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Cup of Culture
American Agitators Film Screening and Discussion
Margo Feinberg, Executive Producer
MCC Theater
The UCSB Community Labor Center is proud to present American Agitators, a moving documentary film about Fred Ross Sr., one of the most influential grassroots organizers of the 20th Century. Ross mentored Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, co-founders of the United Farm Workers (UFW), as well as countless other organizers all over the United States, with his model of community organizing that is rooted in patience and deep listening. The film's Executive Producer, Margo Feinberg, will participate in a 30-minute dialogue with UFW organizer and UCSB Labor Summer Alumni Jenny Alvarez and UCSB Community Labor Center Faculty Director and Chicana/o Studies Professor Ralph Armbruster Sandoval.
Spiritual Care Club
MCC Lounge
Spiritual Care Club is a recurring space where members will learn how to use and trust divine and intuitive tools for their healing and care, identity development, and dreams and goals formation. It will be an intentional space where we can experience personal and collective growth, joy, and care in a safe and encouraging environment.
First Session 10/16
Thursdays Oct 16th & 23rd Nov 13th & 20th
12:00-1:30 pm
Resilient Love
Racial Justice & Restorative Justice in a Time of Awakening, Repair, & Reimagining
Dr. Fania Davis
Corwin Pavilion
The UCSB Restorative Justice Program and MultiCultural Center are partnering to bring Dr. Fania Davis, a leading international voice on the intersection of racial and restorative justice and former civil rights attorney, to our campus! Fania will lead us in exploring how we can re-imagine healing and justice in the context of our racialized society. The intersections of racial justice, restorative justice, healing, and indigeneity will be discussed at this inflection point. How are these times of disaster, awakening, and repair inviting us to release and imagine old social structures rooted in white supremacy?
Guest Bio: Fania E. Davis is a leading international voice on the intersection of racial and restorative justice. She is a long-time social justice activist, civil rights trial attorney, author, and educator with a PhD in Indigenous Knowledge. Davis came of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era. These formative years, particularly the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing, crystallized within Fania an enduring commitment to social transformation. For the next decades, she was active in the Civil Rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, anti-racial violence, economic justice and anti-apartheid movements.
Apprenticing with African indigenous healers catalyzed Fania’s search for a healing justice, ultimately leading her to become the Founding Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Co-Founding Board Member of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice. Her numerous honors include the Lifetime Achievement award for excellence in Restorative Justice, the Black Feminist Shapeshifters and Waymakers’ award, the Tikkun (Repair the World) award, the Ella Jo Baker Human Rights award, and the Ebony POWER 100 award. The Los Angeles Times named her a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. She recently received the Open Society Foundations Justice Rising Award recognizing 16 Black movement leaders working towards racial justice in the United States. Among Davis’ publications is the Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Justice, and U.S. Social Transformation.
Davis, who resides in Oakland, CA., writes and speaks internationally on restorative justice, racial justice, truth processes and indigeneity. She is a mother, grandmother, dancer, meditator and a yoga, qigong and African spirituality practitioner.
Co-Sponsors: A.S. Finance Board, Office of Black Student Development, Gaucho Underground Scholars Program,
Blum Center, and Black Women’s Health Collaborative
Playing in Unity: Strengthening Community through Music
Vince Feliciano
MCC Lounge
In collaboration with This May Help, a project of the Pahl Initiative, join us for an evening of community building through music with UCSB Alumni Vince Feliciano. This event seeks to democratize, decommodify, and reclaim music by dismantling barriers of resources, elitism, and market forces that dictate who gets to create. Together, we will play music as a form of playful expression and communal connection — accessible to all, beyond the label of “musician.”
Guest Bio: Vince is a private music instructor and performer based in the Bay Area. He currently teaches at PnC Music Company, where he offers lessons in piano, guitar, ukulele, electric bass, drums, recorder, and cajon. As a bassist, Vince primarily plays with several Bay Area groups in styles ranging from jazz, funk, R&B, Japanese pop, and acoustic indie. As an acoustic guitarist, he has accompanied vocalists in neo-soul, hip-hop, and Mexican folk music. As a pianist, he has served as a wedding music director and performed throughout the Midwest and East Coast as a vocal accompanist. Vince also previously taught English/Language Arts and Music in elementary school classroom settings.
Vince graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a Bachelor's in Asian American Studies, Sociology, and Philosophy, and a minor in Education. As a student, he was an EXITO Scholar and a founding member of Students Against Sexual Assault. He is currently working on his Master's in Music Therapy at Lesley University.
A project of the Pahl Initiative.
