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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
Cup of Culture
Don’t Tell Anyone/No Le Digas a Nadie
MCC Theater
In an environment where silence is often seen as necessary for survival, Angy Rivera steps out of the shadows to share her journey of being undocumented and sexually abused, an ordeal all too common in her community. No Le Digas a Nadie follows immigrant activist Angy’s personal story from poverty in rural Colombia to the front page of The New York Times as she becomes a beacon in a movement for national change. Join us for a Q&A discussion with Angy to follow. (English & Spanish, 2015, 75 min)
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHSOWj3Dr10
Co-presented by the UCSB Undocumented Student Services
Art Exhibit
Art Reception: Faces of Spirits in Haitian Vodou Flags
MCC Lounge
Spirits have long made their presence known in various realms of nature and other sites of worship. Haitian Vodou flags/drapo sèvis are important religious icons honoring Afro-Haitian divinities, Catholic saints, and, at times, Indigenous American spirits. This exhibit features the work of Haitian artist and Vodou flag maker Ronald Edmond. Light refreshments and snacks will be served at our opening reception.
Exhibit/MCC Lounge: Mon, Apr 3 – Fri, June 9
Opening Reception/MCC Lounge: Tues, April 18, 6 pm
