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Cup of Culture
Memories of Underdevelopment
MCC THEATER
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna.
Discussion with Professor Colin Gardner of the Department of Art following the screening. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 97 min., Spanish with English subtitles, 1968, Cuba.
This film will also be discussed at the panel, 'The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change,' on Tuesday, February 1, 4 pm in 6020 HSSB.
Art Exhibit
A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST Malik Seneferu
MCC LOUNGE
A self-taught painter, draughtsman, muralist, poet, and illustrator, Seneferu is the founder of Aesthetic Ascension art social network. The purpose of his compositions is to elevate the social, political, environmental, and spiritual issues of people deeply challenged by oppression and to capture the Black experience in America. His work traveled to Durban, South Africa's War against Racism in 2001, as well as to Kenya, Haiti and Italy.
Cup of Culture
Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
MCC THEATER
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in the small Mississippi county of Neshoba – the infamous 'Mississippi Burning' murders. The young men, two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi, were in the Deep South helping to register African-American voters during what came to be known as the Freedom Summer. Although the killers bragged about what they did, it took the State 40 years to indict the mastermind, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old Baptist preacher and notorious racist.
Discussion with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Associate Professor in Chicana and Chicano Studies, following the screening. Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, 87 min., English, 2010, USA.
An Evening of Eclectic Balkan & Appalachian Music with Janam
MCC THEATER
Janam creates a compelling, eclectic blend of Balkan, Sephardic, Romani (Gypsy) and American roots music, plus inspired originals. These driving rhythms and sultry melodies deliver a dance- and trance-inducing groove that carries the listener from the shores of the Black Sea to the foothills of the Appalachians. Janam’s fresh and soulful sound features stunning vocals and virtuosic musicianship by several of SF Bay Area’s most innovative interpreters of Southern Balkan and Near Eastern traditional music.
Tickets $5 UCSB students/$15 general. Contact the A.S Ticket Office at 805-893-2064. Limited seating.
