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TUPUA Hawaiian Dance
MCC COURTYARD
Leave your worries behind and journey through the Polynesian Islands with dance and storytelling from Hawaii, Tahiti, and Aotearoa. Feel the beat of the rhythmic Tahitian drums and the Hula Maidens will enchant you with their graceful performance. The TUPUA dancers will teach the attendees, young and old, a fun Hawaiian dance with the spirit of aloha!
Ana Tijoux
THE HUB
Award-winning French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux is coming to rock The Hub! Regarded as one of Latin America’s leading female MCs, Tijoux has a hip-hop style and sound that crosses borders, which comprises of socially conscious lyrics, a hypnotic jazzy voice, and dynamic beats. Named 'Best Female Rap Album of 2014' by the Los Angeles Times, her album ‘Vengo’—a mix of soulful, funky cumbia, throwback hip-hop, neo-soul, and folk--debuted #1 on iTunes and has earned strong praise at Rolling Stone, NY Times, and many more outlets around the world.
Race Matters
Black Cultural Profiling and the Corporate Management of Dissent Tricia Rose
MCC LOUNGE
Tricia Rose will consider the importance of expressive culture in developing challenges to inequality and why these spaces are in trouble today. She will argue that the mainly invisible impact of the corporate takeover of public displays of performance spaces and institutions have stifled creative outlets for public creative challenges to discrimination and injustice. Tricia Rose is currently a professor of Africana Studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.
Cup of Culture
Cesar’s Last Fast
MCC THEATER
In 1988, Cesar Chavez embarked on what would be the final act of protest in his remarkable life. Driven by penance for feeling he had not done enough, Chavez began his 'Fast for Life,' a 36-day water-only hunger strike, to draw attention to the horrific effects of unfettered pesticide use on farm workers, their families, and their communities. Using never-before-seen footage of Chavez and testimonies from those closest to him, directors Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee weave together the larger story of Chavez's life, vision, and legacy. 100 min., English, 2014, US.
