Events By Quarter
Art Exhibition
Paz y Amor: Make Peace
MCC Lounge
Pasadena-based artist Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin honors her Mexican family and culture through art. Her work is vibrant, colorful, and highly personal: “Often I act on what moves me emotionally in an unjust world or in my personal life. Then I play on the canvas.” But not just on the canvas. She employs mixed media and assemblage; she makes altars, installations, etchings, and prints. “Of concern for me are struggling immigrant families and workers, abused women, children, and elders, and the destruction of the environment.
There will also be an Opening Reception for the artist in MCC Lounge: Tues, April 12, 6 pm. Free food, meet the artist, and mingle!
Cup of Culture
Most Likely to Succeed
MCC Theater
The current educational system in the U.S., once the envy of the world, was developed during the rise of the industrial age. Since then, the world economy has changed profoundly, while our educational system has not. Schools are attempting to teach and test skills that, even when mastered, leave graduates woefully unprepared for the 21st century. This documentary film focuses on a school in San Diego that is completely rethinking what the experience of going to school looks like and accomplishes. (90 min, English, 2016)
Watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/122502930
Art Exhibition
Paz y Amor: Make Peace (Exhibit Opening Reception)
MCC Lounge
Pasadena-based artist Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin honors her Mexican family and culture through art. Her work is vibrant, colorful, and highly personal: “Often I act on what moves me emotionally in an unjust world or in my personal life. Then I play on the canvas.” But not just on the canvas. She employs mixed media and assemblage; she makes altars, installations, etchings, and prints. “Of concern for me are struggling immigrant families and workers, abused women, children, and elders, and the destruction of the environment.
Come join us at this exhibit opening reception. Free food, meet the artist, and mingle! Free and open to all.
Cup of Culture
Food Chains
MCC Theater
There is more interest in food than there is in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases, they are beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the U.S. In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battles to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers. (85 min, English, 2014)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZLrXVAde4
