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Cup of Culture
Guava Island
MCC Theater
In this film, starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, a young musician seeks to hold a festival to liberate the oppressed people of Guava Island, even if only for a day. Guava Island is a 2019 musical-romance-thriller from director Hiro Murai. 56m
Race and Religion
The Struggle Continues: Religion, Prisons, and Abolition
MCC Lounge
Laura McTighe is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University and the
Co-Founder and Associate Director of Front Porch Research Strategy in New Orleans.
As an interdisciplinary scholar of gender, race, religion, and social movements, she
studies the often-hidden histories of struggle that fill our present and asks how activists
use religion to organize and transform our world.
Race & Literature
Raisin in the Sun - Sojourner Kincaid-Rolle
MCC Meeting Room
The story tells of a black family's experiences in 'Clybourne Park', a fictionalized version of the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of the father..
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle is poet, playwright, an environmental educator and a peace activist. She was selected as i Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA and served a two-year term. (2015-2017). Her book of poems for young people, The Mellow Yellow Global Umbrella: La Sombrilla Global, Amarillo y Apacible was published by Lucky Penny Press (2015). Her other books include Common Ancestry (Millie Grazie Press, 1999) and Black Street, (Center for Black Studies Research – 2009).
Art Exhibition
Teaching Artists: The Practice of Remembering
MCC Lounge
This exhibition is representative of artists whose teaching methodology is based on the process of making art as an intergenerational discussion. Our practice (whatever the form) is the ground from which the awareness of what matters -- the theoretical, political and spiritual --interconnect and emerge in conversation with the communities we seek to address and engage.
Artists contributors: Margaret ‘Quica’ Alarcón, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Culver City Unified School District ; Yreina D. Cervántez, Chicana/o Studies CSU-Northridge; Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Las Maestras Center/Chicana/o Studies UCSB; Carlos Jackson, Chicana/o Studies UC-Davis; Vreni Michelini–Castillo, Diversity Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Fan L. Warren, Art Department, Laney College, Oakland.
