All Events
MCC in I.V
Open Mic Night
MC Vivian Storm
MCC Lounge
(2/8 - This event has been moved to the MCC Lounge)
The MCC hosts a quarterly open mic for all to artistically express themselves using any creative outlet including spoken word, poetry, music, and dance. All are welcome to attend and participate!
This quarter’s MC will be Vivian Storm! Vivian Storm is a Milwaukee native with a great passion for music. Since 5 years old, she has found ways to grace stages all around the US. She is committed to cultivating spaces for other artists. Vivian believes that the gift of music should be shared with everyone who wants to experience it. Join her as she hosts an open mic experience that will leave you speechless!
MultiCultural Center Lounge: 494 UCEN Rd Room 1504, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Co-sponsor: RCSGD
Organizing for the Long Haul: Avoiding Burnout, Organizing for Power
Jollene Levid
Online
What tools for sustainability have we inherited from our movement foremothers? How can we effectively address internal organizational collective conflict while simultaneously upholding a united front against our oppressors? Learn from a full-time organizer of 16 years about avoiding burnout and living with the organizer joy that we so deserve and fight daily to gain.
Race & Religion Series
Orientalism for (All) the Orientals! Studying Asian Religions in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Marko Geslani
Online
For better or worse, the study of religion harbors one of the last great bastions of Orientalism: the academic study of Asia (and especially, of Asia's past). Despite numerous excavations of the imperial inheritance of religious studies, reflection on the afterlives of Orientalism in contemporary religious studies curricula has rarely been undertaken. Using the example of Hindu studies, this presentation describes religious studies pedagogy within the multicultural university as an assimilating project continuous with earlier Orientalist tendencies. I ask what it would mean to return the religious pasts of "Asia," not only to those selected by model minority discourse, but to the BIPOC erstwhile "primitives" effectively excluded by Orientalism.
Our Virtual Programming
This quarter, our virtual programming will be centered on framing and understanding this global health pandemic within a greater societal (in) justice context. We will be critically engaging in the following questions:
- What is mutual aid and what does communal care look like?
- How do/can we organize (virtually/remotely) given that we understand the need for liberation from structural oppression is greater now more than ever
- How do we prepare and uplift our communities (the most vulnerable and marginalized) to be better able to proactively care for themselves.
