All Events
Social Justice Workshop
#BlackGirlHistory: Reading Race, Gender, and Punishment in the Historical Record
MCC Lounge
Sarah Haley, Assistant Professor of Gender and African American Studies at UCLA, will lead students through late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century primary documents to open a conversation on how the processes of gender, race, and class shape archives. Walking the participants through a sample of the documents interrogated in her new book No Mercy Here, Haley will guide them in how to read resistances to racial capitalism and patriarchy that imprisoned black women faced under local, county, and state convict labor systems in the wake of slavery’s abolition.
Register online: bit.ly/mcc-blackgirlhistory
An Evening of Azerbaijan Folk and Classical Music: Azeri Band
MCC Theater
With countless successful concerts, more than 15 albums in 15 years, and a group of highly talented musicians, it is an honor to present Rahim (garmon & vocals), Armen (piano), Leva (keyboard), Garnik (clarinet), and Gaik (Nagara) as they play the beautiful tunes of Azerbaijan live! Azeri music is a harmonious folk tradition that reaches back to nearly 1,000 years. Come and be dazzled by a performance that will always remain in your heart.
*Purchase tickets online: $5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
Race Matters Series
“Hablando con Todxs”: Articulations of Gender and Sexuality in Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba
MCC Theater
Employing the Afro-Puerto Rican musical tradition of bomba, this presentation focuses on discourses of sexuality and gender in relation to race and coloniality among contemporary practitioners with particular attention to musicians and dancers of the bomba diaspora in the United States. Invoking the communitarian context out of which bomba has developed this presentation interrogates the point of entry of female practitioners who challenge gendered and racialized positionalities with regard to drumming and dancing. Focusing on the critical interventions of these practitioners, Micaela J. Díaz-Sánchez (UCSB Chicano/a Studies) explores contemporary performances of bomba in the diaspora as a tradition in which feminist and queer sociopolitical histories and aesthetic practices thrive.
Cup of Culture
Hidden Figures
MCC Theater
The incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson - brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big. (English, 2016, 127 min)
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo
