lectures

Basket weavers Rose Ramirez(Chumash/Yaqui) and LydiaVassar (Luiseno) demonstratecontemporary and traditionalbasketry techniques. Theirdiscussion and demonstrationhighlight the revitalization of cultural practices and theefforts to maintain and restore viable habitats andecosystems for native plants.

Switzerland’s Rhythm Talk brings live percussion to San Diego’sMojalet DanceCollective in an entertainingevening of music and dance filled with athleticism, sensuality, whit, andwhimsy.

FILM/LECTURE

DANCE/MUSIC

TUE SEPT 21 @ NOON CLARKE 113

LECTURE/DEMO LECTURE

Stick TogetherMojalet Dance Collective

and Rhythm Talk

Eco-cultural Revitalizationin Southern California Indian Basketry

SSEPTEMBER OCTOBER

NOVEMBER DECEMBEROutstanding Grappellifiddler Tim Kliphouse(Holland) and gypsy jazzvirtuoso Gonzalo Bergara(Argentina) deliver a brilliant set of Django Reinhardt gems, Latinfire and Folky surprises.

Their energy and instrumental mastery have received glowingreviews over the world.

TUE SEPT 28 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

TUE SEPT 14 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113

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LECTURE

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SEPTEMBER OOCTOBERNOVEMBER DECEMBER

Mark Day, two-time Emmy award-winning film producer, author, and human rights activist,will present on non-violent actionfor a better world and reflect onhis experiences as a CatholicFriar/spiritual advisor to CesarChavez, organizer of day laborers,and advocate for immigrant rights.

WED OCT 6 @ 5:30 PM ARTS 111

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MUSIC

Alex Montoya shares his inspirational personal story and speaks from his book,Swinging for the Fences: Choosing to Livean Extraordinary Life. A triple amputeefrom birth, living his whole life with prosthetics has neither deterred nor discouraged Alex from achieving hisdreams. He currently manages Latino Relations for the San Diego Padres. A native of Colombia, he was selected asone of San Diego Magazine's "Top 50 San Diegans to Watch" in 2000.

TUE OCT 12 @ 12 PM CLARKE 113 FRI OCT 15 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

LECTURE

Gonzalo Bergara QuartetfeaturingTim Kliphuis

Artisans, Ethnobotany & Cultural Revitalization in Baja

A multi-media presentationabout the revival in the production of handcrafts that is helping native artisanspreserve, practice, and reinterpret traditional andecological knowledge. Presented by plant and language specialists TeodoraCuero (Kumiai) and LeonorFarlow (Kiliwa), and anthropologist Mike Wilken.

Mark Day

From Farm Workers to Day Laborers: Non-violent Struggles &Resistance Against Repression

FALL 2010

Alex Montoya

Swinging for the Fences

Ashley Walker

Creating the Beloved Community: Working in Coalition for Social Justice

The Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble and the Samahan Philippine Rondalla will perform traditionalPhilippine music as diverse as the Philippine’s history.Come celebrate Filipino Heritage Month!

TUE OCT 12 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113

LECTURE

SAMAHAN PERFORMING ARTS Traditional Music of the Philippines

Leading human rights activist and pioneer Ashley Walker kicks-off a series co-sponsored bythe Social Justice & Equity Project.Ms. Walker has received wide-spread recognition for her vitalwork and numerous awards including the ACLU Helen MarstonAward (2009) and the Susan B. Anthony Award from the NationalOrganization for Women.

THUR SEPT 23 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113

Paul Espinosa

Capturing the Border’s History on FilmPaul Espinosa is an internationally knownfilmmaker/producer and Professor of Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies at Arizona State University. His lecture offers a retrospective examination and current assessment of the U.S./Mexico border.Among Espinosa’s film credits: California and the American Dream (2006), Taco Shop Poets(2002), and The U.S. - Mexican War: 1846-1848 (1998).

TUE OCT 5 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113

LECTURE

Gunnar Biggs Latin Jazz Quartet

LECTURE

WED SEPT 22 @ 5:30 PM ARTS 111

WED SEPT 29 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

Dr. Zeus Leonardo, author of Race,Whiteness and Education, uses critical social theory to "illuminate race as aneveryday and educative process, to understand what we have made of raceand what it has made of us, some ofwhich we may no longer want to be.”Dr. Leonardo confronts the politics ofsafety that "perpetuate a legacy of whiterefusal to engage racial domination oracts of terror toward people of color."

Dr. Zeus Leonardo

Critical Race Dialogue:

Whiteness and the Politics

of Safety

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice & Equity Project and the USUAB Clark Activities Team

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice & Equity Project

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice & Equity Project and the USUAB ClarkeActivities Team with support from the Visual & Performing Arts. For information, contact Marcos Martinez @ 760-750-4150.

Co-sponsored by the Funes Fund and theSan Marcos Arts Council

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice & Equity Project and the USUAB Clark Activities Team

This local quartet includesmusicians Gunnar Biggs(bass), Mike Holguin (percussion), Allan Phillips(piano), and Dan Reagan(trombone). They performan evening of music including Salsa, Latin Jazz,Afro Cuban rhythms andLatin Fusion.

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice & Equity Project and the USUAB Clark Activities Team

*Did we mention allArts & Lectures Events

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FREE?

CSUSM is located at 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road in San Marcos.

For directions or more information about Arts & Lectures events,

please call 760-750-8889 or visit www.csusm.edu/al.

For individuals who have special needs in order to attend these events, please contact the Office of Arts & Lectures at(760) 750-8889. We request that individuals requiring auxiliaryaids notify our office at least 10 working days in advance.Every reasonable effort will be made to provide suitable accommodations.

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FILM/NEW-MEDIA

Sheepwoman: A Live Film by SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami

Laetitia Sonami, internationally renowned composer, and visualand performing artist, Sue-C, bring to life their film in real timethrough the manipulation and projection of photographs, drawings, slides, videos, shadows and three dimensional objects,along with the processing and amplification of electronic music,nostalgic songs and field recordings. It is up to the audience todetermine where dreams end and reality begins.

Tricked into a loveless marriage, ayoung Mexican immigrant struggles to reclaim her sexuality. Based on atrue story of love, lunacy, violence andsexual taboos. Written and performedby her daughter, CSUSM Alumnus,Dulce Maria Solis.

FRI OCT 22 @ 1:30 PM MARK 125

LECTURE

For parking information,please call 760.750.7500

or visitwww.csusm.edu/guide/parking.html.

Dr. Aniruddh Patel

Music & the Brain: Three Links to Language

PERFORMANCE/LECTURE

Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus

Disability Culture: Cripple Poetics

WED DEC 8 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113

A love story for crip culture! Performance artists Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus share poetry and dance videos from their book CripplePoetics: A Love Story. Kuppers and Marcus are members of The Olimpias, an international project-based artist collective that focuses on disability culture work, community arts, and performance research.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Justice & Equity

SEPTEMBER

NOCTOBER

NOVEMBER DECEMBERSEPTEMBER

DOCTOBER

NOVEMBER DECEMBER

TUES NOV 2 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

MUSIC/LECTURECaptain Paul S. Hammer, MD, Medical

Corps, USN

Honoring our Veterans

Captain Hammer, MD has had extensive experience in leading mental health interventions in natural disasters, militarymishaps, and in combat. He currently servesas the Director of the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control inSan Diego, CA where he is responsible fordeveloping programs to improve the

psychological health of Sailors, Marines and their families. His talk is titled Stress: The Ancient History of a Modern Problem.

Co-sponsored USUAB Clarke Activities Team and CSUSM Veteran’s Center

THEATERWendy Leo Moore, Ph.D.

Hate Speech, White Space

As a critical race theorist and lawyer, Dr. Moore engages the provocative intersections of hate speech and “freedomof speech” concerns through an expert analysis of how law has been used to facilitate racial processes historically andcontemporarily. The lecture includes discussion of the various manifestations of racism (overt v. covert) in the post-CivilRights era; explores the influence of law in the racial realm;and offers practical insights on university “racial climate” issues from an informed, critical legal perspective.

Co-sponsored by the Social Justice & Equity Project

Aniruddh Patel is the Esther J.Burnham Senior Fellow at TheNeurosciences Institute in SanDiego, California, and a pioneerin the use of new concepts andtechnology to investigate theneural correlates of music. His research focuses on how the brain processes music andlanguage. His lecture addressesrhythm perception with datafrom cognitive neuroscience.

LECTURE

MON OCT 25 @ 6 PM MARKS 125

DANCE

TUES OCT 26 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

Lionel Popkin looks at how an individual bodycan hold multiple historiesand align itself with divergent cultural identities. There Is an Elephant in this Dance abounds with choreographic eloquence,clever direction, and thematic layering. Popkin, an alumnus of theTrisha Brown Dance Company, is joined on stage by Carolyn Halland Peggy Piacenza, with an original score by Robert Een.

Lionel Popkin

There is an Elephant inThis Dance

Come meet Teresa and Jose Yenque,two generations of award-winningactors who have shared the stage andscreen with many of the biggestnames in the entertainment industry,and whose careers have spannedBroadway theatre, Hollywoodfilm/TV, and international and indieproductions. Hear their stories ofstruggle and triumph, view a screening of two of their finest shortfilms (award winners Abuela's Revoltand Wednesday Afternoon), and dialogue with the Yenques abouttheir careers and lives.

THURS OCT 28 @ 7 PM McMAHAN HOUSE

FILM

The Yenque Acting Tradition

LECTURE

TUE NOV 9 @ 7 PM CLARKE 113

This event is sponsored by the Visual & Performing Arts and Women’s StudiesDepartments, ASI Women’s Center, and the USUAB Clarke Activities Team.*Note: This is a paid ticket event. Contact Marcos Martinez at 760-750-4150

CHELA

THURS/FRI OCT 21 & 22 @ 7 PM ARTS 111

LECTURE

Jesse Billauer

Life Rolls On

TUE NOV 30 @ 12 PM ACD 102

Jesse Billauer has become a rolemodel on how to live life to thefullest, despite a life changingsurf injury. Billauer, a quadriple-gic, was told by doctors that hewould never surf again. However,Billauer eventually did return tosurfing, adapting his techniqueand equipment to the situationof his current condition.

Co-sponsored by Nu Upsilon chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu

Dr. Brailer is recognized as a leaderin the strategy and financing ofquality and efficiency in healthcare, with a particular emphasis onhealth information technology and health systems management. Dr. Brailer holds doctoral degrees in both medicine and economics. He will address Health InformationTechnology and the ongoing U.S. Healthcare transformation.

Dr. David Brailer

Forum on Healthcare Reform

WED OCT 27 @ 6 PM ARTS 111