All Events
An Evening of Vietnamese Music The V’AV
MCC THEATER
Emmy Award-winning artist Vân Ánh Vo dedicates her life to creating music on the dan Tranh (16-string zither). She fuses her traditional Vietnamese foundation with freshness in new structures and compositions. Vân Ánh will take the audience on a journey to Vietnam through this performance of traditional sounds of North, Central, and South Vietnam will blend with modern Western soundscapes as Vân Ánh presents solo works and collaborative performances with her ensemble The VA’V. Tickets $5 UCSB Students and Children under 12/$15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064 or buy online at www.mcc.ucsb.edu (extra fees apply). Limited Seating.
Dreaming of Selena Twenty Years Later Deborah Paredez
MCC LOUNGE
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of Selena Quintanilla Perez. How and where does Selena's legacy persist? What does her continued afterlife--or cultural amnesia about her--tell us about current struggles and triumphs faced by Latinas/os in the US? Deborah Paredez is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin.
Cup of Culture
Let the Fire Burn
MCC THEATER
Using only archival news coverage and interviews, filmmaker Jason Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between government and citizens in modern American history in Let the Fire Burn. On May 13, 1985, a feud between the city of Philadelphia and radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration which quickly escalated—resulting in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children. It was later discovered that authorities decided to “...let the fire burn.” Discussion with Dr. Diane Fujino following the screening. 95 min., English, 2013, US.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Revenge of the Bad Girls: Sor Juana, las Maqui-Locas, the Salem Witches, and Alma López Alicia Gaspar de Alba
MCC THEATER
Alicia Gaspar de Alba analyzes how specific brown/female bodies have been framed by racial, social, cultural, sexual, national/regional, historical, and religious discourses of identity—as well as how Chicanas can be liberated from these frames. Employing interdisciplinary methodologies of activist scholarship that draw from art, literature, history, politics, popular culture, and feminist theory, she shows how 'bad women' are transgressive bodies that refuse to cooperate with patriarchal dictates about what constitutes a 'good woman' and that queer/alter the male-centric and heteronormative history, politics, and consciousness of Chicano/Mexicano culture. Prof. Gaspar de Alba is a founding faculty member of the Chicana/o Studies Department at UCLA.
