All Events
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.
Thursdays Feb 19th & Mar 5 2:00-3:30 pm MCC Lounge
Race & Religion
Connecting With Your Ancestors - A Conversation with Juju Bae
Juju Bae and Dr. Terrell Winder
MCC Theater and Lounge
Join author and priestess Osunfunmilola, also known as Juju Bae, to discuss the importance of ancestral veneration, communion, and honor during Black History Month. In her latest book, The Book of Juju: Africana Spirituality for Healing, Liberation, and Self-Discovery, Juju highlights the deep societal need for inclusive and affirming spiritual traditions that are accessible to all humans. In this lecture, we will discuss often historically marginalized spiritual systems and how they might be accessed for deeper healing, knowledge, and ancestral support. After the discussion, Dr. Terrell Winder will lead a Q&A, followed by dinner.
Co-Sponsors: Office of Black Student Development (OBSD), African diasporic Cultural Resource Center (AdCRC), Black Women’s Health Collaborative (BWHC)
Children’s Day Event – Around the World in a Day
Orfalea Family Children's Center
Join the Multicultural Center and UCSB Children's Center for a day of traveling the globe, no plane ticket needed! Around the World in a Day gives kids a playful, hands-on way to explore cultures from near and far. With their own Passport to the World, they’ll stop by different cultural discovery zones hosted by UCSB student organizations, picking up stamps as they listen to stories, participate in creative projects, and experience new traditions. It’s an afternoon meant to spark curiosity and imagination and to celebrate identity. Come take a trip around the world, right here in the community!
Orfalea Family Children's Center, West Campus Lane, UCSB Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Co-Sponsor: UCSB Children's Center, West Campus
Cup of Culture
quwa’ & Saving the Foothills - Land Back and Restoration in Santa Barbara
Marianne Parra and Robyne Redwater with Professor Summer Gray, moderator
MCC Theater
A special film screening event featuring quwa’ and Saving the Foothills, two documentaries highlighting Chumash history, land preservation, and the contemporary Land Back movement. quwa’ explores the story of a lost Chumash island in Goleta Slough, followed by Saving the Foothills, which chronicles the community effort to protect San Marcos Foothills from development.
A Q&A discussion, moderated by Professor Summer Gray, will follow the screenings with Chumash community members Marianne Parra and Robyne Redwater. Afterwards, enjoy dinner and conversation with fellow attendees.
In remembrance of Chumash elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto.
- Marianne Parra is Chumash with lineage to Santa Ynez, Goleta, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura. Marianne spent many years from early childhood to late teens on the Santa Ynez Reservation with family, learning and practicing culture and being connected with elders. Family and building connections within her communities have always been very important. She has a lengthy background in the medical field and doing volunteer work with domestic violence survivors. Her education in forensic psychology is on hold while she explores Chumash ethnobotany and other areas. Marianne is the granddaughter of a Chumash healer/medicine woman who first shared stories with her regarding pygmy woolly mammoths in the area long before any had been discovered
- Robyne Redwater
- Summer Gray is an interdisciplinary social scientist focused on coastal adaptation and the inequities that arise in response to climate change. Her book, In the Shadow of the Seawall, examines the social and environmental implications of seawall construction on coastal communities, providing a critical analysis of adaptation strategies that often deepen existing disparities. As a cinematic sociologist, she uses documentary filmmaking to explore environmental values and systemic injustices, combining in-depth interviews with visual storytelling.
Co-Sponsors: AiiCRC and AiiSA
