All Events
An Evening of Music from the Wassoulou Region of Mali, West Africa with Mamadou and Vanessa Sidibe
MCC THEATER
Winners of several prestigious music awards, Mamadou and Vanessa perform soulful, uplifting rhythms from the historic Wassoulou Region of Mali, believed to be the birthplace of the American Blues. Mamadou Sidibe, master of the traditional kamale ngoni (12 stringed hunters harp), and Vanessa are joined with virtuoso balafon player Balla Kouyate and master of the djembe, Karamba Diabate. Tickets $5 UCSB students/$15 general. Get 20% off of general admission if you purchase your ticket by Monday, October 10th or with purchase of the whole concert season. Contact the A.S Ticket Office at 805-893-2064 from Monday to Thursday 10 am – 5 pm and Friday, 10 am – 4 pm. No extra charge for telephone orders. Limited seating.
Diversity Lecture Series
Race and the New Biocitizen Dorothy Roberts
MCC THEATER
In this talk Dorothy Roberts discusses a new racial politics that relies on re-inventing the political system of race in biological terms using genomic science and biotechnologies. Her presentation is based on her new book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. Roberts, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, is also author of the award-winning books Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty andShattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare.
In conjunction with the Annual Hull Lecture on Women and Social Justice.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Nanotechnology and Society; the Center for New Racial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; the Department of Feminist Studies; the Hull Chair in Women’s Studies; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
Cup of Culture
Precious Knowledge
MCC THEATER
In this gripping account, Tucson High School Students and teachers become academic warriors and community leaders to save their Mexican American Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program. Ari Palos and Eren Isabel McGinnis, 75 minutes, English, 2011, USA.
OUTrageous! SB Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival
MCC THEATER
In celebration of its 20th anniversary the MCC is excited to present the first screening of the 20th Annual Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival. The film shorts presented on this night will feature the latest and greatest in film by and for queer communities throughout the United States. Co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival.
