Inteview with Manel Camps, UCSC Professor in Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, Faculty Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development and Crown College Provost. He wears many hats.

In this episode we talked about an upcoming event featuring a guest from Bogota Colombia, Jaime Ortiz  who founded an organization that changed Bogota for the better through bicycle activism, CicLAvia, a play on the Spanish word “cyclovia” meaning “cycleway,” was started back in 1974.  

Manel himself will also be visiting Colombia and specifically a university that has been developing a relationship Universidad Distrital Facultad Tecnológica in Bogota, Colombia. 

In this show, we hear from UCSC Art Professor Beth Stephens and her partner Annie Sprinkle, eco-sexuals , and world, renowned performance artists activists. 

They are putting the E in LGBTQIA+. We talked about their co-production, Exploring the Earth as Lover, Eco-sex in the City, a four-day symposium on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that happened last weekend. This was their 9th Ecosex Symposium, a multi-media extravaganza with panels, films, performances & lots of fun environmental activism.  

We discussed a few of the highlights of this four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play. 

For more information, you can go to https://earthlabsf.org/ and https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu/

You can also get their newest book, Assuming the Eco-Sex Position.

UCSC Emeritus and Math Professor from 1968 until his retirement in 2020. You can find many youtube videos of Ralph Abraham in conversation with luniminaries such Terrance McKenna, Rupert Sheldridge in the movie, DMT: The Spirit Molecule is a 2010 documentary.

Professor Abraham came to UCSC in 1968 after a distinguished academic career beginning with earning  his Bachelors and Masters of Science  and Ph.D. (1960) from the University of Michigan.  In Mathematics. Before coming to UCSC, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University and Princeton University as assistant professor of mathematics. He has also held visiting positions in Amsterdam, Paris, Warwick, Barcelona, Basel, and Florence. His time at Princeton University was very influential with the introduction of psychedelics, mathematics, leading to chaos theory.  He founded the Visual Math Institute at Santa Cruz in 1975; at that time, it was called the "Visual Mathematics Project".  You can find information about all the work Ralph has been doing at      www.ralph-abraham.org

Tonight we will be talking about his newest books volumes #5, #6  of Hip Santa Cruz. Edited by T. Mike Walker with the assistance of Ralph H. Abraham.

Hip Santa Cruz 6. First-person accounts of the Hip Culture

of Santa Cruz, California in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Calling All Hippies!

Readings from Hip Santa Cruz #6

3-5PM, Saturday, April 8th at

Santa Cruz Art League

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA

the start of Rock & Roll in the 60's to the Cabrillo College Tipi, Organic Gardens, the beginning of Shakespeare in the Park, and a deep look into Huey P. Newton's UCSC Dissertation, this issue is filled with unexpected miracles and mind blowing truths. Read at your own risk!

Available through Amazon.com or locally at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Come listen to the writers present enticing fragments of juicy prose from their work!

FREE for the public. All welcome.