Wednesday Feb 18
2009 Presidents' Day Forum
12:00n-1:00pm
@ Dolores Huerta Room, Old Student Center near Porter’s Pub
What are OUR Expectations? What are OUR Responsibilities? What: Roundtable discussion to be facilitated by: Ed Spriggs, Associate Vice Chancellor and UCSD Alumnus and Bill Johnson II, Psy. D., Psychologist. For more information contact LaWana Richmond 858-534-2507, lrichmond@ucsd.edu
Thursday Feb 19
Audre Lorde Reading Circle: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
12:00n-1:00pm
@ Women's 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.
Afro-Caribbean Dance and Drumming Workshop by Gene Perry
3:30pm-5:00pm
@ SSB 101
Drumming and dance instruction by percussive artist Gene Perry. Free and open to the public.
Carolina Chocolate Drops
7:00pm
@ Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (700 Prospect St, La Jolla)
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, comprised of Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson and Dom Flemings, are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music found in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. $26
Friday Feb 20
Living Spirits, Walking Dead:
Makishi and Ancestor Spirits in Congo and Zambia
2:30pm-5:30pm
@ SSB 101
Elisabeth Cameron (UC Santa Cruz). This is the first lecture in AAASRP’s “Cultures of Life and Death in Africa and the African Diaspora (Zombification)” Lecture Series. Free and open to the public.
Saturday Feb 21
Birch Aquarium Family Day
10:00am-5:00pm
@ Birch Aquarium
Birch Aquarium is proud to offer Free Admissions to UCSD Black Staff Association Members and their immediate families. Browse through the aquarium’s eye-opening exhibit on the science of global climate change. Enter the world of sharks and seahorses, discover a stunning variety of Pacific marine life in more than 60 habitats. Birch Aquarium is the public exploration center for the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Campus Black Forum
4:00-6:00pm
@ Cross-Cultural Center
Reunion of Alumni to connect through the traditional Campus Black Forum. Facilitated by Dr. Bill Johnson, Counseling Psychologist, UC San Diego. For more info contact, (858) 534-3585, bijohnson@ucsd.edu