OPEN HOUSE FOR COMMUNITY + PUBLICLY ENGAGED SCHOLARS and STUDENTS IN THE HUMANITIES:
with AIRE LIBRE
Plus Community Meet + Greet over Refreshments after the Screening
Thursday, October 9, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 314 Royce Hall

AIRE LIBRE is a dance-based film that examines the disproportionate effects of toxic air and soil pollution on lower-income communities of color in LA County who live amid the heavy industry, infrastructure, and polluting facilities that underpin our fossil-fuel-based economy. AIRE LIBRE is a collaborative project led by artist Erin Cooney, bringing together East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Company, LA-based poet Rocío Carlos, and vocalists Carmina Escobar and Joung-A Monica Yum.
The 30 minute screening will be followed by a conversation with Erin Cooney, visual artist and Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, East Yard’s Honey Bizarro and Guadalupe Valdovinos, and Ana María Álvarez, Director of CONTRA TIEMPO Activist Dance Company and Associate Professor in Theater and Dance at UCSD. The conversation will be followed by a reception.
For coverage of this project, please visit the UCLA Humanities Division website.
Presented by the UCLA Humanities, UCLA Center for Community Engagement, and UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies.