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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.
Cup of Culture
Urban Fruit
MCC Theater
URBAN FRUIT tells the story of a handful of city dwellers (Rishi Kumar / Founder of The Growing Home. Gardner Jenna & Adam Barber / Homegrowers for Forage Restaurant. Ron Finley / 'Gangsta Gardner', Eco-visionary) growing food in Los Angeles, California. They are a diverse group intent to reclaim a skill that has been lost to the industrial food complex. We witness their struggles with the city, their families, nature and themselves. 1 h 8 min.
Living Lives of Resilient Love in a Time of Hate
BreakBeat Poets in the Age of Hip Hop: Resilient Community Voices
Writing Workshop: MCC Lounge - 2 pm
Performance: MCC Theater - 6 pm
Rooted in the core values of hip hop culture, writer/performer-educator-organizers Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin use poetry as a tool for empowerment and discourse across different walks of life. Join these two award winning artists for a writing workshop and live performance of socially engaged break beat poetry. Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored thousands of young writers, artists, and musicians. Idris Goodwin is an Assistant Professor in The Department of Theatre and Dance at Colorado College. Idris Goodwin is an award winning playwright, director, orator and essayist. His play How We Got On developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, premiered in Actors Theater’s 2012 Humana Festival, and is being produced at theatres across the country.
