All Events
Resilient Love Series
The Creative Imagination & Race
Claudia Rankine
Corwin Pavilion
In all of her work, Rankine’s voice is one of unrelenting candor, and her poetry is some of the most innovative and thoughtful work to emerge in recent years. In this talk, she will share how she came into her work, and inspire us to be as unapologetic in the spaces we take up. Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry and the editor of several anthologies. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
Music Performance
A Night of Dynamic Post-Rock Korean Music
Black String
MCC Theater
Black String is a South Korean quartet led by geomungo (traditional Korean zither) player Yoon Jeong Heo, who incorporates traditional Asian music, jazz, blues and rock, and electronica. It’s a powerful mix, bursting with all kinds of timbre possibilities, a context in which improvisation and traditional forms truly merge. As the band performs, amplified bursts of sound of the geomungo and Korean bamboo flutes, the fierce quake of Korean traditional percussion, and unpredictable melody of jazz guitar will grasp all of your senses.
Race and Religion Series
Race, Spirituality, and Secularism Joseph Blankholm and Juhem Navarro-Rivera
MCC Lounge
This moderated discussion will provide an in depth and critical look into the intersections of race, religion, and politics in the United States. Joseph Blankholm is an Assistant Professor at UCSB in the Religious Studies Department whose work focuses on atheism and secularism, primarily in the U.S. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is the Managing Partner and Director of Political Research at Socioanalítica Research, co-chair of the Latinx Humanist Alliance, serves on the board of directors of the American Humanist Association, and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies.
Music Performance
UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Directed by Victor Bell, the choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.
