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Week of November 15, 2021

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True Equity: Beyond Solidarity: Awareness, Accountability, and Action
Tuesday, November 16, 5-6:30 p.m.
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Join us for this culminating conversation of the 2021 True Equity series. The panel participants will explore pathways forward that reach beyond rhetoric and are steeped in sustainable change.

Moderated by Executive Director of Alumni & Family Engagement and Annual Giving Brandon Kyle, this intergenerational discussion will bring together President Melvin L. Oliver; Angela Glover Blackwell, Pitzer trustee and founder of PolicyLink; Jacqui Campos-Araujo ’23, Latinx Student Union co-president; Derric J. Johnson ’95, Alumni Board member; Paris Primm ’22, Black Student Union president; and Julia Weber P’23, Family Leadership Council member.

CASA Pitzer Speaker Series: Healing Resistance with Kazu Haga
Wednesday, November 17, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
https://pitzer.zoom.us/j/84084050472

Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy and is a nonviolence and restorative justice trainer. He teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, organizing and mindfulness in prisons and jails, high schools and youth groups, and with activist communities around the country.

Wellness Wednesday: Gratitude
Wednesday, November 17, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
McConnell Apron

Learn about gratitude! Join us during lunch outside of McConnell for tips, tools, and resources for your wellness. Instagram: @PZStrive2Thrive

A Stray: A Film Screening and Conversation with Director Musa Syeed
Wednesday, November 17, 5:30 p.m.
Registration Required: https://tiny.cc/a-stray

Director Musa Syeed will be in conversation with Soham Patel (Pitzer College) and Bilal Nasir (Pomona College) via Zoom. They will discuss Syeed’s film A Stray (2016), which follows the story of a young Somali American man in Minneapolis as he struggles with life, loss, and belonging.

The film will be available for viewing online on November 15 and 16. The event organizers will only be sending the link to the virtual screening to those who have registered.

Preparing for Civil Service in California: Workshop with Dana Nothnagel ’19
Thursday, November 18, 5:30-6:45 p.m.
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Join us as we welcome Dana Nothnagel ’19, program coordinator for the California Grants Portal, to learn about how to get a job working in local government/politics after college.

PZ Threads Issue 3 Launch Party
Thursday, November 18, 8:30-11 p.m.
Grove House

Celebrate the launch of Issue 3 of PZ Threads! Come dressed as your favorite decade.

Pitzer College Art Galleries

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend
Tuesdays-Saturdays; reservations required.
Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Atherton Hall
Showing through December 18

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend, a partnership between the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College and Pitzer College Art Galleries, is the artist’s most ambitious exhibition to date. The Benton is exhibiting a major new body of work that expands upon themes the artist has explored in an earlier project, Dear 1968,… (2017), and Pitzer is showing an installation featuring Barnette’s signature reimagining of domestic spaces as futuristic, other-worldly locations of liberation and restoration.

Jenny Perlin: Maelstrom
Tuesdays-Saturdays; reservations required.
Nichols Gallery, Broad Center
Showing through December 17

Artist Jenny Perlin works in 16mm hand-drawn animated films, videos, installations, and drawings. Her projects draw on interdisciplinary interests in history, cultural studies, literature, and linguistics. Her films incorporate innovative techniques to investigate history as it relates to the present.

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