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Join the MCC, QARC (Queer Alliance Resource Center), the Bridges spaces, and TDPS (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) tonight, September 17th, 2012 from 4-7 P.M. (Hearst Field Annex D-37) for an amazing evening of community building, speakers, entertainment, and of course...free food!!!
The Multicultural Community Center serves as a vibrant center that strives to meet the needs and respond to the challenges students and community-members face on a daily basis. Come learn more about the history of the MCC and why it is such an important place on campus. With this Open House we look forward to building new friendships and strengthening our community.
What: MCC Open House & Community Block Party
When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 4-7pm
Where: Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex-D37
Why: To celebrate each other and welcome new folks into our space!
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Also, look out for our intern run MCC Wednesday events! Make sure to check out our online calendars to stay up to date on what's happening in the MCC and beyond!
Don't forget to come visit us at our temporary space in Hearst Field Annex D-37.
Hours
Mondays: 9am-6pm
Tuesdays-Fridays: 9am-10pm
Saturdays: 9am-6pm.
In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center
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EOP DROP-IN HOURS in MCC
9/23: 1:30-3:30pm
10/2: 1:30-3:30pm
Avisha is excited to bring EOP academic counseling services to the MCC! In an effort to connect more students to an academic counseling unit on campus, Avisha will be at the MCC once a week for the Fall 2014 semester.
Avisha Chugani has been an EOP Academic Counselor at Cal since 2010. Prior to serving students within EOP, she was a major adviser in the department of Architecture (CED) and a counselor in the Career Center. Avisha hopes to help students with not only surviving but THRIVING at Cal and beyond, no matter what a student's path and interests are.
Check out our calendars for updated on when Avisha will be in the MCC!!!
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The Multicultural Community Center is excited to collaborate with individuals and groups through multicultural and cross-cultural programming. As we review requests for collaborations, we are particularly interested in developing and fostering long-term, sustainable and reciprocal relationships with individuals, groups/organizations and departments/units across campus and greater Bay Area communities.
Check out our Collaborations Page for more info:
http://mcc.berkeley.edu/collaborate
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BRIDGES Transfer Welcome Event is happening Thursday September 18th, 6pm-8pm in the MCC
Who’s down to show some Transfer love!! Bridges is hosting a Transfer Welcome Night to show new and continuing transfer students a safe and fun space here on campus. Come for an evening of fun and games as well as FOOOOOODDDD!!!!
And no, you DO NOT have to be a transfer student to attend, everyone is welcome. Hope to see y’all there. SPREAD THE WORD!!
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Prison and its affiliated domains have long and complex genealogies However, their exponential growth, intensification, and reach in the United States in the last 30 years is palpable and profound. The Carceral Geographies Course Thread offers undergraduates the opportunity to examine the nature and experience of carceral spaces, the distributional geographies of carceral systems, and the relationship between the carceral in its totality and the state.
Friday, September 19th
10 :00am Introduction to Course Thread
10: 30am Student Research on Carceral Geographies, Moderator Prof. Nikki Jones
12 :00pm Lunch
1:00pm Formerly Incarcerated Students working against Carceral Practices, Moderator Francisco Casique, PhD
3:00 “The Stuart Hall Project,†screening and discussion
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Black Lives Matter:
Police Violence, Prisons, & Freedom Visions
Friday, September 19, 2014
5pm - 7pm
Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex D37
(location is wheelchair accessible)
featured speakers:
CeCe McDonald, anti-prison and trans justice activist
Prof. Julia Oparah, Mills College, author of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Prof. Ashon Crawley, UC Riverside
moderated by Prof. Nikki Jones, African American Studies
A forum on the radical resistance in Ferguson and across the US, police & prison violence, and visionary movement building for racial and gender justice,
co-sponsored by the Multicultural Community Center, the Carceral Geographies Course Thread, and African American Studies
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MCC Wednesday: Community Forum on Mass Criminalization in the Bay
Sept. 24, 2014
The MCC and the Black Alliance for Just immigration are hosting this Community Forum on Mass Criminalization in the Bay in order to raise awareness on organizing being done in our area against issues of mass criminalization ranging from; police brutality, racial profiling, mass incarceration, mass migrant detention, and mass deportations. This forum will provide folks in attendance with the opportunity to get involved in local campaigns and it will challenge folks to deeply consider what it takes to dismantle the system of mass criminalization which disproportionately impact people of color, womxn, queer, trans, undocumented, disabled, and many other marginalized communities.
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