Welcome back to the Multicultural Community Center!!!!
We hope our grand reopening has inspired ya'll to continue moving in spirit with the third world Liberation Front and all the other inspiring forces who have shaped the vision for a thriving MCC. We hope that each of you continue to visit us for an event, an intern run MCC Wednesday, or just come hang out with the interns and study. We aim to revive the feelings of resistance and resilience the MCC used to proliferate in the (old) MLK building. As such, we are dedicated to creating opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community members to collectively envision and work towards a more equitable, accessible, and relevant university, while also supporting each other’s personal and professional growth and development.
We're excited to welcome you to our new home!!
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New Location: 220 MLK Jr. Student Union
Open Hours
Monday: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday - Thursday: 10am - 8pm
Friday: Noon - 8pm
MCC & Community Events Calendars
In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center
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“Breathing Life into Legacy†–our theme for this year’s NOCR/WOCR – is an invitation to reflect upon, and honor, the ancestors, mentors, and visionaries who nourish the deep roots of the MCC. As we look to our past, we affirm the knowledges and stories carried by our elders and ourselves –recognizing that our presence is not defined in the singular but rather cultivated in the communal. We encourage ya’ll to breathe life into y(our) legacies by connecting past to present as we dream/create our future(s). In doing so our presence is entrenched in the desire to nourish our existence –giving us life with every breath we take.
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The Multicultural Community Center and Cross-Cultural Student Development office are excited to invite you to join the planning committee for this year's Night of Cultural Resistance (NoCR) which is scheduled for Friday, March 11, 2016. We offer Ethnic Studies field units for undergraduates interested in working with the committee and do our best to creative a supportive planning process for all participants. If you are interested please sign up here or email Mayra Gonzalez at gonzalez_mayra@berkeley.edu with any questions.
Please fill out the following form if you are interested in vending at NoCR on Friday March 11, 2016 from 5-8pm.
Deadline to register is Monday, February 22, 2016 by 12pm. Spaces are limited so vendors selected to participate will be notified by Friday February 26th. Please email Mayra Gonzalez at gonzalez_mayra@berkeley.edu if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!
NoCR is the culminating event of our Week of Cultural Resistance (WoCR) which is scheduled for 03/7/16-03/11/16. 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.
WoCR/NoCR Planning committee
sign up here!
NoCR Vendor Registration Form
sign up here!
We will have our next planning meeting on Friday
February 12th at 1pm in the MCC.
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Call for Art Submissions
(Deadline to Submit is Monday, February 29th // All pieces must be delivered to the MCC by Wednesday, March 2nd)
What is a journey? Where are you going? Who are you becoming?
The Multicultural Community Center presents Journey To…: Expressions of Existence, an art exhibit that explores movement in relation to presence. A journey is not a static definition, restrained only to mere travel between two physical spaces, but rather movement that captures a series of evolutions, transformations, metamorphoses, discoveries, and several homecomings. It is the site where multiple journeys meet: the internal and the external, the finished and the incomplete, the linear and the nonlinear, the collective and the self, going towards home or elsewhere. There is much to learn from each other as we all move our own way, carry stories as well as wisdoms from our elders, and travel through beautiful and difficult paths. We are souls with bodies that cannot be confined to one story. We are in multiple transitions that are simply waiting to be expressed.
The Multicultural Community Center invites you to share art that draws on your personal journeys of existence for our opening art exhibit which will be presented at our 16th Annual Night of Cultural Resistance.
Please fill out the submission form below (all pieces must be delivered to the MCC by March 4th).
Journey To...: Expressions of Existence
SUBMISSION FORM
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Information Sessions
for the upcoming Mellon Mays Undergrad Fellowship Program are coming up soon!
Check out the next info session Tuesday February 16th!!
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program at UC Berkeley targets students with exceptional academic promise in the humanities or social sciences and potential for academic careers that will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in the academy. The program supports Fellows by providing mentorship and the environment and resources to strive for the highest academic goals. Berkeley’s MMUF program guides the intellectual and professional development of Fellows to realize their greatest potential as graduate students.
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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed and issued the Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans to remote internment camps.
In honor of the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly interned during World War II, the Muslim Student Association and Nikkei Student Association will be collaborating to host thier annual Day of Remembrance. It will be an opportunity to remember the injustice Japanese Americans faced, and parallel their experiences with Muslim Americans in the wake of post-9/11 Islamophobia. Please join us for an evening of guest speakers, performances, activities, and FREE food!
When: Friday, February 19th, 2015
Doors open: 5:00 pm
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Where: Multicultural Community Center
2495 Bancroft Way, Suite #220
University of California -- Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-4520
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Dear Poets and Performers,
The 20th Annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam season is here! We've pushed back the date of The Grand Slam Finals to Saturday, APRIL 16, 2016 at Davies Symphony Hall. This year we have:
10 Preliminary Bouts: Thursday, Friday and Saturday
- February 18, 25-27
- March 3-5
- March 10-12
4 Semi-Final Bouts: Friday and Saturday
- March 25-26
- April 1-2
The Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam is OPEN TO ANY youth 13-19 years old in the Greater Bay Area. Join hundreds of young artists and leaders as they take the stage and perform for a chance to represent at The Grand Slam Finals. Seize the stage and speak truth to power! Register NOW at http://youthspeaks.org/youth-speaks-teen-poetry-slam/
Registration is open until next Thursday, February 11th. If you are 13-19 years old - enjoy writing and performing spoken word - please sign up here for your chance to share your truth on stage. Up to 6 winners will have an ALL EXPENSE PAID trip to represent the Bay Area Team at the 2016 Brave New Voices festival in Washington, D.C. in July!
Bouts are starting to fill up! NOW IS THE TIME TO SECURE YOUR SPOT. Please note that the 10 Preliminary Bouts are stating February 18th and will end of March 12.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact Associate Director of Bay Area Programs, Aimee Espiritu (aespiritu@youthspeaks.org). We're thrilled to have you participate if it's your first time or you've been a long-time participant.
We hope to see you there!
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Reproductive Justice WORKING GROUP
Focus: Welfare Policy and Reproductive Oppression
Spring Semester 2016
Are you interested in how public policies and welfare programs affect the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to birth and parent children with safety and dignity?
Join this facilitated working group of activists, scholars, researchers, and community members, which will meet six times this semester over midday snacks and drinks. Together we’ll explore how Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other welfare policies control, exploit, or regulate people’s reproductive behavior. We’ll specifically concentrate on welfare family caps, like the Maximum Family Grant Rule of the CalWORKS program.
The working group’s primary goal is to co-create an environment where participants can deepen their understanding of reproductive justice by focusing in-depth on welfare policy and reproductive oppression.
Early sessions will focus on reading and discussing relevant materials related to public benefits and reproductive rights. During later sessions, participants can present and receive feedback on RJ-related works-in-progress (e.g. op-ed, conference presentation, campaign or event work plan, dissertation prospectus, article draft). Optional activities and projects to enhance participants’ experience will be offered throughout the semester.
The RJWG will meet these Mondays from 12:00 – 2:00: Feb. 22, 29; Mar. 14, 28; Apr. 11, 18
Our working group has been going strong for four years now. We welcome participation by community members, activists, clergy, health professionals and advocates, advanced undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and researchers from various disciplines. The group will meet in a wheelchair-accessible location with free parking for people with disabilities.
* Email reprojustice@law.berkeley.edu for info on registration, LOCATION, ETC.*
Sponsored by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice and the Center for Race & Gender at University of California, Berkeley
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