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Advocacy and the Power of Affirmations
Afiya Sunflower
MCC Lounge
Join us for a night of self-discovery and creativity as we learn from Activist and Astrologer Afiya Sunflower on how to use affirmations and mindfulness practices to regain self-empowerment before, during, and after advocacy work, a commitment that requires championing for yourself and others. To help ground you in this journey, join us to create and decorate your affirmation cup and add it to your empowerment tool kit! Food will be provided!
PRESENTER Afiya Sunflower Activist and Astrologer Afiya Sunflower is an astrologer, artist, activist, advisor and mindfulness coach. Through her writing, empowerment artwork, one-on-one consulting and mindfulness workshops, Afiya combines astrology, spirituality, and indigenous knowledge and practices to facilitate healing and energy transformation for BIPOC and LGBTQA+ individuals and communities. You can experience and engage with her work via Instagram @a_sunflower.power
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Interdisciplinary Conference: Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and Reconciliation
Carolina Sourdis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Elizabeth Ramírez Soto
MCC Theater
The Global Latinidades Project in cooperation with The Multicultural Center, and The Graduate Center for Literary Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Present the Interdisciplinary Conference: Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and Reconciliation
This interdisciplinary conference approaches the phenomena of forced displacement and mass migration by focusing on works of dis-/placed female artists and exploring the ways that these artists have articulated and imagined myriad forms of identity, resistance, belonging, and home.
10:00am, Start time
10:15am, Keynote # 1: Elizabeth Ramírez Soto
11:30am, Panel 1 – Reconfiguring Dis-/placement: Love, Loss, and Affectivity
1:00-2:00pm, Lunch
2:00-3:00pm, Keynote #2: Carolina Sourdis
3:00-4:00pm, Panel 2 – Decolonizing Narratives of Identity: Memory, Power, and Subjecthood
4:15-5:15pm, Panel 3 – Reclaiming Feminists Public Discourses: Violence, Resistance, and the Media
5:15-5:45pm, Closing comments
Speaker bios:
Carolina Sourdis is an adjunct lecturer of the Audiovisual Communication Degree in the Communication Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and teaches Documentary Writing workshops in the master’s in creative Documentary at UPF-BSM. Her main lines of research are montage and visual essay, applied research methodologies in film studies and archive and memory in Colombian cultural production. She has participated in several research projects of Grup CINEMA, and collaborates with film pedagogy projects for young people. She won in 2019 the short film production fund from the Colombian Film Development Fund FDC, and in 2020 the short film production grant from ICEC. She has participated with film pieces in International Festivals such as the San Sebastian International Film Festival, Fajr International Film Festival and MIDBO, among others. She has published several book chapters in high impact publishers, such as Routledge, and academic articles in indexed journals such as New Cinemas, Alphaville, Cuadernos del cine colombiano, among others.
Elizabeth Ramírez Soto is Assistant Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, where she teaches documentary film and Latin American cinema. Focusing on questions of cultural memory, affect, non-fiction cinema, and transnational film practices, her work has appeared in journals such as Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia. Her first book, (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean post-dictatorship Documentary, is forthcoming by Legenda in the U.K. She is also the coeditor of a volume on women filmmakers in exile titled Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez (Metales Pesados, 2016). Before moving to San Francisco, Elizabeth was based in Valparaíso, Chile, where she completed her postdoctoral research on the transnational productions of Chilean filmmakers in European experimental television.
Conference made possible by the generosity of: The Global Latinidades Project, The Multicultural Center, The Graduate Center for Literary Research, The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, The Spanish and Portuguese Dept., and the Latin American & Iberian Studies Program
Resilient Love Series
An Evening with Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States
Joy Harjo
Isla Vista Theater
In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlett Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, which invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many writing awards include the 2019 Jackson Prize from the Poets & Writers, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is artist-in-residence for the Bob Dylan Center. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally; her most recent album is I Pray For My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hybrid Zoom link option available if unable to join in person: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/
Co-sponsored by the American Indian & Indigenous Cultural Resource Center (AIICRC) and the AS Program Board.
Cup of Culture
Being Bebe
Bebe Zahara
MCC Theater
Being Bebe is the story of Marshall Ngwa, a Cameroonian artist whose identity hinges on the complicated success of his drag persona, BeBe Zahara Benet. Viewers follow Marshall’s remarkable immigrant journey from the earliest days of his amateur drag performance career in Minneapolis, circa 2006, to becoming the first winner of the now-iconic reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2009. As Marshall fights to maintain the trajectory of his career despite a series of difficult setbacks, the film reveals what it means to celebrate and advance Queer Black Excellence during the 2020s. Alongside Marshall's story, viewers are introduced to LGBTQ+ youth and activists in Cameroon, where Queer identity is criminalized.
The post-film Zoom discussion with BeBe Zahara has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
