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MASKS
MCC Theater
A psycho-social buddy dramedy about the thirty-year life journey of two men growing up in the juvenile justice system, struggling to make it into manhood, battling with their past to shed their masks. Winner of the NAACP THEATRE AWARD FOR BEST PLAYWRIGHT.Co-sponsored by the Chicano Studies Institute and the Black Studies Department; the Center for Black Studies Research.
Race Matters Series
Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. H. Samy Alim
MCC Theater
Through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use — and America's response to it — Alim, a renowned scholar of Black Language, reveals how major debates about language, race, and educational inequality erupt into moments of racial crisis in America. In his groundbreaking work, he shows how deeply 'language matters' to the national conversation on race — and in our daily lives. H. Samy Alim is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, where he directs the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (CREAL) and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA). Co-sponsored by the Black Studies Department and the Center for Black Studies Research.
American Indian Heritage Month Art Exhibit
The Black Sheep Art Collective: A Conversation with the Artists
MCC Lounge
As members of the Black Sheep Art Collective, Avarian Chee (Diné), Jeff Slim (Diné), and Cy Wagoner (Diné) have promoted local talent through summer youth programs around the Navajo reservation with mural workshops and assembling art shows. Their work is filled with memories of stories read, heard, and experienced; stories of beauty and strength that come inspired by youth; and memories of childhood, authors, and father figures.
Co-sponsored by the EOP American Indian Cultural Resource Center; American Indian Graduate Student Alliance; the American Indian Science and Engineering Society; and the American Indian Students Association.
An Evening of Sacred Music and Dances from Japan Kagura Ensemble of Chichibu Shrine
MCC Theater
A unique opportunity to experience Kagura (sacred music and ritual dances) from Chichibu, an important Shinto mountain shrine near Tokyo, in the first and only US performance of the shrine’s Kagura troupe. Chichibu Kagura, dating back to approximately the seventeenth century, with a repertory based on ancient myths, has been designated by the government as an Important Formless Folkloric Cultural Property. Organized by the East Asia Center; East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; the International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies, UCSB; the International Shinto Foundation, New York; and Shinto Kokusai Gakkai. Tickets $5 UCSB students/$15 general.
Contact the A.S Ticket Office at 805-893-2064 or click here for general admission tickets on-line. Limited seating.
