Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, CA

Join us on Saturday, October 14, 4:30pm, at the UCR ARTS, Culver Center, 3834 Main St., Riverside for a Screening of Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust, with musical performance by Alex Miranda (Payómkawichum/Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians) and discussion with filmmaker Ann Kaneko and Miranda, followed by a reception. An inspired and poetic portrait of a place and its people, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust focuses on the World War II concentration camp at the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierra mountains as the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American, and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water.

Free and open to the public. Registration required: https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/manzanar-diverted/

Accompanies Climates of Inequality exhibition, organized by the Humanities Action Lab, University of California, Riverside (UCR), and 21 other localities. Program co-sponsored by UCR Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning and UCR Arts AAPI Film Series Supported by the Voy and Fay Wong Family Endowment.

Climates of Inequality: EJ in the I.E. listening session/public conversation.

Join us for a lively dialogue with environmental justice organizers from the Inland Empire, who consider how their communities mobilize storytelling for change, to save their lives and those of generations to follow. Spanish/English translation available.
Registration required; link HERE.

Accompanies Climates of Inequality exhibition, organized by the Humanities Action Lab, University of California, Riverside (UCR), and 21 other localities. Program co-sponsored by UCR Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning, the People’s Collective for Environmental Justice and A People’s History of the I.E.

Environmental Justice in the IE: Community-based Practices in Art and Activism, panel discussion

Local social practice artists, documentarians, and activists Tamara Cedré, Noé Montes, and Anthony Victoria talk about the challenges of representing the slow violence of the supply chain, which digs deep into historical forces of colonialism, extraction, and exploitation of the land and people. With over a billion square feet of warehouses blanketing the I.E. and a vast infrastructure—freeways, railroads, and intermodal rail yards—carrying goods to market, how can the arts help humanize the issues and convey the magnitude of the impacts we feel today in Riverside and San Bernardino, where residents experience among the highest rates of air pollution and asthma in the state?

Free and open to the public.

Accompanies Climates of Inequality exhibition, organized by the Humanities Action Lab, University of California, Riverside (UCR), and 21 other localities. Program co-sponsored by UCR Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning and A People’s History of the I.E.

Teaching “Climates of Inequality” Tour and Workshop

Are you a high school, college, or university-level teacher interested in bringing regional issues of environmental justice into your classrooms? We have limited spaces available to workshop strategies together, to build upon each other’s work in deliberate ways that can best provide pathways for our students to engage in environmental justice work at all levels. Registration required; space is limited. Free museum entry to registrants. Registration link HERE.

Accompanies Climates of Inequality exhibition, organized by the Humanities Action Lab, University of California, Riverside (UCR), and 21 other localities. Program co-sponsored by UCR Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning and Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity, with additional funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Cultures of Environmentalism: Read Aloud & Artmaking.

Spanish/English translation available. Children’s books have begun to focus in sensitive ways on conveying issues around climate change, and to teach us how different cultures think about the environment. For this closing day public program in association with the pop-up exhibition of Climates of Inequality, families are invited to a bilingual reading of Carole Lindstorm and Michaela Goade’s We Are Water Protectors (2021 Caldecott Medal Winner), and Mona Damluji and Innosanto Nagara’s Together (2021), both for ages 3-7.
Free and open to the public; no registration required.

Accompanies Climates of Inequality exhibition, organized by the Humanities Action Lab, University of California, Riverside (UCR), and 21 other localities. Program co-sponsored by UCR Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research, with additional funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.