The director of multicultural affairs, affiliated student organizations, and many other faculty, students, and staff, organize and sponsor a multitude of programs, including forums, speakers, workshops, film series, art exhibits, dinners, coffeehouses, dessert receptions, and other cultural activities that are congruent with the mission of the Center. A few examples of past events include:

• Andean band Pacoindino and international dessert reception;
  
• Black and Brown, Get Down!, a conversation with Elizabeth Martinez and Elena Featherston;
  
• Mark Dendy, artist-in-residence, performing Busride to Heaven;
  
• Magdalena Gomez, Puerto Rican poet and author;
  
• Harlem Renaissance singers;
  
• Nancy Hawley, organizer of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective;
  
• Lisa Jones, writer;
  
• Helen Sunhee Kim, Direct Action Organizing Workshop;
  
• Rabbi Philip W. Kranz, Establishing a Sexual Morality: The Jewish Perspective;
  
• Mix-1995/96 NY Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Alternative Film and Video Series;
  
• The Gambia National Music and Dance Troupe;
  
• Exhibit and presentation by artist Robert Ogata;
  
• The Personal Is Political, art exhibit by Marjorie Kramer;
  
• "Viva La Huelga" photo exhibit;
  
• "The Black Panther Party" political poster exhibit;
  
• Dith Pran, Cambodian activist, speaking on Surviving the Killing Fields;
  
• Solidaridad Latina video series;
  
• Student Lecture Series;
  
• Piri Thomas, Puerto Rican poet and author;
  
• Africa Peace Tour: speakers from Somalia, Mauritania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
  
• Human Rights Symposia;
  
• Loung Ung, 1997 Nobel Prize Winner, representing the International Campaign to Ban Landmines;
  
• John Hope Franklin, historian;
  
• Concert with Brazilian group "Olodum";
  
• Lecture by Penebscot Legislative Representive Donna Loring;
  
• Jothi Raghavan, master performer of classical Indian "Bharata Natyam" dance;
  
• Ilyasah Shabazz; daughter of Malcom X and Betty Shabazz;
  
• Ruben Solis, co-chair, Campaign for Border Justice/Southwest Workers Union;
  
• Middle East Film Festival;
  
• Films of the African Diaspora.