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Art Exhibition
Paz y Amor: Make Peace (Exhibit Opening Reception)
MCC Lounge
Pasadena-based artist Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin honors her Mexican family and culture through art. Her work is vibrant, colorful, and highly personal: “Often I act on what moves me emotionally in an unjust world or in my personal life. Then I play on the canvas.” But not just on the canvas. She employs mixed media and assemblage; she makes altars, installations, etchings, and prints. “Of concern for me are struggling immigrant families and workers, abused women, children, and elders, and the destruction of the environment.
Come join us at this exhibit opening reception. Free food, meet the artist, and mingle! Free and open to all.
Performance
Performance with Fawn Wood
Fawn Wood
Online
Plains Cree/Salish singer Fawn Wood comes from the tradition of Round Dance and Hand Drum music. She was introduced to spiritual songs by her parents and grandparents, singing along with them at Pow-Wows from an early age. Through her music, she shares a deep passion for her community and speaks to the strength of Indigenous women. Fawn won the Hand Drum contest at the Gathering of Nation’s Pow-Wow in 2006, the first woman to do so. Before her work as a solo artist, she and her husband Dallas Waskahat released albums as a duo. The two of them performed at the 11th Annual NAMMY awards and 2010 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards. Fawn’s latest album is entitled Kikāwiynaw, Plains Cree for “our mother”.
Cup of Culture
Piku
MCC Theater
Piku juggles the demands of her life as a successful architect and caretaker of her 70-year old hypochondriac father. Getting a life of her own just doesn't seem possible—and not for the lack of trying. Piku is a quirky comedy about a daughter and father dealing with each other's conflicting world views while recognizing that they are each other's sole emotional support. There will be a performance by Andaaz Bollywood Fusion prior to the screening. (135 min, Hindi w/ English subtitles, 2016)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGpuVWrhIzE
Diversity Lecture
Plantation Politics in STEM
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Online - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
In this talk, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein will consider the history of STEM and current frameworks around diversity and inclusion in context of the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States and beyond. They will point out the ways in which the past lives on in our present institutional structures and identify features that might characterize an Afrofuturist STEM.
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. Originally from East L.A., Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a graduate of Harvard College, University of California – Santa Cruz, and the University of Waterloo. One of under 100 Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics, she is a theoretical physicist with expertise in particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, with an emphasis on dark matter. In addition, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a theorist of Black feminist science, technology, and society studies, and a monthly columnist for New Scientist. Her research and advocacy for marginalized people in physics and astronomy have won multiple awards, and her first book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, is now available from Bold Type Books.
REGISTRATION AT UCSB SHORELINE IS REQUIRED.
