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Race Matters Series
Documenting the Undocumented
MCC Lounge
As a Latina immigrant filmmakter, Anayansi uses her documentary films and personal experiences to take us through the changing landscape of undocumented immigration in the U.S. throughout the last 20 years. Anayansi Prado was born in Panama and moved to the United States as a teenager, where she attended Boston University and received a B.A. in Film. Since then, she has been a visiting/adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, California State University, Northridge’s Journalism Department, and at Chapman University's Dodge School of Film & Media Arts.
The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman Facilitated by: Cheri Gurse
MCC Meeting Room
Last year the MultiCultural Center kicked off a new series to explore the issues of race and belonging through literature. This series is an interactive space for lively discussions on various theories about race, a safe space for articulating perspectives on identity and belonging which are contextualized by different authors, and an intentional time for centering the narratives of marginalized communities. Discussions will be facilitated by various faculty members, graduate students, and staff members. Reading the materials is suggested but are not required for attendance. This series hopes to cultivate open dialogue, and a spirit of appreciation and intellectual kinship. All are welcome.
Music Performance
AN EXTENDED DRUM SOLO ON THE DJEMBE
NGOKI JUMBE
Santa Barbara-based Ngoki has developed his own style and vocabulary of drumming that he calls Primal Funk or Roots Funk, with influences from hip hop, rhythm and blues, soul, and beyond.
Cup of Culture Series
Standing Above The Clouds
MCC Theater
Standing Above the Clouds is a story of inter-generational women activists, who call themselves Aloha ??ina, or warriors of the land. The mothers and daughters find themselves standing with many others at the forefront of the Indigenous movement to safeguard their sacred mountain, Mauna a Wakea, after a construction permit was granted for an eighteen story, Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built directly below the summit on pristine, untouched land. The film brings into focus how this movement has brought a new found expression of solidarity and a spirit of hope to people across lands and oceans who work to form alliances that will safeguard their environment, lifeways, and future. Post film discussion panel to follow.
