Featured Events
Below is a sample of the many arts activities happening around campus during the Fall 2024 semester.
Please visit the respective departments' websites for a full list of activities.
Vanessa Sanchez y La Mezcla in Ghostly Labor | November 14 | Green Music Center
Ghostly Labor is a multidisciplinary, rhythmic performance that explores the history of labor in the US-Mexico borderlands and the joy of collective resistance. This work brings together tap dance, Mexican zapateado, Afro Caribbean movement, live music and animated archival video. Featuring an all-female dance company, spoken word, traditional son jarocho music from Veracruz, Mexico, and an Afro-Latinx percussive score, this full-length, dance-theater production highlights historical events, such as the Bath Riots of 1917, the experiences of farm workers and domestic workers throughout California, and generations of labor that have gone unseen.
Themes: labor exploitation, labor organizing, racism, xenophobia, immigration, feminism
ReVisibility | September 3 - December 13 | University Library Art Gallery
ReVisibility is a collaborative community portrait installation that transforms discussions around invisibility into moments of creative expression. Curated by Sonoma State University faculty and artist Emily Hostutler, ReVisibility is a reciprocal art piece in which participants honor and recognize the ways in which we feel hidden
Themes: Identity, Invisibility, hypervisibility, community dialogues, participatory and interactive art, experience design
Note: This exhibition has an interactive component, and academic/scholarly materials that can work cross-discipline to support dialogues around the piece are available. Please contact Emily Hostutler at hostutle@sonoma.edu for more information.
Fall Dance: Student-Created Dance Concert | November 21, 22, 23 & 24 | Person Theatre
Student Choreographers
Director: Kristen Daley
Themes: embodiment, identity, gender, diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, liberatory practices, collaboration, leadership
In this workshop, the staff of SSU's Zaum magazine and the Center for Environmental Inquiry invite you to explore how creativity can help you gain geographic literacy. The program begins with a 45-minute lecture by poet, naturalist, and best-selling author of the California Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann. Following Obi's lecture, attendees venture out on a nature walk at dusk to gather inspiration before returning to the field station's classroom to draft a creative record of the Fairfield-Osborn Preserve of their very own.
Music Department Concerts & Events | Various Dates | Green Music Center
Performances throughout the semester by students, faculty, and guest artists, including SSU's Jazz Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir and SonoVoce, Brass Ensemble, Concert Jazz Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Concert Band, Jewish Music Series, and more.