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Living Lives of Resilient Love in a Time of Hate
Teaching in/from Freedom. Supporting Undocumented Students and Their Families in the Classroom and Beyond Lorgia García-Peña
MCC Theater
Lorgia García-Peña is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction (Duke University Press 2016). This book reveals how the stories of a nation create marginality through acts of exclusion. It was awarded 2017 National Women Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, the 2016 LASA Latino/a Studies Book Award and the 2016 Isis Duarte Book Prize in Haiti and Dominican Studies. In 2003, García-Peña co-founded Freedom University, a “modern day freedom school” in Atlanta that provides tuition-free education, college application and scholarship assistance and social movement leadership training to undocumented students banned from public higher education by Georgia state laws. Dr. Lorgia Garcia-Peña is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
Intersectionality within Immigrant Communities
MCC Theater
The experiences of immigrant communities goes beyond what is portrayed in society and media. A panel of individuals, including those who are directly impacted by current policies and laws, will highlight the intersectional experiences of immigrant communities. This panel is part of a series of events hosted by Undocumented Student Services as part of Immigration Awareness Week.
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
