Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration (APIAHC) Calendar

Join us as we kickoff our month long celebration with our Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Kickoff Celebration and Awards Ceremony.

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Price Center West Ballroom

To reserve a table or purchase tickets, please contact apiahcelebration@ucsd.edu 

Sponsored by: Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

This workshop is comprised of four first daughters who will share and invite others to talk about how their first daughterness has shaped not only their worldview, but their outlook on higher education. Part of the “Equity Exchanges: Staff Collaborations for a Just Campus” Series hosted by the Cross-Cultural Center. This event is directed toward UC San Diego faculty and staff. Please visit the Cross-Cultural Center website for more information.

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Cross-Cultural Center | Price Center East Level 2

RSVP: tinyurl.com/cccstaffee

Sponsored by: Cross-Cultural Center (CCC), Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS), Pacific Islander and Asian American Staff Association (PASA)

Join us for the 6th installment of the Humanities Event Series, featuring Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World (2024). The collection engages with abstract artist Agnes Martin and explores the interior life of the self as we navigate the challenges of a world too often marked by indifference with wonder, beauty, and humor.

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Price Center Theater

RSVP: https://revelle.ucsd.edu/humanities/events/index.html

Sponsored by: Humanities Program, Revelle College, Dimensions of Cultural (Marshall College), New Writing Series.

We invite community members to learn about historic oppression and systemic racism and share their lived experiences for personal and community empowerment. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, PhD is an award-winning scholar-activist, researcher, writer and educator whose academic and political work calls attention to the experiences of Filipina migrants in carework industries and their indelible abilities to form solidarities and organize with one another. Dr. Francisco will discuss her newest book "Caring for Caregivers". Drawing on surveys, individual interviews, and caregivers’ stories as told through kuwentuhan, a Philippine cultural practice of collective storytelling, "Caring for Caregivers" offers an intimate examination of intergenerational care work in the Filipino American community.

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Location:

Skyline Hills Library, Multipurpose Room (7900 Paradise Valley Rd. San Diego, CA 92139)

RSVP encouraged!

Sponsored by: UCSD AAPI Studies, San Diego Central Library

Join the community to connect with students, staff, and faculty in the Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American (APIMEDA) community at UC San Diego and to celebrate the graduating students with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies minor.

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

Location: Angela's Space (4th Floor of Oceanview Terrace underneath Oceanview Terrace, OVT, Dining Hall)

RSVP: https://forms.gle/SDXDh4Pj2fagaPKq9

Sponsored by: APIMEDA Programs and Services, UCSD AAPI Studies

Come together with fellow staff to read, discuss, and learn from & with each other. For our spring read, in honor of Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, we will be reading "All This Could Be Different" by Sarah Thankam Matthews.

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Cross-Cultural Center | Price Center East Level 2

RSVP: Cross-Cultural Center (CCC) Website

Sponsored by: Cross-Cultural Center (CCC)