Scripps Presents

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Scripps Presents @Noon with DJ Kurs from Deaf West
March 23, 2023

Scripps Presents @Noon series is back! The Scripps Presents @Noon series incorporates a diverse range of artists, authors, activists, and scholars in an intimate setting that is both interactive and accessible for students, faculty, staff, and the greater community. Please feel free to bring your lunch as this is a noontime program; light refreshments will […]

Scripps Presents: A Conversation with Joseph Allen Boone (Canceled)
March 9, 2023

This program is canceled! Joseph Boone is currently a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California and previously taught at Harvard University. Boone’s areas of expertise include the novel as genre, gender and queer studies, narrative theory, and modernism. He is the author of four books, including Furnace Creek and […]

Scripps Presents; “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down”
March 7, 2023

Join us for an exclusive screening of Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down followed by a panel discussion with Gabby Giffords, Lisa Erspamer, and Peter Ambler. Gabrielle Giffords is a Scripps alum from the Class of ’93, a leading gun violence prevention advocate, and a former member of US Congress, a position she held from 2005 […]

Scripps Presents; A Conversation with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
March 2, 2023

Marie Yovanovitch is a three-time US ambassador, most recently in Kyiv as the ambassador to Ukraine, and the New York Times bestselling author of a 2022 memoir, Lessons from the Edge. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Yovanovitch has earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department’s […]

Bryan Terrell Clark in Conversation
February 18, 2023

Scripps Presents a conversation with Bryan Clark Scripps Presents Bryan Terrell Clark Bryan Terrell Clark is an accomplished actor and singer/songwriter. He is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Temple University, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Best known for his role as George Washington in […]

@Noon with Nora Zelevansky
February 15, 2023

Scripps Presents @Noon Series Nora Zelevansky is a Scripps alum from the Class of ’99. She is an author, journalist, editor, and brand writer consultant who has written and co-authored several books, including Competitive Grieving; Will You Won’t You Want Me?; and Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland. Her writing […]

Laughing Matters! FIXED by Emily Wilson
February 7, 2023

Scripps Presents Emily Wilson Emily will be performing her one woman show FIXED Emily Wilson is a comedian and actress based in New York. Featured in PAPER magazine as one of the “100 People Taking Over 2019,” she is best known for her one-woman show, FIXED, about her time as a finalist on The X […]

Laughing Matters! Featuring Mo Amer
February 2, 2023

Scripps Presents Comedy Series Join us for an evening of comedy with the hilarious Mo Amer Mo Amer is a comedian, writer, and star of several Netflix series, including Mo Amer: The Vagabond and his new release, Mo, a recounting of his life as a Palestinian refugee and his journey to citizenship. He also starred […]

@noon with Koa Beck
November 8, 2022

@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 […]

American Dreams/Asian Nightmares
October 29, 2022

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. […]