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Let's Talk Microaggressions
Phuong Nguyen and Annika Sanchez
MCC Lounge
Join the CAPS Mental Health Peers in tackling the topic of microaggressions during a workshop where attendees will learn the different types of microaggressions and the implications they have on mental health, especially as they intersect with other identities. This shared space will empower students and those with marginalized identities in navigating uncomfortable and harmful situations that involve microaggressions.
Presenters:
Phuong Nguyen, Mental Health Peer. UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services
Annika Sanchez, Mental Health Peer, UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services
For more information or assistance in accommodating people of varying abilities, contact the MultiCultural Center at 805-893-8411. Wheelchair access for in-person attendees.
Cup of Culture
Letters2Maybe
Ana Maria Fabian Lomeli, Activist
MCC Theater
By embracing a kaleidoscopic style of storytelling to highlight the poetics and precarity that follow the craving for freedom, Letters2Maybe is an unfinished letter, articulating the ever-growing yet unflinching demand for justice and tenderness in our world today.
Speaker Bio: Yehuda Sharim is a writer, filmmaker, and poet. His work focuses on the relationship between the quotidian and poetic. Sharim’s films have appeared in film festivals, artistic venues, and universities across the world. His work offers an intimate portrayal of those who refuse to surrender amidst daily devastation and culminating strife, offering a vision for equality and a renewed solidarity in a divisive world. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Program of Global Art Studies, University of California, Merced.
Ana Maria Fabian Lomeli is a local activist from Merced. Ana advocates for undocumented communities and uses her voice to speak up for those who fear deportation. Through fierce vision and the longtime collaboration with Yehuda Sharim, she artistically encapsulates the experience of living in the Central Valley as a woman of color.
Post film Q&A with the Director Yehuda Sharim
Live from Cuba: An Evening with Feliciano Arango y Amistad Cubana
MCC Theater
Deeply rooted in the traditions of Afro-Cuban music, the Arango Family Band hails from Havana. It’s leader and bass player Feliciano Arango has toured worldwide with top Cuban bands. Join these exciting artists for an evening of traditional Cuban music with a modern edge. Dancing is encouraged!
Listen to the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qnzMZG1674
Tickets: $5 UCSB Students and Children under 12 / $15 General. Purchase tickets online or call the A.S. Ticket Office (805) 893-2064.
Cup of Culture
Lupita
Director: Monica Wise Robles
Film Screening/Online
In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced, their land stolen , where students disappear without a trace following police arrests, and journalists are murdered at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice emerges: Lupita, a Tsostil Maya massacre survivor, at the forefront of a new movement of indigigenous women. Cultivating a new generation of organized and voal Maya activists. Following lupita taking on risks and responsibilities to represent her people, weaving her personal narrative into the painful revolutionary history of Mexico. Part lyrical testimony, part tribute to 500 years of indigenous resistance, this film mediates the point-of-view of a brave woman who must balance the demands of motherhood with her high stakes choices to reeducate and restore justice to the world. 2018. 21 m. No post film discussion.
