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Cup of Culture
The Rape of Recy Taylor
MCC Theater
“Its voices… are gentle and persuasive, using the horrific details of the rape and its aftermath as ballast to stabilize a heart-wrenching history of systemic injustice.”- NY Times
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. As was common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. Our film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story. An attempted rape against Parks was but one inspiration for her ongoing work to find justice for countless women like Taylor. The 1955 bus boycott was an end result, not a beginning.
Post-film discussion with CARE: Campus Advocacy, Resources & Education. 1hr 31min
Watch trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyC7yHeFVZY
Art Exhibit
Indian Heritage Opening Reception
MCC Lounge and Theater
Indian Heritage is a Native American art exhibition that compliments the film Great Walls of Indian Heritage. The genesis of this exhibit starts at the red road, and the American Indian Student Association inspires its vitality. Andrew has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University in Medford, MA and is currently a graduate student at the UCSB obtaining his Master of Fine Arts degree. Please join artist, Andrew Morrison, for an opening reception in the MCC lounge at 6pm, with a special screening of his film “Great Walls of Indian Heritage” in the MCC Theater at 7pm.
Conjure and Manifest: Building a Sustainable Artistic Practice - A-Ian Holt
MCC Lounge
In this workshop students spend time investigating their artistic practice as a framework for promoting power, wellness, and creativity; and as a tangible means for disrupting oppressive systems. We spend time critically examining the philosophies and works of Black artists including James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, and Nayyirah Waheed, in order to explore new visions for the artist as activist, as futurist and as spiritual healer. We then use a mixture of these ideas and our own along with meditation and mindfulness experiences to begin conjuring and manifesting intimate relationships with our art practice and ourselves. Participants will develop creative confidence, formulate game plans for success, and begin to find balance between the uncertainty and ultimate freedom that life as a creative can bring. A-lan Holt is a poet, playwright, and associate director at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, where she develops curriculum exploring art practice, spiritual practice and social justice.
RSVP HERE: goo.gl/CMiUuo
Race and Religion
Nobody Cries When We Die - Patrick Reyes
MCC Lounge
How do we create conditions for communities of color to thrive? Drawing on an institutional history of supporting scholars of color in religion since 1968, the director of doctoral initiatives at the Forum for Theological Exploration, Dr. Patrick B. Reyes, will facilitate the shared wisdom and practices as explored in his book Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood. Through embodied practice and play, we will explore our diverse traditions and discern our shared work.
