Through the SEE Your World theme, we want to engage students and the college community in exploration of the social, economic, and environmental issues in their community and in the world. For more information and for a list of learning outcomes related to the theme go to the SEE Your World webpage.

Thursday January  27, Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz by The Langston Hughes Project, featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, PAC
The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes's kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite: Ask Your Mama.  Ask Your Mama is Hughes's homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s.  It is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz, Latin “cha cha” and Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming -- a creative masterwork left unperformed at his death. This event is free an open to the public. For more information, contact Mike Greene, 480.732.7146. (240 people attended)

Tuesday February 1, Calculus: The Musical, 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm, PAC
Calculus: The Musical! is a comic “review” of the concepts and history of calculus. It was born as a teaching tool in one of the performer's classroom. He found that setting formulas and rules to music helped his students learn and retain tricky information. “Maxima” and “minima” is an abstract concept to a lot of us, but when sung as a rousing “Can-Can” chorus, it’s fun and easy to remember! A blend of sketch comedy, musical theatre and classroom lecture, MATHEATRE has created a performance piece to show that although calculus is used in rocket science, well…it isn’t exactly rocket science. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Scott Adamson, 480.732.7031. (273 people attended at 1:00 pm; 320 people attended at 6:00 pm)

Tuesday, February 22, Nappy Edges and Goldy Locks: African Americans and the Politics of Hair, 9:50 - 11:00 am, Student Pavilion
For African Americans, attitudes toward and responses to hair go beyond "big hair" and a "bad hair day." In "Nappy Edges and Goldy Locks: African Americans and the Politics of Hair," Dr. Neal A. Lester, Professor of English and Dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, examines the complex racial and gender identity politics associated with African Americans and hair.

From Barbie, Britney, and Rapunzel to Pocahontas and Beyonce, Lester shows how a national controversy was generated around the issue of African American hair in a children's book and how the issue of hair is central to ideals of beauty and femininity. Indeed, the cultural specificity of this talk ultimately moves to remind that everyone has a hair story that connects us to each other, and that understanding difference enhances our shared humanity. This event is supported by the Black History Month Committee, the Office of Student Life, the Vice President of Student Affairs' Office, the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, the Language and Humanities Division, and the Co-Curricular Activities Program. For more information, contact Mike Greene, Director of Student Life, 480-732-7146. (130 people attended)

Wednesday, February 23 to Saturday, April 30, Bittersweet Harvest, Library Gallery
Bittersweet Harvest tells the story through pictures and text of the US Emergency Farm Labor Program which ran from 1942-1964.  This program brought millions of Mexican nationals to the U.S. to work on short-term labor contracts.  The workers were placed in 25+ states and provided manpower during peak harvest and cultivation times.  The exhibit also includes audio recordings of bracero workers telling their experiences. For more information, contact Dr. Larry Miller, 480.857.5138. To schedule a time to bring your class in to see the exhibit, please contact Della Cambron, the Library Division Administrative Secretary, 480.857.5135.

Friday,  February 25, Into the Streets, Registration with the Service Learning Office required for your class participation

Saturday, February 26, Into the Streets, Registration with the Service Learning Office required for your class participation

Monday, February 28, Legacy of Shame: Migrant Labor, an American Institution, 7:00 am and 9:50 am in SC103-113; 11:15 am, 12:40 pm, and 2:05 in SC140-144
In this 48-minute program—a follow-up to the alarming 1960 broadcast Harvest of Shame, which first awakened the nation to the plight of migrant workers—correspondents Dan Rather and Randall Pinkston document the ongoing exploitation of America’s invisible laborers while highlighting efforts being made to protect them. Topics of investigation include pesticide risks, the uneven enforcement of employment and immigration regulations, and peonage, as well as the efforts of rural legal services and progressive growers to advocate for this silent minority and provide equitable employment opportunities. For more information contact Dr. Paul Petrequin, 480.857.5256.

Tuesday, March 1, Bracero Panel, 2:00-3:30 pm, SC140-144
Maria Hernandez, CGCC employee and daughter of a bracero; Hector and Genie Zavaleta, who were employed by migrant ministry for the National Council of Churches to assist migrant workers during the bracero program; and Santos Fernández, a bracero worker, and his son José Luis will share stories about their experiences with the bracero program as well as answer questions from the audience. For more information, contact Dr. Kim Chuppa-Cornell, 480.732.7022. (62 people attended)

Wednesday, March 2, Poverty 101, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm, SC140-144
A poverty simulation where citizens with limited resources need to acquire food. To participate in this contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186. (88 attendees)

Tuesday March 8, Sonia Nazario: Keynote on Enrique's Journey, 2:05 pm and 7:00 pm, PAC
First published as a six-part series in the Los Angeles Times before being published as a book, Enrique’s Journey is a page turner with social implications. Sonia Nazario's Pulitzer-prize winning book is not just the story of Enrique, it is also an anthropology of the youth bent on braving the obstacles that stand between their home villages and the North American cities where their mothers moved in search of jobs, money and the chance to better their family's lives back home. Enrique's Journey explores the unintended, and largely underreported, consequences of those choices. As Enrique's story progresses, Nazario describes her methods of research, retracing a portion of the journey that Enrique took and interviewing many of the people that he encountered along the way. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186

Thursday, March 10, Who is God? An Eastern Perspective, 11:15 am-12:30 pm, SC140-144
Representatives form Eastern Religions will present their viewpoints to the question: Who is God? Stuart Olson will represent a local Taoist organization. For more information, contact Dr. David Munoz, 480.732.7173.

Tuesday, March 22, Poverty 101, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm, SC140-144
A poverty simulation where citizens with limited resources need to acquire food. To participate in this contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186. (60 attendees)

Wednesday, March 23, Food Not Bombs Speaker, 7:00-8:30 pm, SC140-144, Pecos Campus
Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, will talk about the organization's work to feed people and about ending hunger and poverty. For more information, contact Dr. Lori Girshick at 480.857.5536.

Wednesday, March 23, Dr. Stuart Lindsay, 7:00-8:30 pm, Bridget Hall 150 (Higley Room), Williams Campus

Dr. Stuart Lindsay of ASU’s Biodesign Institute will speak about a new approach to DNA sequencing which will allow much faster and cheaper sequencing of individual human genomes.  This technique, which interfaces chemistry with electronics, functionalizes electrodes with recognition reagents that capture their targets via hydrogen bonding, clamping the target in place and completing an electron-tunneling path. This path is important as it allows single molecule targets to be identified with reasonable confidence in a single read. Thus, a single base can resolved from neighbors in a DNA oligomer. By using metallic carbon nanotubes as both electrical contacts and also as nanpores for DNA translocation, this approach might enable a new type of rapid sequencing of DNA and other heteropolymers. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact David Weaver, 480.988.8997.

canceled Monday, March 28, Coalition for Immokalee Workers Presentation, 2:05-3:15 pm, SC140-144
An agricultural worker (through a translator) will talk about daily life as a worker including working conditions and wages. The worker will discuss why conditions are the way they are. The presentation will also include information about the Coalition for Immokalee Workers, their campaign for fair food, and how students can get involved. For more information, contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186.

Tuesday, March 29, Poverty 101, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm, SC140-144
A poverty simulation where citizens with limited resources need to acquire food. To participate in this contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186. (77 attendees)

Friday April 1, 14, 7:30 pm, PAC
Teatro Bravo presents...14, a play by Jose Casas based on interviews with Arizonans and their different attitudes toward undocumented immigration. Casas created this work after fourteen immigrants, abandoned by their smuggler guide, died crossing the desert near Yuma, Arizona on May 19, 2001. Director Marcelino Quinonez and Teatro Bravo bring to life the voices of a variety of people, including a preacher who leaves immigrants water in the desert, a Southern Arizona rancher who seeks to protect his property, a young woman married to a Latino border patrolman who is tragically killed, and a variety of other voices of real Arizonans with strong opinions. Sponsored by CGCC International Education Program.  This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186. (190 attendees)

Saturday April 2, 14, 7:30 pm, PAC
A play by Jose Casas produced by Teatro Bravo, based on interviews with Arizonians who express their views on illegal immigration. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186. (180 attendees)

Tuesday, April 5, with Gary Nabhan: Place-Based Foods and the Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, 2:05-3:20 pm, Pavilion
Gary Paul Nabhan will draw from his latest book, Chasing Chiles, which looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the chile pepper—from the farmers who cultivate this iconic crop to the cuisines and cultural traditions in which peppers play a huge role. Chiles are delicious, dynamic, and very diverse—they have been rapidly adopted, adapted, and assimilated into numerous world cuisines, and while malleable to a degree, certain heirloom varieties are deeply tied to place and culture—but now accelerating climate change may be scrambling their terroir. From the Sonoran Desert to Santa Fe and St. Augustine (the two oldest cities in the US), from the marshes of Avery Island in Cajun Louisiana to the thin limestone soils of the Yucatan, Nabhan's presentation will look at how and why climate change will continue to affect our palates and our producers, and how it already has.

Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement” by Mother Earth News. Gary is also an orchard-keeper, wild forager and Ecumenical Franciscan brother in his hometown of Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border. He is author or editor of twenty-four books. For his writing and collaborative conservation work, he has been honored with a MacArthur “genius” award, a Southwest Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, the Vavilov Medal, and lifetime achievement awards from the Quivira Coalition and Society for Ethnobiology. He works as most of the year as a research scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, and the rest as co-founder-facilitator of several food and farming alliances, including Renewing America’s Food Traditions and Flavors Without Borders. Nabhan's presentation will be followed by a Q & A sessions. For more information, contact Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186. (80 attendees)

Wednesday, April 6, Hunger Banquet, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm, Student Pavilion
A poverty simulation: world resources and the extreme poor, poor and middle class. To participate in this contact Chris Schnick, 480.732.7186.

Thursday, April 7, Sustainability Day, Student Pavilion and SC140-144
Student showcase, speakers corner, performances, demonstrations and more. For more information contact Pushpa Ramakrishna, 480.732.7219.

Thursday, April 7, National Poetry Month Kick-Off: Readings by Jimmy Berlin (PC), Renee Simms (ASU), and Jacquelyne Kibler (EMCC and PC), 7:00 pm, Library, First Floor
The CGCC Library in cooperation with the Creative Writing Club will kick off National Poetry Month by hosting a poetry reading with Jimmy Berlin (PC), Renee Simms (ASU), and Jacquelyne Kibler (EMCC and PC). This event is free and open to the public, and will take place on the first floor of the CGCC Library. For more information, contact Patrick Michael Finn 480.857.5543.

Wednesday, April 13, Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Focus on Sex Slavery in the Phoenix Area, 4:00-5:30 pm, SC140-144
Join us for this panel on sex slavery:

Jami Throne, Director of Operations for Streetlight
Pat McCalla, President Streetlight
Member of Phoenix Police Dept. Vice Squad
Katie Resendiz, Human Trafficking Programming Supervisor, ALERT
Amira Birger, survivor

Presentations will be followed by a questions and answers period. For more information, contact Dr. Lori Girshick at 480.857.5536.

Wednesday, April 13, and Thursday April 14, “27 Million vs The World”,  10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Student Pavilion, Pecos Campus

 “27 Million vs The World” is an interactive event that will help participants develop awareness about child labor and its connection to consumer choices. There are 27 million enslaved people across the world and many of them are children. This event features a fair-trade marketplace, biographies on child laborers, information booths on local organizations who work to stop human trafficking, and a call to action for participants who would like to volunteer. The attached flyer can be distributed to interested parties. For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Patrick Williams at 480.857.5007, or Patrick.williams@cgcmail.maricopa.edu


Monday, April 18, Tania Katan: "My One-Night Stand with Cancer: A Memoir," 5:45-7:00 pm, SC140-144
When Tania Katan was 21 years old she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She survived, minus a breast. Exactly 10 years later it happened again. By age 31 Katan was a two-time breast cancer survivor with the scars to prove it and a sense of humor forged by the unthinkable. Her memoir, loaded with rage and blistering humor, tells the tale of living through two bouts with death and is woven through with stories of picking up women while bald, coping with her supportive but neurotic family, running in two 10K races, and pledging to never ever date a psychotic woman again. An unforgettable account of survival. Tania Katan’s plays have been seen at Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Circle Repertory Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, Pacific Residence Theatre, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, and Theatre of NOTE. For more information, contact Donna Thompson, 480.857.5534.

Tuesday, April 19, Branded: a video with follow-up discussion, 3:30 pm-5:30 pm, SC140-144, Pecos Campus

BrandedPhx is a movement to end child sex trafficking and prostitution in the Phoenix area. CGCC's PTK brings this video and discussion to further our awareness and education on this topic and to learn what we can do to bring about change in our own community.

Thursday, April 21, National Poetry Month Event: 3rd Annual Poetry Slam, sign-in in 6:00 pm, starts 7:00 pm, Library, First Floor
Poetry Slam featuring original CGCC student work of personal expression through vibrant spoken word poetry. The Poetry Slam welcomes writers at all levels of experience to participate, from first timers to experienced performers. For more information and Slam guidelines, please contact Dr. Kim Chuppa-Cornell, 480.732.7022; Patrick Williams, 480.857.5007; or Patrick Michael Finn, 480.857.5543.

Thursday, April 21, Zarco Guerrero: Face to Face in a Frenzy, 7:00-8:30 pm, Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Zarco Guerrero will perform "Face to Face in a Frenzy" a one man play in which masks are extensively used. Zarco states, "Face to Face has become my main form of performance expression. I continue to carve masks in wood, make masks for theater and create sculptures on commissions. I feel that this form of mask performance is unique and extremely effective in reaching large audiences. It has given me the ability to use the power of the mask to transform. With this power I am able to express my feelings and ideas in many ways that are just not possible with other forms of art like sculpture and painting. I believe it to be my true calling as a contemporary, socially conscious artist. It allows me to work outside the mainstream while contributing to the cultural life of my community in a creative and positive manner." This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jill Wendt, Psychology and Sociology Instructor, 480.283.7821 or Melinda Baham, Psychology Instructor, 480.726.4076.