All Events
American Muslims and the Reform of Islam with Zareena Grewal
MCC THEATER
This talk is based on ten years of research for Prof. Grewal's book Islam is a Foreign Country, which explores how the question of who defines Islam today is intertwined with American Muslim's identity as a national religious minority and as part of the umma, a global majority. Dr. Grewal is associate professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University.
Cup of Culture
No Más Bebés Por Vida
MCC THEATER
No Más Bebés Por Vida/No More Babies for Life is a work-in-progress film investigating the riveting history of Mexican American women who were sterilized at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1970s. It is a story of blatant injustice, uncommon courage, and activism. This sneak preview of the film chronicles how a group of mothers, young Chicana/o lawyers and activists, and a whistle-blowing doctor stood up to powerful institutions and faced public exposure in the name of justice. Renee Tajima-Peña, 78 min., English and Spanish with English subtitles, 2015, USA. Q&A with director Renee Tajima-Peña and producer Virginia Espino following the screening.
The UCSB MultiCultural Center in Santa Barbara
An Evening of Spoken Word Azure Antoinette
REDS BAR & TAPAS - 211 HELENA AVENUE, SANTA BARBARA
Azure Antoinette is a poet, spoken word artist, and youth and arts advocate whose performance poetry explores the ways social media is reshaping humanity. She is the founder of STUDIO:alchemy, an arts-in-education program serving teen girls, and was featured as one of Forbes magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in 2012.
Art Exhibit
Of Water and the Spirit Zéna Allen
MCC THEATER
“Of Water and the Spirit” is an exhibit of Zéna Carlota Pearl Allen’s most recent work as it relates to ritual, mythology, and dreams in diasporic African and Indigenous cultures. Navigating the realms of the subconscious in her art, Zéna explores the meaning of identity and liberation for people of color independent of cognitive parameters, and seeks to recontextualize them in environments which honor their histories and project new potentialities for their future. As a student of Jaliyaa, the West African oral and music tradition, and a professional kora player (West African harp), Zéna finds it a natural progression to apply in her own art the same themes of ritual and tradition found in West African string music.
