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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.
Cup of Culture
Gook
MCC Theater
In 1992, two Korean-American brothers and director running a shoe store in South Central Los Angeles share a friendship with an 11-year-old black girl who likes hanging out with them. As news of the verdict in the beating case filters down during the day, their livelihood is upended when riots break out and everything they've built in the community is threatened by violence and looting. 94 min.
A Musical Experience of Detroit Soul Rock Ifé Mora
MCC Theater
Ifé Mora, a Detroit Native, weaves her African American and Mexican roots for creating a gritty mix, guitar-driven sonic vision of blending Rock, Blues, Soul and Bluegrass genres. Ife is a Singer and Musician who reimagines the origins and future of Black American rock. As one of the founding bands of the AfroPunk movement in New York City, Ifé Mora has Punk Rock in her roots, and has remained in the forefront of women of color creating and performing Rock and Roll.
This concert is presented with The UC Consortium for Black Studies in California.
$5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
Purchase tickets here: https://goo.gl/qMy56J
