Long Hot Summer!

May
Latin American Film Fest @ UCR, 5/20 - 5/27
This year's program features award-winning films looking at socio-political developments in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Venezuela. Films include: Against the Grain - An Artist's Survival Guide to Peru; Cartoneros; Los Ultimos zapatistas; State of Fear; Machuca; ¿Puedo Hablar? May I Speak?; Social Genocide. Contact: Daniel Polk (daniel.polk@ucr.edu)

Frances Negron-Muntaner, The Young Lords, 5/28
3:00-5:00pm Latin American Studies Department, UC Riverside
Contact: Marta Hernandez Salvan (mhernandezsalvan@yahoo.com)

June
Photo-Graphic 0.8, 6/5-7/2 Featuring graphic design, photo-based illustration and other works from students of the newly established Art Institute of California of the Inland Empire based in San Bernardino. Reception, 6/5/08 from 6:00-9:00pm. UCR/CMP Digital Studio Gallery.


How I See It, 6/16-8/5 The Riverside Public Library and UCR ARTSblock Digital Studio team up to present this unique photography-based summer session funded in-part by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities California Stories Fund. 1:00-3:00pm daily, RSPL & UCR/CMP. Contact: Alicia Doktor (adoktor@riversideca.gov)

July
MyGlobalVillage, 7/9-8/17
Our 2nd annual high school summer program presented with support from Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Students screen award-winning social issues films and respond with media messages of their own. 9:00am-1:00pm daily, UCR/CMP. Contact: UCR ARTSblock Ed (digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu)

August
Sense of Place, 7/26-10/4
A series of workshops and historical reflections on Riverside's Chinatowns of the late 1800's run alongside the Sweeney Art Gallery exhibition, Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China featuring artists Chen Chieh-jen, Hong Hao, Zhao Liang, Xu Ruotao, Chen Wei, Wang Wei, Ai Weiwei, Xiaoze Xie, and Xu Zhen. Contact: UCR ARTSblock Ed (digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu)