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Cup of Culture
Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
MCC Theater
Growing up in rural North Carolina, Moises Serrano fell in love with a country that refused to recognize his full humanity - both as an undocumented immigrant and as a gay man. The documentary Forbidden follows Moises’ personal journey as an activist fighting for the American Dream. This film will feature a post-film Skype Q&A with Moises Serrano. 1 h 22 min.
Armenian and Middle Eastern Jazz Ensemble
MCC Theater
Born in East Harlem to Armenian parents who fled the genocide, Souren Baronian grew up surrounded by traditional Armenian, Middle Eastern, and Balkan music at home and simultaneously got swept up in the golden age of jazz in New York City. Sneaking into 52nd St clubs to see Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and company Baronian melded a new musical language of vastly different but compatible musical traditions. A pace-setting virtuoso instrumentalist and bandleader, Souren has offered the world Middle Eastern Jazz since 1975. This concert will feature a five-piece band, and include instruments that span the globe: duduk, kaval, riq, oud, dombek, clarinet, soprano sax, upright bass, and drums.
$5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
Purchase tickets here: https://goo.gl/DAi3aV
Cup of Culture
Daze of Justice
MCC Theater
Daze of Justice is the intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back into Cambodia's killing fields. Only this time not as victims but as witnesses determined to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge. Daze of Justice takes us beyond the Killing Fields. The women find the courage to remember their past and not only generate a vocabulary for reclaiming the past, but pave a path that extends the promise of redemption to future generations. 1 h 9 min.
Enhancing Participation & Engagement in the Scholarship & Internship Search for Ethnic Minority Students Kim Hunter
MCC Theater
The LAGRANT Foundation (TLF), a nonprofit organization that strives to increase the number of ethnic minorities in the fields of advertising, marketing and public relations, will award $250,000 in scholarships to 100 ethnically diverse students to commemorate its 20th anniversary. Seeking to enhance and diversify the academic and pre-professional development of next-generation communicators, Chairman & CEO Mr. Kim L. Hunter, discusses the pre-professional opportunities TLF offers to rising professionals.
