{"id":61103,"date":"2025-11-19T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61103\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:53:11","slug":"this-months-achievements-span-innovation-storytelling-and-sustainability-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61103\/","title":{"rendered":"This month\u2019s achievements span innovation, storytelling and sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Allen \u201888, \u201892, author of \u201cTao of Surfing,\u201d returned to campus recently for a screening of \u201cA Long Road to Tao,\u201d the feature film inspired by his Pulitzer Prize-nominated book. The story followed a blocked writer who reconnected with a long-lost friend dying of AIDS, blending surf culture with Taoist and Native American spiritual themes as the men confronted fear, grief and acceptance together. Allen \u2014 who earned his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in philosophy from the <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW1550805 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/college-of-liberal-arts\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">College of Liberal Arts<\/a> in 1992 served as author, producer and co-screenwriter, and he shared with students how a deeply personal story evolved into a decades-long film project. The event in <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW1550805 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/theatre-arts\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Theatre Arts<\/a> highlighted the power of independent filmmaking to address LGBTQ+ identity, friendship and loss while offering an example of how alumni can translate their academic work and lived experience into art that encourages empathy and reflection.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Allen \u201888, \u201892, author of \u201cTao of Surfing,\u201d returned to campus recently for a screening of \u201cA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1818,6758,1820,7,1823,1821,1822,1819,131,133,132,1817,1816],"class_list":["post-61103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-49ers","tag-award","tag-cal-state","tag-california","tag-conoley","tag-csu","tag-csulb","tag-dirtbags","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}