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SUMMARY:The Freedom We Make : Queer Artists on Sound\, Struggle\, and Sanctuary Spaces
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \n12-2pm PDT / 2-4 pm CDT/ 3-4 pm EDT. How do queer artists create spaces of freedom-not just for survival\, but for creative process?   \nAmid the federal administration’s threats to sanctuary jurisdictions\, MovingGround initiated Sanctuary Spaces\, an art-action network to share narratives and shed light on people’s lives directly impacted through conversation\, performance\, and co-creating live and experiential Sanctuary Spaces together.   From Window\, the Black lesbian vocalist and author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories\, to Mister Lady Zen\, an internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Together these artists use sound\, word\, and community to build sanctuaries. Meanwhile\, Najee Rene aka “Casino\,” the Berlin-based musician and podcaster behind BABE: Black American Berlin Expat\, amplifies diasporic voices across borders. \nTogether with Freedom Festival and the Freedomista\, Lisa Aurora Calderon\, co-founder of Naming Gallery and ToMaRo Gallery invited MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio to co-moderate this panel where we ask the panelists to share: How do we create Sanctuary\, Safety\, and Protection? How does art become a tool for peace in the face of chaos? How do we preserve sanity while fighting for liberation? And what does it mean to teach\, create\, and thrive when governments change abruptly? Join us for a conversation on music\, memory\, and the radical act of making room for ourselves. \nIncredible Panelists and Organizers! :: \nCO-ORGANIZERS / MODERATORS:  \n\nLisa Aurora – ToMaRoGallery.com\nKrista DeNio – MovingGround\n\nPANELISTS/ ARTISTS \n\nWindow – Vocalist\, Singer Songwriter\, Artist\, and Author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories.\nNajee Rene aka “Casino” – The Emperor’s Tarot and BABE Black American Berlin Expat\nMister Lady Zen- Internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Learn more about her work here.\n\nRegistration and Fee: \n$5-50 sliding scale. Get tickets below. Additional donations can be made to Venmo | MovingGround; write one word in the payment note that gives or creates in you a sense of sanctuary \n**Please note that your contribution goes directly to paying the artist fees for all panel experts! \n12-2pm PDT / 2-4 pm CDT/ 3-4 pm EDT.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces-2/
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SUMMARY:Freedom From the Machine: The Uses and Abuses of AI
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \n12 pm PDT/ 2 pm CDT/ 3pm EDT \nThe increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of “Large Language Models” such as Chat-GPT\, or generative image models such as Dali opens up the possibility of increased productivity as well as individual expression. Much like other tools\, AI also has the potential to be used either carelessly or with malicious intent. To understand both the benefits and the pitfalls\, it is important to understand how AI is implemented\, what tasks it can do well\, what it can’t do well\, and how we can guard against malicious use.  \nJoin us for this session that will introduce some of the fundamentals of AI\, provide some hands-on experience with using these tools\, and open to a discussion about how they may shape our lives in the future. Open to all.  No AI experience necessary.  \nDiscussion Leads: Loretta Cheeks and  Nick Gross \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-from-the-machine-the-uses-and-abuses-of-ai/
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SUMMARY:Online Embodiment Touching Closeup Love: a leaderless and leaderful embodied racial justice practice group
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \n5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET \n“Hope is invented every day.”\n– James Baldwin quoted in Resmaa Menakem’s book The Quaking of America \nJoin us. We are a group of 8 people who self-organize an online\, bi-weekly\, leaderless and leaderful\, embodied racial justice practice group. We began in response to Resmaa Menakem’s call for people to practice the offerings in his book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies with other people\, and to commit to practicing for the rest of our lives. We are organizers\, healing arts practitioners\, teachers\, facilitators\, artists\, yoga therapists and retirees. We are an intergenerational group\, from our 30s to our 70s\, in Illinois\, New York\, Ohio\, Texas\, Virginia\, and Washington DC-Baltimore. \nAs we near 5 years of practice together\, we want to open our circle up to others interested in experiencing how we gather. We’ll share what has been revealed to us over the course of our time in relationship with each other\, and how we’ve evolved to shape our lives with each other’s partnership. Join us for discussion and practice that tends to our bodies and our mutual development. \nResmaa Menakem calls his landscape of practice Somatic Abolitionism\, which is an embodied response to the problems of white-body supremacy. It is a “living\, embodied\, practice and culture of antiracism”. To learn more about Resmaa’s work\, check out the Black Octopus Society. We are not experts in or teaching Resmaa’s body of work. We are gathering to share our relationships with one another and our commitment to resourcing ourselves\, so we can show up more wholly and effectively in our lives and the conditions that have been created. And so\, maybe\, we can make small (perhaps inconceivable) shifts to these conditions\, in our lifetimes. \nJoin us with a cup of tea and in comfortable clothing. \nJuly 1\, 2025: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET \nCo-presenters include: C Meranda Flachs-Surmanek\, Vinny Mwano Jeffrey Pulis Jennifer O’Hara Michael Burnham Jen Schneeman Beth Anne Brooks-Mwano\, Barry Feldman
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/online-embodiment-touching-closeup-love-a-leaderless-and-leaderful-embodied-racial-justice-practice-group/
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ORGANIZER;CN="C Meranda Flachs-Surmanek":MAILTO:merandissime@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Freedom: A Roundtable Exploration
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed. Watch on YouTube. \n11:00 am PDT/ 1 pm CDT/ 2 pm EDT \nJoin us. What is the philosophy of freedom? Freedomista Joanna Wheeldin is joined by SRJC philosophy instructors Sean Martin and Dr. Alexa Forrester to discuss freedom\, independence and nonviolent resistance. In this zoom meeting\, we’ll dive into texts like Barbara Deming’s On Revolution and Equilibrium and Edouard Glissant’s book chapter “For Opacity.” To join the conversation\, RSVP below. You’ll receive the link in an email. \nRecordings of the festival events will be available on the Freedom Festival Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@FreedomFestivalUSA \nTaking place on July 2nd at 11:00 am PDT/ 1 pm CDT/ 2 pm EDT.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-philosophy-of-freedom-a-roundtable-exploration/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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SUMMARY:Freedom and Independence: Fields\, Streets and Stars
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \n4:30pm PT / 6:30pm CT / 7:30pm ET \nJoin us in this online conversation with astrophysicist\, Dr. Hakeem Oluyesi. You may know Dr. Oluyesi from his appearance on The Science Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science\, conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson on StarTalk or on his own Does it fly podcast. Do you know his thoughts and experience of freedom and independence? \nHosted in conversation by Dr. Holmes\, we’ll explore Dr. Oluyesi’s experience of freedom in the rural south\, in academia at Tougaloo College and Stanford University. We’ll walk through what he has learned from his communities and history that now shapes how he creates opportunities that build bridges from fields and streets to the stars. \nHakeem Oluyesi is CEO of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. A society with a history of inviting everyone–amateurs and experts– to participate\, to learn and to engage in the love of stars\, astronomy and physics. \nRaquell Holmes is Associate Director of EdEon STEM Learning at Sonoma State University bringing high-end technology platforms to teachers and students in rural high schools and middle schools. Check out the STEMACES program for professional development opportunities. \nJuly 2nd\, 4:30pm PT / 6:30pm CT / 7:30pm ET \n                 \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-and-independence-fields-streets-and-stars/
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SUMMARY:What to us is the Fourth of July? Does Freedom Ring True
DESCRIPTION:12 pm PDT/ 2pm CDT/ 3pm EDT The Declaration of Independence is one of America’s significant founding documents. On its face\, it is a declaration of war. A look at the structure of the document\, it follows the archetype of 18th century enlightenment thinking\, laying out fundamental principles drawn from the laws of nature and deriving conclusions based on these principles. But over all this\, the document lays out the values that the founders considered to be fundamental to the creation of a government\, and though imperfect\, the values for which the country should continuously strive. \n72 years later\, Frederick Douglass was asked to deliver an Independence Day address to the Rochesters Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The address\, entitled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a lament of the celebration of independence while so many in the US were enslaved. In contrast to the appeal to logic of the Declaration of Independence which strives for lofty goals\, Douglass’s address points out the hypocrisy inherent in the invitation and national celebration. Even so\, Douglass ends his speech “drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence [and] the great principles it contains”.  \nWe invite you all 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 and freedom. Collectively\, we can create together our meaning of freedom and the Fourth of July. \nDiscussion Leaders: Nick Gross\, Rachell Moore\, and Jay Newman \nNick Gross \nJay “Glitch” Newman \nRachelle Moore \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/what-to-us-is-the-fourth-of-july-does-freedom-ring-true/
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SUMMARY:Creative Playground - Let's Create Freedom and Liberation Together
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDate: July 3rd\, 2024 at 3:30 pm PDT/ 6:30 pm EDT \nWe started the Creative Playground with a collective intent: that exploring creativity together is therapeutic. We have created a space where we foster our creativity\, and develop emotionally as well as artistically. We come together on Zoom the first Thursday of every month. Participants share\, respond to each other and we create with our varied histories\, identities\, stories and emotional responses to living in a world where crisis is the norm. In the Creative Playground we use the expressive arts (theater/improv\, poetry\, movement\, music\, drawing/collage) to create improvised conversations and art together. \nTogether we will explore what it means for people in America and internationally to come together to explore and celebrate freedom from slavery and our ability to collectively self-organize. All people have an experience of what freedom and independence mean to them. Through this festival\, we want to create OUR experience of liberation. \nRegister Here!
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/creative-playground-freedom/
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SUMMARY:Freedom Dreams Open Mic & Festival Finale
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \n1:00 pm PDT/  3pm CDT/ 4 pm EDT \nOn the most celebrated occasion in the world\, independence from Britain\, we come together to explore and share our dreams of freedom. The Freedom Festival creates a platform\, a stage for people to speak\, to say what we have to say in our world of pain\, love and dreams. In this final Freedom Festival event\, we invite you to the stage in this poetry open mic. Hosted by improvscience duo\, Ashna Ali and Dr. Holmes. We’ll play with the poetry of life and word as we celebrate what are and have been able to create together. \nRaised in Italy and based in Brooklyn\, Ashna Ali is a queer and disabled child of the Bangladeshi diaspora\, and the author of The Relativity of Living Well (Bone Bouquet\, 2024) and the Substack\, PAIN BABY. Their work is featured or forthcoming from The Margins\, Indiana Review\, Sun Dog Lit\, and beyond. A Best-of-the-Net nominated poet\, they are the poetry editor for Epiphany Magazine and co-editor of Dead End Zine with Hunter Hodkinson. With Divya Victor\, they are the co-host of the poetry podcast The Source\, produced by Asian American Writers Workshop. They hold a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center\, City University of New York\, and are earning their MFA in the low-residency Creative Writing program at Randolph College. \nSign up to read: Participants who want to read should log on during the first 10 mins of the event to sign up and be prepared to read a poem for no more than 3 mins. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-dreams-open-mic/
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SUMMARY:Freedomistas - Building Together - Welcome All
DESCRIPTION:Are you excited\, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call\, we’ll playfully explore and discover what each of us have\, can and may bring to creating explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. \nMeet people around the country and the world also inspired by the Freedom Festival. Discover what others have done and see how you want to participate in the festival.
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SUMMARY:Freedomistas - Building Together - Welcome All
DESCRIPTION:Are you excited\, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call\, we’ll playfully explore and discover what each of us have\, can and may bring to creating explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. \nMeet people around the country and the world also inspired by the Freedom Festival. Discover what others have done and see how you want to participate in the festival.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedomistas-building-together-welcome-all-march-2026/
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SUMMARY:Freedomistas - Building Together - Welcome All
DESCRIPTION:Are you excited\, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call\, we’ll playfully explore and discover what each of us have\, can and may bring to creating explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. \nMeet people around the country and the world also inspired by the Freedom Festival. Discover what others have done and see how you want to participate in the festival.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedomistas-building-together-welcome-all-april-2026/
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SUMMARY:Freedomistas - Building Together - Welcome All
DESCRIPTION:Are you excited\, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call\, we’ll playfully explore and discover what each of us have\, can and may bring to creating explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. \nMeet people around the country and the world also inspired by the Freedom Festival. Discover what others have done and see how you want to participate in the festival.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/april-25-freedomistas-building-together-welcome-all/
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SUMMARY:Freedomistas - Building Together - Welcome All
DESCRIPTION:Are you excited\, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call\, we’ll playfully explore and discover what each of us have\, can and may bring to creating explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. \nMeet people around the country and the world also inspired by the Freedom Festival. Discover what others have done and see how you want to participate in the festival.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedomistas-building-together-welcome-all-may-9-2026/
CATEGORIES:Co-organizing session
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SUMMARY:Freedomistas - Building Together - Welcome All
DESCRIPTION:Are you excited\, curious or interested in the Freedom Festival? In the Freedomistas zoom call\, we’ll playfully explore and discover what each of us have\, can and may bring to creating explorations of freedom and independence with neighbors and loved ones. \nMeet people around the country and the world also inspired by the Freedom Festival. Discover what others have done and see how you want to participate in the festival.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedomistas-building-together-welcome-all-may-23/
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SUMMARY:Juneteenth Staged Play Reading written & directed by Enid Pickett
DESCRIPTION:June 18-20th\, 2026. You are warmly invited to join us for the staged play reading about love. Love of Family\, Faith\, and Freedom. Three acts: 1865-1963-2025. A black family’s journey of struggle and survival living in the USA. Performed by the Enid Pickett Players. Experience this event in person or watch it streaming live. \nEnid Pickett Players: Bruce Rhodes\, Azalea Abrams\, Elizabeth Daye\, Sarah Baker\, Rylan Bowers-Parr\, Kafoune Diamoutene\, Sabryyah Abdullah\, ReEllis Dotson-Newman\, Zeneta Arthur-Asgill\, N’Game Gray\, Nadia Hill\, WoodRowe Farguheson Jr.\, Christopher Bowers\, Erinn Anova\, Sela Kerr\, Shaun Greenhaigh\, Keenan Webster\, Enid Pickett\, Lauren Ridgway. \nGeneral Admission – $20\, Students and Seniors – $10 \nIn-Person tickets can be purchased here: https://www.enidpickett.com/Juneteenth \nStreaming will become live day of the event. RSVP below to receive invitation to online Q&A.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/juneteenth-staged-play-reading-written-directed-by-enid-pickett-2026/
LOCATION:New Vintage Church\, 3300 Sonoma Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Enid Pickett":MAILTO:enidpickettpress@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260619T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260619T210000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260518T151248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T152502Z
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SUMMARY:Juneteenth Staged Play Reading written & directed by Enid Pickett
DESCRIPTION:June 19th\, 2026. You are warmly invited to join us for the staged play reading about love. Love of Family\, Faith\, and Freedom. Three acts: 1865-1963-2025. A black family’s journey of struggle and survival living in the USA. Performed by the Enid Pickett Players. Experience this event in person or watch it streaming live. \nEnid Pickett Players: Bruce Rhodes\, Azalea Abrams\, Elizabeth Daye\, Sarah Baker\, Rylan Bowers-Parr\, Kafoune Diamoutene\, Sabryyah Abdullah\, ReEllis Dotson-Newman\, Zeneta Arthur-Asgill\, N’Game Gray\, Nadia Hill\, WoodRowe Farguheson Jr.\, Christopher Bowers\, Erinn Anova\, Sela Kerr\, Shaun Greenhaigh\, Keenan Webster\, Enid Pickett\, Lauren Ridgway. \nGeneral Admission – $20\, Students and Seniors – $10 \nIn-Person tickets can be purchased here: https://www.enidpickett.com/Juneteenth \nStreaming will become live day of the event. RSVP below to receive invitation to online Q&A.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/juneteenth-staged-play-reading-written-directed-by-enid-pickett/
LOCATION:New Vintage Church\, 3300 Sonoma Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,Kids & Family,Performing Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Enid Pickett":MAILTO:enidpickettpress@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260620T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260620T210000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260518T151522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T152546Z
UID:10000162-1781983800-1781989200@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Juneteenth Staged Play Reading written & directed by Enid Pickett
DESCRIPTION:June 20th\, 2026. You are warmly invited to join us for the staged play reading about love. Love of Family\, Faith\, and Freedom. Three acts: 1865-1963-2025. A black family’s journey of struggle and survival living in the USA. Performed by the Enid Pickett Players. Experience this event in person or watch it streaming live. \nEnid Pickett Players: Bruce Rhodes\, Azalea Abrams\, Elizabeth Daye\, Sarah Baker\, Rylan Bowers-Parr\, Kafoune Diamoutene\, Sabryyah Abdullah\, ReEllis Dotson-Newman\, Zeneta Arthur-Asgill\, N’Game Gray\, Nadia Hill\, WoodRowe Farguheson Jr.\, Christopher Bowers\, Erinn Anova\, Sela Kerr\, Shaun Greenhaigh\, Keenan Webster\, Enid Pickett\, Lauren Ridgway. \nGeneral Admission – $20\, Students and Seniors – $10 \nIn-Person tickets can be purchased here: https://www.enidpickett.com/Juneteenth \nStreaming will become live day of the event. RSVP below to receive invitation to online Q&A.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/juneteenth-staged-play-reading-written-directed-by-enid-pickett-2/
LOCATION:New Vintage Church\, 3300 Sonoma Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,Kids & Family,Performing Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Enid Pickett":MAILTO:enidpickettpress@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260621T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260621T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260507T163644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260507T163644Z
UID:10000143-1782061200-1782068400@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Discord and Harmony : The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues\, Jazz\, Soul\, and Hip-Hop
DESCRIPTION: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 musician and composer Dan Belmont\, and life-long grassroots organizer and leader Allen Cox.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/discord-and-harmony-the-struggle-for-freedom-in-the-usa-through-blues-jazz-soul-and-hip-hop-3/
LOCATION:online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260624T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260624T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260318T185404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260502T203606Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:Let’s get together and talk about freedom and what it means to each of us\, using the oft forgotten power of poetry. Bring something original or something that resonates with you and share it at our first mic-less open mic poetry reading. \nLight snacks are provided for this after-hours event.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/poetry-by-the-bay-2026/
LOCATION:Roadhouse\, 1580 Eastshore Rd\, Bodega Bay\, CA\, 94923-9758\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260626T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260626T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260515T212646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T145110Z
UID:10000159-1782480600-1782482400@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Experience improvscience Community Office Hours
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIf you want to collaborate with friends on projects\, bounce ideas off one another\, or just be together\, that’s what we are here for. We make breakout rooms for these purposes. And\, w e make time and space for you. \nThis Freedom Festival events will provide a taste of what you can do every week with improvscience Community Office Hours.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/experience-an-improvscience-office-hours/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Education,Health,Science,Wellbeing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260627T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260627T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260511T110824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T043548Z
UID:10000156-1782558000-1782565200@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Musical Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy the freedom of listening to live music in a beautiful semi-rural setting. Singer-songwriter Mohawk Blade (Ava Grail) welcomes us to her serene slice of land in Sebastopol\, CA\, to gather beneath the oaks for a musical celebration. You’re invited to bring your own picnic\, blankets and chairs to relax with your friends and family. Mohawk Blade will perform Americana-inspired songs spanning soul\, gospel and folk for this mellow mid-day event. \nAva Grail\, a.k.a. Mohawk Blade\, is a vocal artist and song writer in Sebastopol California.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/musical-medicine/
LOCATION:Mokawk Blade Glade\, Sebastopol\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals & Fairs,Kids & Family,Music
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ava Grail":MAILTO:mohawkblade@Icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260627T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260627T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260506T162413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T212527Z
UID:10000146-1782567900-1782576000@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Community Building through Griot Stories
DESCRIPTION:Our stories are worth sharing while we can. Join this in-person storytelling session at the Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa\, CA. \nMarian Knox creator of Griot – A story game with heart! will lead us through creating new stories of our lives. \nStarts at 1:45 pm at 467 Sebastopol Avenue\, Santa Rosa \nRSVP requested\, see button.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/community-building-through-griot-stories/
LOCATION:Peace and Justice\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 467 Sebastopol Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260628T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260628T111500
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260518T173847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T222209Z
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SUMMARY:Radical relationality: A conversation with ‘Life Performance Coaching’ clients and their coaches.
DESCRIPTION:Social therapeutics might be the thing you didn’t know you needed. Come watch real human coaches and clients in actual conversation and get a feel for what it means to grow with people\, not just alongside them. We’ll give you the context to know what to listen for\, and there’s space throughout to ask questions and get into it yourself. \nCome as you are and ready to play. \n \nThecla Farrel    Fanny Suarez    Dean Martin
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/radical-relationality-a-conversation-with-life-performance-coaching-clients-and-their-coaches/
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Education,Kids & Family,Wellbeing
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LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89628388148
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260629T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260629T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260518T154150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T215228Z
UID:10000163-1782738000-1782741600@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Aging for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Join this experiential group that is open to anyone interested in shifting the experience of aging from one marked by loss\, fear and stigma to one rooted in joy\, connection\, growth\, and… yes\, Freedom! \nHelen Abel and Martha McCoy invite all ages to join them as you discover ways to play with\, explore and reshape how we relate to aging and each other. \nHelen Abel is a life performance coach with Life Performance Coaching. \nMartha McCoy is a Physician Assistant\, educator and Director of Education at improvscience.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/aging-for-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Health,Kids & Family,Performing Arts,Wellbeing,Workshop
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LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84011002759
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260701T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260701T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260502T200034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260508T134400Z
UID:10000144-1782921600-1782927000@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Freedom From Drudgery: AI as a Platform for Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already part of our daily lives — from Large Language Models like Claude.ai to image generation tools\, integration with products like Zoom\, and the Microsoft suite. AI is reshaping how we work\, create\, and express ourselves. In this hands-on session\, we explore AI as a liberating platform: a tool that can free us from repetitive drudgery and amplify our creative and intellectual potential across scientific\, technical\, and artistic domains. \nJoin Dr. Jim Martinez (NYIT) and Dr. Nick Gross (BU) for an interactive session that offers hands-on experience with these tools\, and opens into a conversation about the new ways of working and creating we’re already imagining. How is AI changing what’s possible and what do we want to do with that? Open to all. No AI experience necessary. \nThis event will also be part of the Cultivating Ensembles   Coffee Chat series. CE is a sponsor of the Freedom Festival. \nAbout the hosts: \n \nJim Martinez is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and New York Institute of Technology and the author of a regular Substack Column “Collective Development“. \n \nNick Gross is a research scientist in the Astronomy Department at Boston University and the co-chair of the Program Committee for Cultivating Ensembles\, a sponsor of the Freedom Festival. \n  \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-from-drudgery-ai-as-a-platform-for-creativity/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260509T183803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260511T110514Z
UID:10000155-1783017000-1783022400@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Creative Playground
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join the Creative Playground for a special Freedom Festival session to explore\, perform and celebrate freedom and independence. Join us on Thursday\, July 2nd\, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Eastern. \nThe Creative Playground was born from a simple idea: exploring creativity together is therapeutic. Each session our Creative Ensemble builds emotional resilience\, connection\, and courage—through laughter\, depth\, and the joy of creation. Every month\, we offer 2 time slots and meet on Zoom to co-create\, share\, and explore life through expressive arts—using theater\, improvisation\, poetry\, movement\, collage\, and storytelling. \nWe will explore what it means for people in the U.S. and internationally to celebrate freedom from slavery and our ability to collectively self-organize. All people have an experience of what freedom and independence mean to them. Through the Freedom Festival\, we want to create OUR experience of liberation.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/creative-playground/
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LOCATION:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260703T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260703T123000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260409T010312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T211922Z
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SUMMARY:What to Us is the Fourth of July?
DESCRIPTION:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \nReading Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and from Frederick Douglass \nWe invite you all 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 and freedom. Collectively\, we can create together our meaning of freedom and the Fourth of July. \n“The Declaration of Independence is one of America’s significant founding documents. On its face\, it is a declaration of war. A look at the structure of the document\, it follows the archetype of 18th century enlightenment thinking\, laying out fundamental principles drawn from the laws of nature and deriving conclusions based on these principles. But over all this\, the document lays out the values that the founders considered to be fundamental to the creation of a government\, and though imperfect\, the values for which the country should continuously strive. \n72 years later\, Frederick Douglass was asked to deliver an Independence Day address to the Rochesters Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The address\, entitled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a lament of the celebration of independence while so many in the US were enslaved. In contrast to the appeal to logic of the Declaration of Independence which strives for lofty goals\, Douglass’s address points out the hypocrisy inherent in the invitation and national celebration. Even so\, Douglass ends his speech “drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence [and] the great principles it contains”. \nNick Gross \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/what-to-us-is-the-forth-of-july-reading-excerpts-from-the-declaration-of-independence-and-from-frederick-douglass/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,History
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Gross":MAILTO:gross@bu.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260704T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260704T123000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260506T154930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260509T190137Z
UID:10000150-1783162800-1783168200@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:Echoes of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Freedom and cries for freedom echo in our lives. What is the sound of freedom to you? \nBring your poems\, your stories and share with us how freedom echoes in your life. \nThis Freedom Festival finale echoes the poetry session of 2025\, an open mic for our tales of freedom. \nHosted and led by Catana Malinoskwi.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/echoes-of-freedom/
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LOCATION:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/echoes-of-freedom/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260704T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260704T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T002837
CREATED:20260511T224430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T145305Z
UID:10000157-1783173600-1783180800@freedomfestivalusa.org
SUMMARY:The Heart Beat of Freedom
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe will begin with the opera\, “Frederick Douglass” Opera was composed by Dorothy Rudd Moore\, and performed by Opera Ebony in 1994\, featuring Kermit Moore on first cello. It premiered 1985 at the City College of New York. \nFollowing this performance will be another ARTistic expression of Douglass’s speech through the contemporary ART of HIP HOP. \nLastly\, you will HEAR this speech through the eyes and HEART of a woman. \nThroughout the presentations\, we will invite comments and discussion from the audience.  \nHosts: \nRachelle Moore\, Licensed Social Worker and Psychotherapist in the Atlanta Area \n  \nEnid Pickett\, poet\, writer\, and teacher. \n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-heart-beat-of-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Education,History,Performing Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rachelle Moore":MAILTO:lrachellemoore2016@gmail.com
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