Events By Quarter
The Global Latinidades Project and the Voces Nuevas Initiative - Campus Reading
Carmen Aguirre
MCC Theater
Join us for a campus reading and discussion lead by Carmen Aguirre, Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright, and a community centered mini-reading and workshop. Free dinner will be provided for all participants.
The Voces Nuevas Latinx Author series is thrilled to announce Carmen Aguirre, Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright, will visit UCSB January 11-12, 2023 for in-person events. Much of her writing has been autobiographical and unabashedly left-wing, exploring themes of exile, loss, alienation, and isolation. Often the tone of her work is darkly comic. Carmen's first book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (2011), was nominated for national and international awards, and is a #1 national bestseller. Her second memoir, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution (2016), received rave reviews on the international stage. It became a Globe and Mail bestseller a week after publication and was named one of the best books of 2016 by The National Post and CBC.
The Global Latinidades Project and the Voces Nuevas Initiative - Community Centered Writing Workshop
Carmen Aguirre
MCC Lounge
Join us for a community centered mini-reading and workshop lead by Carmen Aguirre, Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright.
The Voces Nuevas Latinx Author series is thrilled to announce Carmen Aguirre, Chilean-Canadian author, actor, and playwright, will visit UCSB January 11-12, 2023 for in-person events. Much of her writing has been autobiographical and unabashedly left-wing, exploring themes of exile, loss, alienation, and isolation. Often the tone of her work is darkly comic. Carmen's first book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (2011), was nominated for national and international awards, and is a #1 national bestseller. Her second memoir, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution (2016), received rave reviews on the international stage. It became a Globe and Mail bestseller a week after publication and was named one of the best books of 2016 by The National Post and CBC.
Cup of Culture
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty (screening #1)
MCC Lounge
5-7:30 PM, 32min documentary begins at 6 PM
Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color, and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.
Activity Description: For the duration of this event, art supplies and pages of the “Disability Justice from A to Z coloring book” will be available in the MCC lounge for attendees to benefit from the creative, embodied, and self-soothing aspects of coloring. Attendees will have the opportunity to join community discussions before and after the documentary screening. The documentary will be captioned and an ASL interpreter will be present.
Co-sponsors: Commission on Disability Equity (CODE), DSP, & RCSGD
Art Exhibition
The MultiCultural Center’s 35th Anniversary: An MCC Staff Art Exhibition
MCC Gallery/Lounge
Exhibit runs 1/24/23 - 3/24/23.
Reception 2/2/23, 6-8 PM
The MCC "Staff" (permanent staff, student-staff, and interns) are not just staff! We are creative in the ways we seek to change the campus and the larger community. Some of us are also artists! In honor of the MCC’s 35th Anniversary, this special art exhibition honors the current caretakers of the MCC and the theme for this exhibition is MultiCulturalism & Social Justice.
