Art For Social Change Coming To Campus

Proposals due Jan. 26 for knowledge and skill-sharing workshops

Humboldt Sentinel
1/6/09
By Paul Mann

ARCATA – Humboldt State University’s MultiCultural Center welcomes workshop proposals through Monday, Jan. 26, for the 2009 Social Justice Summit, “Art for Social Change: Discovering the Art in Your Activism, Discovering the Activism in Your Art,” March 6-7 in the Kate Buchanan Room.

The center has divided the interactive workshops into two segments: “Knowledge Sharing” (90 minutes) and Skill Sharing (90 minutes or three hours). Candidate subjects for Knowledge Sharing include immigration issues, integrating social justice into the academic curriculum, the ‘decolonization’ of education, strategies for community social change and the dismantling of privilege. Skill Sharing involves artists and activists who teach practical lessons in film making, community organizing, murals, poetry, guerilla theater, and silk screening and stenciling, among others.

Workshop proposals can be submitted online at http://studentaffairs.humboldt.edu/multicultural/summit/index.php.

Co-coordinators of the 15th annual summit (formerly known as the Diversity Conference) are Ranjan Hatch (rdh4@humboldt.edu) and Saqib Keval (sak34@humboldt.edu).

Registration fees are $15.00 for students and $45.00 general. Summit participants can register for a one-unit course in Ethnic Studies (ES 480, CRN 21926), Women’s Studies (WS 480, CRN 24283) and Sociology (SOC 494, CRN 24794).

For more information, dial the MultiCultural Center’s Mona Mazzotti at (707) 826-3369 or email her at mmazzotti@humboldt.edu.

The MultiCultural Center is a student-initiated program to foster understanding of diversity and multi-ethnic perspectives. It is located in the Balabanis House on the south side of the University Library.