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Art Exhibit
Double Vision: A Celebration of Hybridity • Shizue Seigel
MCC Lounge
Japanese American artist Shizue Seigel blurs the boundaries between photography, painting, found objects, and poetry to explore the shifting planes of multicultural identity. In today's evolving world, where minorities are the majority, the complexity of our stories is our American story. Seigel is also a poet and the author of In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Interment (AACP, Inc. 2006).
Art Exhibit
Public Lives of Posters in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Manilatown, and Japantown, 1970s and 1980s. The Kearny Street Workshop Archives Poster Collection.
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.
Art Exhibit
No Human Being is Illegal! Posters on the Myths and Realities of the Immigrant Experience
MCC LOUNGE
Give me your tired, your poor; Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . . The disparity between the eloquent promise of the Statue of Liberty and the recent attacks against immigrants is enormous and reasons for immigration to the United States vary broadly. Yet from the Irish and Chinese in the nineteenth century to the Mexicans and Middle Easterners of the twenty-first centuries, discrimination based on race, class, language, and culture has unfortunately been consistent. Whether the reason for migration is to escape war, seek asylum from persecution, or pursue better economic opportunities, leaving one’s family, friends, and home is never easy, and the posters in this exhibition present the human side of this wrenching experience.
Produced by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California.
Cup of Culture - Meet the Filmmaker - Pilipino American Heritage Month
Little Manila; Filipinos in California’s Heartland
MCC THEATER
Filled with chop suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila in Stockton was notoriously called, 'Skid Row,' but it was also the closest thing Filipinos had to a hometown and the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines in the 1930s. Stockton residents recruited to work in the asparagus fields faced backbreaking work, low wages, and at times extreme racism to fulfill their dreams.
Discussion with the director Marissa Aroy following the screening. Co-sponsored by Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Asian American Cultural Resource Center and Kapatirang Pilipino. Aroy, 26 min., English, 2008, USA.
