All Events
Music Performance
Afro-Cuban Musical Fusion Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca
MCC Theater
Ricardo Lemvo is the embodiment of the Afro-Latin Diaspora which connects back to Mother Africa via the Cuban clave rhythm. Through a blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms with pan-African styles (soukous, Angolan semba and kizomba), he has established himself as a pioneer with his innovative music. Since forming his Los Angeles-based band Makina Loca in 1990, Lemvo has refined his craft and vision, singing songs that celebrate life, and inspiring his audiences to let loose and dance away their worries. His music has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “seamless and infectious.” $5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
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Youth Event
Stories from Here, There, and Everywhere! Michael D. McCarty
MCC Lounge
Storytelling preserves and brings to life our history, traditions, and ideas. Bring your family to hear wonderful folk tales from Nigeria, Botswana, Egypt, and Rwanda told by master storyteller Michael D. McCarty. Michael is an energetic and enthusiastic storyteller of African, African-American and International Folk tales as well as historical, spiritual, and personal tales, that inform, educate, inspire, and amuse.
Resilient Love
An Evening of Spoken Word Sunni Patterson
MCC Theater
Sunni Patterson is a New Orleans based poet who combines the heritage, culture, and traditions of her hometown with a spiritual worldview to create powerful music and poetry. She is poetry in action; she is a political wordsmith. Her words capture a culture, unite people, and shed light on issues some would find uncomfortable or un-newsworthy. Most of all, she is enlightening and speaks her truth, giving other women the power and strength to do so as well. She is 'a Black woman warrior poet doing [her] work - [here] to ask you, are you doing yours?'. Sunni Patterson captures sunlight and radiates it in her being, in her words, and in her action.
Cup of Culture
Jurakán: Nación en Resistencia (Nation in Resistance)
MCC Theater
Jurakán: Nation in Resistance documents the historical struggle of Puerto Rico, a Caribbean nation that refuses to disappear. It is narrated by 40+ boricuas- artists, experts, politicians and activists- of different perspectives. The documentary has been praised by prominent Puerto Rican figures like Nelson Denis, Blanca Eró and Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez.
Post film discussion with the director, Gonzalo Mazzini, and the creative producer, Rosa Emmanuelli Gutiérrez. Together they ventured on a journey to answer the daunting question, what does it mean to be Puerto Rican? Jurakán is the riveting result of their search for answers. 1h 33m
