Week of Events
Music is My Church
MUSIC IS MY CHURCH! Whether in major or minor modes, Powerful healing energy always abodes. 🥷🎶♎️ MUSIC 🎶 🎶🎶 is a universal language that requires no translation. MUSIC provides energetic healing through its tones, vibrations and rhythms. I am a social worker social therapeutics practitioner performance coach and psychotherapist. Social therapeutics is not only my ... Read more
Art with your Cuppa
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
Monday, June 24, 2024
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 25, 2024 -Finding Freedom in Physics
Finding Freedom in Physics
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
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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Thursday, June 27, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 27, 2024 -Are You Mad Like Me? : Reimagining Psych Cemetery Spaces
Are You Mad Like Me? : Reimagining Psych Cemetery Spaces
"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
Friday, June 28, 2024
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June 28, 2024 -PLAYTELLIGENCE: Play & Learning Beyond Borders
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Virtual EventJune 28, 2024 -Discord and Harmony: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues, Jazz, Soul and Hip-Hop
PLAYTELLIGENCE: Play & Learning Beyond Borders
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
Discord and Harmony: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues, Jazz, Soul and Hip-Hop
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
Saturday, June 29, 2024
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June 29, 2024 -PLAYTELLIGENCE: Play & Learning Beyond Borders
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June 29, 2024 -Play with Science & Arts
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Hybrid EventJune 29, 2024 -Freedom-Makers: Maroons and the Underground Railroad
PLAYTELLIGENCE: Play & Learning Beyond Borders
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
Play with Science & Arts
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
Freedom-Makers: Maroons and the Underground Railroad
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
Sunday, June 30, 2024
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Virtual EventJune 30, 2024 -Black Populism in the New South: Post-Reconstruction Movement-Making
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Virtual EventJune 30, 2024 -Poetics of Freedom: A Poetry Reading with Christian Aldana, Rohan Zhou-Lee, and Ashna Ali
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June 30, 2024 -Singing for Harriet Tubman
Black Populism in the New South: Post-Reconstruction Movement-Making
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
Poetics of Freedom: A Poetry Reading with Christian Aldana, Rohan Zhou-Lee, and Ashna Ali
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
Singing for Harriet Tubman
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