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Art Exhibition
Closing Art Reception – Collection of Resistance: A Covid Series Exhibition
MCC Lounge
You are invited to attend the closing reception for the UCSB student exhibition. Meet the student artists, enjoy refreshments, and listen to how students are collectively paving the way to highlight injustices and envision a new future that holistically centers people and communities as we navigate the pandemic.
Over a year and a half into the pandemic, community spaces have been impacted. To bridge the gap between the adversities caused by COVID-19, the many ongoing forms of systematic oppressions, and the human experience, the MultiCultural Center is hosting a student exhibition that emphasizes QTBIPOC experiences.
This exhibition seeks to highlight and give voice to marginalized experiences as we navigate a pandemic and collectively pave the way to envision and create a new future that holistically centers community, belonging, and social justice art.
Art Exhibit runs September 28 to December 10, 2021
Exhibition art sample by UCSB student Olivia Averett.
Cup of Culture
Labor Women
MCC Theater
From director Renee Tajima-Peña, this portrait of three immigrant daughters reveals the new generation that is transforming the American labor movement. Quynh Nguyen is a trilingual organizer who moves easily between Vietnamese, Spanish, and English as she mobilizes meatpackers in their demands for a union contract. Sri Lankan American Karla Zombro confronts the challenge of being a lead organizer as well as openly gay within the “Respect at LAX Living Wage” campaign for airport workers fighting for a contract. Jun Chong is a Korean American activist with a labor-community coalition in South Central Los Angeles, representing the most marginalized of workers – welfare-to-work recipients.
These dynamic Asian American women are not the submissive lotus blossoms of the past nor the young “model minorities” of today. They are passionate advocates for social change, and theirs is the story of the American labor movement as it progresses in the 21st century. Runtime 35 minutes
Conscious Conversations Series
#JunkTerrorLaw: Filipino Masses Fighting for Their Voice
Anakbayan Santa Barbara
Online
Anakbayan Santa Barbara is a youth led mass organization fighting for genuine freedom and democracy in the Philippines. Under the umbrella of Anakbayan USA, the Santa Barbara chapter seeks to agitate, organize, and mobilize youth to take action towards liberating the Filipino masses. This event seeks to spread awareness of President Duterte’s regime and his attempt to consolidate power using the Anti-Terror Law. We will be discussing what the Anti-Terror Law is and how it threatens the freedoms of the Filipino people.
Cup of Culture
#PardonMaria and Fighting for Family
Filmmaker Lan Nguyen, Brandon Soun, Rex and Chuh
Film Screening/Online
Join the MCC in screening two powerful films and in welcoming the filmmaker and the people whose stories are told through the films to UCSB! The first film, #PardonMaria, follows Maria who after changing her life and gaining her freedom from a 23-year prison sentence, faces a new challenge as she learns she may be deported to the Philippines. The second film, Fighting For Family, tells the story of Chuh and Rex, refugees from the indigenous tribes of Vietnam, who fell in love and started a family in North Carolina nearly two decades ago. In 2017, the unthinkable happened. Chuh was deported to Vietnam, leaving Rex and their four daughters behind in the U.S. Chuh works on adjusting to life in Vietnam, while Rex resiliently balances working, raising her children, and maintaining her long-distance relationship. FIGHTING FOR FAMILY shares the family’s love story and fight to mobilize for Chuh’s return to the U.S. #PardonMaria 2020. 6 m 14 s. Fighting for Family 2019. 30 m 16 s. Post film discussion with filmmaker Lan Nguyen, Brandon Soun, Rex and Chuh
