by jbarrio4 | Oct 12, 2020 | Dear Iola
South LA Reads Iola Leroy Frances E. W. Harper’s novel in one weekend beginning Saturday, October 17! It’s a page-turning convention—South LA teens welcome this work by one of the most prominent African American women writers of the nineteenth century. Meet...
by jbarrio4 | Jul 29, 2020 | LA Copperfield
LA COPPERFIELD COMES TO FOSHAY THEATER JANUARY 2020 COMING (OF AGE) LA COPPERFIELD FOSHAY THEATER 1/31 & 2/1 Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. LA...
by jbarrio4 | Jul 29, 2020 | BarnabyLab
Students bring LA1992/London 1780 exhibition to UCLA for Salon 02 May 2019 Join the USC NAI scholars and Foshay teens as they bring their exhibition to Salon 02, an urban humanities symposium and exhibition at UCLA. See LA 1992/LONDON 1780: SOUNDING OUT A CROWD,...
by jbarrio4 | Jul 28, 2020 | BarnabyLab
Burning Up the Book: South LA Teens’ Production on Dickens Tells the Tale of Two Riots January 2019 “A riot is the voice of the unheard,” Maxine Waters had said, about one of the most destructive civil disturbances in US history, the LA uprising of 1992. From...
by nlcolett | Sep 10, 2018 | DorritLab
A Walk Home to Santa Cruz August 13, 2018 By Jacqueline Barrios, LitLabs Director, Neighborhood Academic Initiative “Words connect worlds,” said Andrew Oropeza, summing up a week-long immersion inside the world of Charles Dickens’ Victorian novel, Little Dorrit, while...
by nlcolett | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Gwen Jourdonnais, Dan White, and J.D. Hillard For 38 years, fans of Charles Dickens have been traveling from all over the world to get to UC Santa Cruz’s annual Dickens Universe, a joyous convocation that is part literary conference, part festival, and part summer...
by Courtney | Sep 24, 2017 | MiddleLab
"You really need to get into the mind of another person in order to bring a character to life," Hunter Wilkinson, 17, explained to members of the audience at the Dickens Universe conference this August. Hunter shared her thoughts in a panel about her classmates'...
