All Events
Student Series Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker
Two Spirits
MCC THEATER
Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag.' But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition – the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit,' who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits—a special gift according to his traditional Navajo culture. Through telling Fred's story, Nibley reminds us of the values that America's indigenous peoples have long embraced. Discussion with producer Russell Martin following the screening. Lydia Nibely, 65 min., English/Navajo, 2009, USA.
Presented by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, the American Indian Graduate Student Alliance, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the American Indian Student Association, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
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.
