Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS)

Come celebrate Lunar New Years by making dumplings and dishing some tea with your fellow APIDA community this Thursday from 8:30-10:30 pm. This event is open to the 7C APIDA community so bring your friends!

Location: CAPAS (Mead 132, next to the Pitzer writing center next to the fountain)
Date: Thursday, Feb 8, 2024
Time: 8:30-10:30pm
Who: All 7C APIDA Students

IDAAS and CAPAS presents: Grieve / Resist / Live, a poetry workshop hosted by Pitzer alum Sara Farooqi. The event will run from 7-8:30 PM on February 8 at Pitzer College (exact location TBA upon RSVP). Register at www.tinyurl.com/idaaspalestinepoetryworkshop.

This 90 minute workshop will include an exploration of poetry written by three Palestinian poets around the following themes:
GRIEF: How are we experiencing this grief? What is it demanding of us?
RESISTANCE: What does it mean to uplift justice and liberation? What truths need to be witnessed?
LIFE: How can we reconnect with and remind ourselves of what it is we are fighting for? What makes life so incredibly sacred and worth protecting?

Prompts will be provided for participants to respond to in their preferred medium (written word, doodles, quiet contemplation, etc.). A large portion of this workshop will be non-verbal, providing space for folks to process and contemplate silently.

Following the workshop, we will have an optional open mike for anyone who would like to share aloud.

This event is designed as a supportive space to process together, not a forum for in-depth political dialogue.

Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies and CAPAS presents 

Music Production for Liberation workshop🎶
led by Gingee PZ '06

🗓️Jan 25, 2024 
🕟4:30-5:30pm
🥢dinner to follow
🏡Grove House, Pitzer College

RSVP: https://bit.ly/JAN25MUSIC

In this interactive workshop, we will be learning the basics of music production and percussion to create a collective anthem in solidarity with Palestine. Reflect on the 25th anniversary of Asian American Studies by connecting with ancestral rhythms, exercising your poetic voice and using dance music as a tool to amplify our humanity.

Open to all skill levels & instruments provided.

ABOUT GINGEE: 
Gingee is a musician and producer with a passion for percussion. Inspired by her Filipino roots and the cultural soundscapes of her native Los Angeles, she combines the rhythms of kulintang gongs and percussion with electronic music and conscious lyrics. She has partnered with several communities to curate arts programming uplifting marginalized communities as well as playing at festivals like Coachella and Burning Man. She graduated from Pitzer College in 2006 with a self-designed double major in Women of Color Art and Activism and World Performance Traditions.

FMI: [email protected]

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Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies and CAPAS presents 

Music Production for Liberation workshop🎶
led by Gingee PZ '06

🗓️Jan 25, 2024 
🕟4:30-5:30pm
🥢dinner to follow
🏡Grove House, Pitzer College

RSVP: https://bit.ly/JAN25MUSIC

In this interactive workshop, we will be learning the basics of music production and percussion to create a collective anthem in solidarity with Palestine. Reflect on the 25th anniversary of Asian American studies by connecting with ancestral rhythms, exercising your poetic voice and using dance music as a tool to amplify our humanity.

Open to all skill levels & instruments provided.

ABOUT GINGEE: 

Gingee is a musician and producer with a passion for percussion. Inspired by her Filipino roots and the cultural soundscapes of her native Los Angeles, she combines the rhythms of kulintang gongs and percussion with electronic music and conscious lyrics. She has partnered with several communities to curate arts programming uplifting marginalized communities as well as playing at festivals like Coachella and Burning Man. She graduated from Pitzer College in 2006 with a self-designed double major in Women of Color Art and Activism and World Performance Traditions.

FMI: [email protected]

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📢2024 Pomona/Pitzer APIDA Alternabreak Trip 

🗓️Trip Dates: March 11-13, 2024

**Participants will also be expected to attend 2 pre-trip discussions, orientation and 3/9 send off event.**

🕘APPLICATIONS DUE: FRI. FEB. 2 at 9am PST

Application link or link in bio: https://bit.ly/2024APIDALBC

The APIDA Long Beach trip is a Pomona-Pitzer-only spring break trip that examines issues impacting the APIDA immigrant and working class communities and how community members, grassroots organizations, and non-profit organizers incite local change. We will focus on connecting a cohort of students with AARC & CAPAS's community partners. 

Proposed partners include:
  *   Community Organizations/Topics: Cambodia Town, Pacific Islander Ethnic Art Museum, South Asian Network
  *   Educational institutions: CSULB Dept. of Ethnic Studies/Asian American Studies, CSULB Dream Success Center, CSU Chancellor’s office, Long Beach City College
  *   Places of Cultural/Radical Significance: Los Angeles Ports (workers rights & environmental justice), Puvungna (sacred birth place of Tongva people), Kubo LB (Filipinx arts and service collaborative)

FMI: [email protected]

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happy holidays from capas staff

CAPAS will be undergoing a kitchen refresh by the Facilities Office and Hamilton Construction from December 18, 2023-January 12, 2024. The kitchen will have new refrigerator, oven/stove, cabinets, and sink. No one will be allowed in the CAPAS during this time period.

Starting right now, the kitchen will have limited cookware, supplies and sauces available because we are in the process of packing and moving everything out of the kitchen. There will be boxes in the Center—please do not move them.

REQUESTS:

Please make sure you clean and check there is no food on the utensils, plates, cookware that you use. We DO NOT want to pack DIRTY plates, cups, etc.

DO NOT LEAVE ANY FOOD IN THE REFRIGERATOR. Any food that is left will be removed on December 15.

If you have left items in the kitchen, please remove them now. If you do not remove them, we will pack it away and you can retrieve it when you return from winter break.

CAPAS WILL CLOSE ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2023 at 2:00PM. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER CAPAS AFTER 2PM. The Center will be set up for construction.

If you had access to CAPAS this Fall semester, you will have to go Facilities Office in January to re-code your card to have access for Spring semester.

Happy holidays from CAPAS staff :)
good luck with finals everyone and have a wonderful winter break! ☃️

Finals Fuel is back! Come down to CAPAS on Thursday, December 7 at 10:30 pm for some nostalgic snacks to fuel your studies! Come hang out and recharge or if you can’t stop the grind feel free to swing by, say hi, and get back to it. We understand the struggle and late nights so the event will be running to midnight!

Announcing the CAPAS Archive Project! An ongoing initiative to document the histories that have led to our current collective and political moment.

Join us in uncovering the hidden histories of APIDA student organizing at Pitzer and the Claremont Colleges..

We are looking for student vendors for our upcoming APIDA Flea Market on February 25th! If you make art, clothing, crafts, or music please fill out our interest form.

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On November 13, CAPAS, Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS), and Asian American Resource Center hosted a teach-in about Asian/American Solidarity with Palestine. We discussed and referred to the IDAAS Statement of Solidarity with Palestine. It was passed on October 30, 2023 by a majority vote. We are sharing the statement to continue to bring awareness and action for solidarity. Link in bio

http://idaas.pomona.edu/2023/11/statement-of-solidarity-with-palestine/ 

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