Events & Announcements
Events by region:
Events by program:
Film Screening: Big Joy
Big Joy: the Adventures of James Broughton is a journey through the life and works of the exquisite poet, a vibrant lover, innovator, and role model. The story shows what it means to be yourself, how making art can keep you from losing hope, and how you can find true love – and yourself – at age 62, or any age.
Region: Out of state
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
Portland, OR
A Man and the Mountain - Messages From Joaquin Miller’s Shasta Years
Come to a preview of the film A Man and the Mountain – Messages From Joaquin Miller’s Shasta Years and find out how Joaquin Miller’s words are still relevant today.
Region: Far North
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 N. Old Stage Rd., Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
Redding Cemetery Historical Tour
This evening tour of the Redding Cemetery will focus on the men and women known by Joaquin Miller in the 1800s.
Region: Far North
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 North Old Stage Road, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
ONLINE FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: FREEDOM RIDERS
Join us online for a special pilot screening and discussion of this Emmy Award-winning documentary and revisit a critical moment in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. Wednesday, May 29, noon–1:00pm PST. Click here to participate.
Region: Statewide
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
OVEE: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/86uuf
Film Screening: Rebels With a Cause
Rebels with a Cause is a documentary film that portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development. Check it out at the SF Green Film Festival.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
New People’s Cinema, 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA
Khmer Arts Festival and Film Premiere of “After the Rain, the Birds Sing”
Celebrate the phenomenal arts and artists of the Stockton Cambodian community with a Cambodian arts mini festival and the premiere of “After the Rain, the Birds Sing,” a short film showcasing Cambodian artistic traditions.
Region: Central Valley
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
University of the Pacific Multicultural Center
3601 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA 95211
3601 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA 95211
Film Screening: Big Joy (in Seattle)
Big Joy: the Adventures of James Broughton is a journey through the life and works of the exquisite poet, a vibrant lover, innovator, and role model. The story shows what it means to be yourself, how making art can keep you from losing hope, and how you can find true love – and yourself – at age 62, or any age.
Region: Out of state
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
Seattle, WA
Film Screening: Rebels With a Cause
Mendocino Film Festival presents Rebels with a Cause, a documentary film that portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife.
Region: Far North
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
Mendocino, California
Film Screening: Rebels With a Cause
Rebels with a Cause is a documentary film that portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
The Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA
Presentation & Tour: Castle Crags Battle
Experience a geology presentation and hiking tour of Castle Crags, site of the 1855 battle between Native Americans and California gold rush miners.
Region: Far North
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 North Old Stage Road, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
Staged Reading: Riot/Rebellion
Drawing on the stories and testimonies of witnesses, Watts Village Theater Company will develop several performance pieces exploring the 1965 Watts Riot/Rebellion with the goals of preserving community memory and making the community’s history more accessible.
Region: Los Angeles Metro
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Alma Reaves Woods Watts Library, 10205 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90002
Staged Reading: Riot/Rebellion
Drawing on the stories and testimonies of witnesses, Watts Village Theater Company will develop several performance pieces exploring the 1965 Watts Riot/Rebellion with the goals of preserving community memory and making the community’s history more accessible.
Region: Los Angeles Metro
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Alma Reaves Woods Watts Library, 10205 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90002
Film Screening: Rebels with a Cause
See Rebels with a Cause, a documentary film that portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
Rialto Cinemas Sebastapol, 6868 McKinley Ave, Sebastopol, CA
Film Screening: Rebels with a Cause
See Rebels with a Cause, a documentary film that portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, 2966 College Ave, Berkeley, CA
Film Screening: Rebels With a Cause
Rebels with a Cause opens at the Christopher B. Smith San Rafael Film Center. The film portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: California Documentary Project
Location:
1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA
Staged Reading: Riots/Rebellion
Drawing on the stories and testimonies of witnesses, Watts Village Theater Company will develop several performance pieces exploring the 1965 Watts Riot/Rebellion with the goals of preserving community memory and making the community’s history more accessible.
Region: Los Angeles Metro
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Alma Reaves Woods Watts Library, 10205 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90002
Presentation & Tour: Captain Jack’s Stronghold
Discover the geology and history of Captain Jack's Stronghold--of Lava Beds National Monument--in this presentation and bus tour of the volcanic highway and the battle fought there.
Region: Far North
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 North Old Stage Road, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
3rd on Third Arts Celebration
3rd on Third, a reference to the third Thursday of the month and the event location, Third Street, will feature a myriad of activities for the whole family, including an unveiling of six new StreetSmARTS murals by local artists, pop up galleries, outdoor performances, a special children’s zone with free art-making activities, and food vendors.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: Community Stories
Call for Proposals: Belfer National Conference for Educators: Social Studies
Our friends at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum invite applications the 2013 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators: Social Studies. The conference is designed for educators with less than five years’ experience teaching about the Holocaust, but educators with more experience may attend.
Region: Out of state
Programs:
Location:
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024
Symposium: The Neighborhoods of Baseball
This day-long symposium, featuring a variety of thematic panel discussions, will document and interpret the role that amateur, semi-professional, and professional baseball has played in the history and development of the Mexican American, Japanese American, and African American communities of Southern California.
Region: Los Angeles Metro
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Margo Albert Theater, Plaza de la Raza, 3540 N Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibition
Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles will be in Mammoth Lakes June 30, 2013 through August 25, 2013.
Region: Sierras
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
Mammoth Lakes Library 400 Sierra Park Road Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546
Tour: Joaquin Miller’s Squaw Valley
Join this tour of the McCloud area, at some of the presumed locations of Joaquin Miller’s life during the 1850s.
Region: Far North
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 North Old Stage Road, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibition
Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles will be in Merced September 8, 2013 through January 12, 2014.
Region: Central Valley
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
UC Merced Library 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced CA
Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibition
Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles will be in Fremont September 8 through November 3, 2014.
Region: Bay Area
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
Fremont Public Library, 2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538
Symposium: A Man and the Mountain: Joaquin Miller’s Shasta Years
True stories of love, war, and conflict occurred near Mount Shasta in the 1850s that rival any Shakespearean play or Greek tragedy. Learn about the role played in those stories by Joaquin Miller, Poet of the Sierras, frontier adventurer, prolific writer.
Region: Far North
Programs: Community Stories
Location:
Mount Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 N. Old Stage Rd., Mount Shasta, CA 96067
Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibition
Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles will be in Thousand Oaks January 26 through March 23, 2014.
Region: Los Angeles Metro
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
Thousand Oaks Library, 1401 E Janss Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
Exhibit: Dondequiera que haya una lucha
The Spanish translation of Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles in Monterey County January 26 - March 23, 2014.
Region: Central Coast
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
Monterey County Free Libraries
Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibition
Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles will be in Monterey County January 26 through March 23, 2014.
Region: Central Coast
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
Monterey County Free Libraries
Wherever There’s a Fight Exhibition
Exhibit Envoy's Searching for Democracy exhibition on the unsung hero/ines of civil rights struggles will be in Riverside County April 6 through June 1, 2014.
Region: Inland Empire
Programs: Wherever There’s a Fight ExhibitionSearching for Democracy
Location:
Riverside Community College District Campuses, Riverside County
