In the vein of W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Claudia Rankine, Jabari Asim has emerged as an essential voice on the black experience in America and the struggle for survival and persistenc
We're pleased to announce that additional tickets will be available on the day of the program! Visit the Garrison Box Office at 7 pm to get on the wait list. Tickets are $25 and include a signed copy of Abbi Jacobson
Glory Edim brings together communities of book fans and aficionados to celebrate a deep appreciation for black women's writing. Through her immensely popular Instagram, a writers' festival in her hometown o
PLEASE NOTE: This program has been cancelled. Please stay tuned for updates regarding a potential rescheduled date in Spring 2019. Nell Scovell
Nathan Englander is the Pulitzer Prize–finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. His latest book, Dinner a
Bettina Love is an award-winning author and hip-hop scholar. In her new book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, the University of Georgia associat
This event is sold out. Tickets may become available on the day of the program. Please visit the Scripps Presents Box Office at Garrison Theater beginning at 6:30 pm on the day of the program to have you name added to the wait list
Geneva Griswold's work as the associate objects conservator at the Seattle Art Museum is both an art and a science. The 2007 Scripps graduate oversees the installation, storage, display, and preservation of the mus
Liz Lerman's history of sly, grotesque, sensual, and wildly creative women debuts as a work in progress on the Scripps stage. Inspired, in part, by the College's Denison Library's Witches and Healing archiv
Sally Wen Mao's poetry collection Oculus is an eerie, yet powerful, exploration of technology. The 2017 Pushcart Prize winner deploys sharp wit and a speculative imagination to confront the spectacle
When it comes to parsing the rapidly changing online media landscape, readers look to Andrew Marantz. The New Yorker writer has explored the topic from a variety of angles, investigating social media trolls
Gaby Dunn's podcast Bad with Money features episodes like "Screaming Into a Jar (aka Student Loans)," "It's Not Just a Few Feet of Sea Level Rise (aka Climate Change is an Economic Issue)," and "Who Can Affo
Morgan Parker and Nicole Sealey mine the personal and political in their poetry, both reveling in and revealing the issues at the heart of contemporary life. Parker's most recent collection, Th
Heartland politics: rather than a monolithic "flyover country," the midwestern voting public can be—as both parties learned during the last presidential election—stubbornly elusive. Who better to make that point than an
Mindfulness, self-care, and "positive thinking" are all touted as panaceas for negative emotions. But according to University of California, Berkeley, researcher Iris Mauss, if you're feeling down, the self-imposed
When it comes to race, art, and gender, Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD is an authority. Campbell was integral in expanding the Studio Museum in Harlem, transforming it into the country's first
Hailed by the magazine Utne Reader as a "one-woman powerhouse," the singer, rapper, and writer Dessa may be best known as a founding member of Doomtree, a collective of musicians based out of Minneapolis. No
In today's Los Angeles, housing is expensive, dining is fancy, and posh, international galleries rule the art scene. But in the 1980s and '90s, it was cheap rents, house parties, underground fashion, and a trio of Latino gay
This program is full. You are welcome to come as a standby guest. Standby numbers are distributed one hour before the program on a first-come, first served basis. Admission is subject to availability.
This event is sold out. Tickets may become available on the day of the program. Please visit the Scripps Presents Box Office at Garrison Theater beginning at 6:30 pm on the day of the program to have you name added to the wait list
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change: what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Nathaniel Rich's book Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate C
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 best-selling memoir and contemporary adventurer's bible, Wild, as well as the genius, perceptive collection of advice columns,
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 best-selling memoir and contemporary adventurer's bible, Wild, as well as the genius, perceptive collection of advice columns,
“I was not supposed to be a dancer,” writes choreo
The National Book Foundation, Scripps Presents, and the Los Angele
Guatemala-born singer-songwriter-producer and Grammy Award-winner
Novelist R.O. Kwon, author of the Los Angeles T
“During my junior year abroad in Paris, I took my first class in stained glass . . . and was certain that my futu
When she was appointed editor of the Paris Review, Emily Nemens stepped into one of the mos
Indigenous Canadian poet Billy-Ray Belcourt reads from his award-winning debut work, This Wound Is a World, and his forthcoming work, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field. A membe
Acclaimed as “the best young essayist at work in the U.S.,” it
Writer, spoken-word artist, social justice activist, and founde
**This program has been postponed. Please stay tuned for a rescheduled date.**
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**Notice of Event Suspension** Due to r
**Notice of Event Suspension** Due to re
Hailed as an "ideal quarantine companion" by the New York Tim
Perhaps you can go home again, after all: Scripps celebrates the return of alumna Alison Saar
In an internet era characterized by comment-section wars, devastating clapbacks, and anonymous vitriol,
Join Ramy Youssef, creator and star of the Emmy-nominated Ramy, for a conversation. Ramy
Electability. Likability. These words, used to describe Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, were oft repeated as t
Designer Mindy Seu discusses the Cyberfeminist Index Designer Mindy Seu has spen
“(A) powerful debut, Miracle Country, is the rare trifecta that seamlessly blends personal narrati
For Martha Gonzalez, associate professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies at Scripps, art and ac
Whether your game is politics or baseball, there’s an excellent chance that FiveThirtyEight
**Rescheduled from March 2020** Susan Orlean is a consummate storyteller. From The Orchid Thief, her spellbinding examination of the esot
A workshop for beginners. The history of ceramics spans thousands of years. Yet this medium has a powerful p
