Rivalry Weekend

On September 30 we will have a BBQ hosted by Pitzer at the McConnell Apron from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. The P-P @CMS football game is at 1 p.m. Other rivalry games happening that day are:

Women’s Volleyball vs CMS at the CAR-W at 4 p.m.
Men’s Soccer vs CMS at 5 p.m.
Women’s Soccer @ CMS at 7 p.m.

We want to get as many people out to the BBQ and to each athletic event to support your Pomon-Pitzer teams. Go Sagehens!

Storyteller’s Festival 2023

Join us for the second annual, Storyteller’s Poetry, Music, Arts, and Film Festival on Thursday, April 13^th from 12:00pm-6:30pm. This event showcases student creations while supporting local artists, and will host live music performances, a spoken word event, a writing workshop, a film screening with Q&A, food trucks, and more! This festival is in collaboration with the Writing Center, Black People in the Inland Empire, the Community Engagement Center, Media Arts for Social Justice, the Campus Life Committee, the William James Association, Pitzer College Black Student Union and the Native Indigenous Student Union and is free and open to the public.

Festival Vendor Registration Link

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFmnsDr73Mvr4Ap-5e87Nha-1Kx9AyZEFpSQF78p0zETm3LQ/viewform

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

12:00-5:00PM Food Trucks on the Mounds, Local Arts Vendors in McConnel Living Room

12:00PM @ McConnel Apron – DJ John West will open the festival

12:30PM – Creative Writing Workshop hosted by Stephanie Liu-Rojas – McConnell Atrium

1:00PM @McConnell Apron – Live Music of White White Buffalo & Wanbli Ohitika Win – Native American artists and activists Dani Doll and Juliana Brown Eyes will perform new music from the She’s an Eagle in Flight Tour 2023.

2:00PM @McConnell Apron – Spoken Word Set hosted by Pitzer College Black Student Union

FILM SCREENING – Registration Link

https://forms.gle/QWzqjvk6CPseRtcE8

2:30PM @Benson Auditorium – Art & Krimes by Krimes – award winning documentary about an artist who labors over a number of years on a secret masterpiece, and through this act of daily creative process finds a way to survive incarceration

4:00PM @Benson Auditorium – Encore screening of Art & Krimes

5:45PM @Benson Auditorium – Conversation & Q&A with Asia Johnson hosted by Sadie Scott. Asia Johnson is a writer, storyteller, and filmmaker who has worked with several organizations in the criminal justice reform space, including The Bail Project, cut50, Shakespeare in Prison, Prison Creative Arts Program, Hamtramck Free School, and the Michigan Prison Doula Initiative. Asia is a 2019 Right of Return Fellow, 2019 Room Project Fellow, 2021 Brennan Center for Justice Fellow, 2022 Art for Justice grantee, and a 2022 Highland Leader. Her Chapbook, An Exorcism, was released in 2018 and her directorial debut, Out of Place, was released in 2022

ASAM 137 Speaker Talk with Kimberley Arteche – Philippine Textiles: Craft & Ancestral Ecologies

In this lecture & workshop, we will learn about various Philippine communities’ relationships to land & ancestor through textile traditions, ethical protocol for consuming and exploring Philippine indigenous symbols & attire, and learn meditations and practices to integrate Philippine indigenous values into our everyday lives.

5c Prison Abolition Collective Spring Speaker Series: Amber Rose-Howard

The Political Education group of the 5C Prison Abolition Collective is hosting a semester-long speaker series this spring! We will be bringing many amazing scholars, activists, and filmmakers to campus as part of the series, as well as hosting an alumni panel and other exciting events. We are excited to announce that Saturday, April 8, we will be joined by Amber-Rose Howard, executive director of CURB.

Ms. Amber-Rose Howard is a poet, public speaker and organizer from Pomona, California. Experiencing a felony conviction as a young adult propelled Amber-Rose into a lifetime commitment of organizing against the Prison Industrial Complex and building up the power of Black people and all others impacted by state violence and racial capitalism. Amber-Rose holds a BA in Communication Studies concentrated in Public Argumentation & Rhetoric from California State University, San Bernardino. She is a graduate of the Women’s Foundation of California, Women’s Policy Institute Fellowship, the Just Leadership USA, Leading with Conviction Fellowship and a proud member of All of Us Or None. Amber-Rose currently serves as Executive Director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB). CURB is a Black-led statewide coalition of more than 80 grassroots organizations. Their three point mission is to reduce the number of incarcerated people in California; reduce the number of prison and jails in California; and shift wasteful spending away from incarceration and toward healthy community investments. You can read more about CURB here: https://curbprisonspending.org/about/.

We are so thrilled to hear from Ms. Amber-Rose Howard about her lifelong organizing as well as her insights from the policy side of abolitionist work.. The event will be held at The Hive Studio 1 at 3 pm.