Community Engagement

Studio visit with artist Dino Perez . Dino has been working on a powerful new body of work rooted in his parents’ lives in Mexico and their journey into Anaheim and Santa Ana. Through painting, sculpture, collage, and writing, he maps the in-between - the place where personal mythologies are braided into the larger mythology of this geography, reshaping the cultural landscape and giving rise to new identities.

Tale of Planetary Grief, to create an audio voyage for processing astro-colonial fantasies of leaving a damaged Earth for an uninhabited Mars. It weaves together textured soundscapes, spoken dialogue, satire, hyper-pop, whimsy, humor and heartache, non-fiction and speculative fiction, science and poetry, fantasy and history. Expanding on this work, Marsification Mobile Planetarium Immersive
Listening Space will be a 12-foot cardboard planetarium presented at different public locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The mobile planetarium is designed to activate people’s connections to these vast themes in a space of whimsy and gravity. A facilitation guide and post-listening craft activities for people of all ages will also support community engagement and integration.