Please join the University of Washington Bothell Labor Studies Colloquium and the Labor Stories During Pandemic Times class for a talk with Golda Sargento on Art is Service.

Please pre-register to receive an e-mail with the Zoom details the day of the event here. This talk and conversation is open to the public and will be recorded.

GOLDA SARGENTO was a member of theater group Overseas Artist, spoken word group 8th Wonder, and the sketch comedy group Taste Better Wit. Her music bands; Golda Supernova, Golda + The Guns, Ninja In Slow Motion, Death Glam and The Soft Stars have performed at music venues and festivals throughout the state. Additionally, Sargento played leads in Jeannie Barroga’s Gadgets and Patty Cachepero’s Anak ti Diablo at Bindlestiff, Sam Shepard’s Holy Crime as “Crow” at A.C.T. Costume Shop Theater, and Jessica Hagedorn’s Gangster of Love as “Rocky” at Magic Theater, composing and performing music for the latter three. Sargento has performed excerpts from "DarkHeart'' for Forbidden Futures 2020, a Filipino Sci-Fi Film Festival, which she also co-produced, directed and edited, Okay Ba Tayo and BindleZoom-Silog in 2020, Forbidden Futures 2018,  Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture Performance Art Series at the SF Asian Art Museum in 2017, also in Ashland, OR. as part of CAATA’s National Asian American Theater Conference at both the Green Show and Hot Asians Showcase in Oct. 2016. In the summer of 2019, Sargento accepted a fellowship with KSW for their Interdisciplinary Writing Lab. Sargento has also workshopped with Campo Santo’s Writing Lab. Sargento performs, directs and produces for other community productions, including book readings for Arkipelago Books, a bookstore she co-runs in the SOMA where current works include publishing two books about Bay Area Filipino Theater. Sargento also writes, interviews and programs at KPFA, beginning with the Apprenticeship Program, then Roots Kommunikations and occasionally APEX Express.

This talk, organized by Dr. Ching-In Chen, is taking place on Zoom in conjunction with BCULST 587/BISIA 410: Labor Stories During Pandemic Times and is organized in partnership with the Alive Festival and the Critical Acts Visiting Artist Residency Program. The talk is free and open to the public, with pre-registration. Zoom links will be e-mailed the day of the talk.

This talk is part of Labor in Times of Crises, a year of online talks investigating and exploring the exacerbated, economic fault lines for working class lives in times of crisis. Each meeting will feature a talk by a visiting scholar and/or artist and discussion, including topics such as the carceral and unresponsive state, alternate and solidarity economies and community storytelling, and is organized by UWB Labor Colloquium faculty members Dr. Dan Berger, Dr. S. Charusheela, Dr. Joseph Ferrare and Dr. Kari Lerum, coordinated by Dr. Ching-In Chen with assistance from Graduate Assistant Simon Wolf. Follow us on Facebook @UwbLabor.

Golda Sargento’s’ talk and conversation is funded by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington. For event questions and for UWB Labor Studies Colloquium questions, contact Dr. Ching-In Chen at chingin@uw.edu.

The organizer of this event is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu. If you have any access needs which you want the organizers to know about, please let us know. For further questions about disability accommodation, contact chingin@uw.edu.