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Cup of Culture
Minari
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Film Screening/Online
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. 2021. 1 h 55 m. No post film discussion to follow.
Monterey Park Tragedy Community Processing Space
MCC Lounge
The MCC is hosting a collective and safe space for healing and to process the senseless violence against the AAPI community during a Lunar New Year Celebration. It is devastating when children, friends, families, and communities cannot celebrate their cultures and connections in their sacral ways and spaces without experiencing hatred and violence.
Today and this week may feel heavy, please prioritize your emotional and mental wellness. If you or someone you know need communal support, please join us today at the MCC Lounge from 1:30-3:30PM for a healing and processing space.
This space will substitute for Spiritual Care Club and be one of many healing spaces provided by campus this week. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Spoken Word
More Than Organs: A Night of Poetry
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Online
Paying homage to audre lorde: “I do not believe in single-issue politics, because we do not live single-issue lives,” avenues of critical intersections as brown, poor, trans, im/migrant, Disabled, and “other” are explored. How do competition and respectability politics impose oppression in our actions, our lives? How do we embrace a politic that doesn’t isolate or accommodate, but engages everyday movements to show up for those who are affected & not talked about? How can we come to a place of honoring ourselves fully? You are invited to embrace a sexy, complicated, sacred, powerful, and amazing lineage. To Sick & Disabled Queer/Transgender Indigenous or People of Color (SDQTIPOC) daily survival!
Kay Ulanday Barrett (@brownroundboi) is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist; their collection More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Book Honor Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Barrett has featured at NYU, Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Princeton, Harvard, and the Brooklyn Museum. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, them., NYLON, Vogue, Buzzfeed, The Advocate, The Rumpus, RaceForward, and more. Currently, they remix their mama's recipes in Jersey City with their jowly dog. www.kaybarrett.net.
[Description: A flyer with purple background and large organ photo overlayed by large yellow type "more than organs", including a photograph of Kay Ulanday Barrett, a brown round boi wearing glasses with short hair. They wear a gray tweed blazer. They perform on stage with one hand out while the other holds a microphone, in front of a rainbow & Transgender flag.]
ASL Interpretation provided
Cup of Culture
Most Likely to Succeed
MCC Theater
The current educational system in the U.S., once the envy of the world, was developed during the rise of the industrial age. Since then, the world economy has changed profoundly, while our educational system has not. Schools are attempting to teach and test skills that, even when mastered, leave graduates woefully unprepared for the 21st century. This documentary film focuses on a school in San Diego that is completely rethinking what the experience of going to school looks like and accomplishes. (90 min, English, 2016)
Watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/122502930
