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Happy Wednesday from the MCC!!!
We have a lot of great events and projects happening in the next two weeks. Check it all out below!
And as always, come by and hang out with us any time. You can find us in:
Hearst Field Annex D-37
Hours: M 9am-6pm Tu-F 9am-10pm Sa 9am-5pm.
MCC Events Calendar & Collective Community Events Calendar
In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center
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The Night of Cultural Resistance (NoCR) is the culminating event of the Week of Cultural Resistance (WoCR), which is scheduled for 03/10/14-03/14/14. Every year NoCR features live performances, art making, food, and various other activities to celebrate our resilience and honor the ways in which communities of color continue to resist and flourish within the university. NoCR is more than a concert or a show, it is an opportunity for communities on and off campus to come together and share stories, skills, and resources.
We are excited to be hosting NoCR on Memorial Glade this year in order to increase visibility and access!!
March 2014 marks the 45th anniversary of the third world Liberation Front at UC Berkeley. In 1969, a multiracial coalition came together to demand that the voices of people of color be reflected in the hxstory we are taught. As a result of cross-community organizing, the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department was founded. After 45 years, we still hold close to our hearts the legacy of this movement, the memory of the longest student strike, and the work that still has to be continued until people of color reach a revolutionary liberation through access to equitable education and access resources. More than anything, we hope this anniversary serves as more than a reminder of the hxstory of people of color, but also as an opportunity to re-ignite, re-imagine, and ROOT Y(OUR) FUTURE. This year's theme is inspired by the 45th Anniversary of the first third world Liberation Front (twLF) strike at UC Berkeley. We invite folks to not just remember twLF but to also continue vision and create with a lot of heart and love for y(our) communities and future generations.
What? Night of Cultural Resistance
When? March 14th @ 5pm
Where? Memorial Glade
Who? You and all your friends!
Theme? Root Y(our) Future
ALWAYS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!
Updates on Week of Cultural Resistance Events coming soon!
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New Art Exhibit!
Cultivating Love Within Ourselves
Tue, February 25, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Thu, February 27, 2:00pm – 4:30pm
In the spirit of the month of "love" Cultivating Love Within Ourselves will explore the themes of healing, self-preservation, tender self-care, unconditional love, and the erotic through different dialogues and art mediums. Through these workshops individuals will be able to think about what cultivating love in oneself means to them. We be honoring our different selflove journeys while thinking about the struggles, trauma, and blockages we carry as well as the gifts, medicine, and magik we hold. This will be a series consisting of two workshops on two separate days one that possibly involves candle and letter making and a second workshop that involves conversations and practices around ancestors, plant medicine, spirituality, and healing.
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Join us! Wednesday, February 19 from 6pm-8pm!
In the spirit of community and collaboration, the Multicultural Community Center, and Multicultural Sexuality and Gender Center liaisons have some together to put on a series of identity workshops throughout the months of February and March, leading up to the Week of Cultural Resistance (WoCR).
This specific workshop is being put on by the Gender Equity Resource Center/Multicultural Community Center liaisons. Please come on by to educate yourself on issues of horizontal hostility within queer and womyn's spaces.
All are welcome to this event! Hope to see you there :)
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Join us Wednesday, February 26th 6pm-8pm for the fourth event facilitated by the Chican@/Latin@ Student Development Center in collaboration with the Multicultural Community Center Identity Series workshops where we will be holding a dialogue on intersectional approach on Xican@/Latin@/Raza/Chican@….etc identities. How has your gender, sexuality, religion, age, music taste influenced your Latin@/Xican@ identity? We hope to use open dialogue as well as interactive activities to engage in this conversation as well as build bridges among different communities! Everyone is invited to join us for this event.
We hope you will join us!
Hosted in collaboration with CLSD, MCC, and the Multicultural, Sexuality, and Gender Centers.
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As part of our weekly MCC Wednesday intern led workshops, we would like to invite you to join us to our Loving Work Ethic workshop.
The goal of this workshop is to imagine working environments, educational spaces and relating in our communities that is rooted in a definition of love that has the capacity to validate and hold true all of our individual complex identities and lived experiences as we work together. Working relationships that are loving will not only nurture our personal growth as individuals, organizers and intellectuals, they also help shift a culture that is often more concerned with productivity and end results to think of sustainability and wellness as crucial parts of having a thriving working environment.
Please come join us in this critical discussion and invite your community and friends!
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Ron Wilkins, who is a scholar will be speaking on the topic of the African Presence in Mexico. Here is a description of who he is: Professor Ron Wilkins is a retired professor of Africana Studies at the California State University, Dominguez Hills, and professional photographer presently residing in Belize. He has an extensive academic research on the presence of people of African descent in Mexico and is the author of academic papers, including “Mexico Welcomed Fugitive Slaves and African-American Job-Seekers: New Perspectives on the Immigration Debateâ€.
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Come see all the brand new pieces in our all new art exhibit! With works from artists and community members: L Frank Manriquez, Celia Herrera R, and Fan Lee Warren
https://www.facebook.com/events/1396202073969142/
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