Multicultural Day

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Wednesday April 9, 2025

Moorpark College Multicultural Day 2025
THEME: You Belong Here: Recognizing and Celebrating All

Please make plans to join us for an engaging and enlightening day of alternative instruction as we work together to foster a sense of community belonging by celebrating our diverse population. To propose a classroom lecture or activity, please see our Call for Proposals. Please note this is open for Moorpark College faculty, staff, student groups, or guest presenters. 

Vendors

To sign up for a booth in our quad area either as a campus office, student organization, or community guest vendor, please fill out the vendor form.

For further information or questions, please contact the project coordinator Brian Burns

About Multicultural Day

Founded over 30 years ago by a dedicated corps of Moorpark College faculty and staff, Moorpark College’s annual Multicultural Day is an alternative day of instruction where students and community guests are invited to learn about, contribute to, and celebrate the diverse cultural influences that shape our shared society while developing a sense of cultural literacy. 

The core principles and goals of Multicultural Day are:

1) To promote an understanding of and appreciation for the contributions made by diverse cultures – domestic and foreign.

2) To discover cultural traits in our diverse world that unite rather than divide us. 

3) To make MC Day a safe space for sharing differences of opinions, diverse cultural norms, and uncommon viewpoints.

4) To promote creative, experiential, and approachable means for understanding and appreciating cultures in academically challenging and approachable ways.

The MCD Committee

Many thanks to our MCD Workgroup!

Fatema Baldiwala, Tiffany Beam, David Birchman, Brian Burns, Ariana Burrell, Caroline Chance, Lynda Dobson, Shamora Drummond, Gary Garcia, Mostafa Ghous, Kelly Little, Lizette Lomelicruz, Cherisse Meichtry, Cynthia Osuna, Steven Pfeffer, Dina Pielaet, Linda Resendiz, Clare Sadnik, Nighat Shah, Steven Suarez

Thematic Design

The thematic design for this year’s event will created by a Moorpark College student. 

Thanks and Appreciation:

Many thanks to our presenters and performers for the event!

Many thanks as well to the many Moorpark College faculty, staff, and student volunteers who work behind the scenes to facilitate the event. This is a full community effort! Thank you to all the audience members participating in the day. 

Special Thanks

As always, special thanks to Ranford Hopkins and Cynthia Barnett for showing us the way.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge Moorpark College occupies the unceded traditional land of the Chumash people who have stewarded it throughout generations. As we honor the Chumash people with gratitude, we commit to learning how we may be better stewards of this land we inhabit as well. We seek to build relationships with the Chumash community through academic pursuits, partnerships, historical recognitions and community service as these relationships are foundational for inclusive and equitable education and community engagement.

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