On Friday March 14th, 2014 the Multicultural Community Center and Cross Cultural Student development in Collaboration with ASUC office of the President and Superb, hosted the 15th Annual Night of Cultural Resistance (NoCR). At this year's NoCR we commemorated the 45th anniversary of the third world Liberation Front.

It was great to see students, staff, faculty and community members come together to celebrate and commemorate the many generations of people who have fought for justice within the University.  This was the first time that NoCR was ever held on Memorial Glade, over 1000 people attended the event with crowds ranging from 500-800 at any one time. The theme of Root Y(our) Future, and the various community building activities encouraged folks to engage with the idea of cultural resistance through art and collective knowledge sharing. We honored Lisa Walker, the director of Cross Cultural Student Development, someone who has helped NoCR grow every year since its inception.

It was amazing to be able to put together an event that left so many communities and generations feeling excited for the next Night of Cultural Resistance. We would like to thank those who shared their energies and time in the space for making it a great event.

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.
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In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center

Art Submissions for MCC Art Exhibit: “Matriarchal Narratives".

Be on the lookout for the online submission form and the Facebook event or email submissions to artcommittee.mcc@gmail.com

Open to different kinds of art work: paintings, drawings, poems, etc.

***SUBMISSIONS WILL BE REVIEWED ON A ROLLING BASIS

UNTIL MARCH 28TH***

From grandmothers to drag mothers*, we often experience unexplainable magic bonds with different mother figures throughout life. They can represent the resiliency, wisdom, and warmth that help us grow and learn from all our experiences. “Matriarchal Narratives” hopes to honor those stories by holding space for the narratives that these bonds create through processes of healing, nurturing, and love. We wish to collect and display art that explores various forms of motherhood and reimagines traditional understandings of what motherhood looks like, while acknowledging that mothers can and do transcend gender, sexual, and parental identities and human experiences. Through this exhibit, we want to recognize the importance of the energies and gifts that are taken for granted all too often. We open the space to different lived experiences surrounding mothers and motherhood to shed light on the stories, bonds, and complications that we honor and celebrate.