Events By Quarter
Music Performance
A Night of Dynamic Post-Rock Korean Music
Black String
MCC Theater
Black String is a South Korean quartet led by geomungo (traditional Korean zither) player Yoon Jeong Heo, who incorporates traditional Asian music, jazz, blues and rock, and electronica. It’s a powerful mix, bursting with all kinds of timbre possibilities, a context in which improvisation and traditional forms truly merge. As the band performs, amplified bursts of sound of the geomungo and Korean bamboo flutes, the fierce quake of Korean traditional percussion, and unpredictable melody of jazz guitar will grasp all of your senses.
Race and Religion Series
Race, Spirituality, and Secularism Joseph Blankholm and Juhem Navarro-Rivera
MCC Lounge
This moderated discussion will provide an in depth and critical look into the intersections of race, religion, and politics in the United States. Joseph Blankholm is an Assistant Professor at UCSB in the Religious Studies Department whose work focuses on atheism and secularism, primarily in the U.S. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is the Managing Partner and Director of Political Research at Socioanalítica Research, co-chair of the Latinx Humanist Alliance, serves on the board of directors of the American Humanist Association, and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies.
Music Performance
UCSB GOSPEL CHOIR
Directed by Victor Bell, the choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.
Cup of Culture Series
Queen and Slim
MCC Theater
Slim and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's gun and shoots him in self-defence. Now labelled cop killers in the media, Slim and Queen feel that they have no choice but to go on the run and evade the law. When a video of the incident goes viral, the unwitting outlaws soon become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief, and pain for people all across the country. 2h 12m
