Programs and Events
Your Home Away From Home The Black Cultural Center
Need a study break? Want to hang out with friends? The Black Cultural Center (BCC) has free games that you can check out at the front desk (Taboo, Monopoly, Dominoes, Scrabble Deluxe, Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Catch Phrases). You can play games, watch TV on the big screen TV, take a nap on the couches, bring and eat snacks or just talk with friends in the Lounge (room 115 on the first floor of the BCC). Stop by today we'd love to see you!
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The FALL 2009 Calendar of Events is available here.
October
Ailey II Dance Company
If you enjoy watching dance companies perform you would not want to miss this. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater started in 1958 and since then, has gone on to perform for an estimated 23 million people in 48 states and in 71 different countries on 6 different continents. Ailey II is a highly trained dance company that merges the spirit and energy of the country's best young talent with the passion and creative vision of today's most outstanding emerging choreographers. Come and enjoy this performance with the rest of the University of Tennessee . For more information of this event, please contact Dawn Norwood at bcpc@utk.edu or 865-974-6861.
Sponsored by BCPC
Monday, Oct. 12,2009 at 7:00 pm
Clarence Brown Theatre
Political Awareness: Donna Brazile
As one of the best known, most influential African American women in modern American political life, she is Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute (VRI). In the media, she serves as a political contributor on CNN, consultant to ABC News, regularly appearing commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and frequent contributor to NPR's News and Notes. She is also the author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics , a memoir about her life in the political arena, and co-author of What We Do Now . Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University .
Monday, October 19, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Carolyn P. Brown University Center Auditorium
University of Tennessee
Booksigning and reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Black Cultural Programming Committee (BCPC) and the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee .
The event is free and open to the public. For more information and disability accommodations, contact the Minority Student Affairs at (865) 974-6861 or visit our website at web.utk.edu/~bcpc.
Monthly Events
Mahogany Soul
Do you enjoy good music, poetry, art, theater, and spoken word? Mahogany Soul is an event held every 4th Tuesday of the month. Come and enjoy the beauty of the performing arts from your fellow students, faculty, and staff or if you're up for it, you can actually perform yourself. Mahogany Soul features the infamous open mic performances. This is a great way to express yourself and share your talents. For more information of this event, please call 865-974-6861 or email omsa@utk.edu . See you at 6:30 pm, at the BCC. Fall Dates: August 25, September 22, and October 27.
Annual Events
Karibu Tena: A Welcome Back Celebration
Karibu Tena, Swahili for "Welcome Back," is a time for entering and returning students to fellowship and reconnect with our diverse communities at UT, and in the Knoxville area. Everybody, who's anybody, will be in attendance, and it is a great way to meet fellow students from all backgrounds, make new friends, find useful resources, and much more. An event held at the Black Cultural Center once a year; come sample foods from local restaurants, see the fraternities and sororities participate in a Greek Stroll off, and learn more about student organizations, departments, local churches, beauty and barber shops, and community agencies. The Office of Minority Student Affairs is dedicated to assisting and supporting minority freshman and transfer students in making a successful transition to life on the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Karibu Tena: A Welcome Back Celebration is a warm and welcoming beginning. See you there!
Splash Jam
The Annual Caribbean Splash Jam is one of the first social events of the year is one of the feature programs of the Black Cultural
Programming Committee (BCPC). Held by the pool with food, music, and a festive theme, BCPC hosts one of the first and premiere
social events for all the students at the University of Tennessee. Splash Jam is intended to provide an atmosphere that will allow
first-year students to establish friendships before fall semester classes begin while also encouraging interaction with returning students
and with faculty, administrators and staff who are present. Splash Jam should be among the good memories that undergraduate students
carry with them during and after their UT careers.
Scholar's Bowl
Think you know Black history Facts? Are you pretty competitive? Well Scholar's Bowl is your opportunity to test your knowledge. It is the official Black History Quiz bowl where any group of 4-5 students can compete for various prizes and bragging rights as the Scholar's Bowl champions. It is an annual event and students may sign up in the Black Cultural Center
Multicultural Graduation Celebration
The Multicultural Graduation Celebration provides a wonderful opportunity for us to celebrate the achievements of our diverse student body at the University of Tennessee. In anticipation of commencement, we host this event to bring our minority students together to honor their successes and to recognize this step in their life journey. This event also serves as a way for students of color to pay tribute to those who have helped them along the way. Students, family, friends, faculty, staff, and alumni are each valuable components of the support system that we provide for our students. Minority Student Affairs celebrates and commemorates our students and wish them well as they continue the journey.