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A Poetry Reading with Yusef Komunyakaa
MCC Theater
Internationally renowned poet Yusef Komunyakaa is this year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence, a program created to bring distinguished practitioners of the craft of writing to the UCSB community. Komunyakaa is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1994), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Currently he serves as Distinguished Senior Poet in New York University’s graduate creative writing program and is the State Poet of New York.
Co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Writing Program
Cup of Culture
Moonlight
MCC Theater
“Moonlight uses one man's story to offer a remarkable and brilliantly crafted look at lives too rarely seen in cinema. 98% rating.” –Rotten Tomatoes
A young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and coming of age in Miami during the 'War on Drugs' era. The story of his struggle to find himself is told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love while grappling with his own sexuality. (English, 2016, 110 min)
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJj12tJzqc
Co-presented by: the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD)
Children of All Ages Event
Dance & Art for Children
MCC Lounge
Janice Staab will lead children through contemporary and street dance style movements that explore our connection to the cultural aspects of the earth and sea. Children will be encouraged to create their own cultural dance movements that express how they feel about the world around them. Janice grew up in Hawaii and specializes in environmental education.
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series
Winter Art Exhibit: The Radical Imagination
MCC Theater
Favianna Rodriguez’s art and collaborative projects address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. She aims to critique and reinterpret the larger discursive immigration narratives that are shaping people’s lives around the globe, but especially here in the United States. Her practice serves as a tool for education, agitation, and social critique. Favianna has self-identified as queer and Latina with Afro-Peruvian roots. Rodriguez began as a political poster designer in the 1990s in the struggle for racial justice in Oakland, California.
SPECIAL LECTURE: Favianna’s lecture will be an opportunity for the UCSB community to interact with her on current social issues and how art can inform our Radical Imagination on Tue, Jan 24 at 6 pm in the MCC Theater.
Co-sponsored by: Undocumented Student Services
