Center for Diversity in Cultural Arts

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The Center for Diversity in Cultural Arts serves to enhance the cultural climate of the UCSC campus and surrounding communities through theater. The Center is comprised of two performance groups: The African American Theater Arts Troupe and Rainbow Theater.

The African American Theater Arts Troupe serves to enhance the climate of cultural diversity on the UCSC campus and the community while focusing on the recruitment, recognition, and retention of underrepresented students by providing a sense of belonging, inclusion, and bringing in productions about people of color, and encouraging the celebration and respect of American diversity. The AATAT is dedicated to producing a wide variety of plays that reflect the African American culture. The troupe under the direction of Don Williams has performed: Ceremonies In Dark Old Men by Lonnie Elder IlI (1992), The Amen Corner by James Baldwin (1993), Streamers by David Rabe (1993), Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson (1994), Once ln A Wifetime by Celeste Walker (1995), Tambourines To Glory by Langston Hughes (1996), A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller (1997), and this year's production Fences by August Wilson (1998).

For more information, please visit: http://arts.ucsc.edu/aatat/03/index.html

Rainbow Theater’s artistic purpose is to create unity, increase visibility and understanding of various ethnic groups, and encourage the celebration of American ethnic diversity and culture. Rainbow Theater is designed to foster the spirit of unity between races, while providing an outlet for creative talents of various cultural and ethnic groups. Rainbow Theater seeks to enhance the cultural climate of the UCSC campus and surrounding communities through the encouragement of the celebration of American diversity and by focusing on current issues and concerns. The Rainbow Theater class is marking its fourteenth season of presenting multicultural one-act plays, which are designed to increase awareness of the cultural climate at UCSC and in the city of Santa Cruz.