All Events
Art Exhibition
Day 1 - PYNK POSSIBILITIES: BLACK GENDER CREATIVE + ART FOR SURVIVAL
Matt Richardson (Feminist Studies) and Omise’eke Tinsley (Black Studies)
MCC Lounge
Day 1 of 2-day event -
Art Exhibit: Shades of Black & Pynk: A Celebration of Black Trans+Queer Art, Love, and Writing
The two-day event opens on Sunday, April 30 with art exhibit and panel “PYNK Possibilities: Black Gender Creative + Art for Survival.” This exhibit is a multimedia installation that celebrates the boundless imagination of Black Queer, Trans, and Gender Creative artists. Curated in honor of the release of The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival by Professor Omise'eke Tinsley (Black Studies), the exhibit features original short film The Siren by Dominican-American filmmaker Helen Peña, collage by scholarartist Mariah Webber (Feminist Studies), and more. This exhibition seeks to spotlight the world-making power of rebellious Black LGBT artists and awaken love, collectivity and solidarity. The exhibit opening is also a party, nail salon, mini runway class, audience-inclusive fashion show, and interactive conversation with the artists as well as Color Pynk authors Omise’eke Tinsley and Candice Lyons.
Art Exhibition
Day 2 - PYNK POSSIBILITIES: THE LONG 1980s – BLACK TRANS AND QUEER SOUNDSCAPES OF UNBELONGING
Matt Richardson (Feminist Studies) and Omise’eke Tinsley (Black Studies)
MCC Theater
Day 2 of 2-day event -
Art Exhibit: Shades of Black & Pynk: A Celebration of Black Trans+Queer Art, Love, and Writing
Interested in the haunting sound of the 1980s? The event closes with a conversation at the MCC between Matt Richardson and special guest Jafari Allen, Director of Africana Studies and Inaugural Co-Director of the University of Miami Center for Global Black Studies. The three will discuss the enduring impact of 1980s Black popular music and culture and its queer/trans resonances in Matt Richardson’s novel Black Canvas: A Campus Haunting. Christopher McAuley, Co-Chair of Black Studies, will moderate the conversation.
Cup of Culture
Mom
A film by Xun Sero
MCC Theater
As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and blaming my mother for it. “Mom” is a dialogue between mother and son exploring their contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other, and reflecting on naturalized violence and its reproduction.
Documentary | Director: Xun Sero | Running time: 80 min. | Country: Mexico | Year: 2022 | Produced by: Terra Nostra Films
Diversity Lecture
Ixil University and Construction of Peace in Guatemala / Universidad Ixil y Construcción de la Paz en Guatemala
Rector don Pablo Ceto
MCC Theater
The Ixil University was founded (2011) as an effort to exercise the rights of the Ixil People in the framework of the construction of peace (December 19, 1996), particularly the Agreement on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples (March 31, 1995). Ixil University is communal, as it develops in the Communities, drawing on ancestral Mayan knowledge on community management of territory, family farming and food, Culture, identity and rights of indigenous Peoples, and it is communal because it seeks access, learning and application of other sciences and technologies to train actors of the good living of the Peoples and of Guatemala, within the context of colonial racism and levels of setback in the construction of peace.
La Universidad Ixil nace (2011) como un esfuerzo de ejercicio de derechos del Pueblo Ixil en el marco de la construcción de la paz (19 de diciembre de 1996), particularmente del Acuerdo sobre Identidad y Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (31 de marzo de 1995). Es comunitaria, en tanto, se desenvuelve en las Comunidades, nutriéndose de los conocimientos ancestrales mayas sobre gestión comunitaria del territorio, agricultura familiar y alimentaria, y Cultura, identidad y derechos de los Pueblos indígenas, y es comunitaria porque busca el acceso, aprendizaje y aplicación de las otras ciencias y tecnologías para formar actores del buen vivir de los Pueblos y de Guatemala, en un contexto racismo colonial y de niveles de retroceso en la construcción de la paz.
Moderated by: / Moderado por: Dr. Giovanni Batz (Chicana/o Studies)
Speaker Bio: Pablo Ignacio Ceto Sánchez is the co-creator and member of the Rectory of the Ixil University in Guatemala / Pablo Ignacio Ceto Sánchez es el co-creador y miembro de la Rectoría de la Universidad Ixil en Guatemala
Spanish-to-English translation will be provided over Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89617809632
