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MCC Annual Kickoff!
MCC COURTYARD
Join the MultiCultural Center for our Annual Kickoff party! Voted Austin’s best world music band for the past six years, Atash (“fire” in Farsi), combines master musicians from around the globe to create a powerful, worldly original sound that inspires people of all ages and from all walks of life to dance and commune in a celebration of life!
Cup of Culture
Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer
MCC THEATER
Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But world-famous bloggers Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are unafraid of their dictatorial regimes. This award-winning film accompanies these brave women on their perilous journeys in Cuba, China and Iran while their blogs shake the foundations of the state information monopoly, putting their lives at great risk Barbara Miller, 96 min., English, 2012, Switzerland.
Cup of Culture
Up Heartbreak Hill
MCC THEATER
For Thomas Martinez, a statewide high school cross-country and track star, and Tamara Hardy, an academic as well as athletic star, growing up on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico has heightened the tensions inherent to high school graduation, in ways particular to Native American history and contemporary reservation life. This film chronicles one fateful year in the lives of two talented kids who must figure out not only how to become young adults, but what it means to be both Native and modern. Erica Scharf, 60 min., English, 2012, USA. Co-sponsored by El Congreso
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Arte Intimo, Arte Público: Spirit, Vision and Form | The Art of Judy Baca
MCC THEATER
Distinguished UCLA professor Judy Baca offers an intimate look into a universe of visual discourse through artworks that have maintained a historic and contextual dialogue with her monumental mural projects for over thirty-five years. Judy Baca is professor of Chicano/a Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a community arts center in Venice, CA.
“I want to produce artwork that has meaning beyond simple decorative values. I hope to use public space to create public voice, and consciousness about the presence of people who are often the majority of the population but who may not be represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story while creating sites of public memory.” Judy Baca Co-sponsored by Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance; Chicano Studies Institute
