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Cup of Culture
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History
MCC Theater
This film explores the short life of the Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, which became a potent national symbol of failure used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents within the larger postwar context of segregation, poverty, and urban population decline. Chad Freidrichs, 83 min., English, 2011, USA.
A Conversation with the Artist Rio Yañez
MCC Loung
Rio Yañez is a curator, photographer, and graphic artist that has exhibited from Tokyo to his hometown of San Francisco. His work takes Chicano politics and visual iconography and challenges them with a style informed by comic books, pro-wrestling, hip-hop, and Godzilla movies. He will be exhibiting artwork in a variety of mediums including graphic art portraits, Japanese purikura photobooth prints, and 3D anaglyph prints.
Cup of Culture
TLC Presents OFF THE REZ
MCC Theater
A coming-of-age story that follows Shoni Schimmel, a Umatilla Indian, who is a rising basketball star that dreams of being the first from her tribe to get a college scholarship. Jonathan Hock, 90 min., English, 2011, USA. Co-sponsored by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center; American Indian Graduate Student Alliance; American Indian Students Association; and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
Dreamscape By Rickerby Hinds
MCC Theater (FREE)
Ever have one of those dreams where nothing comes out when you try to scream?
In 1998 a 19-year-old African American young woman was shot to death by four police officers in Riverside, California - while passed out in her car. Through poetry, dance, and beat boxing, actors Rhaechyl Walker and John 'Faahz' Merchant explore the life of Myeisha Mills (Tyisha Miller) and re-frame her death by following the trajectory and impact of the 12 bullets that struck her - each one triggering its own unique memory. Co-sponsored by the Black Performance Series; the Black Studies Department; the Center for Black Studies Research; and the Department of Theater and Dance.
