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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.
'Selenidad': How Latinos Remember Selena • Deborah Paredez
MCC LOUNGE
An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals, drag shows, and more. Deborah Paredez explores the significance and broader meanings of this posthumous celebration of Selena, which she labels 'Selenidad.'
Co-sponsored by the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
Cup of Culture
Papers
MCC THEATER
Papers is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and yet risk deportation to countries they may not even remember.
Anne Galisky, 90 min., English, 2009, USA. Co-sponsored by the Educational Opportunity Program, Chicana/o Latino/a Cultural Resource Center.
Open Mic
Open Mic
MCC THEATER
Whether you’ve got some art to share, a song to sing, poetry or a performance reflecting your identity, you are invited to this open forum for self-expression. Anyone and everyone are welcome to grace the stage in a supportive space.
