Parliament Brewing serves up great brews and an opportunity to test your knowledge of Emancipation and African-American history and facts. As the country continues to create new traditions in celebration of Juneteenth, this local brewery is creating shared culture with the simple act of asking questions. Join us for trivia and beers.
Raquell Holmes has selected paintings, photos and drawings from the art collection of LeVell Holmes, her father, who collected engaging, eclectic art from around the world, with a focus on Black culture. The select pieces will be on display at Johnny’s Java, Cotati CA, throughout the festival. Take your picture with one of the art ... Read more
1-hour Playback Theatre performance + 30-minute workshop on Embodied Empathy True Story Theater performs a style of improvisational drama where volunteers from the audience spontaneously share how they connect to the show's theme. Actors and a musician listen deeply and then transform the stories into theater, portraying the heart of what they heard. From this ... Read more
Our communities and families are repositories of history. This history is not usually written up textbooks. Often, we don’t even share it with each other. Now that the teaching of Black History is under attack, it is more important than ever that our untold histories are heard. This story-telling gathering is an invitation to share ... Read more
Join us for a special edition of Creating Our Mental Health on Saturday June 22, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (Eastern Time), in honor of Juneteenth and as a part of the Freedom Festival. Creating our Mental Health (COMH) is a free, monthly, drop-in, community conversation which is open to all people from around the ... Read more
The Blasian March marks its fourth annual Blasian Pride Rally to uplift Black, Asian, and Blasian LGBT community as a Juneteenth celebration. Brooklyn, NY-- The Blasian March proudly presents Blasian Pride: Juneteenth Edition on Sunday, June 22, 2024, 2 PM at Cadman Plaza, to celebrate Black, Asian and Blasian LGBT people. Through speeches and performance ... Read more
Join us for our 25th annual celebration and plant sale! We're excited to be part of celebrating life and freedom. We will have mostly native plants for sale, including several host plants (caterpillar food), Dutchman’s pipevine, milkweed, and a broad selection of seasonal nectar plants (butterfly food). We will have an up-to-date map and garden ... Read more
Did you know that a prosperous, self-governing community of free Black people existed on American soil long before the Civil War? In 1814, deep in the swamplands of Florida, a diverse group of formerly enslaved Black people took over a British military fort, built housing and farmland and lived truly free, for a time… How ... Read more
There are a number of works written by leading researchers that “popularize” physics to make it accessible to a general audience. One such text is “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” by Carlo Rovelli which takes the reader through a tour of 20th Century physics leading up to the author's contributions to quantum understanding which is ... Read more
"Are you mad like me? / Have you seized back your dreams / in the fists of your crumpled wings?" In this proof-of-concept performance-lecture, spoken word poet, sci-fi writer, and performance activist Steven T. Licardi introduces us to the remains of several state hospital cemeteries scattered around the United States and abroad. He will be ... Read more
Free Online Global Playshops, June 28th & 29th, 2024 Can learning be more playful for both students and teachers? Renowned educator and author Sir Ken Robinson, famously stated, "Creativity is as important as literacy." This sentiment underscores the fundamental role of play in education. Research supports the notion that play enhances cognitive abilities, creativity, and ... Read more
At 8pm ET/ 5pm PT: 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 ... Read more
Free Online Global Playshops, June 28th & 29th, 2024 Can learning be more playful for both students and teachers? Renowned educator and author Sir Ken Robinson, famously stated, "Creativity is as important as literacy." This sentiment underscores the fundamental role of play in education. Research supports the notion that play enhances cognitive abilities, creativity, and ... Read more
Explore experiences in and out of the classroom with tricks and tips for facilitating engagement! Bring your curiosity, presence, and authentic selves and co-create with us, through play and collaborative learning. Join the organizers of Cultivating Ensembles and experience the interactive playful activities and methodology that have built virtual ensembles and produced an interdisciplinary, inclusive, ... Read more
This hybrid offering will be an in-person/virtual visit to the "Underground Railroad Tree" in the Guilford Woods of North Carolina. The 300-year-old Tulip Poplar tree is a living monument and witness to the freedom-seekers who were part of this eastern seaboard launching point of the Underground Railroad during the early 19th century. The great tree ... Read more
Three poets come together to share their work and in a short moderated discussion, ask one another questions about each other's poetry, the poetics of freedom, and the relationship between poetry, resistance, and liberation 2024 America. The panel discussion will be moderated by Raquell Holmes from improvscience. Rohan Zhou-Lee, pronouns They/Siya/祂 (Tā) is a Queer/Non-Binary ... Read more
1pm PT/ 4pm ET. Read more for zoom link. In the decade following the collapse of Reconstruction a new movement arose in the South comprising black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers—a Black Populist movement. Organized through the Colored Farmers Alliance, among other black-led labor groups, mutual aid associations, and black churches—and then expressed through the People’s ... Read more
6/30/2024, 4pm PDT This in-person event is a choral performance of freedom songs sung by Harmonia, a diversity-appreciating, community choir of mostly white folks who want freedom for all. Directed by John Maas, Harmonia is the resident choir of Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Northern California. At St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sebastopol, Harmonia ... Read more
7/1/2024 Start Time 5:30 PT/8:30 ET You’re invited to celebrate inspirational ladies in your life with us. The inspirational lady you choose may be anyone in your life. They maybe someone you know well or even someone you just heard about for a few seconds. They are ladies–women who inspired us to be the ... Read more
As part of the Freedom Festival, we invite you to join members of our Monthly Creative Playground for a special workshop to explore, perform and celebrate freedom and independence. Date: July 2nd, 2024 at 3:30 pm PDT/ 6:30 pm EDT We started the Creative Playground with a collective intent: that exploring creativity together is therapeutic. ... Read more
No matter where you live, you’re invited to join hosts James Newman and Catana Malinowski in this Freedom Festival event that opens conversations with California independent and independent-minded voters to all.
Sixteen days of celebration and months and years of conversations have led to this day, Wednesday July 3rd. Starting at 12:00 pm PT/ 3:00pm ET In this 75 minute conversation, we invite participants to share and discover the conversations inspired by the Freedom Festival. We are discovering new stories, relationships, challenges and possibilities. Festival participants ... Read more
6 pm PT. Parliament Brewing serves up great brews and an opportunity to test your knowledge of freedom and independence in history, song and facts. This local brewery invites us to create new traditions in celebration of freedom and independence, Juneteenth to Independence Day, through the simple act of asking questions. Join us for trivia, ... Read more
10 am PT/ 1 pm ET Independence Day, July Fourth, we'll host our Freedom Festival finale! In this conversational romp, we'll dance with music, words and images through the experiences and discoveries we have made together in the festival. Whether you've attended events or only recently heard about it, come with curiosity, hopes and dreams as ... Read more
Are you excited, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call, we playfully discover what each of us can do to create explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. Join us in a fun session. Meet people around the country and the world. Discover what others are doing ... Read more
Are you excited, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call, we playfully discover what each of us can do to create explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. Join us in a fun online session. Meet people around the country and the world. Discover what others are ... Read more
Are you excited, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call, we playfully discover what each of us can do to create explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. Join us in a fun session. Meet people around the country and the world. Discover what others are doing ... Read more
Are you excited, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call, we playfully discover what each of us can do to create explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. Join us in a fun session. Meet people around the country and the world. Discover what others are doing ... Read more