Events
Join us for arts activism presentations, performances, exhibits, and more.
UCLA Sex Squad's Valentine's Celebration
February 9, 2024 7-8 PM (Doors open 6:30)
UCLA Kaufman Hall, Room 200
On Friday, February 9, join the UCLA Art & Global Health Center for a celebration of love and empowerment in honor of Valentine's Day. We'll be live and in-person at UCLA's Kaufman Hall, Room 200, and streaming live on YouTube (link coming soon) at 7 PM. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets required.
The program includes the debut of new artistic works by the 2024 UCLA Sex Squad and the UCLA premiere of Valentine Toya LeGrande, a short film by Wilna Julmiste Taylor, associate director of the Art & Global Health Center.
Inaugural Spring 2023 Sex Squad Performance
April 21, 2023 12 PM
Kaufman 208
Valentine's LIVE! 2023
Join us for a celebration of pleasure in honor of Valentine's Day.
Friday, February 10, 2023 7–8 PM PT (Doors open at 6:30)
UCLA's Kaufman Hall, Room 200
We'll be live and in-person and streaming live on YouTube (link coming soon). This event is free and open to the public.
The program includes the debut of new artistic works by the 2023 UCLA Sex Squad, and a stigma-smashing panel discussion by experts from the UCLA community acknowledging the deep impacts of HIV/AIDS, Covid-19, and MPX (monkeypox virus) on ourselves, our communities, and the world at large.
Download and share our event PDF flyer.
For more information, contact Isaiah at ibaiseri@ucla.edu.
Up to Us Film Premiere
A series of short sex-ed films featuring screenplays by and for justice system-impacted youth, plus conversations with cast and writers.
Saturday, February 25, 2023 7–8:30 PM PT | Doors open at 6:30
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall Theater
Presented by the UCLA Art & Global Health Center and UCLA Prison Education Program, join us for our world premiere event at UCLA! Free and open to the public. Formal attire encouraged (but not required).
Get tickets here: artglobalhealth.org/u2u-rsvp
(POSTPONED) World AIDS Day 2022
Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:00 PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, Studio 208
The program has been postponed until February 10, 2023 in solidarity with University of California academic workers who are currently on strike.
We're commemorating World AIDS Day on December 1, 2022 by taking this moment to acknowledge the deep impacts of HIV/AIDS, Covid-19, and MPX (monkeypox virus) on ourselves, our communities, and the world at large. The program includes a screening of our latest Through Positive Eyes documentary, and a panel discussion by experts from the UCLA community. An art exhibition and reception with refreshments will cap off the evening.
- 6:45 PM | Doors open – UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall, Studio 208
- 7:00 PM | Introduction – Professor David Gere
- 7:05 PM | Through Positive Eyes Documentary Preview
- 7:40 PM | Panel Discussion – Moderated by Professor David Gere featuring Dr. Ian Holloway, Professor of Social Welfare, Dr. Chaitali Mukherjee, Director, Ashe Student Health Center, & Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos, Chair, Global Health.
- 8:00 PM | Rainbow Lounge Reception & Art Gallery Exhibition – Art + Snacks & Sweets
Through Positive Eyes is a collaborative photo-storytelling project by more than 140 people living with HIV and AIDS in cities around the world. Our latest documentary weaves together the stories of several arts-activists from around the world. Learn more about the project at throughpositiveeyes.org
Livestream available: artglobalhealth.org/world-aids-day-2022-stream
UCLA Sex Squad Open Showing
New work by the 2022 UCLA Sex Squad
Thursday, May 26, 2022 7:30–8:30 PM
Kaufman 208 • Free! Bring a friend/lover!
Please join us in person in UCLA Kaufman Hall, Room 208!
Otherwise, please join us on Zoom:
ucla.zoom.us/j/99140725700
Meeting ID: 991 4072 5700
World AIDS Day 2021
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 5–8 PM PST
To mark the 40th anniversary of the AIDS pandemic, the UCLA Art & Global Health Center joins forces with a dozen Seattle-based people living with HIV for a raucous, moving, truth-telling, Through Positive Eyes photo-storytelling jam.
Through Positive Eyes (ThroughPositiveEyes.org) is a global photo-storytelling project in collaboration with over 140 people living with HIV and AIDS from all around the world to amplify their stories through photography and narrative.
Zoom link: ArtGlobalHealth.org/AIDS2021
Virtual exhibition currently hosted by the Gates Foundation Discovery Center: DiscoverGates.org/exhibition/ThroughPositiveEyes
Through Positive Eyes Exhibition
Photography, video, live storytelling, and more.
Virtual exhibition and real-time, interactive events
The U.S. tour of the Through Positive Eyes exhibition continues at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center live storytelling by the members of the Seattle Through Positive Eyes Collective.
Learn more about the exhibition at discovergates.org/exhibition/throughpositiveeyes.
ZOOM IN: Virtual Valentine's Art Extravaganza
Friday, February 12, 2021 from 1 PM to 3 PM.
Get ready for Valentine’s Day with an electrifying afternoon of live performance, photography, and personal storytelling. No RSVP required. Join us on Zoom by clicking this link: artglobalhealth.org/zoom-in
Bars Beyond Bars, Vol. 2
Spoken word by formerly incarcerated poets
We're partnering with the Abolition Curriculum (ABC) group and Prison Education Program at UCLA to present spoken word by formerly incarcerated poets. Download the PDF poster for the Zoom link and other details.
Book Tour: Roots & Wings
First-ever Black Feminist Theater of the Oppressed book available in English
April 2019
Author Bárbara Santos will be on tour at UCLA
with her new book at the following events:
Friday, April 12th – Sunday, April 14th
UCLA Kaufman Hall
Connecting Art & Law for Liberation Festival (CALL)
calltoactionucla.com
Monday, April 15th • 4:30 PM
Kaufman Hall, Room 208
UCLA School of the Arts Town Hall on Racism
Wednesday, April 17th • 6:00 PM
Kaufman Hall, Room 208
De/militarization: Creative Responses in
Community Defense
Wednesday, April 24th • 7:00 PM
Kaufman Hall, Room 200
Theater of the Oppressed for Racial Justice Performance
Saturday, April 27th • 6:00 PM
University Village
Legislative Theater community event
Help spread the word and download the tour flier.
High School Sex Squad Festival
April 2019
The High School Sex Squad Festival is an annual day of performance, arts activism, and celebration! Students from High School Sex Squads around Los Angeles come to UCLA to perform their original works and cheer each other on as they action plan around urgent sexual health topics and advocacy on their campuses.
Now Recruiting Student Interns
Fall 2021 • Academic Credit (2-4 units) & Work-Study Positions Available
The UCLA Art & Global Health Center is seeking student interns from all UCLA departments. Interns will assist with executing arts-based public health interventions, including UCLA Sex Squad/ AMP! (Arts-based, Multiple-component, Peer-education) and Through Positive Eyes, a collaborative photo-storytelling project by more than 140 people living with HIV and AIDS in cities around the world. Fall quarter internships will begin on Thursday, September 23 (exact time/location TBD).
Interested students, from any UCLA department, should write to Isaiah Baiseri [ibaiseri@ucla.edu] to request a Zoom-based interview. Please include a résumé and brief answers to these questions:
- What is your favorite form of art: dance, theater, poetry, music, photography or...? Do you have any formal training in any art form?
- Do you have activism and/or administrative experience?
- Are you open and comfortable with discussing sexual health topics?
- What’s the boldest thing you’ve ever done?
Legislative Theater for Racial Justice
May 29, 2019
Northwest Campus Auditorium
A collaboration between the Center for Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and students at Barry J Nidorf Juvenile Hall and UCLA, Legislative Theater for Racial Justice is a performance where the audience is invited into the action! Through forum theater, audience members, actors, and legislators will help draft new legislation targeting the school-to-prison pipeline.
Sex Week
A week-long series of events
April 15-19, 2019
Sex Week @ UCLA is campus-wide initiative that focuses on love, healthy relationships, communication, sex, self-love, consent, abstinence, faith, and sex positivity. It recognizes that sexuality comes in many shapes, sizes, colors, forms, and definitions. To be inclusive and open to the variety of personal experiences and needs that exist, a week-long series of events have been created to have something for everyone! Sex Week @ UCLA is sponsored by UCLA Sexual Health Coalition. We look forward to having you join us!
Theater of the Oppressed for Racial Justice
April 24, 2019 • 7 PM - 9 PM
UCLA Kaufman Hall, Room 200
The UCLA Art & Global Health Center and UCLA Prison Education Program present groups from the Center for Theater of the Oppressed, Rio de Janeiro for a night of activist Forum Theater. The audience will be invited on stage to participate in the dramatic action to stimulate dialogue about gender, race, and violence.
Townhall: How the Arts Can Intervene on Racism
Featuring Bárbara Santos
Monday, April 15, 2019 • 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA Kaufman Hall, Room 208
The UCLA Art & Global Health Center presents an evening with acclaimed Theater of the Oppressed scholar-practitioner Bárbara Santos and Center for Theater of the Oppressed’s group Madalena Anastacia. The event will feature a lecture by author Bárbara Santos on her decades of work using Theater of the Oppressed methodology to intervene on racial and sexist oppression. Following this talk, the established theater troupe Madalenas Anastacia will share a piece of original forum theater with participants, inviting the audience on stage to take part in the action and rehearse individual solutions to narratives of oppression. A town hall conversation featuring anti-racist organizers and leaders will follow this performance. Dowload the event flier here.