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Love & Solidarity: James Lawson and Non-Violence in the Search of Workers’ Rights
MCC Theater
What can people do to change a world full of violence and hate? Is non-violent revolution possible? The film addresses these questions through the life and thought of Rev. James Lawson. This African American Methodist minister worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., to initiate civil rights struggles in the South in the 1960s. In recent years, he taught non-violence organizing to coalitions of poor Black and Latino workers who have remade the labor movement in Los Angeles. Q&A to follow the film with Director Michael Honey. (English, 2016, 38 min)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXvpsTV33c
MCC in Santa Barbara
Part Starfish, Part Citrus: An Evening of Poetry with Franny Choi
Breakfast Culture Club, 711 Chapala St
Franny Choi is a writer, performer, and teaching artist. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone and the forthcoming chapbook Death by Sex Machine. She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour, Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review and the Indiana Review. . She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.
Watch the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS56hTj4XT4
The Korean Road: Dancing Through History
MCC Theater
“…they brought electricity! The Korean dancers were a percussive high light; their intensity and skill unremitting.” –Ballet magazine
Known as a global movement with a bold mix of the East and West, the OngDance Company brings a sacred journey through the history of Korean dance and music. From the ancient Court dance of the Goryeo Dynasty to the earliest forms of traditional Korean dance, the dancers and musicians provide an intensifying expose of the history of Korean traditional dance through the sequence of each piece. Founded in 2004 in San Francisco, the OngDance Company has been involved in promoting cross-cultural understanding and appreciation of Korean artistry and engaging communities to connect to their own backgrounds.
Tickets on sale now: $5 for UCSB students and children under 12. $15 general admission.
Watch performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2GcCmkTc0c
Race Matters Series
Unsettled: The Refugee in the Hyperghetto
MCC Lounge
Scholar-activist Eric Tang will explore themes from his new book, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto, including the relationship between immigrant communities and African Americans as they experience common and distinct forms of state violence taking shape in America’s inner cities. Tang’s research sits at the intersection of two issues that define the current moment: the international refugee crisis and the resurgent movement against police violence in the urban United States. Eric Tang is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas-Austin.
