All Events
Race Matters Series
Asian American Cultural Production Via the Internet L.S. Kim
MCC THEATER
Among the top 100 YouTube channels, a stunningly high number of YouTube celebrities are not who you might expect them to be: Asian American. What makes on-line environments, both in terms of production and consumption, a distinctly different realm for racial discourse? It is no coincidence that alternative media forms and more directly, counter-hegemonic perspectives, are being created, fed, circulated, grown by performers of color via the Internet. At the same time, how is the border between margin and center not 'crossed' but rather dis/integrated by producer-artists who manage their on-line status, forging a different – and successful – system of fandom and stardom? In what ways can on-line self-production enable new terms for race and racial representation? L.S. Kim is a Visiting Associate Professor from the Department of Film and Digital Media at
UC Santa Cruz; her book, Maid for Television: Race, Class, and Gender on the Small Screen is being published by NYU Press in 2013. Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department.
Cup of Culture
The Mosque in Morgantown
MCC THEATER
This riveting Emmy Award nominated documentary follows one woman’s campaign for change against extremism in her West Virginia mosque, throwing the community into turmoil and raising questions that cut to the heart of American Islam. Discussion following the screening. Brittany Huckabee, 54 min., 2009, USA.
Co-sponosored by the Center for Middle East Studies.
OUTrageous! Opening Night SB Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival
MCC THEATER
The MCC is excited to present the first screening of the 21st Annual Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival. The film shorts presented on this night will feature the latest and greatest in film by and for queer communities throughout the United States. Co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival.
Race Matters Series
Quiet is the New Loud: Art for Social Change Ramiro Gomez
MCC Lounge
Los Angeles artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. is getting international attention for his cardboard cutouts of Latino gardeners and other domestic workers that he places on lawns in Beverly Hills and other well-off areas. Gomez will discuss the use of unconventional materials and social media for protests in creative, subtle ways to incite conversations rather than riots. This conversation will seek to find ways to move beyond anger with art as a tool to move beyond the marches and spark one-on-one dialogue. Co-sponosored by the Chicano Studies Institute.
