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What’s Race Got To Do With It? Dating Across the Color Line Steven Moreno-Terrill
MCC Lounge
While recent research indicates the acceptance of interracial dating increases generationally, the history and politics of race and sexuality in the U.S. cannot be ignored. For many, dating and desiring across the color line remains a contentious topic. Join us as we explore the issues surrounding interracial dating and the politics of desire such as persistent stereotypes, contemporary stigmas, media depictions, popular discourses, LGBTQ perspectives, and personal/cultural beliefs. Steven Moreno-Terrill is a social justice educator in the CSU system with a graduate background in Communication and Chicana/o Studies specializing in intercultural communication and race & sexuality in mass media.
Cup of Culture - Meet the Filmmaker
Visions of Aztlán
MCC Theater
Veteran Chicano filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño documents the significance of the Chicano Art movement in America and unveils a movement brought upon by the rich culture of a people who were otherwise invisible in popular culture. Discussion with the director following the screening.
Jesús Salvador Treviño, 60 min., English, 2010, USA. Co-sponsored by the, Art Design, & Architecture Museum UC Santa Barbara.
Cup of Culture
Ajami
MCC Theater
This film follows five stories about everyday life in Ajami, a religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv, where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews, and Christians try to live together in an atmosphere that is -to say the least - electric. Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, 124 min., Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles, 2009, Germany and Israel. Co-sponsored by Santa Barbara Hillel.
Pochos and Pixels: The Art of Rio Yañez
MCC Lounge
Rio Yañez is a curator, photographer, and graphic artist that has exhibited from Tokyo to his hometown of San Francisco. His work takes Chicano politics and visual iconography and challenges them with a style informed by comic books, pro-wrestling, hip-hop, and Godzilla movies. He will be exhibiting artwork in a variety of mediums including graphic art portraits, Japanese purikura photobooth prints, and 3D anaglyph prints.
