Events By Quarter
Playing in Unity: Strengthening Community through Music
Vince Feliciano
MCC Lounge
In collaboration with This May Help, a project of the Pahl Initiative, join us for an evening of community building through music with UCSB Alumni Vince Feliciano. This event seeks to democratize, decommodify, and reclaim music by dismantling barriers of resources, elitism, and market forces that dictate who gets to create. Together, we will play music as a form of playful expression and communal connection — accessible to all, beyond the label of “musician.”
Guest Bio: Vince is a private music instructor and performer based in the Bay Area. He currently teaches at PnC Music Company, where he offers lessons in piano, guitar, ukulele, electric bass, drums, recorder, and cajon. As a bassist, Vince primarily plays with several Bay Area groups in styles ranging from jazz, funk, R&B, Japanese pop, and acoustic indie. As an acoustic guitarist, he has accompanied vocalists in neo-soul, hip-hop, and Mexican folk music. As a pianist, he has served as a wedding music director and performed throughout the Midwest and East Coast as a vocal accompanist. Vince also previously taught English/Language Arts and Music in elementary school classroom settings.
Vince graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a Bachelor's in Asian American Studies, Sociology, and Philosophy, and a minor in Education. As a student, he was an EXITO Scholar and a founding member of Students Against Sexual Assault. He is currently working on his Master's in Music Therapy at Lesley University.
A project of the Pahl Initiative.
Spiritual Care Club
MCC Lounge
Spiritual Care Club is a recurring space where members will learn how to use and trust divine and intuitive tools for their healing and care, identity development, and dreams and goals formation. It will be an intentional space where we can experience personal and collective growth, joy, and care in a safe and encouraging environment.
Thursdays Oct 23rd Nov 13th & 20th
12:00-1:30 pm
3RD SESSION – HOLISTIC SAFETY PLAN COMMUNITY SERIES: A KI TO BE FREE
MCC Lounge
Join us for the HSP Community Series, A Ki To Be FREE, a space to share, reflect, and connect around issues at the heart of community and identity. Held on Tuesdays at noon in the MCC Lounge on 10/28 and 11/18, this series, in collaboration with the Office of DEI, invites you to bring your lunch and your voice as we explore meaningful questions together.
Our third session on October 28th will focus on the theme:
– How do themes of cringe, shame, and guilt shape your ability to connect with self and community?
– In what ways do these themes function as policing tools against community engagement, expressions, and connection?
Race & Religion
Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment
Panel Discussion
MCC Theater and Lounge
The MultiCultural Center and Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life present
How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions concerning repatriation, land access, education, and diverse forms of sovereignty, panelists will explore the intersection of Indigenous religious traditions and law.
Panelists include tribal authorities, legal experts, and scholars. The discussion will begin with campus-level and regional considerations, with specific reference to Chumash contexts. Then it will expand outward to borderland settings, Oklahoma, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific.
Panelists:
Vicente Diaz, Professor of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, UCLA
Walter Echo-Hawk, Former President of the Pawnee Nation
Cristina Gonzales, Registrar, Santa Rosa Rancheria
Eric Hemenway, Anishnaabe Historian, Michigan Historical Commission
Amrah Salomón, Assistant Professor of English, UCSB
Moderated by Greg Johnson, Director of the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life
Reception in MCC Lounge following panel discussion.
Presented with support from the Henry Luce Foundation
Image caption: Wit-sa-nap, a lake sacred to the Paiute people of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Image credit: Greg Johnson
