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SUMMARY:How Long is Long Enough: Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of How Long is Long Enough: The Excessive Sentencing of Quntos & Layla\, a short documentary created by Natalie Decena\, Sarina Bozorgnia\, Veler Brown\, and Aiden Olivier from UC Santa Cruz with support from Michael Ademaro from Georgetown Law School as part of the Making an Exoneree initiative. \nQuntos Wilson and Layla Roberts were sentenced to life without parole in 1995 at the ages of 18 and 19 for a robbery in which no one was physically harmed and a mere $301 was stolen. Now approaching 50\, they have each become remarkable artists and mentors behind the prison bars of Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola). \nIn addition to the documentary screening\, the event will include a conversation with Quntos Wilson and Layla Roberts\, letter-writing\, and collaborative art making.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/how-long-is-long-enough-screening-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, 1817 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Screening: Queering Movement\, Stories Embodied Film Shorts
DESCRIPTION:The IAS\, BBQueer Fest\, and Motion Pacific invite you to attend “Queering Movement: Stories Embodied\,” an evening celebrating short films by local Black\, brown and queer artists and dancers. The screening and Q&A with filmmakers and participants showcases the interplay of activism\, movement\, and performance. Social hour to follow! Light snacks and (non-alcoholic) refreshments will be provided. Films are in English\, with English subtitles. moss time\, crip time includes audio description as voice over. \nFilms:\nmoss time\, crip time (Cynthia Ling Lee.)\nTaste her Fruit\, Bless the Whore (Diana Mulan Zhu)\nLiberating Movement: Black\, Brown & Queer All Over (Helen Aldana & Megan Martinez Goltz)
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/screening-queering-movement-stories-embodied-film-shorts/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:"The Eternal Song" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and Indigenous cultures. Voices from across generations and traditions invite us to witness the enduring scars of colonization on lands and peoples\, and the healing pathways carried through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories\, the film grapples with colonial legacies\, intergenerational trauma\, and the culture of separation that fragments our lives.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-eternal-song-film-screening/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
DESCRIPTION:On April 6\, 2026\, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political\, legal\, and societal landscape. \nSotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided by the authorities. One of them\, Juan\, was arrested for ‘a man dressing up as a woman’. Two years later\, they revisit on the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty\, joy\, and pain. \nAgainst This Messy World is a deeply introspective and visually captivating short documentary that delves into the heart and soul of artistic expression in Malaysia. A personal exploration\, narrated by Malaysian artists\, this documentary takes viewers on an evocative journey to understand the essence and purpose of being an artist in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty and piece together conversations and unfiltered moments in their lives. \nUniversities from across North America will come together to watch the films simultaneously\, then connect via Zoom with the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion. Please join us in conversation!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-sotong-and-against-this-messy-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T180000
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SUMMARY:Partners Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Labor and Community for a free film screening of the documentary\, Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution. Following the screening there will be a discussion with unionized Starbucks baristas. RSVP here
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/partners-film-screening/
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Screening
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SUMMARY:2026 Right Livelihood International Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Right Livelihood International Conference is a four-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy\, collective intelligence\, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates\, students\, faculty\, and community partners across continents\, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes\, the conference positions education as a democratic practice and the Right Livelihood College as a steward of dialogue\, student voice\, and long-term institutional learning. \nRegistration is free and open to the public. Sign up to receive conference updates\, session links\, and participation opportunities.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/2026-right-livelihood-international-conference/
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Ph.D. Presentations,Seminars,Social Gathering,Training,Undergraduate,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Tallest Dwarf—film screening and talk with Julie Wyman
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz affiliates are invited to a screening and discussion with filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman. The Tallest Dwarf charts the filmmaker’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\,  “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“—a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to addresses health disparities in institutions and policy—and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Free and open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates only\n– Attend in person at Communications Studio C\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event\n—\nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing.\n—\nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis.\n—\nDownload and share the event flyer here.\n—\nphotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/film-wyman/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations,Screening
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SUMMARY:A Sacred Place: Film Screening and Conversation with Dr. Dolly Kikon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026)\, by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones\, spirits\, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography\, oral tradition\, and geological features of Makhel to center Indigenous pedagogy\, community history\, and ecology. After the screening\, Professor Clementine Bordeaux (HAVC) will provide comments and facilitate a conversation with Kikon and audience member participants. \nMakhel in Mao Naga language means a sacred place. Can sacredness exist amid ecocide in our times? Seeking an answer\, the film follows life as it unfolds in the mountains of Makhel\, a Naga village in northern Manipur. These mountains are composed of sandstones\, shales\, and siltstones. The sandstone monoliths across the landscape are symbols of ancient alliance and kinship between spirits and humans. The story of the land is also stored in the salt springs\, ancient seawater retained in shale soil\, a geological feature of these mountains. Geographically part of the Eastern Himalayas\, the salt springs of Makhel were formed through sedimentation under an ancient equatorial ocean around 50 million years ago. Naga ancestors regarded these geological features as abodes for spirit custodians and cared for them. A Sacred Place is the story of land narrated by Naga storytellers\, as humans prioritize relentless development forgetting their relationship with human and other beings. \nLearn more about A Sacred Place.  \n \nThis screening is a hybrid event. Remote participants will receive a link to the film before the event to watch on their own. They may join the conversation via Zoom. \nPlease RSVP to register for this event. Register here. Any questions can be directed to seacoast@ucsc.edu \nThis event is graciously co-sponsored by UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions\, Center for South Asian Studies\, Indigenous Faculty Network\, and The Humanities Institute. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/a-sacred-place/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T180000
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Federico Cuatlacuatl
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for a film screeening and discussion with artist Federico Cuatlacuatl. This will be the west coast premiere of  QUEMAR LAS PATAS DEL IMPERIO (to burn the feet of the empire)\, Cuatlacuatl’s newest work. \nFederico Cuatlacuatl (b. San Francisco Coapan\, Cholula\, Puebla -México) is Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia and currently a research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Cuatlacuatl’s aesthetic oeuvre addresses Nahua Indigenous immigration\, social art practice\, and cultural sustainability. Building on his own experience as formerly undocumented immigrant and DACA holder\, his creative practice collides Indigeneity\, immigration\, and temporalities. At the core of his most recent research and artistic production is the intersection of transborder Indigeneity\, Nahua diasporic resilience\, and Nahua futurisms. His work has been featured in international film festivals and exhibitions globally including: the Max Ernst Museum\, the Kode Museum of Art in Norway\, the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin\, the BFI London Film Festival\,  the Larnaca Biennale in Cyprus\, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City\, the Museum of Art Såo Paulo in Brazil\, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Sculpture Center in Ohio\, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans\, and the Tucson Museum of Art. Cuatlacuatl is a co-founder of the UNDOC+Collective and the founder of the Rasquache Artist Residency in Puebla\, México.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/artist-talk-with-federico-cuatlacuatl/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations,Screening
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