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Cup of Culture
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty (screening #3)
MCC Lounge
5-7:30 PM, 32min documentary begins at 6 PM
Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer, and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its’ performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.
Activity Description: For the duration of this event, art supplies and pages of the “Disability Justice from A to Z coloring book” will be available in the MCC lounge for attendees to benefit from the creative, embodied, and self-soothing aspects of coloring. Attendees will have the opportunity to join community discussions before and after the documentary screening. The documentary will be captioned, and an ASL interpreter will be present.
Co-sponsors: Commission on Disability Equity (CODE), DSP, & RCSGD
Art Exhibition
Reception for the MultiCultural Center’s 35th Anniversary: An MCC Staff Art Exhibition
MCC Lounge
Please join us for the MCC’s 35th Anniversary Art Reception honoring the caretakers of the MCC. The "Staff" (career staff, student-staff, and interns) are not just staff! We are creative in the ways we seek to change the campus and the larger community. Some of us are also artists! In honor of the MCC’s 35th Anniversary, this special art exhibition honors the current caretakers of the MCC. Food and drink provided.
Cup of Culture
Neptune Frost
MCC Theater
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer, Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience – Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.
Co-sponsor: KCSB
Children's Event: The Building Blocks of American Music
David Rojas
MCC Lounge
This Children's Event will explore American percussion rhythms with blues musical artist David Rojas in a hands-on workshop! Learn the diasporic roots of musical genres you may already know and rock out with us in the MCC Lounge. No previous music experience necessary, ages 5+ recommended.
Speaker Bio: Recognized by colleagues and friends as an established professional musician and dedicated director of music programs, David Rojas has developed an exceptional leadership profile founded on being a devoted advocate for music and creative arts. Mr. Rojas oversees the Turner Foundation’s Music & Imagination program (TFMI), a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit that provides a free out-of-school resource that actively engages young peoples’ imagination through music education. Along with his role as Director of TFMI, Mr. Rojas actively plays professionally as a guitarist and lead vocalist for one of Santa Barbara’s top blues bands called, Rent Party Blues. Lastly, Mr. Rojas currently serves on the board of The Santa Barbara Blues Society and assists with hosting community blues music events where he enjoys teaching the history of blues and its influence on America's popular music.
