April Events starting 4/17

The Multicultural Center over 15 events taking place in Fort Awesome and on campus. Join us for a student club meeting or events (such as The Real Story of Superheroes in the Museum on 04/18), or events organized by students (such as Her Natural Crown Screening on 04/21) and in collaboration with campus partners (such as Art of Internment on 04/25 with guest artists).

Flyer with program details:

04/18 The Real Story of Superheroes with Dulce Pinzon, Don Bosco Worker’s Center, and faculty Patrice Giasson and Leandro Benmergui 12:30-2:10 at the Neuberger Museum of Art

04/18 Earth Week Speaker: Karen Johnson 6:30-8:30pm Admissions Buffer Room. Join us for a free catered reception at 6:30pm and at 7:30pm the speaker will discuss food justice, the urban farming experience and her efforts to create support networks like Black Urban Growers (BUGS).

04/19 Purchase van goes to Yonkers: Learn & Develop Skills to Transform Communities hosted by Westchester for Change, Indivisible Westchester & WESPAC. Van leaves at 5pm. Returns at 9:45pm. Sign up by 4/17 to ceg.multicultural.center@purchase.edu

04/19 Hands on Workshop: DIY All Natural Body Products with RC Shereen 5:30-8:00pm. Part of Earth Week.

04/20 Bollywood Movie Night 7-10:30pm

04/21 Day of Silence. Take a stand against bullying of LGBTQA students. 1:30-3pm Humanities Lobby. Sponsored with OCE, Student Affairs Diversity Committee

04/21 Food Prep for Breakfast Run at 3pm. Location: TBD. Email pcmidnightrun@gmail.com

04/21  Her Natural Crown Screening 7-9:00pm. Senior Thesis film screening, "Her Natural Crown" written and directed by Kerry LeVielle.

04/22 Breakfast Run. Spots for 3 students available. Email pcmidnightrun@gmail.com

04/22  Unite to Fight Intersectionality Session 1-3:00pm.  Largescale Resident Assistant program.

04/22 Unite to Fight Healing & Rejuvenation Circle 4-5:45pm. Largescale Resident Assistant program.  

04/23 Cries from Syria Film Screening at Stony Point. Campus Departure 2:30pm from Fort Awesome Driveway. Free dinner at 6pm. Return to campus 7:45/8pm

04/24 Hapa/Anime Club: From Up on Poppy Hill 6:30-8:30pm

04/25 Art of Internment 2:30-4:30 pm Humanities Theater. On the 75th anniversary of the closing of the Japanese internment camps, this program will examine the executive order that created the camps during World War II, the art and crafts created in them, and how internees coped with their mass detention. Sponsored by Multicultural Center & Windgate Artist in Residence Program and with support from MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory.

04/26 Lemonade Anniversary Screening 12:30pm. Sponsored with OCE.

04/26 Sankofa Film Series 7-9:00pm

04/27 Bollywood Movie Night 7:00-10:30 

Women's History Month at Purchase ... She believed she could so she did

We kicked off March with Women Supporting Women.  We had staff attendance and will explore this platform for staff.

Check out 20+ events hosted by student organizations, faculty, departments, and the Multicultural Center. Scroll down for text version of the flyer.

03/02 HAPA Tea Time 8:30pm Commuter Lounge

03/02 Claudia Rankine 4:30-6pm Humanities Theater

03/05 SOCA's HerStory 2-4pm MCC

03/07 Punching Up: TEXTures in Blackness by Kameelah Rasheed & The Black School. 2:30-5:30pm. Printshop VA 1009. Part of Punching Up Series. RSVP required.

03/08 Counseilng presents International Women's Day Tabling 11am-2pm Humanities Lobby

03/09 MCC presents film screening and discussion of Living Quechua 7-8pm MCC

03/09 HAPA Healing Circle 8:30pm TBD

03/11 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 10am-4pm Library

03/14 OCE presents Famous Women in Art 12-1:30pm

03/14 HAPA Self Love Haikus with Self-Care Club for Self Love Week 8:30pm TBD
03/16 HAPA Manko-Chan Activity 8:30pm TBD

03/17 Black Girl Magic: Masterclass. 6-9pm. MCC. Part of AfroDisiac. RSVP to blackgirlmagic.masterclass@gmail.com

03/18 AfroDisiac 4-11:30pm The Stood

03/19 Women's History Month - LikUIDITY 8-11:30pm The Stood

03/19 Library presents Women's History Month Trivia. Library 12:30-2

03/20 Gender Studies Annual Mary Edwards Lecture - Adotei Akwei - Breaking the Glass Ceiling and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Critical Challenge of Women's Righs 4:30-6pm Red Room

03/23 HAPA Discussion of Women's Rights 8:30pm TBD

03/25 & 3/26 femme future 8-11:30pm The Stood

03/29 MCC + Political Science present Your Reproductive Rights are Being Trumped 4:30-6pm MCC

03/30, 03/31 Dutchman A Senior 
Project 7:30pm Humanities Theater

03/03 HAPA Mulan 8:30pm TBD

Multicultural Center March Calendar of Events

The Multicultural Center has over 25 events taking place in Fort Awesome and on campus. Join us for a student club meeting (American Sign Language, Philosophy Society Reading Group, and more) or events (such as Night of Many Tongues in the Red Room on 03/16), or events organized by students (such as Black Girl Magic: Masterclass on 03/17) and in collaboration with campus partners (such as exploring the indigenous Latinx experience on 03/09 with Living Quechua director and film or Your Reproductive Rights are Being Trumped panel with Political Science faculty on 03/29).

Flyer with program details:

03/02 Bollywood Movie Night 7-10:30pm

03/03 SOCA Sex Education Workshop 5:30-8:30pm

03/05 SOCA HerStory 1-4pm

03/05 PoliTicked Off 8-11pm

03/06 Art Force 5 Community Art Project. Explore the role of civil rights protest. Drop-in 10 minutes. 10am-2pm. CCN Lobby. All majors welcome.

03/06 Art Force 5 Creativity Over Conflict. 5-6:30pm. Humanities Theater.

03/06 American Sign Language Club Meeting 7-8pm. Meets every Monday.

03/07 Student Affairs Diversity Committee 3-4pm. Meets Every Tuesday.

03/07 TEXTures in Blackness by Kameelah Rasheed & The Black School. 2:30-5:30pm. Printshop VA 1009. Part of Punching Up Series. RSVP required. eleanor.king@purchase.edu

03/09 Living Quechua Film with Director followed by Q&A 7-8:30pm 

03/14 Famous Women in Art 12-1:30pm - Cancelled

03/15 Sankofa Film Series 7-9pm - Cance

03/15 Philosophy Society Reading Group 9-10pm - Calledncelled

3/16 SUNY Purchase Literature Society presents Night of Many Tongues 6:30pm Red Room

03/16 Bollywood Movie Night: Ae Dil Hai Mushkil 
7-10:30pm

03/17 Black Girl Magic: Masterclass. 6-9pm. Part of AfroDisiac. RSVP to blackgirlmagic.masterclass@gmail.com. Moved to Admissions Buffer Room.
 
03/20 Letter Writing to NY elected officials 7-9pm. Moved  to Humanities 2031.

03/21 MCC Play: The American Question 4-5:30pm Dance Theater Lab, Discussion 5:30-6pm in Studio J

03/23 OAPIA Meeting 9:30-11pm

03/23 American Sign Language Club meeting 8pm. Commuter Lounge. Note: new day of the week, time, and location.

03/29 Your Reproductive Rights are Being Trumped with Political Science faculty 4:30-6pm

03/29 Sankofa Film Series: Moonlight 7-9pm

03/29 Philosophy Society Reading Group 9-10pm

03/30 Queering Performance: Humor, Identity, Documentary & Drag with Buzz Slutsky & Loren Britton. 4:30-7:30pm Visual Arts, Design Studio Room 1021. Part of Punching Up Series. RSVP required. janine.polak@purchase.edu

03/30 Bollywood Movie Night: 3 Idiots 7-10:30pm

Co-founder of Showing Up for Racial Justice at Purchase on Thursday, February 23

Join us for an evening with organizer, author, and educator Chris Crass!

Presented by Multicultural Center with support from the Office of Community Engagement and Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs.

Thursday 

February 23, 2017 

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Humanities Building, New Location: Room1032

Free and Open to the public.
Part of Days of Action and Dialogue
For more information, please call 914-251-6333

"Strategies for Engaging & Moving White People into Racial Justice Action"

Millions of people of all backgrounds, with leadership coming from the Black community, are taking to the streets under the banner and vision of #BlackLivesMatter. With racism in the national headlines, the Black liberation movement on the move, and lots of white people questioning racism in the U.S., this is a powerful and important time to engage and move more white people into racial justice action. The purpose of the presentation is to support all who tend to feel more confident doing anti-racist work in white communities and to leave with ideas and tools for doing it more effectively.

About Chris Crass:

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer, educator, and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. In 1999, he helped launch the Catalyst Project, a project that combines political education and organizing to develop and support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organizing in white communities and builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and nationally. He is part of the founding of the national white anti-racist network, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and served on the leadership team in 2011. ​ Copies of his books (Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy and Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter) can be purchased and signed after his talk.

http://www.chriscrass.org/

Books:

Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter. Download the ebook and Discussion Guide.

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Art Force 5 Coming to Purchase on Monday, March 6

The Multicultural Center is bringing the Art Force 5 program to SUNY Purchase on Monday, March 6. 

Established in 2006, the Art Force 5 program combines social justice with an art therapy approach. In addition to providing workshops to over one hundred audiences, they specialize in creating community-built art. 

The campus will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on collaborative art project which will be worked on at each participating SUNY campus before a complete project is displayed in NYC on the one hundredth anniversary of a critical civil rights event.  The community-built art will commemorate the one hundred year anniversary of The Silent Parade organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led by youth in East St. Louis, Illinois on July 28, 1917.

Full Press Release: http://drawntodiversity.culturalunity.org/2016/12/16/af5-planning-suny-tour-followed-by-silent-parade-tribute/

Community Based Art
Drop-In: 10am-2pm
CCN Lobby
Come paint a mosaic tile! It takes only ten minutes.

Creativity Over Conflict
For: Faculty/Staff
Bring Your Own Lunch
12-1pm
SSB Red Room

Creativity Over Conflict
Open to the Public
5-6:30pm
Humanities Theater

Flyer with location details.

Top text: All Major Welcome. Use the Force!

Homework Assignment from Claudia Rankine

On February 2, Claudia Rankine invited the campus to submit Pecha Kucha presentations.  A broadcast email was sent out on February 10th, below are details from the email:

Durst Distinguished Lecturer Claudia Rankine & Purchase College Present:

A Racial Imaginary Institute “Pop Up” @ Purchase College

Thursday, March 2, 4:30-6pm, Humanities Theater

 “If we are not conscious about how we construct societies around race, then we will construct what was unconsciously constructed.”   – Claudia Rankine

What does it mean to investigate the construction of race in our everyday lives?

In what ways are these constructions practiced, maintained, and enforced?

We invite faculty, staff and students across campus to contribute to a special Durst Lecture Series event with Claudia Rankine.  Join us in creating imaginative and challenging investigations of the role of whiteness in our everyday spaces.  How is white dominance visible or invisible in the terrain familiar to you?  How could you use images to provoke a thoughtful interrogation of white supremacy in your area of study or work?

We seek broad community engagement and hope a multi-disciplinary approach will expand and deepen our understandings of white dominance and help us think through our roles in the fight toward equality.

The event will take place Thursday, March 2, from 4:30-6 p.m., in the Humanities Theater. 

Prospective participants should compile a Pecha Kucha "20x20" presentation.  Pecha Kuchas consist of 20 slides that self-advance after 20 seconds, giving the presenter 20 seconds to talk about each slide, for a total presentation time of exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds.  We expect to present 8-10 Pecha Kuchas, followed by Q&A with participants and Claudia Rankine.

Please consider submitting!  The submission deadline is Thu., Feb. 23. 

Submission instructions

·      All submissions must be in PowerPoint. 

·      All submissions must contain 21 slides: the first slide should give your name; the remaining 20 are the images you will talk about. 

·      Include brief talking points in the "notes" field for each image to help us imagine your presentation.  

·      The submission deadline is Thu., Feb. 23, 2017.  Early submissions are welcome.

·      Email your PowerPoint to Purchase.Pecha.Kucha@gmail.com.

Submissions workshop

The Multicultural Center is planning a workshop to answer questions and brainstorm with those who are intrigued but unsure.  Stay tuned for details, or contact Daisy Torres, ceg.multicultural.center@purchase.edu.

For more on Pecha Kucha as a presentation style, please visit: www.pechakucha.org . 

For more on the event or on submitting, contact Prof. Mariel Rodney (mariel.rodney@purchase.edu) or Prof. Jennie Uleman (jennifer.uleman@purchase.edu).

Showing Up for Racial Justice February Meeting 02/16

As we get ready for Chris Crass' presentation (Strategies for Engaging and Moving White People Into Racial Justice Action) on February 23, we are taking the Purchase van to Yorktown Heights for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) on:

Thursday, February 16
7pm-8:30pm
Campus departure: 6:30pm
Campus estimated time to return: 9:00pm

We have 8 spots available. Email ceg.multicultural.center@purchase.edu with your cell phone number.

About the SURJ Meeting
In addition to reviewing the Shared Values, there will be small group readings of an article by Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

To prepare for the meeting, please check out the 'Shared Values' on the SURJ national website which also be reviewed in the meeting. http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/about.

Flyer logo

Flyer text:

Mission:Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) believes in collective liberation -- and that none of us can be free until we end white supremacy.

SURJ's role as part of a multi-racial movement is to undermine white support for white supremacy and to help build a racially just society. That work cannot be done in isolation from or disconnected form the powerful leadership of communities of color. It is one part of a multi-racial, cross-class movement centering people of color leadership.

Vision: We envision a society where we struggle together with love, for justice, human dignity and a sustainable world.

Date: February 16
Time: 7:00 p.m. for New Members; 7:30 p.m. for Returning Members*
Place: Temple Beth Am, 203 Church Pl, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

*If you are arriving at 7:30 p.m. please park on the street as the school will be dismissing students at 7:45 p.m.

The time to take action is now, we hope to see you there!

Snacks will be provided. Childcare will be provided.

For more information: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
Contact: SURJWestchester@gmail.com or (914) 295-2527