Events
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1968 East L.A. Student Walkouts, About ... Productions is producing the Evangeline Initiative with multiple educational components serving East L.A. and other youth, and restaging its critically acclaimed production of Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe for the first time in East L.A. The show will run March 29 - April 8, 2018 at Plaza de la Raza in Lincoln Heights. "The Legacy of the 1968 Student Walkouts: How Far Have We Come?," a free, intergenerational panel and interactive community forum, will take place March 31 at 4:00 p.m.
This speaker series continues with its fourth session. The following speakers will address legal and ethical issues in digital archiving.
UCLA Professor Emeritus Dr. Carlos Manuel Haro will present a slideshow of never-before-seen photographs from the 1968 East L.A.
Maria Josefina Saldaña Portillo is Profesor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley.
Refugee Re/Enactments is a site-specific performance that will be presented on Dickson Court.
Jonathan Yahalom, clinical psychologist and CSRC visiting scholar for 2017-18, will share findings from his extensive study of rural family caregiving for elders living with dementia in Oaxaca, Mexico.