Upcoming Events
Past Scripps Presents Events
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@noon with Koa Beck @noon with Koa Beck Join us for the return of our Scripps Presents @Noon programs as we host writer, editor, and cultural critic Koa Beck! Beck is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction book White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind , which has earned praise from Gloria Steinem and […] |
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American Dreams/Asian Nightmares Join us at 3pm for a pre-concert reception at Pattison Court featuring Gamelan Merdu Kumala and Claremont Taiko. Following the reception, join us in Garrison Theater for a musical performance that chronicles the history of the Chinese Massacre of 1871 through movement, music, and spoken narrative in 3 parts: I. Other Bodies II. […] |
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PEN Out Loud: Celeste Ng + Gabrielle Zevin Number one bestselling author and Guggenheim fellow Celeste Ng joins PEN Out Loud to discuss her third novel, Our Missing Hearts. A suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child, Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can pretend to ignore the most searing injustice. […] |
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An Evening of Dance Please join us for “An Evening of Dance” by reserving tickets for the performance. Scripps Presents and Scripps College Dance Department bring innovative new dance works to campus for a special evening of movement discourse. The evening starts at Garrison Theater with Keith Johnson’s SERIES, followed by a jaunt to the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery […] |
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Sea of Tranquility: Emily St. John Mandel in Conversation Join the author of Station Eleven for the SoCal launch of her new novel! The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, […] |
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Yotam Ottolenghi in Conversation Join the chef for a long-awaited in-person conversation in Claremont! Yotam Ottolenghi is one of the world’s most innovative chefs. The Jerusalem-born, London-based Ottolenghi became a sensation with a Guardian column focused on vegetarian cuisine. His vibrant cookbooks, Plenty, Flavor, and Sweet, are must-have companions for foodies and aspirants alike. Join him for a long-awaited […] |
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The Future of Food Join the scientists who are developing the salmon that may be in your next sushi roll. What do you get when you cross science, sustainability, innovation, and a devotion to sushi? If you watched David Chang’s Hulu show The Next Thing You’ll Eat, you may already know the answer. Wildtype. The San Francisco-based company is […] |
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PEN Out Loud: Julissa Arce and Aida Rodriguez in Conversation Join the writer for the launch of her new book You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation Bestselling author and co-founder of the Ascend Educational Fund Julissa Arce joins launches her new book You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation. Reflecting on the words in the book’s […] |
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PEN Out Loud: Solmaz Sharif in Conversation Join the poet for a reading and conversation from her new work “Customs.” National Book Award-finalist Solmaz Sharif discusses her second poetry collection, Customs. Examining the “culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures, affects, successes—the collection of poems “trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and […] |
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Power Hungry The Black Panthers and Their Fight to Feed a Movement In early 1969, Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community center laden with boxes of donated food to cook for the neighborhood children. By the end of the year, the Black Panthers would be feeding more children daily in […] |
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