All Events
Cup of Culture
The Hate You Give
Online
To uphold our weekly film screenings and discussions, we will be transforming our cup of culture series into a virtual setting. Every Wednesday, we will watch a Netflix documentary or movie as a collective and we will have a post-film discussion afterwards.
The Hate U Give manages to seamlessly blend social justice and well-written teenage drama. Not many movies can both appeal to teenagers and introduce them to important political issues such as police brutality and private prisons, but The Hate U Give does so successfully.
Zoom link for watching and discussions
Virtual Workshop
What Granny Said: Applying Decolonized Mental Health Strategies During A Pandemic, And Beyond
Thea Monyeé
Online
Join artist-healer Thea Monyeé for a conversation about how to use the challenges of living through a pandemic to resurrect connections to ancestral, elder, and natural knowledge for survival and to thrive in the midst of a crisis.
Zoom link /Password: 1504
Conscious Conversations Series
Listening to the World Around Us: Learning from Indigenous Knowledge to Heal From COVID-19
Mia Lopez
Online
The MCC is excited to launch informally led, themed discussion spaces! Join us this month (May) every Monday, to unpack and deconstruct issues that are affecting UCSB students and communities beyond campus. We hope you all, especially those most vulnerable and marginalized, use this platform as a safe and brave space to share experiences or worries if needed, as we all connect with other people with whom we can build networks of community.
Conscious Conversations Series
Futures of Mutual Aid and Solidarity Post-Covid-19
QuiQui and Zellie Imani (Moderated by George Ygarza)
Covid - 19 has brought crisis to the mainstream. With this has come a romanticized discourse of a “return to normalcy’. Yet, for so many in the US, a state of crisis has always been their normal. With pre-Covid-19 realities in mind and post-Covid-19 futures on the horizon, how do we work in the present to build the world[s] we want to see? How can we contextualize this pandemic within political history? What does movement building look like in a time of social distancing? Going between analysis and practice, this panel seeks to bridge theory with action through dialogue with activists and organic intellectuals on the ground.
QuiQui is a geographer, seed saver, and geographer based in Oxnard, California; Zellie Imani is a community organizer and educator living in New Jersey; George Ygarza is a PhD Candidate in the UCSB Global Studies Department.
