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An Evening of Balkan Music: Inspector Gadje Balkan Brass Band with Ismail Lumanovski
The Hub
'This was rip roaring mad Balkan brass bedlam!' – Stephen Kent, Internationally Acclaimed Composer
With up to 14 musicians, Bay Area-based Inspector Gadje pays homage to Romani culture and community. The band is a joyful collective of fiery musicians who bring a big sound to the beautiful and bumpin’ brass band music of Southeast Europe’s Balkan Peninsula. The driving, tight grooves with soaring melodies incite joy and dance from the very first downbeat. Ismail Lumanovski is a widely esteemed Macedonian/Turkish clarinetist, and perhaps the first Roma (gyspy) clarinet player to graduate from the renowned Julliard School of Music in NYC.
Listen to Inspector Gadge Balkan Brass Band music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mx2u-RdW5Q
Tickets: $5 UCSB Students and Children Under 12 / $15 general. Purchase tickets at A.S. Ticket Office or online here.
Art Exhibition Opening Reception
Malik Seneferu: From the Hill and Beyond
MCC Lounge
Please join the MCC for an Opening Reception to welcome our artist of the quarter, Malik Seneferu! Free food.
Malik Seneferu is an American conceptual artist and painter whose work explores race, identity, politics, spirituality, and adolescence. Employing intense color, he engages in magical realism with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. From the Hill and Beyond draws on Seneferu’s experience of leaving San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point community where he began his career, and his travels in Kenya where he explored his roots among the Kamba people of Machakos.
Cup of Culture
The Homestretch
MCC Theater
'An amazing and important film with the potential to change the way we think about the problem of youth homelessness.' – Alex Kotlowitz
The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers – Roque, Kasey, and Anthony – working to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned, will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness. While told through a personal perspective, their stories connect with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights. (90 min, English, 2014)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMoCevdGQPs
Standing on the Place Where Langston’s Ashes Reside: An Evening with Poet Laureate Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
MCC Lounge
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, current Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, will read from her latest manuscript, Black Street II : The Outsider Poems. Her presentation will include a reflection on the work of Langston Hughes and his influence in her life. Rolle's poetry books include Black Street, and Common Ancestry and she has written six plays—most spawned from the Black Experience. Widely known as a cultural activist, Rolle hosts a monthly poetry event, The Poetry Zone, and for the past 13 years has organized an annual tribute to Langston Hughes. A reception with live jazz music will follow.
