Through a photography project, culminating in an exhibition and website, “Sites and Cycles of LA” will provide a platform to share their stories and experiences in the city of Los Angeles. Messengers often remain unheard and invisible in the public sphere. Yet, they widely remain under-served and vulnerable: they work as independent contractors and at low rates, risking their personal safety. Messengers, couriers, and delivery riders are essential workers in today’s cities. “Sites and Cycles of LA: Bike Messengers and the City,” is a photovoice project, exhibition, and panel discussion centering on the voices of bicycle messengers in Los Angeles. USC’s Institute for Diversity and Empowerment (IDEA), Los Angeles Sites and Cycles of LA: Bike Messengers and the City + Programming will run from July 20-23, 2023. Readings will be curated from underrepresented and marginalized communities from across the Bay Area and the world, including the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Program, the Creative Growth Art Center, Project 510, Youth Speaks, Pochino Press and many others doing this important work. The “2023 Beast Crawl Literary Festival,” will consist of 20-25 free one-hour literary/spoken word readings presented in over a dozen downtown Oakland-based independent businesses and community spaces. Programming will be presented in June 2023. The event will provide the general public with a better understanding of culture and heritage preservation in an urban context and on the relationship American Indians have with the federal government. Programming will include a photography exhibition of the Indian Alley murals. This program will be followed by a panel featuring Native American community members sharing how the US American Indian Relocation program impacted the urban Native community, and how art can be used for healing. Peters, will collaborate with Your Neighborhood Museum and United American Indian Involvement to screen the film “Indian Alley” in downtown Los Angeles. ‡= Second Responders: The Humanities in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters Grants Awarded Spring 2023:Īrt Is Healing: Indian Alley Film Screening and Panel Discussion +Ĭommunity Partners, Los Angeles on behalf of Your Neighborhood Museum In addition to projects on any topic, California Humanities offers special focus areas for Humanities for All Quick Grants:
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