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Cup of Culture
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MCC Theater
At first glance, they seem unlikely gang-bangers. Some of the boys wear lipstick and mascara, some stilettos. They carry Louis Vuitton bags, but they also carry knives, brass knuckles and mace. As vulnerable gay and transgender youth, they’ve been shot, stabbed, and raped. Once victims, they’ve now turned the tables. Started in 2009 by a group of bullied 9th graders, today these 14-22 year old gang members all have rap sheets riddled with assault, armed robbery and drug dealing charges.
Post-film discussion with RCSGD: Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. 1hr 30m.
Watch trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8x2Mrs3-A
MCC in SB
(RE)MEMBERING MY BODY: An Evening of Spoken Word with Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
SBCAST, 513 Garden St. Santa Barbara
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Queer Kanaka Maoli wahine poet / activist / scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley (Oʻahu). Jamaica is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. She is a proud graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford (BA) and New York University (MA) and a PhD candidate in English (Hawaiian literature) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her poetry explores culture, dispossession and the disembodiment of Indigenous desires. (Re)membering My Body loves hard and deep, speaks desire back to the bone, and insists on being heard.
Chirgilchin: Master Throat Singers from Tuva
MCC Theater
The word Chirgilchin has two translations: 'dance of the air in the heat of the day' and 'miracle'. Established in 1996, Chirgilchin is a group of musicians from Tuva, a small Russian province north of Western Mongolia. Throat singing is an extraordinary vocal form in which one singer produces two or more voices simultaneously, the low sounds in the throat harmonizing with middle and high flute-like overtones, to create richly layered melodies that evoke Central Asian steppes and nomadic life. Atmospheric and mesmeric, this music is almost too difficult to describe in words and must be heard to be believed. $5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
Buy Tickets Here: https://events.ucsb.edu/event/chirgilchin-master-throat-singers-from-tuva/
Watch Chirgilchin Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC7IcCKWLlA
Cup of Culture
Honor and Duty: The Mississippi Delta Chinese
MCC Theater
This film tells the story of the early Chinese immigrants to the Mississippi Delta during the 19th century. ; then it explores how the community steadily grew in the early part of the 20th century, as Chinese families across the Delta opened grocery stores that served both the black and white populations. The film’s importance arises not only from its focus on an almost unknown Chinese community in the heart of the Deep South, but also from what it reveals about the immigrant experience in America.
Post-film discussion with Director and Producer, E. Samantha Cheng. 1hr 21min
