Get Your Hands Dirty with the Arts!

University Park Campus
9am-

In response to popular demand, we will once again present this exciting opportunity to get your hands dirty with the arts! The USC arts schools will present a daylong festival featuring a fantastic array of hands-on workshops in art, photography, theatre, dance, music, architecture and film. Learn how to salsa dance, make a sculpture, play guitar or create 3-D graphics. Please join us to get your hands dirty and experience the creativity and thrill of making art! The festival will also be held in the spring semester on Saturday, January 30.  

Sponsored by: Vision and Voices

Excel Leadership Academy

THH 212
6:00pm-9:00pm

Topic: "Time Management: The balancing act of an involved student" Join the Black Student Assembly meeting for another Excel Leadership Academy workshop. Are you an involved student who is trying to manage everything, but seem to be losing the battle over time management? This workshop will assist creating a schedule that puts your life into perspective while helping leaders to live up to their best. As a reminder, the BSA meetings are a great weekly opportunity to connect with other students in the community!  www.usc.edu/cbcsa

Sponsored by: CBCSA and BSA

Project ReMix: Exploring the Mixed Race Generation

UUC 3rd floor
6:00pm-9:00pm

Project ReMix: Exploring the Mixed Race Generation Topic: “Your Journey, Yourself: Mapping Identity” Following the success of the Kick-Off, the second Project ReMiX program of the semester will take place on Thursday, October 15th from 6 - 8 pm in the UUC 3rd floor lecture hall. This workshop delves into identity development and students' identity journeys. The program will integrate drawing and storytelling. Please rsvp to apass@usc.edu by Monday, October 12, 2009. Check out the coverage on Project ReMix at http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/thinking_outside_the_white_box.html  apass@usc.edu

Sponsored by: APASS, CBCSA, El Centro

Imagining the Unimaginable: Filmmakers Respond to Genocide

School of Cinematic Arts, Stark Family Theatre
4pm-

A weekend of screenings and discussions will explore how filmmakers have depicted humanity’s response to genocide. On Saturday, The Long Way Home, the Academy Award–winning documentary about the Holocaust of European Jews, will be paired with The Killing Fields, the Oscar-winning feature film about the Cambodian genocide. The Sunday screenings will feature the prize-winning documentary Darfur Now and the acclaimed dramatic feature Hotel Rwanda, recounting the continuing atrocities in Darfur and the mass murders in Rwanda, respectively. In between the screenings, discussions with the filmmakers will focus on the challenges storytellers face when they confront horrors of this magnitude. Panelists will include Terry George, director of Hotel Rwanda; Ted Braun, director of Darfur Now; and Mark Jonathan Harris, director of The Long Way Home. Admission is free.  

Sponsored by: Vision and Voices

"All on a Mardi Gras Day" Documentary Screening

THH 101
7:30pm-

“All on a Mardi Gras Day,” directed by Royce Osborne, is a colorful, award-winning documentary celebrating New Orleans’ Black carnival traditions-- the Mardi Gras Indians, Zulus, Baby Dolls, and Skeletons. This documentary features an exclusive interview with Keeper of the Flame director and writer, Big Chief Brian Nelson, a current USC film student. Also featured in the film are various carnival maskers, Mardi Gras Indian music, and rare archival footage. Although these traditions have been around for more than a century, they have remained exclusive even to some natives of the city. They represent the retention of African culture in New Orleans. This event is a fundraiser film student, Brian Nelson, “Keeper of the Flame” film thesis. Price of Admission: $10 with RSVP OR $15 at the door. This cultural evening will also include a special live New Orleans Second Line performance by the Louisiana to Los Angeles (LALA) group. A FREE authentic New Orleans cuisine will be served. MENU: Red Beans and Rice, Jambalaya, N’awlins Style Fried Chicken and Potato Salad, Creole Veggies, Garlic Bread, Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce, New Orleans Praline Cheesecake, and Mardi Gras Virgin Daiquiris.  keeperoftheflamemovie@gmail.com

Sponsored by: Film Student Brian Nelson

Taste of Soul Festival

Crenshaw Blvd.
All day-

The third year of Taste of Soul promises to be its biggest yet. Everyone who attended the first two had nothing but positive feedback so don’t be left out asking what happened? Come see for yourself and be a part of the largest block party to hit Los Angeles.  http://www.lasentinel.net/A-Taste-Of-Soul/

Sponsored by: The Los Angeles Sentinel

Black Family Weekend

Varies
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Held in conjunction with USC’s Trojan Family Weekend, CBCSA and the Black Student Assembly invite students and their parents to an annual Soul Food Dinner on Friday evening, a Family Tailgate on Saturday and Worship Service and Brunch on Sunday. Students, family, friends, faculty, staff and alumni are invited.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP/PAY FOR THE BLACK FAMILY WEEKEND EVENTS  

Sponsored by: CBCSA/Black Student Assembly

Distinguish Speaker Series with Prof. Timothy Pinkston

THH 212
6:00pm-7:00pm

This month's topic: "Perspectives on Earning a Doctorate Degree." The highest degree conferred by a university to an individual is the doctorate degree. For all of the compelling opportunities made available by this degree and the high mark of distinction it signifies, it is confounding that so few African Americans partake in the rich possibilities offered by pursuing a doctorate in their chosen fields. In this discussion, perspectives will be shared on what it takes and means to earn a doctorate and on the lasting value of this coveted degree to one’s professional career aspirations. Dr. Timothy M. Pinkston will lead the discussion. He is a Professor in the Computer Engineering Division of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Senior Associate Dean of Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering. As a Sr. Assoc. Dean, he is responsible for improving the school’s efforts and effectiveness at recruiting and retaining high-caliber faculty and students.   

Sponsored by: Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs

Meet the Faculty Dessert Social

Annenberg West Lobby
6:30pm-7:30pm

Come and join ABSA as we converse with Annenberg's finest! Business casual attire requested. Refreshments will be served.   http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139255202566#/group.php?gid=139255202566&v=info

Sponsored by: Annenberg Black Student Association