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Migration Is Natural: An Evening of Spoken Word Jess X Snow
MCC in SB
Migration is Natural is a hybrid spoken word poetry show, film screening and artist talk. Jess will talk about how she created a home for herself in her art and story-telling. She will share about her coming of age journey as an artist–how after the rootlessness and migrations that marked her childhood, she developed a stutter which she overcame through her discovery of visual and written language. Through her poetry, she channels the spirit of queer Chinese photographer Ren Hang, her immigrant mother, her ancestors and explores the creation of love and safety in the time of Trump America, and the queerness of the four billion year old mother Earth.
Constelacion de Sonidos, songs and stories of love, migration, displacement and resistance Los Cambalache
MCC Theater
Cambalache, meaning exchange, is a chicanx/jarochx ensemble based in LA. We will be playing traditional son jarocho music, while bringing our Chicanx experiences and soundscape through verse and dance. In the spirit of the fandango, a traditional celebration of music and dance, Cambalache engages its audience through participatory performances. Cambalache is active in the dialogue between Chicanos in the U.S. and Jarochos in Veracruz, thus strengthening decades of social and cultural exchange of the Chicano-Jarocho network.
$5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
Purchase tickets here: https://goo.gl/c2pM1b
Creative Writing Workshop
Enacting Identity through Writing Ali M. Rahman
MCC Lounge
Discourse cannot exist independently from cultures and ideologies, and therefore when we write we are inherently enacting our own identities in the process. This workshop will explore how we are able to give voice to our experiences and engage with audiences about race, gender, sexual identity, and more through the particularly intimate medium of creative writing. Through discussion, reading, and writing, we will contemplate authenticity, what it means to find truth through fiction, especially when our own voices are co-opted by others. Led by Ali M. Rahman (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature and M.F.A. in Creative Writing), the workshop will include onsite writing activities but writers are also encouraged to bring in their own work (poems, personal essays, flash fiction, or other short works) as it relates to their own identity.
RSVP for Feb 13th here: http://goo.gl/btjcdM
Race Matters Series
“Hypervisibility and Invisibility: The Indochinese Women’s Conferences, Global Sisterhood, and Asian American Women Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
MCC Lounge
In April of 1971, approximately one thousand female activists from throughout North America gathered in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada to attend the Indochinese Women’s Conferences. Women from the U.S. and Canada attended to meet a delegation of women from North and South Viet Nam as well as Laos. The Indochinese Women’s Conferences of 1971 represented the first opportunities for large numbers of North American women to have direct contact with their Asian “sisters.” This talk examines the motivations, experiences, and outcomes of the conference, particularly for Asian American and other women of color, and the implications of these international exchanges for understanding the dynamics of global sisterhood. Dr. Judy Tzy-Chun Wu is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine.
