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April 2023
@Noon with Jean Chen Ho
Scripps Presents @Noon Program with Jean Chen Ho The Scripps Presents @Noon series incorporates a diverse range of artists, authors, activists, and scholars in an intimate setting that is interactive with students, faculty, staff, and the greater community. Please feel free to bring your lunch as this is a noontime program. Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, named one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022, a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah…
Ticket Information »Scripps Presents; Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
Scripps Presents a presentation from Dr. Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz Dr. Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, is a cultural leader, oral historian, and documentarian. One of Santa Fe New Mexican’s 2017 “10 Who Made a Difference” and the 2019 recipient of the University of San Francisco’s 2018 “Living the Mission” award, Tho-Biaz is the founder and director of the New Mexico Women of Color Nonprofit Leadership Initiative at the Santa Fe Community Foundation and also teaches at the Banff Centre. She has recorded…
Ticket Information »Great Leap’s FandangObon
Nobuko Miyamoto Founded by Nobuko Miyamoto and Quetzal Flores, Great Leap’s FandangObon convenes into one circle the participatory music and dance traditions of Fandango of Vera Cruz, Mexico rooted in African, Mexican and indigenous music; Japanese Buddhist Obon circle dances in remembrance of ancestors; and West African dance and drums of Nigeria, Mali, and New Guinea. As we continue to build this practice, we have also welcomed the Sufi Muslim traditions of the Hadra as well. Rooted in culturally-based sustainability…
Ticket Information »Scripps Presents; Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita will be joined in conversation with Jean Chen Ho, the Scripps 2023 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Sansei and Sensibility, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and a US Artists’ Ford…
Ticket Information »Scripps Presents; Kristina Wong
Scripps Presents Comedy Series with Kristina Wong Kristina Wong is a comedian, actor, and solo theatre performer who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Through a satirical lenss, her work tackles themes of race, sex, and privilege, often in conjunction with the Asian-American experience. A recipient of Center Theatre Group’s 2019 Sherwood Award, among others, she has created viral web series such as How Not to Pick Up Asian Chicks and recently launched the second season of…
Ticket Information »Levitt on the Lawn featuring La Verdad
Scripps Presents La Verdad Scripps Presents and Levitt on the Lawn presents La Verdad La Verdad is a premier West Coast Latin music ensemble collectively led by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Gabriel Gonzalez. Gonzalez performed in the 2011–12 North American national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical In the Heights. This program is supported by Scripps alumna Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch '74, through the Mortimor & Mimi Levitt Foundation and co-sponsored by Scripps Presents. The Levitt on the Lawn concert series is…
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