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Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker
White Boy Brown
MCC THEATER
Armed with only a very important letter, Curtis Brown, a black man embarks on the most difficult journey of his life. A journey that will force him to confront his own demons of hatred and prejudice, while discovering a love, long lost, for his adopted “White” brother Johnny. Discussion with director Sean Sawyer and producers Eren Moore and Christopher Johnson following the screening. Sean Sawyer, 90 min., English, 2009, United States.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Looking Back to Look Forward: Cross-Cultural Diversity and Today's American Theater • Harry Elam
MCC THEATER
In this talk, Professor Harry Elam will discuss cross-racial diversity in contemporary American theater. Is the current American theater a place where ethnic groups--African Americans, Latinos, Asians--reach across ethnic borders of difference? Do we see new trends in co-ethnic communication? Does or can theater function as a microcosm of the racial dynamics that are playing out in the American social order? Harry Elam is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow for Undergraduate Education, Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, as well as the Senior Associate Vice- Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.
Co-sponsored by Black Studies; the Center for Black Studies Research; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and Theater and Dance.
An Evening of Latin Music with Rupa and the April Fishes
MCC THEATER
Rupa & the April Fishes blend an alternative pop attitude with international spices, mixing in elements of Gypsy swing, Colombian cumbia, French chanson, and Indian ragas. Beneath their infectious and captivating melodies are thought-provoking themes that address life, love, art, death, and the real and artificial divisions that keep us apart. The San Francisco-based musical agitators are specialists in crossing borders and building bridges, blurring the boundaries of genre and geography to create a sound Time Out has called global agit-pop. Tickets $5 students / $15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064. Limited seating.
Central American Forced Migration: Conversations for Change
MCC LOUNGE
The mainstream media largely frames the topic of migration by utilizing terms such as illegal and undocumented, which have an immediate impact in shaping public perceptions of criminal behavior. The media also focuses much attention on the arrival of migrants from Mexico, the need for more security on the U.S./Mexico border, and accelerated deportation hearings. Unfortunately, such coverage ignores the ongoing influx of Central Americans, the increased security south of the Mexican border, and strategies for survival once in the U.S. Dr. Cecilia Menjivar, Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University, Eric Popkin, Dean of Summer Programs and Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado College, and Horacio Roque-Ramírez, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, will discuss these issues and their relevance to promoting immigration reform.
Co-sponsored by the Chicano Studies Institute; Feminist Studies; the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; and Sociology.
