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The MCC is excited to welcome you all to our first MCC E-Newsletter of the Fall 2015 Semester!
Welcome back to campus! We hope everyone has had a restful and relaxing summer. Here at the MCC, we have been getting ready for our transition back into the MLK Jr. Student Union --so there are some slight changes to our schedule and events planned for this semester.
Our intention with our e-newsletter is to keep in touch with all of you on a regular basis through a sustainable and easy to share format. Keep up to date with future events in our space as well as updates on our move and transition time.
Missing all the amazing events hosted in the MCC? Don't worry! We have a lot of great programs coming up in the space over the next month hosted by our close campus and community partners. Check out our MCC 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-Thursdays: 9am-8pm
Mondays: 1pm-6pm
In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center
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Solidarity with UC Workers!
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Photos by Lauren Ruffin
For more info contact the Student Labor Committee via Facebook!
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QT Pie: A Queer, Trans, LGBTQ+ Welcome
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Unit 3 All Purpose Room - 2400 Durant Ave
Come for new friends, community, resources, student groups and pie! The name is QT Pie - get it "cutie pie"? Because our queer and/or trans communities are made up of beautiful, amazing, QT Pies! We will have student organizations, campus resources, games and ways for you to get to know new people! And, of course, we'll be selling our rainbow bear UC Berkeley t-shirts! Gluten free and vegan options will be available!
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Hey Bears-
We have pinned down the dates and time for the Fall 2015 Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Community Welcome!!
This Cal welcome week event will serve as a mixer for incoming NH/PI students as well as an introduction to the thriving NH/PI community here on campus and in the greater Bay area. The goal is to build community and develop networks of support that embrace these young scholars and provide opportunities for mentorship and community involvement that will help them to thrive in this rigorous and challenging academic environment.
Please join us!
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Community Welcome
Description: Asian Pacific American Student Development, in partnership with Stiles Hall, welcome all Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students to the new academic year!
Time: 3PM - 5PM
Date: 9/4/2015
Location: Chavez Patio (upper level) just outside GenEq Resource Center and to the left of the GBC
Island style snacks and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP!
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Don't miss Student Group Day & Yard Show!!
Friday, Sept 4th from 5-8pm
This is an annual event put on by African American Student Development Office. Various Black organizations will be tabling. There will be great performances by UC Berkeley's NPHC organizations, students, and local bay area talent. This is event is sure to be festive and fun!
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Women Run the ASUC!
Friday (9/4/15) at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Multicultural Community Center
Women Run the ASUC! is a celebration of the historic victory of all women of color holding leadership positions in the ASUC Office Elect at UC Berkeley. Since it’s establishment in 1887, as an organization to advocate on behalf of UC Berkeley students, the ASUC has never had an Office Elect comprised completely of women let alone women of color. We come together to commemorate this moment and celebrate its potential to promote a campus climate where all students feel valued, supported, and welcome.
GenEq, in collaboration with the Multicultural Student Development (MSD), invites you to join us as we come together to welcome our new student government leaders over food, well wishes, and joyous celebration!
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Hello Community!
http://tinyurl.com/BBWb2015
Welcome back to Cal! We are hosting our first event
Wednesday September 9th from 4pm-6pm.
Stop by as we will be facilitating an Incoming Freshmen Panel and Incoming Transfer Panel from current students of the different Recruitment and Retention Centers that make up the bridges space. Panels will be followed by a community dinner where you can meet the RRCs! We will also be having a special speaker, Ruben E. Canedo, who you may remember from Senior and Transfer Weekend! We hope to see y'all there!
Fill out this reservation form to ensure we have enough food for y'all!
http://tinyurl.com/BBWb2015
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Trans* Hormones: Get Your Questions Answered!
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
6-7:30pm
Gender Equity Resource Center, 202 Cesar Chavez
Healthy snacks included! Hear from clinicians on Tang’s Trans Care Team, and from folks who have taken hormones.
Part of The Hookup: Your connection to LGBTQ Health and Wellness
Questions? Contact Sarah at sgamble@uhs.berkeley.edu.
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Join us in welcoming our New Members!!!
Our 1st director Steven Czifra
With guest speaker
Jason Bell from Project Rebound
When – Thursday Sept. 10th, 2015
Where – Stiles Hall, 2400 Bancroft Way
5pm-8pm
FREE EVENT including Food and Music
The Underground Scholars Initiative (USI) is a student group that supports students who have been directly impacted by mass incarceration.
We use our direct experience as formerly incarcerated students to facilitate meaningful conversation about prison policies and practices
We aim to shift the “school-to-prison pipeline†through the creation of a “prison-to-school pipeline,â€
using higher education
as an alternative to incarceration.
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Encore Queer Film Night with Frameline - Fieldtrip to Oakland!
Thursday, September 10th, 2015
5-10pm (including pizza and travel time)
First 14 people to RSVP get a ride!
First 25 people get pre-movie pizza!
Take a fieldtrip with the GenEq Director, Billy Curtis, to watch new queer film! Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival takes place every June - and they’re bringing some of the festival’s hits to the East Bay for an Encore!
There are two films playing on the 10th, those getting a ride from GenEq are guaranteed a ride back after the first film (Appropriate Behavior) - people are welcome to stay for the second film (Blackbird) but would have to take public transportation home.
RVSP here
About “Appropriate Behaviorâ€: Outspoken twentysomething Shirin is a bit of a mess—she can’t come out to her family, she’s in the process of breaking up with her girlfriend, and her long-term career prospects are nonexistent, unless you count teaching film to a bunch of five-year-olds who only want to talk about zombies and farts. In spite of being an unapologetic bisexual in her personal life, Shirin is still trying to live up to her Iranian family’s traditions and ideals (ideals that her snotty sibling, a surgeon, has effortlessly achieved) while regularly—and comically—hinting at her sexuality… (read more)
Questions? Contact Marisa at mboyce@berkeley.edu.
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Sign up for The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice’s Fall 2015 Reproductive Justice Working Group (RJWG) this semester! Please read this message in its entirety as it provides all of the necessary instructions and information about joining the RJWG.
1) Please submit this form by Friday, September 11th at 5:00pm.
2) If you submit the survey by the deadline you will receive an email with complete directions to the RJWG meeting place and more specific information about the first meeting.
3) Our first meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 16th 4-6pm. At this meeting we will get to know each other better, talk about the goals of the group, and develop a schedule. We will also discuss two key texts from the reproductive justice movement: Ross’ “What is Reproductive Justice?†(in the RJ Briefing Booklet) and the first chapter from Silliman et.al’s Undivided Rights. Both are attached.
4) Snacks are available before the meetings and we take a short break in the middle. Meetings start promptly at 2:00 pm.
5) We will have official RJWG meetings the following Wednesdays from 4-6pm (9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2). Attendance is expected at all sessions although 1-2 absences are allowed. Past participants noted enjoying the group for many reasons including the trust that develops with consistent attendance. You have until the Fridayafter the second meeting to decide whether you will continue with the group.
6) We will periodically inform you of (local) events that provide you an opportunity to forge connections with people working on and researching similar topics.
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Decolonizing Foodways
Thursday, October 1, 2015, 4 – 7:30pm
Alumni House Toll Room
The Food, Identity and Representation Working Group at UC Berkeley and University of the Pacific Food Studies program invite you to participate in an evening of critical thinking and tasting at the Decolonizing Foodways Symposium. Understanding food as a site for de/colonial struggles and strategies in the ways it is produced, consumed, circulated, prepared, and represented within a transnational advanced capitalist economy, this interactive workshop grapples with what it means to liberate our diets from colonial relationships of production and consumption both in theory and in practice. Building off the work of scholar/activists Luz Calvo and Catriona Esquibel, authors of “Decolonize Your Diet: A Manifesto,†we explore and continue to question what the process of decolonizing foodways means. We ask, for example: How do we increase the vitality of oppressed and indigenous peoples, maintain the integrity of our ancestral traditions, and embrace food and ways of cooking/eating that resist subjugation and instead nourish our palates, bodies, and lives? How do we make sense of the different realities of lived food experiences across time and space, taking into account the influences of power and privilege? How might we think through the intersections of diaspora, colonialism, assimilation, generational differences, and food gentrification/cultural appropriation? Utilizing an intersectional, audience-participatory, and multi-sensory approach, this symposium will include a panel of activists and scholars and a freshly-prepared meal by local chefs that cooks up decolonizing possibilities.
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The 2015 Intersect Conference is a full day conference open to the UC Berkeley campus community exploring intersectionality, social change, campus climate, empowerment and healing. “Intersectionality (or intersectionalism) is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. An example is black feminism, which argues that the experience of being a black female cannot be understood in terms of being black, and of being female, considered independently, but must include the interactions, which frequently reinforce each other.â€
Click the picture above to register!
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Scholarships & Resources:
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GiGS
(Getting into Graduate School)
Applications Now Open!
Dear UC Berkeley Students,
GiGS (Getting into Graduate School) is a FREE mentorship program sponsored by the Graduate Diversity Program (GDP) and the Graduate Minority Outreach Recruitment & Retention Project (GMORR). GiGS is designed to encourage UC Berkeley diversity students to prepare, apply, and enroll in graduate school.
Graduate students will: Mentor 2-3 UC Berkeley undergraduates with applications to graduate school, receive leadership development training, and hone advising, teaching, and mentoring skills as they provide advice and academic assistance to mentees.
Undergraduate students will: learn how to become competitive applicants for graduate school, receive individual mentorship from current UC Berkeley graduate students, and attend professional development workshops such as: writing the personal statement & statement of purpose, resume & CV development, funding opportunities, creating a back-up plan, standardized test prep, undocumented student info, professional etiquette & MORE!
Please share the applications below with any graduate or undergraduate who would benefit from participation in GiGS. For more information about the program, please visit: http://diversity.berkeley.edu/gigs.
All the best,
Graduate Diversity Program
Applications are due Tuesday, September 7. Acceptance notifications will be sent out via email in mid-September.
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The Legacy Awards Scholarship was created to honor and remember the legacy of Chican@ Latin@ Alumni trailblazers who paved the path for current and future generations of Chican@s and Latin@s to attend and thrive at Cal. In a collective effort, the five chapters of the Chican@ Latin@ Alumni Association (CLAA): Northern California, Sacramento, Central Valley, Southern California, and San Diego, raised $35,000 in funds to give back in scholarships to current graduate and undergraduate Chican@/Latin@ students.
This competitive Legacy Awards Scholarship seeks to recognize Chican@/Latin@ students who are currently matriculated full-time as undergraduate, graduate, or professional students at UC Berkeley. Scholarship recipients will demonstrate financial need, we well as outstanding academic and personal accomplishment. Undocumented students, first-time freshman, and transfer students with proven funding gaps are encouraged to apply.
Application Instructions:
Please complete this application and upload the 3 following materials:
- Essay of no more than two pages in length that describes your personal background, explains what it means to you to be a Chican@/Latin@ student at Cal, and how you plan to give back to your Chican@/Latin@ community after graduating from UC Berkeley.
- Resume that reflects your experience with community service, leadership roles, employment, and skills
- Copy of financial aid offer letter
Selection And Awards:
A selection committee comprised of the five chapter chairs of CLAA and UC Berkeley staff will verify enrollment and financial need with campus departments, and will verify applications based on the following criteria:
- Full-time matriculation or reduced course load with college approval at UC Berkeley
- Demonstrated financial need
- Completeness and quality of application
The UC Berkeley Chican@/Latin@ Alumni Celebration will award $35,000 in scholarship funds ranging from $500 to $1,000 to selected recipients.
These awards will be presented at the Honorando Nuestr@s Primeros Os@s: Scholarship Awards Brunch on Sunday, September 20th from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Alumni House.
http://ucblatinolegacy.org/legacy-scholarship/
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Free Scholarships- Berkeley Art Studio
The Berkeley Art Studio has received an exciting new grant from the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Student Services and Fees (CACSSF). This means FREE art classes for all UC Berkeley students who qualify for the Pell Grant or Dream Act Scholarship. Administered in partnership with the Educational Opportunity Program, visit the EOP office (119 Cesar Chavez, eop.berkeley.edu) to verify your eligibility for a free membership and receive a special registration code.
For more information, visit: http://artstudio.berkeley.edu/about
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Trainings & Volunteer Opportunities:
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Join the Relationship Violence Awareness Month (RVAM) Planning Collaborative!
Friday, September 4, 2015 (first meeting)
10-11am
127 Sproul Hall
October is domestic violence awareness month, and over the years, various campus entities have planned various activities for Relationship Violence Awareness Month (to include dating violence, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence).
Join the RVAM Planning Collaborative - a group of interested students, faculty and staff who are planning and coordinating events at UCB focused on raising awareness about intimate partner violence. If you are interested, please read this to learn more about the RVAM2015_ucb googlegroup and collaborative tools.
Questions? Please contact cici at ambrosio@berkeley.edu.
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UC Berkeley Food Pantry is looking for volunteers!
The Food Pantry provides emergency nonperishable food to UC Berkeley students in need of immediate food assistance, while they explore other food security resources.
Volunteer shifts are available in 2 hour chunks on weekdays between 12-4pm. We ask that volunteers commit to their shifts for the entire semester. There will be a MANDATORY TRAINING on Thursday, September 10, 11am-12:30pm at the food pantry in Stiles Hall (2400 Bancroft Way). If you cannot attend due to conflicts with classes, please let us know as soon as possible. Deadline to complete this application is Monday, September 7th at 12pm.
http://bit.ly/1Fktdbt
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SOUL Training for Trainers
Since 1996, we have trained more than 6,000 youth and community organizers, educators, and activists in radical political education and essential organizing skills. Training for Trainers builds upon SOUL's many years of training, curriculum, and facilitation experience, to develop the capacity of organizations to train their own staff, members, & leaders.
"Education is the property of no one. It belongs to the people as a whole. And if education is not given to the people, they will have to take it." - Che Guevara
http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ruluE_T1-EI-aVeepGg87Ari7Obuxy-iUk55_wCaswE/viewform
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