Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology

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Your continued gifts of support plant seeds of knowledge and love of learning for our futures! Further, your contributions put our mission of serving diverse audiences into action! Between now and March 3rd, we aspire to raise enough funds to support camp for all who want to attend this summer. Visit our Giving Day page @ https://app.mobilecause.com/vf/chicomoa

Our 50th Anniversary exhibit and gathering had to go virtual this year, so we switched gears and created a film and virtual celebration. Pictured is museum Co-...Director William Nitzky filming a very special person in our museum’s history, museum founder Keith Johnson! Meet Keith and watch the video retrospective at our 50th Anniversary celebration this Saturday, October 10th, from 2-3 pm. Register here for this free virtual event! https://www.csuchico.edu//annivers/information-links.shtml See more

Sign Up Now For Museum Monster Mayhem. Got the zoom blues? We get it - but this event will be like no other - fast-moving, haunted and fun. You and your family are invited to celebrate Halloween with the CSU Chico Valene Smith Museum of Anthropology on Friday, Oct 30 at 6:30-8:30 pm. An array of activities and challenges await those who dare. Join the fun and slightly creepy experiences in the virtual museum zoom experience! No need to get in the car to travel far- just hop on your zoom for Halloween fun for all ages in your family. $20 per family. Local pick up of goodybags too. Register now: connect.chico.edu/halloweenfun Come in Costume. Learn about Bats. Make a clay creature. Travel to the Haunted Savannah with Bay Area Storyteller, Linda Wright!

The museum recently held a community forum to discuss our upcoming exhibition, Epidemics of Injustice, a virtual exhibition that aims to expose the destructive and constructive aspects of epidemics and how racism must be understood as an epidemic that overwhelms and harms our society. With the assistance of local Action News Now anchor, Julia Yarbough, the museum brought community members together to share their perspectives on how the pandemic is impacting their communities.

Help us celebrate our 50th Anniversary this fall by attending our free Virtual Programs! To learn more and register visit our website. https://www.csuchico.edu//annivers/information-links.shtml

We encourage you to take 4 minutes and listen to this NPR report on how California Native American cultural practices are helping to shape the landscape once again. Basketry traditions are directly linked to traditional fire ecology practices. The museum's virtual tour explores the basketry traditions of the Meadows-Baker Families of Northern California. https://www.csuchico.edu//unbroken-traditions-virtual-exhi... For our educator and homeschooler friends, the museum's fire ecology workbook is a great tool to teach the importance of fire on our landscape. https://www.csuchico.edu//documen/fire-ecology-booklet.pdf

Every Tuesday in August, KIXE PBS will air an ALVA-produced film in its entirety on its television broadcast at 7:30 p.m. On Thursdays, the station will host the same film as a virtual broadcast at 6 p.m. on its website. Following the virtual broadcast, KIXE PBS will also host a Q&A session with Jesse Dizard, faculty in the Department of Anthropology, who directed all four films.

Don't miss this ! KIXE-TV our local PBS station will broadcast an entire catalog of documentaries (20 in total) created by students, faculty and staff at CSU, Chico's very own Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology (ALVA). They will begin airing at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays starting tomorrow (Aug 4) and air weekly on channel 9 through November.