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POSTPONED: Off the Press: A Community Reading on (In)visibility

December 3, 2025 | 6:00PM - 9:00PM

Update: Off the Press: A Community Reading on (In)visibility has been postponed to Winter 2026. A new date and details will be announced soon.

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“Nada somos sí solos caminamos, todo seremos si nuestros pasos caminan junto a otros pasos dignos.”

“We are nothing walking alone; we become everything walking alongside dignified steps.”
– El Comité Clandestino (1994)

Join the Fowler Museum and UCLA students for a community reading of the new publication, (In)visibility. This powerful book features critical essays and artworks by undoc+ artists, individuals exploring the complex realities of undocumentedness, immigration journeys, and hyperdocumentation. 

Together, participants will read aloud selected excerpts from (In)visibility, engaging in a shared reflection on themes of identity, migration, healing, and solidarity. The reading will offer a collective space to listen, witness, and honor the voices of the undoc+ community. 

The curator of the upcoming exhibition and editor of this volume is a formerly undocumented, first-generation, transnational, Japanese-Mexican immigrant and UCLA doctoral candidate. (In)visibility foregrounds the aesthetic achievements of undoc+ authors and scholars while centering care and protection for participants. This reading is part of a broader commitment to foster community connection through art and storytelling.

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