Events By Quarter
The Wisdom of Winona LaDuke: We Have to Fight
Pollock Theater
Congregating at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota, the largest historical gathering of Native American tribes rose to national and international attention as they and their allies stood in solidarity against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Chumash Coastal Band will formally welcome Winona LaDuke, an internationally renowned indigenous activist, for a screening of Lucien Reed’s 2016 short Mni Wiconi. LaDuke, Executive Director and co-founder of Honor the Earth, will speak to the successes and continued struggles faced by those moving from Standing Rock to Washington, D.C. and beyond.
Lecture RSVP online: bit.ly/mcc-winona
There will be a reception for students and Winona at the American Indian Cultural Resource Center at the SRB on Mon, May 15, 5:30 pm.
Co-sponsored by EOP, The Global Environmental Justice Project, UCSB Critical Issues in America: 'Climate Futures: This Changes Everything,” and the Center for Black Studies Research.
Cup of Culture
Love Arcadia
MCC Theater
Rather than continuing his education, Jake wants to pursue what he believes will make him happy: taking over his family’s bubble tea shop, Tea Arcadia. That is until, he meets a young woman named Joanna Lee. She arrives at his hometown Arcadia, California, to buy the shopping center and start a new development project, putting the shop and all other tenants out of business. The film illustrates the many sides of love, family, and happiness. (English, 2015, 97 min)
Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA) will sell boba drinks prior to the film screening.
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crwitim6ARM
Race Matters Series
Hacking the DSM: An Asian American Mental Health Intervention (Mimi Khúc)
MCC Lounge
Mimi Khúc, assistant professor of Asian American Studies at University of Maryland, will present research that has culminated in her editing of a special issue of the Asian American Literary Review. The issue explores new ways of discussing mental health: not merely as an individual pathology or condition, but as a topic contextualized within structures of violence such as rape, misogyny, and colonialism. Her talk will be preceded by readings of original work and short pieces from the issue by students from Playsia.
Co-presented by the Department of Asian American Studies
Children of All Ages
Dances from the Middle East with Cris! Basimah
MCC Lounge
Come learn dances from the Middle East featuring line dances and Egyptian Folk steps in this fun and interactive workshop with Cris! Basimah. Children will be encouraged to forge connections with their own bodies as they engage in this cross-cultural exchange. Cris is the director of the UCSB Middle Eastern Ensemble Dance Company.
