Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal

The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division Presents, Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal: A Conversation and Panel Discussion Featuring filmmaker Akira Boch and Quetzal members Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores.

This event is part of our Arts Dean’s Speaker Series. The Dean’s Speaker Series is an annual event focused on bringing together scholarship and practice related to critical issues of our time in the Arts, in order to expand our students’ imaginations on what is possible, the importance of ambition and aspiration and tackling real structural problems and exclusions in our society and in the arts.

Introduced by Interim Dean and Professor of Film and Digital Media Lawrence Andrews.

Screening of Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal (no registration needed for the screening)

May 27, 2026, 12-1:30pm, DARC 108

Conversation and Panel Discussion:

May 27, 2026, 4-6:30pm, DARC 108

Doors open at 3:30pm

FREE and open to the public

Featuring panelists filmmaker Akira Boch; Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores of Quetzal; in conversation with Russell C. Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Music, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Chair of CRES and Professor in the Feminist Studies Major Program.

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