FALL 2017 SEASON
ELECTRIFYING SCHOLARLY FUNNY EXUBERANT VIBRANT PATHBREAKING FIERCE CREATIVE
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Scripps Presents is an
ELECTRIFYING
mix of storytellers and artists, policymakers and musicians—and everything in between. Join Scripps College as we present
MIND-BENDING, GENRE-DEFYING tête-à-têtes eye-opening,
with the thinkers and doers, writers and performers, whose passions and perspectives are changing the way we see the world.
Most events take place on the Scripps College campus and are FREE and open to the public. Tickets are required. For tickets, information, and directions, visit scrippscollege.edu/scrippspresents or call (909) 607-8508.
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Novelist Jac Jemc, The Grip of It (Tuesday Noon*)
Pomona College professor Gilda Ochoa, Latina/o Migration, Roots, and Resistance (Tuesday Noon*)
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Philosopher and NYT “The Ethicist” columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Writer Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl (Tuesday Noon*)
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Novelist Junot Díaz in Conversation
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Levitt on the Lawn: Meklit
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Political theorist Danielle Allen, Cuz (Tuesday Noon*)
Bessie Bartlett Frankel Concert: La Victoria
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Levitt on the Lawn: La Misa Negra
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Editor, actress, and style guru Tavi Gevinson
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TransLatin@ Coalition founder Bamby Salcedo (Tuesday Noon*)
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L.A. Council for American-Islamic Relations director Hussam Ayloush (Tuesday Noon*)
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Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in the Age of Trump
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Art Garfunkel in Conversation (Downtown Los Angeles)
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Sasha PolakowSuransky, The Backlash Against Immigration (Tuesday Noon*)
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Ovarian Psycos, Activism in East L.A. * Tuesday Noon is Scripps’ midday public lecture series. Bring your lunch and join the conversation, 12:15pm, Hampton Room, Malott Commons. No reservations required.
Levitt on the Lawn: La Misa Negra “La Misa Negra has been upending the Latin music genre, infusing tradition with outside musical influences…and contemporary subject matter.” —San Francisco Chronicle
With an electrifying blend of 1950s- and 60s-style cumbia and high-energy, AfroColombian dance music, this Oakland-based Latinx octet’s performances are suffused with horns, accordion, and percussive panache. Swinging from sensually hypnotic to infectiously danceable tunes, La Misa Negra dares its audience to be anything than energized and on its feet! This program is part of an ongoing series supported by the Levitt Foundation and Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch ’74.
Friday, September 8, 6:30pm, Bowling Green
SCHOLARLY
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher and New York University professor Kwame Anthony Appiah has been a leader in scholarly research and public conversations on morality. With a focus that has ranged from cosmopolitanism to cultural literacy, Appiah, who also writes the weekly New York Times “The Ethicist� column, provides new perspective on a 21st century ethics of common humanity. This program is sponsored by an anonymous trustee of the College in partnership with Scripps College and Pomona Philosophy with additional funding from the McConnell Fund.
Thursday, September 14, 4:15pm, Hampton Room
Junot DĂaz in Conversation
PROBING
—The New York Times
This program is presented in partnership with the Scripps College Humanities Institute and sponsored by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Fund.
FUNNY
“Junot Díaz has one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic.”
Junot Díaz’s fiction is probing and funny. It’s also situated at the often challenging and always complex center of first-generation American experience. Díaz, Dominican Republican–born and New Jersey–bred, has a knack for capturing the messy, maudlin, and majestic dramas of finding one’s way in a brand new world. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This Is How You Lose Her visits Scripps to reflect on, among other things, the ways that literature and politics intersect.
Tuesday, September 19, 6pm, Garrison Theater
EXUBERANT
Levitt on the Lawn: Meklit
“She sings of fragility, hope and selfempowerment, and exudes all three. What’s irresistible, above all, is her cradling, sensuous, gentle sound. She is stunning.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
Meklit’s fusion of jazz and folk is filtered through her native Ethiopian musical lens. A Yale graduate who now calls San Francisco home, her music is wry and exuberant—one only need watch the video for “Kemekem [I Like Your Afro]” to appreciate this subtle and mesmerizing songstress. This program is part of an ongoing series supported by the Levitt Foundation and Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch ’74.
Thursday, September 21, 6:30pm, Bowling Green
VIBRANT
Bessie Bartlett Frankel Concert: La Victoria Mariachi with a contemporary, all-female twist, La Victoria is dedicated to bringing this classic Mexican folk form to new and younger audiences. “Mi Hermano,� their contribution to My Song Is My Weapon (a musical protest movement started by Tom Morello and Jackson Browne), was written about the false perceptions of
Latinx communities fostered during the 2016 election. La Victoria visits Scripps to showcase their take on this vibrant and vital musical tradition. This program is presented in partnership with the Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chamber Music Festival and the Scripps College Department of Music.
Sunday, October 8, 3pm, Garrison Theater
ACTIVE
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in the Age of Trump
For many women, the Trump administration’s policy priorities have ushered in undulating waves of panic, frustration, and outrage. For the feminist contributors to Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding’s anthology Nasty Women, putting pen to page is one of the most important ways to mobilize. The editors, along with Los Angeles–based writer Carina Chocano, visit to talk about writing as activism with Scripps Writing Program Director and Associate Professor Kimberly Drake. This program is presented in partnership with the IDEA Initiative.
Thursday, October 12, 12:15pm, Hampton Room
PATHBREAKING
Art Garfunkel in Conversation Grand Performances 300 S. Grand Avenue Downtown Los Angeles
Scripps Presents and Grand Performances join forces to bring iconic musician Art Garfunkel to Downtown Los Angeles. In a celebration of his memoir-of-sorts, What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man, Garfunkel will take the stage for an intimate conversation about his life and career and share reflections on his pathbreaking musical partnership with Paul Simon. The purchase of a ticket and a copy of the book is required through grandperformances.org.
Friday, October 13, 7:30pm, Downtown Los Angeles
Ovarian Psycos: A Screening and Conversation on Activism in East L.A. The Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade is a fierce and feminist collective confronting injustice and building community in Los Angeles. Embracing the historic legacy of the Chicano/a Civil Rights Movement that emerged in the 1960s, this cadre of activists is also the subject of Joanna Sokolowski and Kate
Trumbull-LaValle’s documentary. Join members of the Ovarian Psycos for a screening and conversation about their work in Boyle Heights and East L.A. This program is presented in partnership with the Laspa Center for Leadership.
Tuesday, October 24, 6pm, Garrison Theater
Tavi Gevinson
CREATIVE
Fame found Tavi Gevinson early—right around her 13th year. Now 20, this editor, actress, and style guru is entering her second decade as a creative and tastemaker. Founder of the online publication Rookie, Gevinson has also graced the stage in such productions as This Is Our Youth and The Cherry Orchard and has been featured in films Enough Said and Cadaver. She visits Scripps to talk with novelist Jenny Zhang— whose debut, Sour Heart, hit bookshelves this August—about her career, feminism, and what it’s like to have This American Life’s Ira Glass as one of her mentors.
This program is sponsored by the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Fund.
Tuesday, November 7, 7pm, Garrison Theater
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