1st Annual Activism Right There Festival

Thanks to over thirty different UC Berkeley student and Bay Area organizations and their amazing capacity to organize a week-long series of events within a month (and over the winter break… wow, right?), UC Berkeley is host to the first ever annual Activism Right There Festival. The festival kicks off at 7pm in Naia Gelateria Lounge (Lower Sproul, UC Berkeley campus) tonight with an Open Mic on Gender and Sexuality, hosted by CalSlam and The Vagina Monologues. And if you can’t make it tonight, fear not! You have the opportunity on Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday to check it out.

And Friday night in Zellerbach should be especially awesome, as it will feature a panel of well-known activists speaking on student activism at UC Berkeley, including: author of Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang and Bettina Aptheker of the Free Speech Movement.  Following the panel will be a concert with such performers as world reknown spoken word group iLL-Literacy (that’s right, they came to our theme unveiling) and Bay Area hip-hop legends Zion I.

And the best part of this festival? Free Fun!!!

If you’re in the area and have some extra time on your hands this week, we command you to go!

 

{m}aganda 21 theme unveiling

DWINELLE HALL -

September 20th, 2007.

Many lovely people turned up for Maganda’s first event of the semester. The theme and Call for Submissions for m21 was revealed (more on that later). We raffled off some mags, good vibes bounced off the walls, and talented folks came out to show their stuff at the Open Mic.

Special thanks go out to our featured performers, who rocked the small-classroom energy and kept us pumped with their truth, their style, their beats- and free tickets to the London Underground (also known as BART):

Adriel Luis & Ruby V. of iLL-Literacy

Mesej 1 & Jason Bayani of Proletariet Bronze

Deep Foundation …all the way from Queens, N.Y.

We hope y’all come again next time.

Until then-

WE LOVE (our people)!

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