« All Events This event has passed. Storyteller’s Festival 2023 April 13 @ 12:00 pm - 6:30 pm Free « Beginning Qi Gong GRIT Group » Join us for the second annual, Storyteller’s Poetry, Music, Arts, and Film Festival on Thursday, April 13th 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 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live Details Date: April 13 Time: 12:00 pm - 6:30 pm Cost: Free Event Categories: Art Exhibition, Community Engagement Center, Lecture, Live Performance, Screening, Special Event Event Tags:Academics, Diversity, Exhibit, Innovative Teaching, Lecture, Live Performance, special event, Video Website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFmnsDr73Mvr4Ap-5e87Nha-1Kx9AyZEFpSQF78p0zETm3LQ/viewform Venue McConnell Apron 1050 North Mills Ave Claremont, CA 91711 United States + Google Map Organizer Writing Center Other For more information contact [email protected]
