Events By Quarter

Erkin Abdulla

Music Performance

A Night of Uyghur Music

Erkin Abdulla

Online

Erkin Abdulla is a Uyghur musician,  his music style is Contemporary Folk, Uyghur pop and Flamenco. With his unique voice and superb guitar skills, his music has various elements. Erkin combines Uyghur folk and modern music styles to create a cross-cultural and borderless global music style.

As an Uyghur musician, Erkin focuses on the development of the Uyghur ethnic traditional music heritage. He has fully learned the ancient Uyghur Muqam – Dolan’s artistic essence, and created many songs with Uyghur ancient and modern elements, like “The Eagle of Tengri Tagh”, “The Thousand Caves.” He consolidated, produced, and performed the adaptations for the Pamir ethnic folk rhythms which are becoming extinct in recent years. He always dedicates his music works to enrich the Uyghur culture and make the music world more colorful.
 

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Race Matters Series

Decolonizing Methodologies

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Online

“A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.” – Walter Mignolo, Duke University
 
To people who have navigated and survived the violence of colonization, the term ‘research’ is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.
 
Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s seminal text explores intersections of imperialism and research – specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth’. Concepts such as ‘discovery’ and ‘claiming’ are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.

PardonMaria and Fighting for Family

Cup of Culture

#PardonMaria and Fighting for Family

Filmmaker Lan Nguyen, Brandon Soun, Rex and Chuh

Film Screening/Online

Join the MCC in screening two powerful films and in welcoming the filmmaker and the people whose stories are told through the films to UCSB! The first film, #PardonMaria, follows Maria who after changing her life and gaining her freedom from a 23-year prison sentence, faces a new challenge as she learns she may be deported to the Philippines. The second film, Fighting For Family, tells the story of Chuh and Rex, refugees from the indigenous tribes of Vietnam, who fell in love and started a family in North Carolina nearly two decades ago. In 2017, the unthinkable happened. Chuh was deported to Vietnam, leaving Rex and their four daughters behind in the U.S. Chuh works on adjusting to life in Vietnam, while Rex resiliently balances working, raising her children, and maintaining her long-distance relationship. FIGHTING FOR FAMILY shares the family’s love story and fight to mobilize for Chuh’s return to the U.S. #PardonMaria 2020. 6 m 14 s. Fighting for Family 2019. 30 m 16 s. Post film discussion with filmmaker Lan Nguyen, Brandon Soun, Rex and Chuh

Lady Dane

MCC in I.V

Open Mic and An Evening of Self Expression

Lady Dane

The MCC hosts a quarterly open mic for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color especially to artistically express themselves using creative outlets including spoken word, poetry, and music. All are welcome to attend and participate! This quarters open mic will be hosted by Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, Author, Educator, Speech Writer, a Helen Hayes Award winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Helen Hayes Award 2020), For Black Trans Girls…, Ghost/Writer, The Diaz Family Talent Show, Quest of The Reed Marsh Daughter, The Dance of Memories), Advocate, Dramaturg, a 2x Helen Hayes Award Nominated choreographer (2016, 2018) and co-editor/co-Director of the Black Trans Prayer Book.
 

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