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  • Community Educational Forum — Immigration Matters: A Conversation on Policy and Law

    International Civil Rights Center & Museum 134 South Elm Street, Greensboro, NC, United States
    Hybrid Event

    This community educational forum will bring together legal practitioners and community leaders to discuss the current landscape of U.S. immigration law and policy, including DHS detention practices and the broader impact of policy changes on communities. The event will feature expert panelists and offer attendees the opportunity to learn, ask questions, and engage in meaningful ... Read more

  • Discord and Harmony : The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues, Jazz, Soul, and Hip-Hop

    online
    Virtual Event

    This will be a look at-and a listen to-the role African American music has played in embodying and inspiring the ongoing struggle for freedom and full equality in the U.S.A. The session will be a mix of music video clips (Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder, among others) and informal conversation led by progressive ... Read more

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  • Freedom’s just another word for…Improv

    Virtual Event

    Learn the story of Curtain Up! Anxiety Down!, a program that has helped to free people through improv from the debilitating impact of social anxiety. This online one-time event will include film clips of our class and upcoming documentary Tightrope and opportunities for participants to experience the way we play in our class. Curtains up! ... Read more

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  • Four smiling people on a video call with the improvscience logo

    Experience improvscience Community Office Hours

    online

    Come play with us during improvscience Community Office Hours! The community office hours are held weekly for those who work and organize within and adjacent to Dr. Raquell Holmes and improvscience.  The  Zoom room is for people to work, plan, and create with others. If you want to collaborate with friends on projects, bounce ideas ... Read more

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  • Our stories are worth listening to while we can

    Community Building through Griot Stories

    Peace and Justice, Santa Rosa, CA 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United States

    Our stories are worth sharing while we can. Join this in-person storytelling session at the Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa, CA. Marian Knox creator of Griot - A story game with heart! will lead us through creating new stories of our lives. Starts at 1:45 pm at 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa RSVP requested, ... Read more

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  • 100 Years of Gender Play: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography

    The Sitting Room 2025 Curtis Dr, Penngrove, CA, United States

    Join us for a discussion of gender expression that spans 1928, when Woolf’s “novelography” Orlando was published, up to today. Hannah Hellman will begin with a brief discussion of her thesis on Woolf’s gender play in Orlando, focusing on Vita Sackville-West’s struggle with her own gender as the source of inspiration. In her thesis, Hannah ... Read more

  • “Damn Yankee” Storytelling to Confront Slave-Owning Family History

    online
    Virtual Event

    Participants are invited to share stories of confronting slavery in their own families. The goal is to provide a safe, unrecorded space where people can discuss the cultural norms passed down through generations that keep us from being free of our histories. Host, Dr. Laura Peticolas, will provide her own stories of her slave-owning ancestors ... Read more

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  • One image of the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence and another of Fredrick Douglass

    What to Us is the Fourth of July?

    online
    Virtual Event

    Reading Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and from Frederick Douglass We invite you to join us at the Freedom Festival for a collective reading of excerpts from both the Declaration of Independence and Fredrick Douglass’s speech “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?” We’ll explore in conversation the relationship between these documents ... Read more

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  • photo portrait of Frederick Douglass

    The HEARTbeat of Freedom

    online
    Virtual Event

    The HEARTbeat of Freedom is based on the famous Fourth of July speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852. We will present three different renditions of an excerpt from this speech. You will HEAR with your EAR this operatic ART and I know it will touch your HEART. We will begin with the ... Read more

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