Join AAASRC’s annual Afro-Caribbean Dance and Drumming Workshop on February 19th. Master Drummer Gene Perry will demonstrate practical applications of the musical rhythms and dances from various regions. Light refreshments will be served. This is a participatory workshop, and attendees are encouraged to bring their own instruments to play!
February 19th, 2026
3:30 PM
SSB 101
Refreshments provided
Join us for the first event in the AAASRC Black History Month Series, featuring Xavier Livermon, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Interim Provost of Oakes College at UC Santa Cruz. This talk will examine the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg’s nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito, and demonstrates how kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs, challenges, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa. Light refreshments provided.
February 12th, 2026
3:30 PM
SSB 101
