Life Series for Men of Color

Life Series for Men of Color
Monday, April 12th at 6pm

OMSA is proud to host this popular conversation series once again. We welcome back Wallace Goode, Direct of the University Community Service Center, as he facilitates an informal roundtable conversation on what it means to be a man of color at University of Chicago. Come for the topic, stay for the conversation! This program is hosted in coloration with the University Community Service Center Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc, and Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc.

**Please note this is a safer space and we invite all U of C students who identify as men of color.

Cultural Shows

Spring Quarter is here and the sun is out! We even have students studying on the patio with their classmates! It seems like everyone is really excited about the sun and fun! Cultural RSOs are also very excited to share their cultural shows with everyone this quarter. With music, fashion, singing, and dancing each cultural show is a great time to experience another culture.

With this new month, we have the honor of highlighting this weekend's Cultural Show.



The South Asian Students' Association (SASA) proudly presents the 23rd annual cultural show, Jashan, which will be taking place tomorrow, Saturday, April 3rd, 2010. There will be a fully catered Indian dinner starting at 5 pm in Bartlett Hall, followed by cultural entertainment at 8 pm in Mandel Hall.

The SASA was started with the mission of gathering students of the University of Chicago with an interest in South Asian culture. This RSO "organizes events for the entire University community to promote awareness of South Asian culture". With these events, SASA seeks to be academically, culturally, socially, and/or community oriented in nature to provide insight to all members. For more information about this organization or how to contact the officers with any questions, please visit their website, (http://www.chicagosasa.com/).

With this cultural show, it is the hope that all University students come and enjoy the hard work that SASA has put into it. You can buy tickets at Bartlett tomorrow night for $12 with your UChicago ID or $16 without a UChicago ID and includes the show, dinner, and a T-shirt.

It is said that the SASA’s Annual Cultural Show is one of the biggest shows on campus! Hope you can make it!

Native Touch Fashion Show

Fashion is a form of self-expression. It evolves with culture, language, history. It is intrinsically connected to our beliefs: the way we think and do things and live. It is as natural to us as talking. As the saying goes “Dress the way you want to be addressed”, fashion is a way of presenting yourself to the world. The turn of the century was pivotal to many people’s lives; it represented a new beginning. For Africa, it was the renaissance of the people.

After decades of people of African descent - in the Caribbean, in the Americas, in Africa too - held in bondage by history and circumstance, the new millennium was an assertion of our freedom. For the past decade, an eruption of self-expressionism through art - where fashion is an art form - took the continent by storm. It was more than tailorism and popular culture; it was kente and beads mixed with stilettos and big hair. It was Stoned Cherrie and Sun Goddess paving the way for all designers of African descent. You could call it the African Enlightenment.

The Native Touch Fashion show has its foundations in this enlightenment. We aspire to share with the world this new and exciting fashion from Africa, the Caribbean Islands, and the Americas.

Spotlight on: Depaul's Center for Latino Research 2010 Art Exhibit

Drastiko Latino Imagery: Sin Limites
Art by Hector Silva

March 9th-June 16th
The Cultural Center
2250 N. Sheffield Avenue, #105

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Contact the Center for Latino Research at:
773-325-7759
culturalcenter@depaul.edu

Weekly Schedule - April 2 - April 8

Friday, April 2^nd

Precious (movie)
Presented by: Doc Films
Time: 6:30pm- 8:20pm
Location: Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59^th Street

Native Touch Fashion Show
Presented by: Organization of Black Students and the African and Caribbean Students Association
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Cloister Club in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59^th Street