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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.
Why Spaces are Inherently Not Inclusive and What to Do About It Victoria Farris
In order to effectively disrupt workplace racism, we must first be able to identify it. Often, folks with more privileged identities struggle to recognize the ways that whiteness and racism permeate office culture and how they contribute to it. Participants will 1) engage in dialogue around topics of identity, inclusion, and whiteness in order to build a foundational vocabulary and familiarity with topics 2) practice meaningful self-reflection, on both individual and organization levels, in order to recognize how they fit within systems of racism and oppression 3) leave with tangible tools and strategies for identifying and disrupting microaggressions in order to foster more inclusive campus environments.
