All Events
JSJLS Community Projects: Protest Posters
Jwan Haddad
TBD
DATE, TIME AND LOCATION TBD. CHECK BACK WTIH THE MCC FOR UPDATES
WEEK 6
Bringing organizations together to discuss and engage across different movements and mobilize. We will be making banners and posters to put up around campus.
Each spring quarter, the Jackson Social Justice Legacy Scholarship (JSJLS) program culminates with each intern developing their own Community Engagement Project (CEP). Through their individual CEPs, Jackson Interns apply the tools and skills they acquired throughout the program into their own individual projects, which are shaped by their own interests in community care and coalition-building. These CEPs aim to not only uplift, restore, and empower their communities, but also forge meaningful connections between the UCSB student body and the broader off-campus community. The events will occur during the weeks 4-10 at various locations. Check back with the MCC for updates.
JSJLS Community Projects: Trauma-Informed Weekend Artist Residency
Claudia Qi
TBD
DATE, TIME AND LOCATION TBD. CHECK BACK WTIH THE MCC FOR UPDATES
WEEK 9
Artists will be able to apply for a spot within a two day artist residency to take place in the Multicultural Center during mid Spring Quarter. Each day will begin in the morning and close out by the afternoon, giving artists the space to work independently on their own projects and/or participate in a guided workshop aimed to support creative healing through somatic art therapy. Open to all UCSB students, prioritizing students who have experience with post-traumatic stress, interpersonal abuse, domestic violence, and grief. Limited supplies can be requested per needs, but artists are encouraged to bring any crafts or tools they’d like.
Each spring quarter, the Jackson Social Justice Legacy Scholarship (JSJLS) program culminates with each intern developing their own Community Engagement Project (CEP). Through their individual CEPs, Jackson Interns apply the tools and skills they acquired throughout the program into their own individual projects, which are shaped by their own interests in community care and coalition-building. These CEPs aim to not only uplift, restore, and empower their communities, but also forge meaningful connections between the UCSB student body and the broader off-campus community. The events will occur during the weeks 4-10 at various locations. Check back with the MCC for updates.
Cup of Culture Series
Just Mercy
Film Screening/Online
After graduating from Harvard, Bryan Stevenson heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation. One of his first cases is that of Walter McMillian, who is sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite evidence proving his innocence. In the years that follow, Stevenson encounters racism and legal and political maneuverings as he tirelessly fights for McMillian's life. 2h 17m
Cup of Culture
KCSB-FM x MCC collaboration - Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché Screening
Poly Styrene
MCC Theater
Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain, with a rare prescience. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements.
But the late punk maverick didn’t just leave behind an immense cultural footprint. She was survived by a daughter, Celeste Bell, who became the unwitting guardian of her mother’s legacy and her mother’s demons. Misogyny, racism, and mental illness plagued Poly’s life, while their lasting trauma scarred Celeste’s childhood and the pair’s relationship.
Featuring unseen archive material and rare diary entries narrated by Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, this documentary follows Celeste as she examines her mother's unopened artistic archive and traverses three continents to better understand Poly the icon and Poly the mother.
Collaboration with KCSB-FM.
