Events By Quarter
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series + Art Exhibition
Meet the Artist: Favianna Rodriguez/The Radical Imagination
MCC Lounge
Favianna Rodriguez’s art and collaborative projects address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. She aims to critique and reinterpret the larger discursive immigration narratives that are shaping people’s lives around the globe, but especially here in the United States. Her practice serves as a tool for education, agitation, and social critique. Favianna has self-identified as queer and Latina with Afro-Peruvian roots. Rodriguez began as a political poster designer in the 1990s in the struggle for racial justice in Oakland, California.
SPECIAL LECTURE: Favianna’s lecture will be an opportunity for the UCSB community to interact with her on current social issues and how art can inform our Radical Imagination on Tue, Jan 24 at 6 pm in the MCC Theater.
ART OPENING RECEPTION: Stay after Favianna's lecture for a reception on Tuesday, January 24th at 8 pm in the MCC Lounge. Get to talk to the artist and be around community. Small bites and refreshments will be provided.
Co-sponsored by: Undocumented Student Services
Cup of Culture
Love & Solidarity: James Lawson and Non-Violence in the Search of Workers’ Rights
MCC Theater
What can people do to change a world full of violence and hate? Is non-violent revolution possible? The film addresses these questions through the life and thought of Rev. James Lawson. This African American Methodist minister worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., to initiate civil rights struggles in the South in the 1960s. In recent years, he taught non-violence organizing to coalitions of poor Black and Latino workers who have remade the labor movement in Los Angeles. Q&A to follow the film with Director Michael Honey. (English, 2016, 38 min)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXvpsTV33c
MCC in Santa Barbara
Part Starfish, Part Citrus: An Evening of Poetry with Franny Choi
Breakfast Culture Club, 711 Chapala St
Franny Choi is a writer, performer, and teaching artist. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone and the forthcoming chapbook Death by Sex Machine. She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour, Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review and the Indiana Review. . She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.
Watch the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS56hTj4XT4
The Korean Road: Dancing Through History
MCC Theater
“…they brought electricity! The Korean dancers were a percussive high light; their intensity and skill unremitting.” –Ballet magazine
Known as a global movement with a bold mix of the East and West, the OngDance Company brings a sacred journey through the history of Korean dance and music. From the ancient Court dance of the Goryeo Dynasty to the earliest forms of traditional Korean dance, the dancers and musicians provide an intensifying expose of the history of Korean traditional dance through the sequence of each piece. Founded in 2004 in San Francisco, the OngDance Company has been involved in promoting cross-cultural understanding and appreciation of Korean artistry and engaging communities to connect to their own backgrounds.
Tickets on sale now: $5 for UCSB students and children under 12. $15 general admission.
Watch performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2GcCmkTc0c
