All Events
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.
Art Exhibit
Opening Reception Public Lives of Posters in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Manilatown, and Japantown, 1970s and 1980s.
MCC Meeting Rooms
This exhibition is a special compendium which encapsulates visual cultures, global ethnopoles, and urban public spaces of that time. On street poles, storefront windows, and community centers— historic Asian Pacific American graphic art posters publicly announced and affirmed counter-narratives. Curated by Julianne P. Gavino, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Co-Sponsored by Asian American Studies, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives—UCSB Library, Instructional Development, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
Cup of Culture - Meet the Filmmaker
On These Shoulders We Stand
MCC THEATER
This film shows postwar Los Angeles as a city of startling contrasts; a city with a substantial, vibrant gay community, yet a city obsessed with rendering that community invisible, kept in the closet, or locked in its jails. This is an illuminating historical account told by eleven elders of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community from the 1950s into the early 1980s. Discussion with the director following the screening. Glenne McElhinney, 75 min., English,2009,USA.
Co-sponsored by the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
