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Resilient Love Series
From “The Central Park Five” to “The Exonerated Five” Yusef Salaam
Corwin Pavilion
On April 19, 1989, a young woman was brutally raped in New York City’s Central Park. Five boys—four black and one Latino—were unjustly and wrongly convicted of the crime in a frenzied case that rocked the city. Decades later, the convictions of the boys, now men, were eventually overturned and they were exonerated. One of those boys, Yusef Salaam, was only 15 years old when his life was upended and changed forever. Since his release, Yusef has committed himself to advocating and educating people on the issues of false confessions, police brutality and misconduct, press ethics and bias, race and law, and the disparities in America’s criminal justice system.
Music Performance
TANYARADZWA TAWENGA
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa collaborates with UCSB students to perform The Dawn of the Rooster, an opera that she composed to tell the story of her family during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. Tanyaradzwa is a Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky and an award-winning performer on the African mbira, piano and cello. She sings in African, African American, and Western classical traditions including opera.
Cup of Culture Series
Harriet
MCC Theater
From her escape from slavery through the dangerous missions she led to liberate hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad, the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman is told. 2h 5m
Comics of Color Allegra Jones
Comics of Color Allegra Jones
MCC Lounge
Comics are an extraordinary source of modern storytelling and expression; they can preserve and bring to life our history, imagination, memories, and ideas. In this comics workshop, teaching artist Allegra Jones will expand on perceptions of what comic making can be. In this workshop, participants will create their own comics in the format of zines (mini magazines) using stories from their backgrounds and the expansive worlds of their own imagination. Allegra Jones is a half African-American, half Italian artist who has been teaching for Community Arts Partnership (CAP) at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock for five years. She studied Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts where she found her love for comics.
