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(Un)Documents
Jesus Valles
Online
With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you can learn to transform. In his first full-length solo show, (Un)Documents, award-winning actor and poet Jesus I. Valles journeys across both sides of a river with two names, moving between languages to find his place as a son, a lover, a teacher, and a brother in a nation that demands sacrifice at the altar of citizenship. In doing so, he creates a new kind of documentation written with anger, fierce love, and the knowledge that what makes us human can never be captured on a government questionnaire.
Race Matters Series
**CANCELED**: Forecasting through Anthropology and Theatre For Black Life
Dr. Ugo Edu
*** POSTPONED ***
(11/15) THIS EVENT IS CANCELED IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS (UAW) UNION STRIKE
-- POSTPONED TO WINTER QUARTER. PLEASE CHECK BACK IN JANUARY FOR OUR WINTER CALENDAR --
A scene of an in-process play about black women, elicits an audience response concerned with female whiteness. A play to be written, foreshadowing a dark future for Black and Muslim women, is anticipated by the present. Another in progress about Black women modifying their clothes and bodies to meet an aesthetic. Drawing on some of my experiences utilizing playwriting to grapple with the historical legacies entangling Blackness and the development of the sciences, medicine, and health that emerged through ethnographic fieldwork, I think about how anthropology and theater can be put together in the service of predicting what is to come and making space for that exploration and galvanization for change and improved black lives. Can it help us make futures that invite, nurture, and sustain Blackness, Black reproduction, Black bodies, Black technologies, Black life? Can it help us create or use technological advancements towards the promotion, celebration, and sustenance of black life?
A Call for Student Artists: Art as Activism Exhibition
Submission Deadline: Friday, September 2, 2022
Submission form: https://forms.gle/Lq6SmRz8F3ed6hfE7
The MCC will host a Fall 2022 UCSB Student Art as Activism Exhibition that will highlight students work that fosters discussion around Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice, and Belonging. Artists are encouraged to submit art that portray counternarratives to hate, hurt, & fear or work that centers joy and allyship in the QTBIPOC communities.
Art Exhibit
A Conversation with the Artists – Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis
Dominic Chambers, Jen Everett and Katherine Simóne Reynolds
Online
Black art is political. Black art is liberating. Black art is transformative. Black art is revolutionary.
Come join this dynamic panel of artists as they discuss their online art exhibit, Abstractions of Black Citizenship, currently featured in partnership with the MultiCultural Center. Opening remarks by exhibit curator, Dr. Jasmine Mahmoud.
Register for the Conversation with Artists:
The online exhibit is available until Feb. 28, 2021. Find the exhibition below or at the following link:
https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/node/2435
All images, sounds, and videos of the work are courtesy of each artist. All quotes from artists, unless otherwise noted, are from interviews conducted by the curator in 2020. You can find more about this exhibition – including the research guide (with sources cited through the exhibition), studio visit videos with each artist, and education guides – on the exhibition website.
