Events By Quarter
Race Matters Series
“Hypervisibility and Invisibility: The Indochinese Women’s Conferences, Global Sisterhood, and Asian American Women Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
MCC Lounge
In April of 1971, approximately one thousand female activists from throughout North America gathered in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada to attend the Indochinese Women’s Conferences. Women from the U.S. and Canada attended to meet a delegation of women from North and South Viet Nam as well as Laos. The Indochinese Women’s Conferences of 1971 represented the first opportunities for large numbers of North American women to have direct contact with their Asian “sisters.” This talk examines the motivations, experiences, and outcomes of the conference, particularly for Asian American and other women of color, and the implications of these international exchanges for understanding the dynamics of global sisterhood. Dr. Judy Tzy-Chun Wu is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine.
Cup of Culture
Urban Fruit
MCC Theater
URBAN FRUIT tells the story of a handful of city dwellers (Rishi Kumar / Founder of The Growing Home. Gardner Jenna & Adam Barber / Homegrowers for Forage Restaurant. Ron Finley / 'Gangsta Gardner', Eco-visionary) growing food in Los Angeles, California. They are a diverse group intent to reclaim a skill that has been lost to the industrial food complex. We witness their struggles with the city, their families, nature and themselves. 1 h 8 min.
Living Lives of Resilient Love in a Time of Hate
BreakBeat Poets in the Age of Hip Hop: Resilient Community Voices
Writing Workshop: MCC Lounge - 2 pm
Performance: MCC Theater - 6 pm
Rooted in the core values of hip hop culture, writer/performer-educator-organizers Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin use poetry as a tool for empowerment and discourse across different walks of life. Join these two award winning artists for a writing workshop and live performance of socially engaged break beat poetry. Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored thousands of young writers, artists, and musicians. Idris Goodwin is an Assistant Professor in The Department of Theatre and Dance at Colorado College. Idris Goodwin is an award winning playwright, director, orator and essayist. His play How We Got On developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, premiered in Actors Theater’s 2012 Humana Festival, and is being produced at theatres across the country.
Cup of Culture
Gook
MCC Theater
In 1992, two Korean-American brothers and director running a shoe store in South Central Los Angeles share a friendship with an 11-year-old black girl who likes hanging out with them. As news of the verdict in the beating case filters down during the day, their livelihood is upended when riots break out and everything they've built in the community is threatened by violence and looting. 94 min.
