Sociology Storybook Festival & Author Reading

This semester, students in SOC001X have been using their sociological imagination by translating personal troubles into public issues through children’s books. Come join us for pizza at the Sociological Storybook Festival as we read aloud and learn all about social problems and how we can work together to solve them!

26th Circle of Chairs Interracial Dialogue on Race

You are invited to the next Circle of Chairs Intergenerational and Interracial Dialogue on Race on Saturday, October 7, 2023, 3-5 pm in the Multipurpose Room at the Gold Student Health and Wellness Center, Pitzer College, 1052 N. Mills Road, Claremont.

Note that the Gold Student Center is on a little lane called Pitzer Road inside the campus. Parking is in the adjacent East Mesa Parking Lot.

Partnering with NAACP Pomona Valley branch, National Council of Negro Women Pomona Valley section, Baháʼí Community of Claremont, Pilgrim Place, and Pitzer College’s Campus Life Committee and Community Engagement Center, we hope to see you in person. We will have masks, hand sanitizer, and refreshments.

Sociology Podcast Listening Party

This semester, students in Race & Ethnic Relations have been developing their public sociology skills by turning their research on racial inequality into podcasts to share with the world. Bring your headphones and enjoy some appetizers at the Sociology Podcast Listening Party as we learn more about racial inequality and how we can address it together.

Sponsored by the Community Engagement Center and the Campus Life Committee.

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