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Art Exhibition
Resistance in Portrait
Rommy Torrico
Exhibit/MCC Lounge
To honor Trans Week of Visibility, and in collaboration with the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Trans and Queer Commission, and Undocumented Student Services, we will be showcasing two series by Rommy Torrico: a queer, trans, and formerly undocumented artist born in Chile, and currently based out of NY. Along with infusing their art with powerful stories from their own life, Torrico's work consistently uplifts the experiences and identities of their communities. The Trans Awareness Month Series highlights trans folks of color who have been doing brilliant work and continue to create spaces for trans people of color. The Power Series is an on-going portrait series that features individuals who have been integral and inspirational to their own journey of learning, decolonizing, resisting, and creating
Cup of Culture
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
Online
The goal is to create a space to read and unpack articles, PDFs, e-books, etc written by and for communities at the margins. There will be a specific focus on race/racism; colonialism and capitalism, (eco) feminisms from below, environmental justice, and coalition building/solidarity networks.
Participants will be asked to read the texts beforehand, and will be given a couple guiding questions; however, you can still join even if you have not read the material or answered the questions! Please email Abire Sabbagh, asabbagh@ucsb.edu , if you need access to the readings.
Cup of Culture
Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence
Director: Félix Zurita
Film Screening/Online
"The celebration of Columbus is for us an insult," says Rigoberta Menchú, a fierce advocate of indigenous peoples rights. This short film presents a profile of this extraordinary woman, whose life has become a symbol of resilience and power, not only of her own Mayan Quiché people, but of all the indigenous people of the Americas. It is a moving portrait of a self-taught woman who dreams of two things: a Guatemalan Congress integrating indigenous and nonindigenous men and women—and having a child "so I can plant my own seed, for better or worse." 1992. 25 min.
Post film discussion to follow.
Cup of Culture
Rocks
Director: Sarah Gavron
Film Screening/Online
Starring Bukky Barkray as Olushola, nicknamed “Rocks”, as a black british teenage girl in London whose troubled single mother abandons her and her younger brother Emmanuel, forcing them to fend for themselves and try to avoid being taken into care by authorities, with the help of loyal friend Sumaya and others. Gavron enlists a mainly female crew, including cinematographer Helene Louvart, editor Maya Maffoli and composer Emilie Leveinsaise Farrouch, and their empathy for the vulnerable characters lives the film. 2019. 1 h 33 m. No post film discussion.
