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An Evening of Balkan Music with the Varimezov Family Band
MCC Theater
Tzvetanka and Ivan Varimezovi’s musical journey began in 1980. Their love and passion for Bulgarian traditional folk music is shared by their daughters, Radka and Tanya. The four have been performing together in the United States and Bulgaria for the past twelve years using an array of instruments including the bagpipe, accordion, doumbek, and tupan. Join us for an evening of exciting music and dance as the family shares traditional Balkan songs, melodies, and rhythms. Tickets $5 UCSB students and children under 12/$15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064. Limited seating.
Co-Sponsored by the UCSB After Dark Funding Program.
Campus security checkpoints will be at every entrypoint into campus due to Halloween weekend, but parking in lots 3 and 8 are enabled for concerts for concert attendees. Please let security know you are on campus for this musical performance.
Cup of Culture
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
MCC Theater
Founded in 2011 after Vladimir Putin’s third term as Russian president, feminist art collective Pussy Riot protested Putin’s union of church and state. This film reveals the real people behind the balaclavas highlighting the forces that transformed these women from playful political activists to modern-day icons; exposing the state of Russian justice in the modern era. Official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and recipient of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award. Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, 88 min., English and Russian with English Subtitles, 2013, Russia/UK. Co-sponsored by the Department of Feminist Studies; the Department of Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies; and the Education Abroad Program.
Film
OUTrageous! Opening Night SB Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival
MCC Theater
The MCC is excited to present the first screening of the 22nd Annual Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival. The film shorts presented will feature the latest and greatest films by and for queer communities throughout the United States.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism And Wrecked The Middle Class Ian Haney López
MCC Theater
Two themes dominate American politics today: at the forefront is declining economic opportunity; coursing underneath is race. Ian Haney López connects both by showing how racial pandering convinces many white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich and betray the middle class. The John H. Boalt Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, Haney López is the author of White by Law as well as Racism on Trial, and will soon release a new book: Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism Wrecked the Middle Class. Co-sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research; the Center for New Racial Studies; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
