Event Update: This event has been postponed; new date to be announced.
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Twirling, Not Spiraling (2022)
by Lara Saab

Twirling, Not Spiraling is a documentary performance and installation by Lara Saab that includes xerox-printed social/media posts, maps, a series of drawings and sketches, magnets, sand, found objects, sound, and moving images. This iteration of the performance is site specific and draws from research around coastal life along the coasts of Beirut, Lebanon, where Saab is based, and Santa Cruz, California, where they are currently studying. The material is woven together from personal archives, collected memories, social media content, recorded video and sound material reflecting around the sea and the ocean.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Exemplary films from the Social Documentation M.F.A. cohorts (2021 and 2022) rotate in an exhibition called Frames Per Second. The films document communities, cultures, issues, and individuals who are marginalized in the current landscape of representation, and reveal how the documentarians are working for social transformation. Find more information about the filmmakers here on the Sesnon Gallery website. 

ADMISSION

• Attend in person
• Free and open to the public
• Please read and follow COVID-19 protocols as outlined here on the Arts website

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Twirling, Not Spiraling
POSTPONED
[Originally scheduled for Nov 15–23, 2022]
Hours of operation for the Sesnon Art Gallery

Frames Per Second 
Sept 20, 2022–Jan 14, 2023
Screening rotation schedule for the exhibition
Hours of operation for the Sesnon Art Gallery

SocDoc 
Nov 9, 2022
SocDoc screening at the Del Mar Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz

PARKING

• The closest parking lots to the Gallery are #124 and #125 at Porter College.
• Purchase a campus permit or use ParkMobile.
• Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in time zones for longer than the posted time.
• See Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS) for visitor parking information, ParkMobile instructions, and a campus parking map.