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 | Culture Days Kick Off | April 1, 2010 | Quad |  |
UC Davis Culture weeks are set to be started with a joint kickoff between the Culture Days. Native American Culture Days, Asian Pacific Culture Week, La Razya Cultural Days, Mixed Heritage Week and Black Family Week are all set to occur during the Spring Quarter.
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 | Art of Regional Change | March 31st, 2010 | Buehler Alumni Center Gallery |  |
Art of Regional Change, in collaboration with the Cross Cultural Center and the Buehler Alumni Center Gallery space, is proud to bring an exhibit by Voices of Change. In this project, "urban youth collaborate with university artists, humanists, and social scientists to document the neighborhood conditions in West Sacramento that affect their lives and express their hopes and aspirations for the future. Together, they generate a web-map featuring photos, audio and video recordings to help policy makers design programs that better reflect the voices, concerns, and dreams of typically underserved youth." Come see through the eyes of these young people. Exhibit in the Buehler Alumni Center Gallery in the Spring Quarter.
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| A UC Davis Immigrants Tale | March 2, 2010 | Wellman Hall | |
A UC Davis Immigrant's Tale is a documentary film project that seeks to empower students/faculty/staff of all backgrounds to give their family and personal story of immigration to and within the United States and, specifically, here to UC Davis. Unless you are a member of the Patwin Nation, the original inhabitants of this area, then you came from somewhere. Come tell us how you got to Davis, the joys and struggles of your family and yourself in coming here, and recognize your relation to migrants of all backgrounds. Email ucdimmigrantstale@gmail.com if you would like to participate in our UC Davis Immigrants' Tale documentary before March 2nd, 2010.
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| It was Just One Drink | February 22, 2010 | Olson 244 | |
There will be a showing of "The Red Road to Sobriety" and a discussion looking at drug and alcohol abuse within the Native American Commnunity.
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| Asian Pacific Islander Leadership Retreat | January 29-31, 2010 | Four Springs | |
The 16th annual Asian Pacific Leadership Retreat aims to recruit, develop, and maintain student leaders on campus. We will accomplish this through workshops and activities focused on self-awareness and self-application in a comfortable environment. This year's theme Empowerment tools, empowers students with the necessary skills and resources to make a difference on campus and in communities through an examination of self-identity, current API community issues and application of skills to the communities.
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| Learn-In | January 19, 2010 | Wellman 2 | |
The purpose of this program is to raise awareness of current University budget cuts. Student speakers and graduate speakers will talk about the current situation and how it affects students.
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| R.E.A.C.H. 2010, 11th Annual | January 8-10, 2010 | Lake Natoma Inn | |
The R.E.A.C.H. retreat offers the opportunity for all of us to LEARN to question; DISCOVER connections; and ENGAGE in social justice. In addition, you will gain leadership skills, make friends and have an unforgettable time at the only retreat on campus that allows you to connect with a wide and diverse representation of our communities.
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| Multicultural Night 12 | November 19, 2009 | Freeborn Hall | |
Epsilon Sigma Rho Presents the Multicultural Night 12. The Key to Awareness is Within. Release your awareness with live cultural performances from UC Davis student groups. Performances by: Revelation the Cerebral Liberator, Dahlak Brathwaite Rising Hip-Hop artist, Phi Beat Sigma, Toofan Dance Company, Sickspits, Broken Ground, Lambda Theta Nu, Davis High School Hip-Hop dance team, MK Modern, Nigeria Student dance group, Missouri Mule, Na Keiki 'O Hawaii, Breakdance Club, Danzantes del Alma, Sigma Lambda Gamma and Sigma Lambdra Beta and The Lounge Lizards. Tickets are free, make sure to pick one up at the Freeborn box office on the day of the event.
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| Voices from the Streets: Homeless Youth Speak Out on State Policy | November 19, 2009 | East Conference Room, MU | |
Voices from the StreetsVoices from the Streets: Homeless Youth Speak out on State Policy will include a screening of a video put on by the California Research Bureau in conjunction with the California Council on Youth Relations that looks at how homeless youth are affected by state policy in California. In the video, homeless and previously homeless youth interviewed over 200 of their peers in California in order to make reccomendations on state policy. After the video will be a Q&A panel discussion, with: Patricia Johnson, the director of the CA Council for Youth Relations: Bill McCarthy, a professor that studies youth homelessness at UCD: a studen who has been homeless. Refreshments will be provided!
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| AAAHHH!!! De-stress Me! | November 18, 2009 | Tercero M Building | |
School got you down? Parents on your case? Want to pull your hair out? Well do! Buy what are some causes of stress in the Asian-American, Pacific Islander community? If you don't know then this event is for you! Come and learn about stress as specific to the Asian-American, Pacific Islander community. Find out ways to de-stress, de-tangle, and organize your life! What's your stressor? Everyone Welcome!!!
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| Students of Color Conference | November 13 - 15, 2009 | UC San Diego | |
There will be a UC Davis delegation traveling from UCD to UCSD on Friday November 13th to take part in the 2009 Students of Color Conference. This is a UC wide conference that switches UC campuses each year. This year's theme is, Building Our Leaders with Purpose: Activism, Wellness and Reclaiming Education. Simply, a student's ability to impact the world cannot exceed their energy. To be an effective leader, activist and student requires balance. To learn more about the conference, check out the official SOCC website: Students of Color Conference 2009
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| Chican@/Latin@ Leadership Retreat | November 6 - 8, 2009 | Valley of the Moon | |
For more information regarding this retreat, please contact Ilianna Ramos at iramos@ucdavis.edu at the SRRC.
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| Black Leadership Retreat | October 23 - 25, 2009 | Polluck Pines | |
The retreat's theme is "The Power of Influence: Motivate, Educate, Participate". Attending this retreat is sure to get your year off to a great start by allowing you the chance to get acquainted with other UCD students, the campus, staff and faculty. For more information contact Melissa Muganzo at the SRRC or Deonna Anderson at the CCC.
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| Mia Mingus, Keynote Speaker for Pride Week | October 20, 2009 | King Lounge, MU | |
Mia Mingus is a queer disabled woman of color, South Korean transracial adoptee, organizer and one of the Co-Executive Directors of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (formerly Georgians for Choice) in Atlanta, Georgia. She believes that reproductive justice is crucial in the struggle for social change and the fight to end oppression. Through her work on disability, race, reproductive justice, gender, sexuality, and transracial adoption, she recognizes the urgency and barriers for oppressed communities to work together and build alliances for liberation. Though her activism changes and evolves, her roots remain firmly planted in ending sexual violence.
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| Native Leadership Retreat | October 16 - 18, 2009 | Middletown | |
This second annual leadership retreat is put on by Natives Empowered through Unity and Education at the Student Recruitment and Retention Center. This years theme is 'Expanding our Horizons at UC Putatoi'. April Negrette, the Native American Community Intern at the Cross Cultural Center, is part of the planning committee, you can contact her as well if you have any questions.
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| Graduate Ally Training | September 26, 2009 | UCD | |
The Cross Cultural Center, in conjunction with the WRRC, CVPP, GSA, BPGSA, GAAAP, the GASC, and others were able to come together to provide a much needed Ally training to our Graduate student community. Providing training to nominated students from each participating graduate cluster in areas such as Ally Development, Power and Privilege, and Campus Resources takes a new step forward in assuring that all of our marginalized communities, in all levels of our campus, have the information and access to the spaces and places that will ensure their physical and psychological safety and security.
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| Hood Life Theme Park | September 25th, 2009 | Olson Lawn | |
Part of the CCC open house. Tours going through the center will be lead through the maze of oppression which will allow the people in the tour to experience some of the oppressions that different communities endure within the seven dimensions of identity. Those dimensions being ability, age, class, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion/spirituality.
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| CCC Open House | September 25th, 2009 | Cross Cultural Center | |
Tabling by a diverse group of UC Davis organizations will take place on the University House Law, along with live performances by Danzantes Del Alma, Nigerian Student Association, Broken Ground, and More! Make sure to check out the Hood Life Theme Park on Olson Lawn!
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