Tuesday Feb 3
Audre Lorde Reading Circle: Intersections of Race,
Gender, and Sexuality
12:00n-1:00pm
@ LGBT Center, Student Center
“I am a poet” Lorde doesn’t write theory she writes life. Please join the Campus Community Centers as we learn about and explore the life a seminal artist that impacted the ways we think about race, class, sexuality, and gender in the US. Free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the San Diego Community.
Wednesday Feb 4
Armistad Symphony informance
7:00pm
@ the Loft
Join Steven Schick and guest artists in performance and conversation as we explore American music and the impact of African American composers in the symphonic space. Featured works include excerpts from Anthony Davis’ “Amistad Symphony” (to be premiered by La Jolla Symphony on Feb.7-8), Lou Harrison’s “Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra” with red fish blue fish, and a musical perspective of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin on the eve of their 200th birthday. Joining in performance and conversation: Cecil Lytle, Anthony Davis, violinist Peter Clarke, Rick Snow, red fish blue fish. Moderated by Steven Schick.
Thursday Feb 5
Film Screenings: Barack & Curtis: Manhood, Love & Respect
and I AM A MAN
6:30pm-9:00pm
@ Revelle Conference Rooms A-C
This film screening will showcase two films (one short, one feature) by filmmaker Byron Hurt. Barack & Curtis is a provocative new video which compares and contrasts models of manhood presented by President Barack Obama and rapper/mogul Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent. I Am A Man links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of Black America's most progressive academics, social critics. Come and enjoy a free film, free food, and moderated discussions.
Friday Feb 6
Charlayne Hunter Gault:
New News Out of Africa
7:00pm
@ Price Center East Ballroon
Charlayne Hunter Gault, journalist and foreign correspondent for NPR and PBS, delivers a lecture about her most recent book entitled New News Out of Africa: What Africa Means to Me.
Saturday Feb 7
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Community Event
10:00am-4:00pm
@ Rite Aid parking lot, 1735 Euclid Ave
The 9th Annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Community Event will have mobile units providing FREE and CONFIDENTIAL RAPID TESTING, as well as entertainment, HIV service providers, opportunity drawings and activities for the kids. The primary goal of NBHAAD is to motivate African Americans to get tested and know their HIV status; get educated about the transmission modes of HIV/AIDS; get involved in their local community; and get treated if they are currently living with HIV or are newly diagnosed. For more info on this event please call 619.515.2494 and for more info about National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day visit the official website www.blackaidsday.org
Amistad Symphony world premiere, La Jolla Symphony
8:00pm
@ Mandeville Auditorium
We celebrate the 200th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, born on the same day in 1809. Copland’s Lincoln Portrait and Anthony Davis' Amistad Symphony (drawn from his opera of same title) remind us of one of Lincoln's greatest challenges. Nee Commission winner Rick Snow offers a musical evocation of Darwin's achievement, Darwin Portrait. The concert concludes with a completely different journey into the past, Respighi's brilliant Pines of Rome