College of Arts & Humanities Events & Projects AY 2019-2020

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2	SPRING EVENTS
3	Borderlands	May 19, 2020, 5:15-7:30pm	Vanessa Fernandez, Ruby Ramirez & Avizia Long	Decolonizing Borderlands: Breaking down Borders in Language, Literature, Film, Performance, and Art	"The Present and Futures of the Spanish Field" with Dr. Ignacio Sánchez Prado - RSVP: https://sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y_kFoT6hTwK-2ZrC9EL4GA
4	Borderlands	April 28, 2020, 6-8:45pm	Vanessa Fernandez, Ruby Ramirez & Avizia Long	Decolonizing Borderlands: Breaking down Borders in Language, Literature, Film, Performance, and Art	"Bomba: Breaking Barriers with Music and Dance"
5	Borderlands	POSTPONED - New Date TBD		The Devil in Silicon Valley	Join Councilmembers Jimenez, Peralez, Carrasco, Esparza, and Arenas for a conversation about the history of inequity in San José with Dr. Stephen Pitti, the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley and Dr. Albert Camarillo, the author of Chicanos in a Changing Society. The Devil in Silicon Valley explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world's most influential but least-understood places. Chicanos in a Changing Society was originally published in 1979 and was among the first studies to focus on the history of Mexican-Americans, specifically the development of Mexican-American society from the Mexican War to the Great Depression.
6	Borderlands	March 23 , 2020, 3pm - ZOOM ONLY	Midori Ishida	Rakugo Workshop with Tozaburo Yanagiya - RSVP - MOVED TO ZOOM MEETING	Rakugo is a Japanese performing art of comedic storyteling with more than 300 years of tradition. SJSU is fortunate to have a master Rakugo-ka [Professional rakugo performer] Tozaburo Yanagiya to hold a workshop and performance. Student participants in the workshop will choose a short rakugo story from a list to be provided and practice it prior to the workshop, so that they can receive constructive feedback from Master Tozaburo during the workshop. If you are interested, please sign up by January 31 at https://forms.gle/RxLxKmqDec1kM2Aa6
7	Borderlands	CANCELLED	Scott Sublett	"Words for Mozart"	“Words for Mozart” focuses on Lorenzo Da Ponte, who was the librettist for Mozart’s three greatest operas: "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni" and "Così fan tutte." It is a comedy that touches on serious themes such as the place of women in late 18th century society; the shift from royal patronage to audience support of the arts; censorship; and the cosmopolitan and international nature of the art scene when Vienna was the music capital of Europe. The play examines Da Ponte’s collaboration with Mozart, who is depicted with comic irreverence that undercuts the romanticized, utterly incorrect, and destructive notion that Mozart was a “born genius” who composed effortlessly through divine inspiration. Da Ponte’s colorful romantic life, his friendship with history’s most notorious libertine, Giacomo Casanova, and his conflict with Emperor Joseph II are all covered, as is a brief meeting with Beethoven. What many people don’t know about both Da Ponte and Casanova is that they were both expelled from their place of birth, Venice, and so were in Vienna as refugees. Had their expulsion not occurred, the three greatest Mozart operas would not have been written and Mozart’s place in music history would be different.
8	Borderlands	POSTPONED - New date TBD	Adrienne Eastwood	Global Shakespeares: A Non-Anglophone Film Event at the Hammer	No single author or body of work transcends boarders like the plays of William Shakespeare. Over 400 years after his death his plays are still being read, studied, performed, and responded to, in many languages and on every continent on the globe. In an effort to celebrate Shakespeare’s versatility, "Global Shakespeares," a student curated, non-Anglophone Film Event at the Hammer, is a free screening of two foreign-language versions of Shakespearean plays with introductory remarks by students, and a Q & A after each film.The films will be selected by both undergraduate and graduate students.
9	Borderlands	POSTPONED - New date TBD	Midori Ishida	Rakugo "Yose" Performance with Tozaburo Yanagiya	The Rakugo YOSE Performance on March 25th will feature Master Tozaburo and some aspiring apprentices who received training from him in the workshop. Because it is not a solo performer event but an event where multiple performers will show their stories one by one, it is called "YOSE"--pronounced as "y'all say." It will be an inspiring event in which the audience can watch the Japanese rakugo-ka's rakugo in English and American students' rakugo in Japanese which is modified to suit the present-day audience in Silicon Valley. Let's witness how humor binds us on a borderland.
10	Borderlands	POSTPONED - New date TBD	Selena Anderson	Center for Literary Arts (CLA) : Naomi Shihab Nye	Palestinian-American multi-genre writer, Naomi Shihab Nye, is part and parcel of two different borderlands where she has lived parts of her life: Ferguson, Missouri and the West Bank “on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah.” The author relays how the transnational Palestinian borderland is unexpectedly similar to the Missourian one: “In Ferguson, an invisible line separated white and black communities. In Jerusalem, a no-man’s land separated people, designated by barbed wire.” Within all of Shihab Nye’s multimodal literature—whether it’s poetry, children’s books, young adult fiction, songs, or novels—her commitment to subverting the harsh lines of humanity and geography shines through to various readers from all walks of life.
11	Deep Humanities & Arts	POSTPONED - New date TBD	Revathi Krishnaswamy	Deep Humanities & Arts for Socially Responsible Technology	A one-day hackathon on “Deep Humanities for Socially Responsible Technology.” The hackathon will open with an interactive panel discussion with Q&A moderated by a trained student; speakers/discussants/respondents will include 4 invited artists/authors/hackers, 2-3 SJSU faculty experts, and 1-2 student experts. This interactive session will present students with innovative ideas, tools, and solutions (visualization and framing strategies, narrative/story-telling techniques, semiotic discourse analysis, ethical case studies, effective digital tools) for designing creative multimodal projects. During the hands-on hacking session that follows, student teams will work under the guidance of trained faculty to build prototypes of multimodal projects that teach humanistic/artistic approaches to socially responsible technology. The hackathon will conclude with a design fair in which student teams present their prototypes and a keynote address.
12	Deep Humanities & Arts	POSTPONED - New date TBD	Virginia San Fratello	Design + Robots Lecture Series	Matthais Kohler, Professor from the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH), will join us to share his projects include the design of the DFAB House, a future living and working laboratory built by robots. He is the co-founder of the world’s first architectural robotic laboratory, and his research has been formative in the field of digital architecture, setting the standard for the creation of a new research field merging advanced architectural design and additive fabrication processes through the use of customised industrial robots.
13		POSTPONED - New date TBD	Erica Buurman	Beethoven Pastoral Project: Exploring Beethoven’s love of nature through a performance and nature hike	This project will be SJSU and the Beethoven Center’s contribution to a global initiative known as the Pastoral Project (https://www.beethoven-pastoral-project.com/#/home) coinciding with Earth Day 2020. The project both celebrates Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year and aims to raise awareness of climate change. Beethoven famously loved nature, and his regular walks in the countryside were fundamental to his creativity: he often sketched musical ideas in his pocket notebook while out in the open air. By exploring this aspect of Beethoven’s life, the project will touch on universal themes of nature, the environment, and creativity, enabling a celebration of the composer’s anniversary year that reaches beyond the discipline of music to the wider student and city community. On Earth Day April 22, 2020, the SJSU Symphony Orchestra will be one of many orchestras around the world that will perform Beethoven’s Symphony no. 6 (the “Pastoral”) as part of the Pastoral Project. Our performance will be documented on the Pastoral Project’s webpage, making San Jose’s contribution visible as part of a global network. The performance will be paired with a screening of a nature film, enabling audiences to reflect on ideas of inspiration and creative responses to the natural world.
14		Cancelled	Kirsten Brandt	THREEPENNY OPERA by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht	The Film and Theatre Department and The School of Music are co-producing a musical in the Hammer Theatre in the spring of 2020. The entire Film and Theatre production faculty and staff are dedicated to the production as well as faculty and staff from Music and Dance.
15		POSTPONED - New date TBD	Erica Buurman	Inside Beethoven’s chamber music: A workshop, lecture-recital and exhibition	Exhibit: Beethoven’s Chamber Music (Beethoven Center), April 20 to June 27 Lecture-recital featuring the Takács Quartet (SJSU concert hall): April 30 These events form part of wider celebrations of the 2020 Beethoven anniversary year. The lecture-recital will feature the Takács Quartet, one of the world’s leading ensembles renowned for their Beethoven interpretations. The lecture-recital will explore the dance movements in Beethoven’s late string quartets, and demonstrate how they relate to the world of nineteenth-century ballroom dance music. With practical examples, the lecture-recital will show how Beethoven’s music was influenced by the movements and gestures of social dance. The exhibit will place Beethoven’s chamber music in its everyday context from the 19th century to the present. It will include profiles on leading ensembles from the 19th through the early 21st centuries, illustrated by photographs, original programs, manuscripts letters, and other documents. Students will participate either as assistant curators--working on graphic design, creation of interactive text cards, or exhibition installation--or by creating assets for the iPod kiosks that will provide audio and video selections for visitors to the exhibits.
16	Borderlands	POSTPONED - New date TBD	Erica Buurman	Beethoven Pastoral Project: Exploring Beethoven’s love of nature through a performance and nature hike	This event explores Beethoven’s relationship with nature, and the way he used his long country walks to stimulate his creativity. Participants will be given a pocket notebook and will be encouraged to record their creative thoughts as they walk. The SJSU Wind Ensemble will perform at the start of the hike, and participants will be able to take part in various activities connected with nature, creativity, and the environment at various points along the designated route. These performances will bring Beethoven’s creative mind to life for those participating in the hike, and will also reach the wider community by bringing performance into a public space.
17	Borderlands	in production - Spring 2020	Harry Mathias	"How to Tell a Mother Her Child is Dead" produce a short film	The project will be a short film based on a New York Times OpEd piece written by Dr. Naomi Rosenberg, MD who is an emergency room doctor, and a professor of medicine at Temple university. It will be called: “How to tell a Mother Her Child is Dead”. The short film will be written and directed by me, and produced and crewed by my students. Students and local actors will be cast in the acting roles, depending on their age and skills at matching the film’s characters.
18	Borderlands	in production - Summer 2020	Elisha Miranda	"The Go Girl Chronicles"	What would happen if every thing you drew came true?” Lares Lebron, seems like any other kid at her new high school in East San Jose, California. She listens to alternative music and wears gauges in her ears. She rocks Final Fantasy way better than any guy when not developing her own games with the strong heroines she longs to see. But Lares isn’t like her new classmates at all. One, she’s a Dominican/Mexican immigrant who came to the US when she was three. Two, the Lebrons entered the country illegally, so now her dad Pedro’s locked up for conspiracy and her mom Yuri was deported. Three, Lares is cartokinetic. What she draws comes true. Sounds cool, right? But being a superpower isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when you descend from a long line of cartokinetics on a centuries-long mission to abolish the International Council on Estrangement (I.C.E.), a global organization intent on fostering civil wars to the benefit of its greedy founding families. When Lares gets a handle on her cartokinesis, will she reunite her parents and save the world? Or is she just going to stick it to her rival Josie? It turns out those two goals are one and the same. Blending live action with animation, The Go Girl Chronicles is a half-hour science fiction television series-- with a realistic twist on the superhero genre because being an undocumented teen in a Dream Act world puts a whole new spin on adolescent angst.
19		in production - Spring 2020	Babak Sarrafan	Bicycle Rider Safety Video	Every year we do a high end film project with my RTVF 135 class and Spartan Film Studios. We utilize industry connections to mentor and teach 35-45 students in various “real world” crew positions through seminars and doing the actual production. In Spring of 2020 we are planning to do a stylized promotional video about Bicycle Rider Safety. In the U.S. hundreds of bicycle riders get killed or injured annually. Most of those riders are between the ages of 20-24. Utilizing the knowledge base of City of San Jose’s transportation department and San Jose State’s Transportation Solutions we like to target our students, campus community, and general public. The video will be placed both on SJSU website and City of San Jose’s bicycling program site.
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21	COMPLETED EVENTS
22		August 21, 2019	Diane Guerrazzi	International Field Reporting: Refugee Crisis	Ongoing:Coverage of the refugee crisis in Europe.Stories, podcasts and photo essays by journalism students from Greece and Italy. This covers in depth the refugee crisis in Europe from the perspectives of refugees, aid workers, government officials, clergy, Italian and Greek business owners. Students created these stories while on a FLP in the summer of 2019.
23		Sept 03,2019 - 5:00-6:00pm, ART Building, Rm 133	Aaron Wilder	Dionicio Mendoza Lecture	The purpose of this lecture is to provide students with information about professional opportunities after graduation. Specifically, this lecture will focus on artist-in-residence (AIR) programs. Through this lecture, Dionicio Mendoza will introduce and increase student‚Äôs knowledge about AIR programs (as an a option after graduation for both professional development and employment); help students identify local, national, and international AIR programs; and demonstrate work developed in AIR programs as a resource to create or continue a body of work.
24	Borderlands	August 21-September 13, 2019, SJSU Design Gallery - Art Building 214) - 9am-6pm	Yoon Chung Han	Beyond Borders: DSGD 104 Design Student Exhibition	This design student exhibition about the theme “Borders: Migrants and Refugees” is the result of students researching the issues of borders with a focus on notions of migration and self-identity. Students have created various design projects, such as content maps, posters, brochures, signages, and animations to promote awareness about the issues of borders to the public. The student exhibition will be a part of the international conference “Granshan International Design Education Expo & Conference (IDEEC)”, which was held in Hammer Theater on August 16-18, 2019. Student exhibit website: https://www.ideec.design/special-exhibition-beyond-borders
25		Sept 10, 2019 - 5:00-6:00pm, ART Building, Rm 133	Aaron Wilder	Ann Weber Lecture	Ann Weber‚Äôs art journey began in 1970 when she fell in love with a fellow potter in the ceramics studio at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. After 15 years as a production potter in upstate New York and later, New York City, she left the East Coast to pursue an MFA at California College of the Arts and studied with Viola Frey. Her lecture covers the fertile ground of what it‚Äôs like to be a full time artist: the struggle, the humiliation, rejections, sacrifices, and the ineffable joy and victory of living a meaningful, resourceful, and creative life.
26	Deep Humanities & Arts	Sept 17 & Sept 24, 2019 - 5pm, ART Building, Rm 133	Virginia San Fratello	Design + Robots Lecture Series (multiple events)	This lecture series will examine the role of robots used in creative industries including the arts, design and architecture. The advent of robotics in the creative and construction industries is leading to new paradigms in the way we build the world, changing not only how the built environment is designed and made, but also transforming knowledge cultures, policies and politics, and labor issues. The guest speakers will share novel insights based on their own research and experience working with robots to build art installations, interiors and buildings. Key topics will include: collaborative design tools, computerized materials for the future, adaptive sensing and actuation, on-site and cooperative robotics, machine-learning, large-scale robotic fabrication, and very importantly, human-machine interaction. Invited speakers will include: Matthias Kohler from the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, Tsz Ng from the University of Michigan, Jenny Sabin from Cornell university and Karl Daubmann from Lawrence Technological University. Speaker Series: Sept. 17th Jenny Sabin, Cornell University -- Lecture Title: Matter -Design -Computation AND Sept. 24th Karl Daubman, Laurence Technological University - Lecture Title: From Hand to Mouth
27	Borderlands	Sept 20, 2019 - 7pm, Hammer 4 Theatre	Selena Anderson with Cathleen Miller	CLA Presents: Reed 152 Featuring Jonathan Franzen	Franzen’s great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one’s prejudices, he writes, literature “invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you.” Whatever his subject, Franzen’s essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He’s frank about birds, too (they kill “everything imaginable”), but his reporting and reflections on them―on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica―are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love.
28	Deep Humanities & Arts	Oct 10, 2019 - 7pm, Hammer 4 Theatre; April 2020	Rhonda Holberton	The Democracy Project	According to many, democracy isn't working. As elected officials embrace bigotry and corruption, and governments succumb to partisan gridlock, could the solution be to engineer politicians out of the system? The Democracy Project reconceives the US government as an automated decision engine. Elected officials are replaced with random number generators, on which probabilities are set by polling whether the majority of citizens wants change or stasis. At SJSU, students will work with conceptual artist Jonathon Keats and CADRE faculty on prototyping this speculative apparatus. We'll use it as a basis for discussing our government's institutional strengths and weaknesses, and as a platform for experimentation with alternative democratic systems. In October, we'll explore the current US model of democracy, how it might be optimized to function more equitably, and how art can be enlisted to increase public interest in collective self-determination. In the Spring, we'll investigate alternative modes of democratic organization – including those now used in other countries and newly-invented systems – and how art can drive political experimentation. Open to participation by all, with anticipated engagement of more than 400 students, the Democracy Project exemplifies the transdisciplinarity of the Deep Humanities. Educational opportunities include: (1) learning about democracy in a hands-on way; (2) collectively conceptualizing the future of democracy; (3) learning electronics engineering and fabrication skills; and (4) engaging in contemporary art through collaboration on a project that is expected to be exhibited in local (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art) and national museums.
29	Borderlands	Oct 12, 2019 - 7:30pm, Hammer 4 Theatre	Fred Cohen	Shanghai Quartet in concert and residency	One of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, the Shanghai Quartet is renowned for its passionate musicality, impressive technique and multicultural innovations. Its elegant style melds the delicacy of Eastern music with the emotional breadth of Western repertoire, allowing it to traverse musical genres including traditional Chinese folk music, masterpieces of Western music and cutting-edge contemporary works. Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Quartet has worked with the world’s most distinguished artists and regularly tours the major music centers of Europe, North America and Asia.
30		Sept 30, 2019 - 10am, Oct 03 , 2019 - 4pm, Oct 16, 2019 - 4pm, Dwight Bentel Hall, Rm 209	Diane Guerrazzi	Study Abroad Info Session: "The Changing Face of Europe"	Study the refugee crisis in Greece and Italy, May 25- June 14, 2020. The 6-unit Mass Comm course is open to all majors. Details at this info session. Learn about participating in a 6-unit study-abroad course on the refugee crisis in Greece and Italy, May 25- June 14, 2020. This Mass Comm course is open to all majors. Learn how to participate the study abroad program focusing on the refugee crisis in Greece and Italy, May 25- June 14. This 6-unit Mass Comm course is open to all majors. Learn how to participate the study abroad program focusing on the refugee crisis in Greece and Italy, May 25- June 14. This 6-unit Mass Comm course is open to all majors.
31	Borderlands	Oct 23, 2019 - 7pm, Hammer Theatre	Avantika Rohatgi	A Conversation with Sonia Nazario	A Conversation with Sonia Nazario will be an interactive talk with the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times. Her stories and articles have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration. Nazario has won numerous national journalism and book awards. In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled “Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. Her endeavor to make a trip from Honduras to the U.S. atop Mexico’s dangerous trains to bring Enrique’s journey to life is both incredible and awe-inspiring.
32	Borderlands	Oct 24, 2019 - 5-6pm, Ballroom B, Student Union	Midori Ishida	Rakugo in the World:Traditional Japanese Performing Arts Crossing the Border by Shinoharu Tatekawa	Rakugo is a traditional Japanese performing arts of comical storytelling. Although its stories date back to the 17th century feudal Edo period, the universal theme of the humanities and humor are shared still in the 21st century. Moreover, through the efforts of some rising rakugo-ka(rakugo performers) who perform rakugo in English both in Japan and abroad, rakugo has been accepted and appreciated across borders. On the theme of borderlands, this program will offer an afternoon workshop for 50 SJSU students to be trained by a professional rakugo-ka to perform rakugo themselves.
33		Oct 25, 2019 - 7:30pm, Hammer 4 Theatre	Fred Cohen	Kaleidoscope performance	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.
34	Borderlands	Nov 14-15, 2019 - 3-5pm, Hammer 4 Theatre	Cheyla Samuelson	El libro centroamericano de los muertos/The Central American Book of the Dead: A Bilingual Reading and Conversation with Mexican Poet Balam Rodrigo	As part of a year-long focus on the Borderlands: Immigration and Migration theme in the Department of World Languages and Literatures, Balam Rodrigo, an acclaimed poet and dynamic speaker from Chiapas, Mexico will join us in November for a bilingual public event at the Hammer Theatre and a day long creative-writing workshop in Spanish co-sponsored by the Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center. Rodrigo’s latest award winning book El libro centroamericano de los Muertos (2018) focuses on the experiences of Central American immigrants as they cross more than one border in their perilous journey towards the US. The book length poem incorporates the spiritual cosmovision of indigenous people from the region, while simultaneously exposing the brutal realities of their contemporary flight from violence and poverty. Rodrigo’s work is particularly relevant to the geopolitical realities of our time, and also to our students at a Hispanic serving institution. On Nov 15th, in collaboration with the Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, we will offer a day-long immersive writing workshop conducted by Rodrigo in Spanish open to all SJSU students.
35	Borderlands	Nov 15,16,21,22,23 at 7:30pm; November 20 at 11am; November 24 at 1pm - Hammer Theatre	Kathleen Normington	Dreamer Project: An Undocuplay	Dreamer Project: An Undocuplay is a verbatim theatre piece created from interviews with SJSU undocumented students from January 2017 – August 2018. Kathleen Normington personally conducted all interviews and obtained permission from each student to use them as the script to this performance. The play focuses on the continuing journeys of undocumented students from Mexico and Central America and the issues surrounding these young people who seek to find a home in the U.S. It shows the challenges each faces as SJSU students, as well as their personal stories of childhood and family. We come to know them not just as “undocumented” but as human beings navigating some an extraordinary time in our history. The main themes are those issues of immigration but also of identity and acceptance. These align with the college’s theme of “Borders, Immigration and Migration.”
36	Borderlands	Nov 21, 2019 - 6:30pm, King Library Rm 225	Noelle Brada- Williams	45th Anniversary of the The Aiiieeeee! And the Birth of Asian American Literature, an Evening with the Editors	On the 45th anniversary of the publication of one of the first collections of Asian American literature, two of the original editors, novelist Shawn Wong and poet Lawson Fusao Inada, will be in conversation with poet and novelist Marilyn Chin about the process of creating this cultural milestone and the changes in Asian American literature that have occurred since then.
37		Dec 4 - 6pm & 8pm, Hammer 4 Theatre	Sarah Kate Anderson	Fall Shakespeare Exploration	Hamlet: An abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece presented by the SJSU Film and Theatre Department's Fall 2019 Advanced Acting Company. Focusing on the cyclical re-telling of the titular character's throughline, our play imagines how Hamlet becomes Hamlet, and how he affects those in relationship with his journey. Join our brave students as they inhabit the characters who live these words and ask these questions.
38	Borderlands	Dec 4,5,6 @ 11 AM Dec 7 @ 1 pm & 7:30 PM - Hammer 4	Buddy Butler	Bang-Bang You're Dead: A STEP Production	Bang-Bang You're Dead is "ripped from today's headlines. It is a play that addresses the growing epidemic of violence and school shootings that is becoming all too common in our society today. It ia a resource for dealing with a broken world that's violent, unhealthy, unfair and beyond the power of anyone to fix except today's generation. It urges today's generation to take control and fix this problem now. Written from the point of view of the shooter, it appeals to potential killers to change their mindset, that in making the choice to bring a gun to school that there is nothing to gained and everything to lose.
39	Borderlands	Feb 22, 2020, 7:30pm @ Hammer Theatre	Fred Cohen	(im)migration Performance and residency by the Imani Winds and Catalyst Quartet	(im)migration, a new work by Jessie Montgomery, features the Imani Winds and Catalyst Quartet in a program highlighting experiences inspired by the Great African-American Migration from the lens of the composer's great-grandfather. It brings together spirituals and work songs that reflect his travels from Mississippi to the West, North, then back to Georgia. Through the special timbral effects of this mix of winds and strings, it transforms these stories, reflecting them in music, and continues the storytelling tradition passed through playwright, actor and teacher, Robbie McCauley. The Grammy nominated Imani Winds has performed together for over 20 years, seamlessly navigating between classical, jazz and world music idioms. This will be their first visit to San Jose/SJSU. The Catalyst Quartet, comprised of winners from the Sphinx Competition, a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, has been visiting SJSU annually since 2016. Members of the Quartet serve as principal faculty at Sphinx Performance Academy.
40	Deep Humanities & Arts	Feb 27, 2020, 5pm @ ART 133	Virginia San Fratello	Design + Robots Lecture Series	Tsz Ng, Assistant Professor from the University of Michigan will join us to share her research into robotic needle felting and concrete 3D printing.
41	Borderlands	Watch on YouTube	Nick Taylor	Producing Coco: A Masterclass in Crosscultural Animated Film, with Coco's Academy-Award-winning producer Darla Anderson and chief cultural consultant Marcela Davison Avilés	Taking up the Borderlands theme, the Steinbeck Center will host a masterclass for SJSU students with two of the creators of the Disney/Pixar film Coco, winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Steinbeck Center Advisory Board member Marcela Davison Avilés works as a consultant for multiple Hollywood studios, including Disney, where she led the team of Mexican-American artists who advised Pixar on the cultural content of the film. Ms. Davison Avilés is interested in speaking at SJSU with Coco's lead producer, Darla Anderson, a giant in the world of animated film. At Pixar, Ms. Anderson produced not only Coco but the blockbusters "A Bug's Life" (1998), "Monsters, Inc." (2001), "Cars" (2006), and "Toy Story 3" (2010). She and Ms. Davison Avilés recently gave a similar class to students at Harvard. After the class, we will hold a reception for guests, students, and faculty, most likely in the Steinbeck Center.
42	Borderlands	March 23 , 2020, 3pm - ZOOM ONLY	Midori Ishida	Rakugo Workshop with Tozaburo Yanagiya - RSVP - MOVED TO ZOOM MEETING	Rakugo is a Japanese performing art of comedic storyteling with more than 300 years of tradition. SJSU is fortunate to have a master Rakugo-ka [Professional rakugo performer] Tozaburo Yanagiya to hold a workshop and performance. Student participants in the workshop will choose a short rakugo story from a list to be provided and practice it prior to the workshop, so that they can receive constructive feedback from Master Tozaburo during the workshop. If you are interested, please sign up by January 31 at https://forms.gle/RxLxKmqDec1kM2Aa6