Early Bird

Events Roundup

Admire creative works and join a discussion on Ethnic Studies.

By Josie Lavender

May 5, 2021

Thursday

Film/Still: Contemplating a Post-Pandemic World: Isolation vs. Connection with Metropolitan State University of Denver

7:30-8:30 p.m.

Register for the event or watch it live on YouTube.

Support budding student artists at the Clyfford Still Museum. The free outdoor public screening will feature film shorts created by MSU Denver video-art students exploring their experience of the pandemic and hopes.

Friday

Building Ethnic Studies: A National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conversation Across the Greater Southwest

2-4 p.m.

Tune in to the Facebook live event.

The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies is the premier professional organization for students, professors, administrators and community members in the field of Chicana/o Studies. Recent legislation in support of teaching ethnic studies in K-12 and higher education across California, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado inspired the NACCS to host a discussion across the Southwest. The panel discussion is a great opportunity to broaden the ethnic-studies conversation and engage in dialogue across our various communities.

Panelists include Chalane E. Lechuga, Ph.D., Chicana and Chicano Studies, and faculty fellow with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Lechuga served as NACCS treasurer from 2015-19 and was recently reelected to the national board as an at-large representative (2021-23).