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Music Performance
A SITAR CONCERT
RESHMA SRIVASTAVA
A performance of North Indian classical music on the sitar by Reshma Srivastava. Reshma has performed throughout India, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Slovenia, Turkey, Israel, Croatia, Ukraine and across the United States. She has also appeared frequently on All India Radio and Television.
Race Matters Series
Unbreakable Resolve: Building Free-Dem Foundations in New Orleans Jerome Morgan, Robert Jones, Daniel Rideau
MCC Lounge
Jerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau will lead a powerful discussion about the prison system and incarceration. They were all wrongly convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent. While in prison, they made a pact to someday reunite and go into business together as free men. They enrolled in prison education programs, learned trades, and studied law. They stuck together and worked with allies outside the prison. Today, through their work with Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans, they are realizing the vision they created while unjustly incarcerated.
Music Performance
UCSB BRASS ENSEMBLES PRESENTS…
Directed by Steve Gross, the Maurice Faulkner Brass Quintet and the Suzanne Faulkner Horn Ensemble will present repertoire from the Renaissance to modern jazz. The groups perform on horn, trumpet, and trombone.
Cup of Culture Series
OffCenter
MCC Theater
OffCenter is an experimental documentary emphasizing the attitudes and experiences of unconventional African American, Latinx, LGBTQ people in Texarkana, a twin city in East Texas and Arkansas. It explores the racial, sexual, and gender identity of five main interviewees rebelling against Southern conservatism. OffCenter portrays the existence of marginalized people, their encounters with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and internalized oppression. Post-film discussion with the director Aylin Sözen, and cinematographer Cesar Jaralillo to follow. 1h 18m
