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Art Exhibit
Arte Intimo, Arte Público: Spirit, Vision and Form | The Art of Judy Baca
MCC LOUNGE
Judy Baca is a world-renowned painter and muralist, community arts pioneer, scholar and educator. Currently a professor of Chicano/a Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, she was the founder of the first City of Los Angeles Mural Program in 1974, which evolved into a community arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). Baca’s murals and public artworks reflect the lives and concerns of populations that have been historically disenfranchised, including women, the working poor, youth, the elderly and immigrant communities. She is one of the most remarkable public artists for social transformation in modern American history. Co-sponsored by UCSB 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; UCSB Chicano Studies Institute
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.
