The African-American Student Development (AASD) Office will be hosting our first annual Black History Month Festival this year, co-hosted by the LEAD Center and ASUC SUPERB. The festival will be held Saturday 2/20 on Lower Sproul Plaza, from 12-5 pm. The theme of our festival this year is Carnival, in the spirt of the festive African Diasporic celebrations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Our carnival will feature a parade, live student performances and headline performance by Noname Gypsy, plates of food for sale, games, face painting, and many more activities for a fun family-friendly environment! Bay Area community members of all ages are welcomed and encouraged to attend. We at AASD, the LEAD Center and ASUC SUPERB are extremely excited for this year's carnival celebration, and we hope you all enjoy it as well!
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History on Carnival:
While Carnival originated as a somewhat solemn Catholic holiday in 12th century Rome, it was brought to the West with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and later reinvented by enslaved Africans into the grand celebrations we see today. To celebrate Carnival is to pay homage to our African roots and traditions, our power in unity, and the beauty of our people.
Carnival aligns with the 2015-2016 AASD theme, "The Reclamation of Independence: We, the Black People…" Our theme is a reclamation of our freedom, and an expression of our humanity and interconnectedness. With our theme and festival we hope to highlight the importance of recreating past traditions that have made our community strong, while striving for a greater future.
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The Multicultural Community Center (MCC) invites you to participate in our collective vision to honor the legacy of African/African-American pioneers who have based their lives on anti-oppression work. Art, literature, poetry, dance, and other creative outlets have been used as mediums to amplify the voices of people from the African diaspora. We invite you to share your voices, stories, and talents in our recreation of Isaac Tigrett's original vision of the
House of Blues.
Sign up to perform HERE!
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Annual Perspectives on Contemporary Native Issues Symposium
Traditional Knowledge in Contemporary Contexts
February 26, 2016
Multicultural Community Center
220 Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
University of California, Berkeley
While the history between Native peoples and representations of identity projected upon them (having been replicated and reinforced in popular culture) is layered and complex, the rise of technology and social media has ushered in an era of accessible activism that pushes against this history. Native peoples across the world now have practicable, highly visible modes to express unique voices that challenge and redefine how Natives are represented both internal and external of their communities. Traditional Knowledge in Contemporary Contexts seeks to highlight the multiple contexts through which representations of Native communities, culture and individuals are being shifted and reimagined.
Keynote speakers:
Leroy Little Bear
Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy
Students can attend without charge, please contact us for the promotional code
Register to attend today!!!
REGISTRATION FORM
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The Center for Race and Gender hosts a series of Thursday Afternoon Forums featuring presentations from faculty, fellows, and students on emerging research on race, gender, and their intersections. Forum presentations represent a broad landscape of ideas, topics, and disciplinary approaches, and are great opportunities to engage in discussions about new research or share scholarly work for community feedback. Forums take place every other Thursday at 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in the CRG Conference Room in 691 Barrows Hall, unless otherwise noted. Forums are open to the public and the location is wheelchair accessible. Light (but tasty) refreshments are served.
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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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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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The Peter E. Haas Public Service Leaders Program provides need-based scholarships and supports a community of undergraduate student leaders who have demonstrated a significant commitment to off-campus service activities.
The application process for the 2016-17 academic year will open on March 9th, 2016 and will close on March 30th, 2016. Please check back after March 9th to access the application.
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The SURF Letters and Science program (SURF L&S) is designed to fund Berkeley undergraduates in the College of Letters and Science to spend the summer doing concentrated independent research for a senior thesis or another major capstone research project. The SURF Rose Hills fellowship allows students to immerse themselves in full-time research over the summer. Sophomores or juniors are supported to conduct faculty-initiated research. Juniors and seniors are funded to conduct independent research in preparation for an honors thesis or eventual publication. The summer program culminates with the annual SURF Conference in August.
Applications are due February 18th
Please feel encouraged to apply!!
For more information check out the program website here!
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The Haas Scholars Program was founded in 1997 through the generous vision of Robert and Colleen Haas. Each year, twenty highly qualified, academically talented undergraduates with financial need come together to build a supportive intellectual community during their final year at UC-Berkeley. Haas Scholars receive close mentoring from members of the UC Berkeley faculty, seminars and workshops to assist them in the research and writing process, the opportunity to present their work at a professional conference, and up to $12,600 each in financial support. Haas Scholar alumni have gone on to become leaders in their respective fields, including academia, industry, public service, and the arts.
Applications are due by February 22nd!
For more information check out the program website and application here!!
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The 2016 Stronach Baccalaureate Prize is open to Berkeley graduates in any area of study who are awarded an undergraduate degree in Fall 2015, Spring 2016, or Summer 2016. To apply, please submit an application by Tuesday, March 1, 2016, including a project proposal, budget, transcripts, and sample of your work. A complete application file must also contain two or more letters of recommendation, including a recommendation from a project mentor. It is optional to include a CV/resume.
Please see the Submitting page for instructions on how to apply on-line.
If you have any questions or would like to sign up for an appointment with the program advisor, please email stronachbaccprize@berkeley.edu
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation was established as a nonprofit philanthropic organization in June of 1969 with a mission to “aid and promote such religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes as may be in the furtherance of the public welfare or tend to promote the well-doing or well-being of mankind.â€
Applicants must be of second semester Sophomore standing (or at least 4 academic year semesters remaining at UC Berkeley) and have a approx. 3.4 GPA.
For more application information please check out the program website!
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