Events By Quarter
Conjure and Manifest: Building a Sustainable Artistic Practice - A-Ian Holt
MCC Lounge
In this workshop students spend time investigating their artistic practice as a framework for promoting power, wellness, and creativity; and as a tangible means for disrupting oppressive systems. We spend time critically examining the philosophies and works of Black artists including James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, and Nayyirah Waheed, in order to explore new visions for the artist as activist, as futurist and as spiritual healer. We then use a mixture of these ideas and our own along with meditation and mindfulness experiences to begin conjuring and manifesting intimate relationships with our art practice and ourselves. Participants will develop creative confidence, formulate game plans for success, and begin to find balance between the uncertainty and ultimate freedom that life as a creative can bring. A-lan Holt is a poet, playwright, and associate director at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, where she develops curriculum exploring art practice, spiritual practice and social justice.
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Race and Religion
Nobody Cries When We Die - Patrick Reyes
MCC Lounge
How do we create conditions for communities of color to thrive? Drawing on an institutional history of supporting scholars of color in religion since 1968, the director of doctoral initiatives at the Forum for Theological Exploration, Dr. Patrick B. Reyes, will facilitate the shared wisdom and practices as explored in his book Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood. Through embodied practice and play, we will explore our diverse traditions and discern our shared work.
Cup of Culture
Beyond Standing Rock
MCC Theater
'Beyond Standing Rock,' is an hour long documentary that shines a spotlight on the Dakota Access pipeline protest and its roots in a 170-year-long conflict between tribes and the U.S. government over independence, land ownership, and control of resources. 57 min.
Watch trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDY_KN66dno
BEYOND NOSTALGIA: Impossible Monuments in the Wake of Displacement - Mary Ann Peters
MCC Lounge
Mary Ann Peters is an Arab American artist who makes paintings, drawings and installations that respond to the interplay between contemporary and historical migration narratives out of the Middle East. Her installation series “impossible monuments” identifies seemingly incidental but influential events that deserve reverence yet would never be elevated to the status of a monument.
