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Cup of Culture
The World Before Her
MCC THEATER
This award-winning film tells a tale of two Indias. In one, Ruhi Singh is a small-town girl competing in Bombay to win the Miss India pageant. In the other India, Prachi Trivedi is the young, militant leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls where she preaches violent resistance to Western culture, Christianity and Islam. Moving between these divergent realities, the film creates a lively, provocative portrait of the world's largest democracy at a critical transitional moment — and of two women who hope to shape its future. Q&A with director Nisha Pahuja following the screening. 60 min., English/Hindi with English subtitles, 2012, Canada. Photo credit: Storyline Entertainment
FILM
Who is Dayani Cristal?
MCC THEATER
Following a team of dedicated staff from the Pima County Morgue in Arizona, director Marc Silver seeks to answer the question “Who is Dayani Cristal”? This award-winning documentary tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death”. Mexican actor and activist Gael Garcia Bernal retraces this man’s steps along the migrant trail in Central America and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration. Marc Silver, 85 min., English/Spanish with English subtitles, 2013, UK/Mexico. Photo Credit: Kino Lorber Inc
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Who We Be: The Colorization of America Jeff Chang
MCC THEATER
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. How do Americans see race now? After eras framed by words like “multicultural” and “post-racial,” do we see each other any more clearly? From the dream of integration to the reality of colorization, Jeff Chang examines the cultural history of the idea of racial progress. Jeff Chang is Executive Director of Stanford's Institute for Diversity in the Arts and author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation.
MULTIMEDIA
The Langston Hughes Project featuring the Ron McCurdy Project
MCC THEATER
The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet. Ask Your Mama is a twelve-part epic poem in verse and music that served as Hughes’ social commentary on the struggle for freedom and equality among Africans and African Americans in the 1960s. This multimedia presentation includes spoken word, jazz quartet and videography chronicling the Harlem Renaissance and drawing musical cues from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop, “cha cha” and Afro-Cuban mambo music, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming. Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy is professor of music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California (USC) Free event! Limited Seating.
