Events By Quarter
Resilient Love
Navigating With(out) Instruments: risk & vulnerability, reckoning and healing, creative excavation & collective joy
traci kato-kiriyama (they/she)
MCC Theater
Join artivist, author, organizer, traci kato-kiriyama (they+she) in a reading from Navigating With(out) Instruments—poetry, micro essays, notes to self. tkk will read and speak on various themes from their book—from friendship & solidarity, to reclaiming pasts & visioning self-determined futures, to queerness & love, to creative process, and being director/co-founder of the longest running Asian American free public arts series in the country, Tuesday Night Cafe. tkk’s reading and talk will be followed by a conversation with graduate students and a Q&A with the audience. Books and signing will be available at the event. Hanging out afterward is encouraged!
ESLS: MCC Council Board Night
MCC Council
MCC Lounge
Calling all MCC User Groups! Join the MCC Council for a night of imagination, creativity, and manifestation. This will be an opportunity to make connections with User Groups and carve paths toward collaborations and building community. Our evening together will center around boards — create a vision board with fellow student leaders to help envision your goals; refreshments and food will be served on snack boards; and board games will cap off the night!
PRESENTERS: Vanessa Aguiniga and Wendy Paz, MCC Council Co-Chairs
ESLS Series: Hunger to Housing – A Sustenance & Stability Showcase
Youth Action Board
MCC Theater
A Hunger and Houseless Awareness Week Event
MCC Theater Thursday, November 16th 3:00-5:00 PM RSVP at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2257747
Presented by the Rapid Rehousing Program and the MultiCultural Center
Presenter: Youth Action Board
Please join us for an afternoon of learning and experience sharing. The UCSB Rapid Rehousing team will begin this event by highlighting key basic needs and housing resources available on campus. After a brief presentation, attendees will hear personal stories from members of the Youth Action Board of Santa Barbara County about their experiences facing food and housing insecurity. Thereafter, in an open-mic forum we will offer space for attendees to share about their experiences with food or housing insecurity in a format of their choice such as dance, song, poetry, storytelling, or any other creative outlet. Mixer with refreshments immediately after the showcase!
Fire Songs: An Evening of Poetry, Stories, and Music with Melinda Palacio
Melinda Palacio, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate
MCC Theater
Join us for an evening of poetry readings and a musical performance with the first Chicana Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, Melinda Palacio. She is the author of the novel, Ocotillo Dreams (ASU Bilingual Press 2011), for which she received the Mariposa Award for Best First Book at the 2012 International Latino Book Awards and a 2012 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. Melinda's latest poetry collection is called Bird Forgiveness (3: A Taos Press).
Speaker Bio: Melinda Palacio is the first Chicana Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara. She is the author of the novel, Ocotillo Dreams (ASU Bilingual Press 2011), for which she received the Mariposa Award for Best First Book at the 2012 International Latino Book Awards and a 2012 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. Her first full-length poetry collection, How Fire Is a Story, Waiting, (Tia Chucha Press 2012) was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Award, the Paterson Prize, and received First Prize in Poetry at the 2013 International Latino Book Awards. In 2015, her work was featured on the Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day Program. Melinda's latest poetry collection is Bird Forgiveness (3: A Taos Press).
Co- Sponsors: Chicana/o Studies Department, Las Maestras Center
