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Stacks of Obits: A Choreopoem • Stephanie Batiste
MCC THEATER
Stephanie L. Batiste’s one-woman show is a rhythmic performative contemplation of the street murders of young people of color in Los Angeles. Batiste processes the obituaries, contained in a young woman’s scrapbook, of young black people killed with guns. The show acts as an intellectual and emotional intervention in a flood of unchecked violence. Directed by Brian Granger, graduate student in the Department of Theater and Dance. Krump performances by UCSB students.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research, the Department of Black Studies, the Chicano Studies Institute, the Hemispheric Souths Research Initiative, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
An Evening of Gospel with B. McCargo and Kingdom Worship
MCC THEATER
Music blazing, hands waving, feet jumping, and pulse racing, this is going to be an exciting night of gospel music that you will never forget. B. McCargo, with his high energy directing and Kingdom Worship with their soulful melodic tones will have you on your feet dancing, praising, and worshipping. This will be an explosive night!Tickets $5 students / $15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064. Limited seating.
Race Matters Series
Understanding, Resisting, and Transcending On-Campus Racism Marc-Tizoc González
MCC LOUNGE
Recent media reports have spotlighted on-campus racism and creative student resistance to it. Deploying concepts from Critical Race and LatCrit (Latina & Latino Critical Legal) theory, Marc-Tizoc González, a staff attorney at the Alameda County Homeless Action Center and lecturer in the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department, will facilitate a discussion about building critical coalitions for justice across race and the other salient dimensions of power, identity, and possibility that so often divide people in US society, relating stories of student organizing at the UC Berkeley Law School and in The United People of Color Caucus of the National Lawyers Guild.
Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker
A Village Called Versailles
MCC THEATER
This powerful documentary chronicles the New Orleans Vietnamese American community’s struggles and political awakening after Hurricane Katrina. It follows the epic story of the community from their arrival in New Orleans as an isolated group of refugees in the ‘70s to their successful fight for environmental justice and their transformation into a politically engaged community. Discussion with the director and UCSB alumnus Leo Chiang following the screening. S. Leo Chiang, 68 min., English, 2008, USA. Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, Asian American Studies Davidson Library, Political Science, and Residential Life.
