senile God who is bent on destroy the world, and her Guardian Angel is joining the revolution to save humanity. As the celestial battle devastates New York, Marisol finds herself homeless and struggling to survive in an urban wasteland where the government and economic elite have turned their back on the displaced. The fantastical apocalyptic nightmare continues as food is turned to salt, water becomes scarce, Neo-Nazis set fire to parks filling the air with noxious fumes, people are beaten for exceeding their credit limits, and men become pregnant and give birth. The only hope is if humankind can join the Angels to unite and save the world. José Rivera won an Obie award in 1993 for this groundbreaking play that blends magical realism and theatre of the absurd. A prolific author and director, Rivera was the first Puerto Rican to be nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Adapted Screenplay” for THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES. His plays continue to be performed across the nation. Most recently he directed and wrote the short film THE FALL OF THE SPARROW and is developing projects with HBO and SHOWTIME. Assistant Professor Kirsten Brandt will direct the production. Brandt’s theatrical practice investigates issues of environmental justice and racial and gender equity. Her background in experimental theatre, magical realism, and contemporary theatre of the absurd deftly brings this vibrant play to life through lens of 2021. Brandt will work with students to create a resource guide for the play for high schools, college students, and patrons. | In Person | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/marisol | Brandt | Kirsten | kirsten.brandt@sjsu.edu | Film & Theatre | The Department of Film and Theatre is committed to Social Justice. This production of MARISOL demonstrates how the theatrical arts serve as a powerful to shift the national conversation and advocate for Social Justice and Racial Equity. From a production standpoint, MARISOL will impact all enrolled students across the curriculum and introduce new performance styles to our students. As we make our way back to in-person classes, this production will afford students in performance, design and technology hands-on experiences that are essential for them to have as they enter the professional arena after college. Additionally, the play will directly impact TA 120 Theatre History, TA 127 Contemporary Theatre, as well as our lower division acting courses and general education Theatre Appreciation classes. All students enrolled in Theater Arts courses will be required to see the production for in-class discussions, performance critiques or other assignments determined by the instructor. | ||||
62 | Performing Arts & Humanistic Inquiry | The Inclusion Initiative: Racial Equity and Social Justice | The Promise of Democracy: An Election Day Musical Celebration | FALL | Nov 2, 7-8pm | The SJSU University Orchestra, Opera Theater, and Vocal Area plan to present a one-night-only performance on November 3, 2021 (Election Day) featuring at least five works by American and British composers with sung and spoken texts celebrating elections and social justice. The central work in the program is Christopher Rouse's 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 "Daybreak of Freedom" (1982, rev. 2004) for narrator and orchestra, with texts by Martin Luther King Jr. This 30-minute work will feature a celebrity narrator such as Eloise Westbrook or Danny Glover (tba). Other works include Frances Hoad-Cheryl's "How to Win an Election" (2021), Charles Ives, "An Election" (1921), and two selections from George/Ira Gershwin's 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙚 𝙄 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜 (1931): "The Senatorial Roll Call" and "Of Thee I Sing." Other works, if any, tbd. 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 "Daybreak of Freedom" features selections from eight of Dr. King's speeches, including 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 ("The dream is one of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men do not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; ...") and "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood...." Charles Ive's "An Election," one of his greatest songs, is a meditation on democracy, war, corruption, and the underbelly of American politics, as valid today as it was 100 years ago. Frances Hoad-Cheryl's "How to Win an Election" —written this year— is a contemporary reading of Quintus Tullius Cicero's 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙏𝙤 𝙒𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, written 64BC, that is as relevant today as it was then: "If a politician made only promises he could keep, he wouldn't have many friends." | In Person | http://events.ha.sjsu.edu/musicanddance/events/sjsu-orchestra-concert/?mkt_tok=NjYzLVVLUS05OTgAAAGAe4ZRoJId6d2JpZBqS60URGSw0OgRgK_NAAdKIkeXGICpjlxVN0w8JL9QkHVuo7bleFjO0-rPQJT_NKr7uVOLAU6wIMzh1fWO6u1_dehQ | Cohen | Fred | fred.cohen@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The composer of 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, Christopher Rouse, wrote of his composition: "I was excited by the opportunity to engage my work with the profound and deeply felt words of Dr. King, a man of great dignity and courage whom I had long admired. The words that I selected for the narration were garnered from a variety of Dr. King’s writings, addresses, and speeches, and drawn from a period of more than a decade of his life. These words, eloquently expressed by the thrust of his oratory, bear witness to the power and nobility of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas, principles, and beliefs. This work of celebration is humbly dedicated to his memory." The opportunity for the members of the SJSJ Symphony Orchestra to work on this score—and of other students in the School to study and experience the work— has clear educational benefits within the topic of social equity and racial justice. The program as a whole—a meditation on the fluxes and conceits of democracy filtered by election rhetoric— offers several contrasting viewpoints within a diverse artistic presentation of styles, era, and nationalities. The thematic nature of the curation and the timing of the program offers students both a sense of music's social utility and of its artistic power that goes beyond words. | ||||
63 | Humanistic Inquiry | Sustainable Futures | Poetic Postcards | FALL | Nov 19, 10am-12pm | Workshop 2: Feedback on work-in-progress. Poetic Postcards” is a place making project focused on the city of San José. Creative Writing and Visual/Digital Art students at SJSU will collaborate and create “poetic postcards” that imaginatively integrate visual art and literary text to tell stories about San José. “Poetic Postcards” extends the 2019-20 “Wish You Were Here” project in a new and cross-disciplinary direction. The Poetic Postcards project will organize a series of workshops in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. Each workshop will be led by a San José based writer and artist who will provide inspiration, ideas, tools and techniques for imagining San Jos´. | Zoom - registration required | https://events.sjsu.edu/event/poetic_postcards?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=SJSU+Events+Calendar&mkt_tok=NjYzLVVLUS05OTgAAAF_ozsuXgaW4ZGdVf0iQa6scd8pLJ4Nn_2XFYDqBlONdpAxfOz-2FIJ1ooMqllejX4LiTRgE9p9ccTRTCXiZiS6d1Z-u6LnimoghfGkOxlp | Krishnaswamy | Revathi | Holberton | Rhonda | revathi.krishnaswamy@sjsu.edu | English & Comparative Literature | An estimated 90-100 student participant from English/Creative Writing and Digital Media/Graphic Arts will gain hands-on experience in collaborating and creating art works that imaginatively integrate visual art and literary text to tell stories. They will learn how the humanities and arts can be used in combination for the purpose of placemaking, representing place-in-pandemic, and for communicating diverse experiences of place. The risograph book will be a significant work of cross-disciplinary collaborative art that will come out of the project. In addition, selected poetic postcards will be included in the San Jose Story Map and become available for public viewing. | ||
64 | Humanistic Inquiry | n/a | Maelzel’s Panharmonicon: A Virtual Reconstruction of a Musical Automaton from Beethoven’s Era | FALL | Dec 3 | Ludwig van Beethoven famously embraced the ideals of the French Revolution, and generations of listeners and critics have perceived the spirit of revolution in his music. Yet Beethoven was equally enthusiastic about the other significant revolution of his lifetime: the Industrial Revolution, when new technologies and manufacturing techniques led to many developments in the musical world. One of Beethoven’s more unusual collaborations was with the inventor Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772–1838), whose creations include the mechanical metronome, a mechanical chess player, and the “panharmonicon,” an enormous music-playing automaton that could play the instruments of an entire military band. Beethoven composed his commemorative piece Wellington’s Victory, which celebrates a military victory in the Napoleonic Wars, for Maelzel’s panharmonicon. For years Maelzel toured with the instrument, playing Beethoven’s automated music to audiences across Europe and North America. The last known panharmonicon was destroyed in World War II, and Wellington’s Victory is now known only in Beethoven’s later arrangement of the piece for symphony orchestra. This interdisciplinary project will recreate Maelzel’s panharmonicon in virtual reality, along with its original playlist and new compositions by student composers. Two student assistants from Digital Media Art (DMA), with supervision from Jon Oakes (Technology Labs Coordinator), will create a 3D rendering of the instrument from surviving nineteenth-century drawings and two rare photographs. Two student assistants from Music will create arrangements of some of the eleven pieces that are known to have been in the panharmonicon’s playlist, including Wellington’s Victory as well as orchestral pieces by Joseph Haydn and Johann Strauss, working with the list of military instruments that the panharmonicon incorporated. The composers will use music software to create digital recordings of the panharmonicon’s repertoire, in keeping with the fully automated nature of the original instrument. Additionally, music students from the composition program will be invited to compose original music within the parameters of the instrument’s mechanical capabilities. The panharmonicon will be presented in a virtual exhibit space in the Mozilla Hubs platform which visitors will access from the Beethoven Center’s website. The project has creative, historical, and educational components. Students in DMA and Music will collaborate to reconstruct the instrument and its music from the information available, which will require imagination and creativity as well as the necessary skills in 3D rendering and orchestration. The finished product will be a sustainable and engaging pedagogical resource, and will be used in the course MUSC 111 (Romanic and Modern Music History, Spring 2022) and promoted to local K-12 music educators. | Buurman | Erica | erica.buurman@sjsu.edu | School of Music & Dance | The student assistants in DMA and Music will gain professional experience working on an interdisciplinary project. DMA students will develop their artistic and technical skills and music students will develop their orchestration and compositional skills. The finished product will be something they can include in their professional portfolio and will receive exposure from audiences outside their own disciplines. The virtual panharmonicon itself will have an educational impact by creating an engaging and immersive way for audiences to learn about music and society of the early nineteenth century. The panharmonicon will introduce students to the concept of mechanical developments from the Industrial Revolution, and the instrument’s playlist will allow them to connect this concept to the music of Beethoven and other composers of the period. |