Kip Fulbeck Lecture on Diversity and Identity: April 3, 2013

7 p.m., Gannett Auditorium

Kip Fulbeck is a pioneering artist, spoken-word performer, author, and filmmaker exploring multiracial identity. He has been featured on CNN, MTV, the Today show, and PBS, and has performed and exhibited in over twenty countries and throughout the U.S. He is the author of several books including Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids; Part Asian, 100% Hapa; and Permanence: Tattoo Portraits, as well as the director of a dozen short films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me. Part poet, part comedian, and part pop culture critic, Fulbeck moves past "diversity" as a conversation only about race, instead inspiring audiences to tackle the larger questions of who we are as individuals, how we define ourselves, and how we engage with those around us. Audiences worldwide describe him as inspirational, motivational, and eye-opening. Fulbeck teaches as a professor of art at the University of California-Santa Barbara, where he received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award and has been named an Outstanding Faculty Member five times.

Co-Sponsors: This event is sponsored by Office of Student Diversity Programs, Asian Cultural Awareness, Management & Business, Education Studies, Opportunity Program, Arts Administration, Tang Museum, Asian Studies, Psychology, Speakers Bureau, Intercultural Studies, Intergroup Relations Program, Office of Special Programs (Zankel Proposal), SGA's Committee on Diversity Affairs, Sociology, and Social Work.

Kip will host a student workshop in Tim Harper's MB 312 level course, "Social Identity and the Workplace" from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in Bolton 281.

Following the workshop starting at 7 p.m. will be Kip's lecture in Gannett Auditorium for the entire campus body. After the lecture will be a Q&A and a reception will follow in the Gannett lobby with a book signing. For more information feel free to visit Kip Fulbeck's website at http://seaweedproductions.com.