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Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker
América’s Home
MCC Theater
UCSB alumnae C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan, directors of Mountains That Take Wing (a documentary focusing on legendary activists Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama), screen their latest film América’s Home. An inspiring documentary about senior citizens and young people in Puerto Rico and Chicago struggling to save their homes and communities from being bulldozed and the transformative power of the cultural arts, community, and belonging. Discussion with the directors following the screening. C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan, 68 min., English and Spanish with subtitles, 2012, Puerto Rico and USA.
An Evening of Latin Music with LOS PINGUOS
MCC Theater
They came to the US from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a mixture of Latin rhythms, performed with Spanish guitars, a Cuban Tres, Peruvian cajón and harmonizing vocals. Vivacious and infectious, they have played with Ozomatli, Yerba Buena, Charlie Zaa and Pablo Montero, Paul Anka and Plácido Domingo.
Tickets $5 UCSB students and children under 12/$15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064 or buy on-line at www.mcc.ucsb.edu (extra fees apply). Limited seating.
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Black-Brown Politics and Resistance in Los Angeles Gaye Theresa Johnson
MCC Lounge
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles is a history of social and spatial struggles among Black and Brown freedom seekers and cultural workers in LA. It details the interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present. Gaye Theresa Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies and affiliated faculty member in the Departments of History and Chicana/o Studies.Co-sponsored by the Black Studies Department; the Center for Black Studies Research; the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department; and the History Department.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism Nadine Naber
MCC Theater
Speaking from a transnational feminist perspective, Naber reveals the complex and at times contradictory cultural and political processes through which Arabness is forged in the contemporary United States. She also explores the apparently intra-communal cultural concepts of religion, family, gender, and sexuality as the battleground on which Arab American young adults and the looming world of America all wrangle. Naber is a professor at the University of Michigan in the departments of American Culture, Arab American Studies, Women’s Studies, and adjunct in the Department of Anthropology. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies; the Education Abroad Program, Santa Barbara; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
